Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-04-28
Delegate Rodey's Measure for
Relief of Homesteaders in
Valencia County Passes
the House.
CHANGES IN CABINET
1t is Proposed to Remove Henry C..
Payne as Postmaster General and
to Appoint George B. Cortelyou
in His Place.

Senator Hansbrough has been tryin
for two weeks to get chance to ca
up Delegate Rodeys bill in the Senat
that provides for giving title to thei
homes to number of settlers at Lo
Lentes and near Cuebero, Valenci
County included in the land grant t.
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad TIL
bill has passed the House. If this bill
becomes law, it will be great help t.
more than seventy-five poor familie
in that section of the territory.
Proposed Consolidation of Depart
ments.
There is considerable speculation il
military circles as to the effect of th'
proposed consolidation of the adjutan
generals department and the RECORD
and pension Office, and the establish
ment of the Office of military secretar!
in charge of the new bureau. The rela
tions OF the new bureau to the exist
ing general staff are not clearly defined
and some officers are Of the opinion
that the new military secretary will
relieve the chief of staff of some of his
important functions as a principal linl
between the President and Secretary
of War and the army. Brigadier Gen
eral F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the rec
ord and pension Office, will be the first
military secretary with the rank of ma
jor general, and Col. w. p Hall, senior
colonel of the adjutant generals de
partment and acting adjutant general
will be assistant chief Of the new bu
reau with the rank of brigadier general
Major General H. c. Corbin is not at
fected by the pending measure and he
will remain in command of the Allan
tic Division. The office of adjutant gen
eral l1eid by him will expire on his re-
tirement from active service in Sep
tember, 1906. An interesting feature
of the legislation providing for the con
solidation of the adjutant generals de-
partment and the record and pension
Office is that it affords an opportunity
for the appointment of one or more ma
iors from civil life or from the army
The extent to which this may be done
is the subject of speculation at the war
department. Some officers hold that
the bill, as now framed, permits the ap,
pointment of one or more majors from
civil life Or from the army while others
hold that by system of appointments
and retlrements an indefinite number
of appointments may be made through
the opening afforded by the language
of the bill
Taft's Speech Campaign Document.
The speech of Secretary of War Taft,
delivered at New York before the
Chamber of Commerce, has attracted
wide attention. 1t has been adopted
as a Republican campaign document,
fnasmuch as it describes the attitude
of the administration toward the Phil
ippines and the efforts that are being
made to give better impression OF the
Filipinos in this country.
1t Comes High, But We Must Have It.
Fifteen thousand dollars day, to-
tai Of million and a half, is said to
be the price William Randolph Hearst
is paying for his presidential fad. AT
the present time he has but thirty-two
delegates, making a liberal estimate
and allowing him total OF l5O when
the gavel falls at st. Louis, every one
of them will have cost him 100000
Gibson Bill Voted On.
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands voted this week on the Gibson
bill to repeal the desert land act, the
timber and stone act and the cOmmu
tation clause of the homestead law
The vote stood to 7, and the meas
ure therefore failed to get to the Sen
ate. Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska
who has heretofore been in favor o1
the measure, voted against its appeal
and the majority which has heretofore
existed in favor of the bill in the com
mittee was therefore destroyed.
Impending Changes in the Cabinet.
President Roosevelt, according tt
his friends, is shortly to retire from hi:
cabinet Henry G. Payne as postmaster
general and appoint in his place Georg'
B. Cortelyou. secretary of the Dpart
ment of Commerce and Labor, an(
James R. Garfield, at present commits
sioner of corporations in Secretary Cor
telyou's department, is to be promoted
to be secretary of the department. Sen
ator Nelson w. Aldrich, of Rhode Is
land. is now mentioned for chairman
of the Republican national committee
Senator Aldrich has many friends IL
the financial world and it would hav'
a greater influence in a national cam
paign, it was urged that even Frank
lin Murphy of New Jersey.
Senator Quay Will Be There. :
The condition of Senator Quay
health, about which such varied &C
counts have been circulated, has beel
very carefully diagnosed by physician