Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-23
MANY FALSEHOODS EXPOSED
The Examiners Article on the Com
lation of Territorial Laws Found
ed Upon An Intent to Deceive.
A TISSUE OF MISREPRESENTATION
The So-Called Donation" of $4,000
or 81 5000 for the Work Dwindles
Down to 81 500 or Less.
A TISSUE OF MISREPRESENTATION

Under the heading of "An Infamous
Bill" the Las Vegas Examiner of last
Saturday, delivers itself of wild, weird
plant against the measure now before
the Legislature providing for compila-
ton of the territorial laws. Infamous is
good, but it comes with ill grace from
this sheet and it's dog in the manger,
monopolist associate of Albuquerque, as
jolly pair of pirates as ever held out a
saving hand to the dear public, while
plundering its treasury with the other. 1t
is not infamous to make an open, above
board fight for the compilation of terri.
torial laws, a piece of work, the necessity
for which is universally admitted, even
by those sheets which raise howl against
this work going to the public printer
but it is infamous to publish willfu
and malicious Misrepresentation of facts
in the hope of influencing the opinion Of
those whose duty 1t will be to decide the
matter.
The article which appeared in the Exam
liner on Saturday is tissue of falsehoot
from beginning to end. There is not {
single paragraph in the windy and spite
ful diatribe that can not be proven utter
ly false and misleading, and conceived il
spirit of mendacity that would make al
honest man blush for shame.
How is it, if the measure be so infam
Gus, as the Examiner and it's associat,
would have readers believe, that mai or
ity of the reputable newspapers of thi
territory have put themselves or RECORD
as in favor of it, and in favor of the worl
going to the public printer where it natu
rally belongs. Once upon time the Elk
aminer was an applicant for publi
printer. AT the time it had not become
convert to the lowest bidder doctrine
which it so glibly faunts in the face o
precedent. II said nothing about tn
lowest bidder, in those days. The fac
of the matter is, that the opposition OF
the part of the two papers in question, i
actuated wholly by kind of petty jeal
ousy totally unworthy to direct the polio!
of any newspaper, great or small. AID
mitting the Immediate necessity of ,
com pilation of the territorial laws, thes,
two journals are willing to stoop to an,
measures that will defeat the New Mex
loan IN its efforts to get the work.
We have not the space to devote to
showing of the falseness of the Examine
article in its entirety, but in certain in
stances the Misrepresentation are 81
gross and glazing as to call for fiat con
tradiction. Then to the whole mess o
mendacity may be applied the we'll know
principle of law, ''false in one false il
ALL"
| For specific example the Examine
says that should the contract 90 to thu
New MEXICAN the profits on the worl
would be between $4,000 and $4,000.
1t requires only few simple fgpsgdc
prove the utter falseness of THUR: 20
statement, which BY tlha6Ds - fIdl0ul o.;
sample Of The giAth - = way 70 only q 'a !,
ahla a-aa ~--.aleral tone OF tnls remath
The bill provides that the sum of $l6
900 is to be used in the work proposed
The salaries and other expenses of tn
commission are provided for in the sur
of $500, which leaves $10,500.
A careful estimate Of printing, binding
etc., shows that the expense of this wor
will be $4,000, which taken from tn
$1O,500 leaves $1,000 on this "infamou
scheme" So much for the Examiner
donation of $4,000 to the public printer
Figures will not lie and there you are
The estimate of $4,000 for printing, etc
is the result Of figuring out the expens
page by page, is very simple offair an
can be accomplished by any one in tw
minutes time, who cares to- take tn
trouble. In the face of these facts VIVA
becomes of the statement, which falsel
charges the proposed compilation as
big printing steal, donation, etc. Thi
forms the basis of the Examiners plain
and having been proved to have n
foundation in fact, the whole structur
topples and falls to the ground.
In another paragraph the Examine
says: "The book is to be printed in tw
volumes--one in English and the other i
Spanish, and every territorial officer, a
the district judges, attorneys and clerk
all county clerks, probate judges, shel
ifs, treasurers, collectors and assessor
and all other county officers and justice
of the peace in the territory, are require
to purchase both volumes at a price no
exceeding $40 per volume. And no office
is allowed to qualify until he has bough
his books and paid for them"
This is not true. The bill makes n
such provision. The officials abov
mentioned, with the exception of justice
of the peace are required to purchase on
volume instead of two, at a pllce not
exceed $40 per volume. Justices are nc
required to make any purchase at al
Again this tumble of gall and falsehoo
says: "The rates allowed for such wor
by the United States are 25 per cent lei
than ''those allowed by the territori'
laws" and yet when Secretary Mile