Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-20
ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION B0xe:
Militia.

Your attention is called to the re-
port and recommendations of the ad-
jutant general. from which it will be
ties of that office. are already large
and increasing. and with the passage
Of the militia bill row pending in con
gress, a large amount of money will
be coming to the territory for the sup
port of its organized militia, as well as
largely increasing the duties of the
adjutant generals office. The adult
ant general is the head of the organic.
ed militia in the territory and his sal
airy IN my judgment should be increas-
ed so as to be commensurate with his
duties and responsibilities. And also
the appropriation for armory rent and
support of the national guard should
be increased and made for both pur-
poses instead of being divided as now,
and without reference to places where
armories are to be located.
Territorial Engineer.
Every state n territory has an
officer known as the state or territory
engineer, and the condisions of the
public lands in this territory are such
as to demand such an officer more
than most commemorative. The most
of our lands remaining to be selected
are for reservoir and irrigation pur-
poses. and for the improvement of the
Rio Grande, and should be under the
immediate supervision of a competent
engineer to act under the general di-
r%ection of the commission on irriga-
ton. In addition to these duties he
should also be locating agent for the
United States land commission dis
pensing with the salary and expenses
of such locating agent as now allowed
by the United States law, which
amount to more than the territorial
engineer would cost, and prove an act
ual saving in money besides obtaining
his services in other important mat
ters necessary to the proper admins
tration of our land grant. He should
be a territorial officer with a reasona-
Bile salary and allowance for travelling
expenses and necessary assistants in
the performance of his duties, to be
paid upon itemized and verified vouch-
ers. This Office need be of no expense
to the territory, as the compensation
would be a necessary and proper
charge against the lands selected and
located to be paid out of the proceeds
of their sale or lease, as is done in
payment of accounts of the locating
agent at present.
The report of the United States land
commission accompanying this. fully
sets out the necessity for such an Of
ficer, and | would call your special at
tentiOn to this report and ask your
earnest consideration of this recon-
m%endation.
Celebration at ST. Louis OF the One
Hundredth Anniversary Of the
Louisiana Purchase.
Your body at its last session. by
chapter 100 created a commission call
ed the territorial board of Louisiana
Purchase Exposition managers of New
Mexico, the duty of which board was
to have charge of the collection and
preparation of the exhibits of the ter
ritory for said exposition at the t..
Louis worlds fair of 1908, and appro-
priated 500, 900 for the carrying out of
the provisions of the act, and made a
levy of two-ffths of a mill upon the
taxable property of the territory to
raise that amount The act further
provides in section 9 that the board
should exist no longer than January
/, 1904. II was then expected that this
exposition would take place in the
year 1903, but for reasons satisfactory
to the management and the United
States government. which has made
a large appropriation to the exposition,
its opening was postponed until the
year 1904. Therefore to enable this
board to perform its duties creditably,
and in accordance with the intent Of
the act, its life should be extended for
at least one year, or until January /,
1905.
The exposition is nearer to our terri
tory than any previous one which has
been held in the United States, and
our commercial, social and educational
interests with the city of st. Louis
have always been close IN friendly,
so that we have a special and personal
interest in the success of that eXposi-
ton. and should take a special pride
in making a creditable exhibit there
from this territory, and to that end |
believe it to be necessary to continue
the levy made by the last legislature,
and that the appropriation should be
increased to 100000. The board has
already secured a most excellent site
in the exposition grounds, and If it is
not properly utilized it will be a dis
credit to the territory, instead of a
benefit, and in my opininon the pres
ent appropriation of 500 600 is not suf-
ficient for the purpose.