Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-01
COY. THORNTON AT HOME
New MexicOs Chief Magistrate Has
Returned to Santa Fe from the
National Capital.
STATUS OF MEASURES OF LOCAL MOMENT
Brice-C Coler Bond Amendments to Cap
itol Rebuilding Bill Favored by
Catron-- Statehood has Gone
Glimmering.

Gov. Thornton has returned to Santa
Fs from his mission to Washington in the
interest of the people of New Mexico as a
whole and the taxpayers of Santa Fe
county in particular.
GOV. THORNTON AT HOME. .,
A NEW MEXICAN scribe found the gov
ernor at the executive office bright and
early this morning busily engaged with
his private secretary disposing of ac-
cumulated official correspondence and
asked as many leading questions as he
conveniently could In the course of fys
minutes conversation.
Touching the status of the bill now be-
fore congress approving the action OF the
territorial legislature in authorizing the
issue of bonds for capitol rebuilding and
to aid the Silver City and Las Vegas nor
nal schools, the territorial asylum for
insane, the agricultural college and the
military institute, the governor says that,
in addition to being weighed down by the
senate amendment pretending to validate
UuC bIlCC VI bhio Oouupy tuO
measure will be favorably reported to the
house by the committee on territories with
another amendment aimed to validate the
Coler bonds of Santa Fe and Grant coun-
ties. He says that the report on the bill
as 50 amended will not be unanimous and
that the amendments will meet with OPP
position id both the house and the senate,
but he doubts whether the measure will
pass without the amendments.
DELEGATE cArRoN's COURSE.
He adds that Delegate Catron has un.
questlonaLly given his personal approval
to both amendments in the committee
rooms of the respective houses and has
otherwise done all in his power in quiet
way to aid the Brice and Coler bond
schemers. Among other things, Mr.. Cat
ron represented to the house committee
that there never had been any local oppo.
sition to the Coler bonds, and explained
that the interest thereon had defaulted
because Democratic sheriff (meaning
Frank Chavez) bad used for political pur-
poses $35,O0O or $4,000 of the taxes ex-
pressly levied for the payment OF railroad
bond interest and hence the mouey WAS
not applied to the purpose intended by
the people. This was deliberate mis-
representation, as the assassinated ex-
sheriff {Chavez) was not behind in his &C.
counts more than $4,000 or $4,000 and
his shortage was not confined to the in
terest fund, but touched all the funds
alike.
he ttorOtoS hta 1onyO1
that be apelogized to Senator Brice for
the resolutions adopted by the Santa Fe
mass meeting over which
FIX COY. PRINCE PRESIDED,
as represented both by Mr.. Catron and
his private secretary in press dispatches
and newspaper correspondence. He says
that he told Brice in the house committee
meeting that he fully sympathized with
the sentiments of the resolutions, but did
not hold Brice accountable for frauds
connected with the issue of the bonds,
which we're committed before he tBricel
was interested IN them.
INTERPRETERS AND TRANsLAToRs.
Gov. Thornton says that he received
assurances that the legis-
lative, Judicial and executive appropria-
tion bill would make proper pro.
vision for the employment of inter-
prefers and translators In the territorial
legislature in spite of Mr.. Catron's efforts
to the contrary. He is also convinced
that Mr.. Catron's proposed amendment
to this great bill, changing the time for
holding sessions of the territorial legis-
lature, which was rejected in the senate
and is now in the hands of the confer
ence committee, will soon need the serv-
ices of an undertaken and epitaph writer,
MS prominent Dem ocratic senators as
sured him it would never be agreed to in
The senate.