The copper era., 1902-07-10
Las Cruces. N NJ. June 90 1902.

refuse to report the bill, after It had
 passed the House (that representative
 body) by q unanimous vote. The House
 is elected by direct vote of the peo- pie, and how are the senators, or a
 majority Of ihem. elected ? Generally
 by corrupt legislatures elected by the
 people to enact just and honest laws {;
 but many Of the members dicker and
 sell their votes to further the schemes Of buncc .trere-s to fleece the tax X-pay- CT. There is always horde of these
 vampires lying around every legislative : body, and they also infest congress, and
 some times try to reach the supreme
 court. They have got the cheek and
 seldom make failures. Senator Brice,
 who was democrat. bought a seat in
 the Senate, and went to congress as
 long as he lived-and this he did in the
 great state of Ohio!
 ! Like Vanderbilt, they are in posi- i tion to say: The people be ,iaI1tcd ' And have often said: |" I bought my l seat in the Senate, and am under no o obligations to the people"
 ! The election Of U. 5. Senators by popular vote has been agited for years, i but there is always stump in the way. | IL is hard matter to lombard these 1 high cOckalorum gentry, with more
 money than brains, out Of their royal ' positions. Is the House standing in with the Senate? Every year bill is
 introduced to enable the people 10 elect their senators by direct vote, but , by some hOcus pocus it gets lost in the shuttle, and the senators hold a royal flush or four aces every time. Look at l the Omnibus Statehood bill. After it had passed that great representative body, the House, without a dissenting voice, who would have supposed that diminutivc body (not elected by the people) would have the nerve to put down the brakes on it, and thereby shut out three great territories and leave us like the Filipinos, 'outside of the constitution
 The territorial committee is con- posed Of thirteen members in the Sem ate. Six were in favor of reporting
 the bill and seven opposed it, therefore
 by a majority of one We were tied up, and if one Of the seven had Topped,
 the bill would have gone before the Senate for vote, and would have pass ed by q good majority Thus you see how ono man held three territories down, after the House, with it's hun dreds of voters, favored their admiss- ion into the Union.
 Don't you think it is high time that senators should be elected by popular vote ? This case alone is a strong argu- ment against the present method of electing senators. If elected by the people they would not be so indepen- dent, and their constituents could keep a little side line on them.
 We especially of New Mexico have bitter cause for complaint. New Mex ico came into the United States at the same time and under the same treaty with California, more than fifty years ago. General kearney organized un- der the laws Of the United States in 1S46. appointed all the civil officers from governor down to constables. The discovery of gold sent world of peo- plo to California. They sent delega- tion to congress and demanded to be 1 admitted as state. They said they had gold enough to buy the whole sis tcrhood of states, and If you don't l want Us, let Us know, as we can estab- | fish little republic of our own on the | Pacitic's shores. There was no splitting of hairs or haggling about it. Califor- i mia went into the Union with every rote iE congress, but here is New Mex i ico yet on the outside for more than ] fifty years. Arizona also has been a | territory for about the same period Why are these two territories branded ] as unworthy when DO others were ever treated in such d hostile way? Look | back and sec how long they had to wait, aud mark the contrast,
 They say now, that the U. $. House next session. What can we do? They have us under the ban with dead 1 cineh on us, aEd they are so badly satu- rated with bad faith that we do not know whether to believe them or not.
 l have lived longer in this territory than any other living American. I came from Missouri as private in Col. Donaphan's Expedition to Santa Fe and Chihuahua in lS46, and happened to raise the first American flag eyer | hoisted in New Mexico. From Santa Fe we went on campaign in the Nav ajo country, and afterwards marched down and captured the City of Chi huahua. From there we marched to Bueno Vista, where Gen. Taylor was. Gen. Taylor ordered our regiment to New Orleans to be discharged, as our term of enlistment Q2 Mo. Vol.5) had expired. We took steamboats up the Missouri home, and I, among some others, returned to New Mexico. I settled in this (Doua Anal county, and was the first sheriff of the county and served eight years.
 l had accumulated small fortune when the civil war broke out had tO ta ka A little run down in Texas in |