Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-20

shall kill more tina. two deer in any
one season, and fcr his own use, and
that a fine or Imprisonment, or both,
be imposed on any one Offering the
same, or any part thereof, for sale or
shipping the same or n part thereof
out of the territory. or killing the same
for the hide.
Sunday Closing Law.
Nothing is more dcmoralizing to the
territory thar to have unenforced laws
on the statute books. as at present.
What is known as the Sunday Law
is very properly enforced in some To-
calities, but not in others. the district
attorneys in many of the districts ad-
wise me that the local community is
favorable to Sunday selling and that
II is simply impossible to enforce the
law or to secure indictments against
| offenders. SO long as the law is on
the statute books, it should be rigidly
enforced and penalties imposed on
officers failing to report same to the
court. If, however, you regard 1t as
impossible to enforce the present law
as 1t now stands. | believe that it
would be better that liquor should be
sold legally during certain prescribed
hours on Sunday, than hat the saloon
should be open surreptitiously all the
day, as is the case in many localities
in the territory. Many citizens have
spoken to me on this subject, and the
large majority favor either q more
liberal Sunday law, which allows sa-
looms to be open on Sunday at certain
hours, or the local option law, so that
each ward or precinct could vote on
the question, whether there shall be
any sale of liquor or not on Sunday.
latter certainly would have the
advantage of allowing Sunday selling
only where the locality demanded it,
and would allow any local community
10 close the saloons where no saloon
is demanded. Certainly the present
discrimination should not be per-
mitted. and | urge your careful consid-
Grafton and action covering this very
important territorial law.
Dissertation of the American Flag.
| would strongly and most earnestly
recommend that you pass a law to be
known as "a Flag Law" imposing a
severe penalty and punishment for
desecration of the American flag by
using the same as advertisements or
printing or stamping any words or
figures thereon. The flag of our coun-
try is too sacred and dear, to be used
other than to inculcate in the heart of
every true American the love of our
liberty-loving country. twenty-five
states and territories have already
adopted such a law, and New Mexico,
who has always in the past been one
of the first to show her loyalty to our
country, should PROMPTLY see that
such a law graces the statutes of the
territory.
Extra Employees.
There was filed last year before the
senate committee on territories an
affidavit made by a prominent lawyer
of the territory, formerly a delegate in
congress, in which he charged that the
last legislature and the one preceding
1t had violated the act of congress
limiting the number and pay of en-
ployes in both houses of the legisla-
ture, and also by expanding a large
amount of money for the translation
and printing of resolutions, bills and
acts in the Spanish language. In this
affidavit he claimed that these e
p%enditures were in direct violation of
-, ,a+ - ,rh;aI he hol n,o
cured to be passed in the year 1896,
found at 20 statutes at large, page 161,
and were e~xtravagant and %unneces-
sary, and that |, as governor, had VIC
lated my oath of Office, in approving
the resolutions providing for the pay
of the employees selected by the legis'
lature. This affidavit was not only
presented to the committee on terri
tories of the senate, but also to the
secretary of the interior, in an attempt
to show the irregular, illegal and un'
lawful name in which the public
moneys of the territory were diverted
by the legislature for the payment OF
political debts of the members. The
person who made the affidavit was a
member of the council in the Thirty
third legislative session and voted fol
the resolution providing for the print
ing of legislative documents in Span
ish. and also for joint resolutions Nos
, 2, 6, Z, and IA, Providing an appro
> priation for special employees and con
) tingent expenses"
This affidavit created considerable
criticism of the legislature and the ex
ecutive, by both the senate committee
and the secretary of the interior, and
deem 1t my duty to call your attention
at this time to this matter in ordeI
that you may avoid such criticism o
your acts in the future, but withou
any intention of suggesting what you
actions should be in this matter.
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