Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-07-10
NEW MEXICO NEWS.
How the Statehood Bill Passed the
H0use-The Pueblo Agency
All Right.

A friend of the New MEXICAN who oc
cupied seat in the press gallery in tht
house of representatives June 27 and q
when the statehood bill was under con
sideration, writes thus:
Immediately after the morning hour
Mr.. Outhwaite, of the committee on rules
O: The house, brought in rule to take up
the New Mexico state bill and after three
hours time for amendments and discus
sion the vote should be taken. There
was some little skirmishlng and the rule
was adopted, and Mr.. Cultivate became
chairman of the committee of the whole,
Gen. Wheeler, of Alabama, chairman OF
the committee on territories, had charge
of the bill. Several amendments offered
by the committee on te1sltories and
some members were adopted without OBJ
lection.
"nne of the amendments provides that
the members of the state constitutional
convention shall be elected in the SAM
manner as are members of the legislature.
Another provides that and not 10 per
cent of the proceeds of the sale of public
lands shall be used as permanent fund,
the interest from which shall be used for
public school purposes.
"a member from Illinois offered an
amendment that English must be taught
in all the public schools, though not OBJ
iecting to anything else being taught.
Chairman Wheeler, ably assisted by Dele
gate Joseph, fought this as discriminat-
ing against New Mexico and thereby not
admitting it on an equal footing with the
other states. Two roll calls were ordered
and then by an agreement between Gen.
Wheeler and Mr.. Burrows, OF Michigan,
the bill went over to come up the first
when the bill passed"
sINEws OF WAR.
The following is also received from
Washington:
In the bill making appropriations to
supply deficiencies in the appropriations
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894,
and prior years, and for other purposes;
is the item: For fees and expenses in
the suit of Peralta-Reavis against the
United States, in the court of private
land claims in New Mexico, to be availa.
BILE until expended, $4,000.
THE INDIAN AGENCY.
Respecting the Pueblo Indian agency
the appended gratifying news comes
from Delegate Joseph in person:
To the Editor of the New Mexican Santa Fe,
N. M.
Washington, D. G., June 2s, 1s94.-Dear
Sir: The mistake made by Congressman
Holman in consolidating the Southern
Ute agency with the Pueblo and Jicarilla
agency has been corrected, and they will
remain as they have been heretofore.
had been watching the appropriation
bill for six or seven days and that amend
ment was slipped in during short alb
sence from the floor of the house, but as
soon as my attention was called to the
matter had the thing corrected by hav-
ing the amendments struck out by the
senate committee on Indian appropria-
tions. Very respectfully,
ANTONIO JOSEPH.
THE PRESIDENTS POSITION
on the sub ject of statehood special dis
patch from Washington of date the 2nd
instant says:
"The New Mexicans who are here work
ing for statehood are in fine feather over
an interview which Delegate Antonio
Joseph has had with President Cleveland.
The president, according to the version
the New Mexicans have received, told
Delegate Joseph that he would sign the
bill. He said that New Mexico deserved
statehood more than any of the remain
ing territories. He referred to the
promise made to Old Mexico at the time
of the cession. That promise was that
statehood should be conferred on the
ceded territory as soon as practicable.
The president said it was high time the
pledge was redeemed. California was
taken into the Union, but New Mexico
had been ignored.
The New Mexicans feel so sanguine
over statehood prospects that they are
beginning to talk about the division of
the offices. Heretofore the Legislature of
New Mexico has been Republican, even
when the delegate to congress has
been Democrat. But the bill provides
for such an apportionment of delegates
10 the constitutional convention that the
Democrats are confident that they can
Tx the Legislative rePreseh1a'iou So aS W ,
make the legislature Democratic. At any
rate, they have made the Democrats in
congress think so. The gossip over the
prospective senatorship has begun. 1t
seems to be conceded that if the appor-
tionment scheme works, Delegate Joseph
will be one of the senators, in recogni-
tion of his management of the campaign
for statehood. For the other place the
foremost candidates seem to be the
present territorial governor and the
chairman of the Democratic territorial