Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-04
JOSEPH'S RECORD.
A Democratic Paper in Arizona Shows
it up--The Clear Absurdity Of
His Many Boasts.
Who Procured Appropriations?-
Joseph, But Stephen B. Elkins,
Who is a Friend of
New Mexico.

The NEW MEXICAN reproduces the fol
lowing from the Tombstone Epitaph,
leading Democratic paper, published il
our sister territory, Arizona, concerning
Joseph's record. Read and Judge fol
YOURSELF
The Republican papers of this terri
tory are making great noise about the
big appropriations secured by Joseph, oi
New Mexico, for his territory, while they
derlde Mark Smith because he has not
done as we'll Let us look into this mat.
ter. Take the list of appro opriations az
published, and you will find that nine.
tenths OF all the money appropriated by
congress during Joseph's six years in the
house was to benefit the capital city,
Santa Fe. Go to Washington and ask
any member of congress who secured
these appropriations for Santa Fe, and
they will tell you Steve Elkina. 1t was
Steve who pulled the strings and Joseph
danced to the tune the boss manipulator
played.
With equal fairness, could Mark Smiths
friends claim that the money to the tune
OF S5OO,O00, now being expended in sur
veylng the boundary line between Ari-
zona and Sonora, was secured by him.
lhe $1,000 for the survey of public lands
we will place to Mr.. Joseph's credit. For
the sake of argument, we admit that he
secured that appropriation, and 90 to the
next statement, which is a stem winder
and full jeweled:
Bill for settlement of Indian
depreciation claims in
New Mexico, providing
for payment to citizens,
as they prove up their
cldl1nS ...,.... ..,,.,,., $4,000 00O
Appropriation for payment
of such claims already
proved and allowed .....,.. 2OO,OOO
OF all the lying, deceitful assertions
ever made, the above is the most glarinp,
Every voter who reads newspaper re-
members that about two years ago call
was issued to all citizens throughout the
United States who had suffered from In
dian depredations to file his or her claim
with the interior department. From the
two Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Indian ter
rltory, Washington, Oregon, California,
New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and
Arizona came thousands of claims. the
total aggregate of which amounted to
$3,OOO,0O0. New Mexico's claim amounted
to 100000, Arizona's amounted to $780,
600.
Mark Smith, Mr.. Joseph nor any other
one man had anything to do with this ap-
preparation, but the records will show
that when the appropriation was cut
down in the house by 100000, that Mark
Smith received recognition by the chair
and in speech of twenty minutes dura-
ton, turned the tide and had the $500 900
put back into the bill.
That $3,000,000 appropriation was
made to pay all of the claims on file from
all over the Uaited States, of which
amount New Mexico only claims 100000
and Arizona claims $4,000 more than she
does. Joseph never introduced the bill
and never spoke on it. We have then
seen that the only individual amount
secured by Joseph for his 10000 people
that inhabit New Mexico was $1,000 for
the survey of public lands,
Why did Steve Elkins get appropria-
tions for Santa Fe?
Why, because he owns nearly all of the
valuable land in that vicinity, including
vast holdings of real estate in Santa Fe.
There was and is no man closer to the ad-
ministration, than Elkins. He asked for
what he wanted and got it.