Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-11-02
JUGGLED With The CAPITOL
Evidence That CatrOn Has Played
Fast and Loose with Capitol
Location Question.
MIGHT HAVE SETTLED 1T LAST WINTER
Catron's Record Contrasted with That
of Oklahoma's Vigilant Delegate
Latter Easily Secured Action
in Favor of Guthrie.

The New MEXICAN to-day contends ed
itorially that I. B. Catron has for year,
juggled with the capitol location ques
tlon for purely political purposes; that
he has systematically played fast and
loose with the people on this important
question solely for selfish reasons; that
he might, if he had desired, easily have
disposed of the question forever during
the last session of congress. The conolu
sive proof of this statement is found in
the following contrasted extracts from
the act of congress, approved May 20,
1896, "making appropriations for the
legislative, executive and judicial ex-
penses of the government for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1897"
"For legislative expenses, namely: For
rent, light, fuel, ice, stationery, record
files, record castings, printing, postage,
clerks, messenger and porter, and Incl
dentals in secretary's Office; compensation
of members and officers of the legislative
assembly, mileage, printing, stationery,
record books, rent, furniture, and inci-
dentals for legislative assembly, twenty
six Thousand dollars: Provided, That the
next session of the Legislative assembly
of the territory of New Mexico shall com
mence on the third Monday in January,
eighteen hundred and ninety seven, and
each succeeding session thereof shall
commence on the third Monday in jan
uary of every odd numbered year there
after: Provided further, That no other
officer of either house of said legislative
assembly shall be elected or appointed,
or paid out of any moneys appropriated
by the congress of the United States, or
by the legislative assembly of said terri
tory than such as may be provided for by
the laws of the United States, except a
translator and interpreter.
TERRITORY of Oklahoma: For govern
or, two thousand six hundred dollars;
chief Justice and four associate judges,
at three thousand dollars each; and Sec
retary, one thousand eight hundred dol.
lars; nineteen thousand four hundred dol
lars.
"For contingent expenses of the terri
tory, to be expended by the governor,
one Thousand dollars.
"For legislative expenses, namely: For
rent of Office, furniture, fuel, lights, sta
tionery, olerk hire, printing, postage, Ice,
record castings, messenger, porter and
other incidental expenses of the secre-
tary's Office; for pay of members and Of
ficers of the legislative assembly, mileage,
rent of rooms for the legislature and COM
furniture, stationery, printing,
fuel, lights, and incidentals, twenty four
Thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
Provided, That the legislative assembly
shall not consider any proposition or pass
any bill ta,remove the seat OF govern
ment of said territory from its present
location"
II will thus be perceived that, while
Delegate Catron was adding provisos to
the bill making partisan changes in the
time for holding the legislature and out
ting off needed legislative employees,
Delegate Flynn easily secured II provision
forbidding the removal of
the capitol of Oklahoma from Guthrie.
No doubt is entertained by any intelli'
gent person that, if he had wished to do 80,
Delegate Catron could without difficulty
have secured a similar provision for New
Mexico. The serious attention of Santa
Feans is called to these undeniable facts.