Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-03-14
WORLDS FAIR COMMISSIONERS.
The Nominations Announced Yesterday
Afternoon-An Interview with the
Governor on the Subject.

Governor Prince last evening an
nounced the appointment of the follow
ing named to constitute "The Territorial
Board of the Worlds Columbian Expo.
sition Managers of New Mexico"
W. H. H. Llewellyn, of Dona Ana
county.
Miguel Salazar, of San Miguel county.
William T. Thornton, of Santa Fe
county.
Estanislao V. Chavez, OF Socorro coun-
ty.
Though the appointment of these COM
missioners under the recent act of the
legislature were made on March IL, vet
they were not announced until the gov
ernor's retnrr from the south yesterday
and as good deal of interest has been
taken in their selection, representative
of the New MgxICAN called on the gov
ernor on the subject to-day and asked a
few questions.
81 suppose there were great many ap-
plicants for the POSITIONS" said the re-
porter. eyes, of course, there are always
plenty Of applicants" was the reply, "and
besides, in this case, there are many gen.
tlemen in the territory who would make
very creditable representatives, and who
were naturally suggested; but the limita-
tions fixed by the law and custom, cut
down the number very considerably"
"What kind of limitation do you
mean ?"
"Why, in the first place, U. S. the law
prevents the appointment of any member
of the legislature. That cut off one or two
of the most efficient commissioners we
could have had. Then the territorial act
provides that the appointments shall be
made equally from the two principal
political parties. That cut off several
gentlemen, who would have been good
members, but were neither Republicans
nor Democrats in the last campaign.
Then the question of locality came in i'm
The commissioners appoint
ed by the president were Mr.. White and
Mr.. Gutierrez, the former representing
the mineral section of the southwest, and
the latter being from Albuquerque. That
OF course made it possible to appoint any
OF the new commissioners from those
localities, though both Grant and Sierra
had excellent material, and Bernalllo
county is full of active and experienced
men who have made admirable repre-
sentatives. Thus you see, the choice was
practically narrowed down in various
ways. Then, again, it was understood
that the custom of dividing the appoint
nents equally between those popularly
called American and Mexican would
be observed, and this circumscribed the
selection in another direction"
"How about the representative from
Santa Few
"We have number Of gentlemen here
n Santa Fe who for various reasons
would have been valuable commissioners,
out OF course only one appointment could
% made from the locality, and when Mr..
Joseph and other leading Democrats
asked that Mr.. Thornton be named as
,ne OF the Democratic representatives,
hat necessarily cut of anyone else from
lere. Major Lewellyn was selected, be-
cause he represented tie cattle industry,
~ We'll a5 CL,e fruis aiu as sricultural inter-
ests of the lower Rio Grande valley; and
besides might facilitate matters of trans
portation. Mr.. Salazar and Mr.. Chavez,
as you know, are both young men and
energetic, and represent the progressive
native element in the two political parties,
1t the same time that they give due
'ecognition to the claims of Las Vegas
and Socorro.
"Few people," added the governor,
think of all the different circumstances
hat have to be taken into consideration
n making appointments of this kind, and
which often cause selections which might
seem the most obvious, to be impossible"