Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-17

and his party III their attempt to xii
statehood under the constitution whicl
was submitted four years ago. That tina
constitution was not beaten by ma ority
of the votes of this territory; that at tina
election 900 votes less against the con
stitutiCn were cast than we're cast for j o
Seph ono month thereafter, while abou
5000 Republicans remained away from
the polls. That Mr.. Joseph had intro
duced na enabling act in the house o
representatives, Of the last congress anc
allowed it to remain unreported nearly
three months, when he could have had i
reported, if he had had any influence with
his own party, at any minute; that afte
he had secured its favorable considera
ton, after all this delay, he again allowed
it to sloep on the calendar in the houst
another three months, thereby losing si1
months valuable time, and not even Sc
curing its passage until after Mr.. Catror
had obtained promise from Mr.. Plat
that the act would receive his favorable
consideration, provided the house of rep
resentativcs amended the same in respect
to the times Of holding the elections be
fore it reached the senate; and that witt
full warning that if this amendment
WAS NEGLECTED. BY HIM
in the house the senate would take the
liberty "f adding other amendments. Mr.
Joseph has purposeIy omitted to amend
the bill as desired, thereby recklessly in.
curing the risk of tho senate cutting
down the appropriation of public lands
for schools, when by this slight amend.
ment in the house he might have saved
the bill from further amendment in the
senate under the assurances made by the
senators to Mr.. Catron. That Mr.. Joseph
had purposey omitted this amendment
in order that the senate might be com
PEELED to amend the bill, thereby neces-
sitating its return to the house for con-
currencc in the amendment, thinking that
he could then hold the bill over the heads
of tho voters of New Mexico and threaten
them, as he is doing, that if he is not
elected he will defeat statehood. Mr..
Catron asserted that this was the only
reasonable conclusion which could be
reached from the actions of Mr.. Joseph
in the matter of the admission bill. He
also read the two letters from Senator
Platt, denying ever having had any inter
view with Mr.. Joseph on the sub iect of
this bill in connection with Mr., Catron,
and denying that he ever used any Ian
guago in reference to MI Catron such as
was stated by Mr.. Joseph In the Albuquer-
que Democrat interview, and in various
of his speeches. These letters the au-
dienco received with applause,
AZ UNQUALIFIED PROOFS
Of the misstatements and untruths pub
lished and circulated by Mr.. Joseph
throughout the territory and no one of
.he 500 listeners doubted that Mr.. Joseph
mad been guilty Of misrepresentation and
Mr.. CUtron also called the attention of
lis hearers to the fact that Mr.. Joseph
lad introduced in congress bill to en-
able company organized in the state of
Colorado to take our large bitches from
he Rio Grande and appropriate the
waters thereof to the use of people living
n the San Luis valley. That by this
means all the flow of water in the Rio
jrande up to the line of New Mexico was
topped, and not an inch of water crossed
,ur borders from the state of Colorado;
hat to this was due the scarcity of the
upply of water in the Rio Grande
III through this territory. Mr.. Joseph
vas to blame for this in two ways; first,
20 boJ him eo1f ;rt ~ +, n;l
t. anu second, he had permitted other
,ills to pass through congress, without
fitting finger, when he must have known
he effect they would have upon all the
Door people of New Mexico, and when by
slight effort he could have enlisted the
Interstate commerce commissions serv-
ces to regulate the matter. 1t is well
lnown fact here that the water in the
Rio Grande this year dried up six weeks
arlier than ever before and that it was
Try 100 miles further up than had ever
ii crops from Albuquerque to El Paso
lad been rendered impossible by this
lrouth, and that Mr.. Joseph was. directly
nd indirectly,
FROM HIS OWN ACTS
nd from his own negligence, responsible
or the loss of this water which had been
aiken out in the state of Colorado in the
arge bitches and appropriated by the
inhabitants of that country.
Mr.. Catron also called the attention of
he people to the fact that Mr.. Joseph
lad permitted the military post at Fort
,elden to be abandoned and ordered |
old; that although Gen. Hatch and other
prominent military officers had recon-
nended the construction of large fort !
t Deming Mr.. Joseph had remained
Iuiet and had permitted an act to pass
ongress for the construction of twelve
ompany post in the state of Texas, just |
'elow the border of New Mexico, and |
bout four or five miles from the town of !
Il Paso; and that more than million |
nd alfdollars had been appropriated
or the construction of that post, which
dr. Joseph might have secured for New
ection and attended to his duties, he |
laving in his aid the recommendations
# these military officers.
Mrs Catron also referred to other things
# public interest that Mr.. Joseph had |
reelected and
THE MANY MISREPRESENTATION
ae has made to the people of New Mexico
n regard to his services at Washington.
lie called attention particularly to the
act that at Pinos Altos Mr.. Joseph had
made two speeches, one in English and
me in Spanish; that in the speech to the
english speaking people he made no