Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-05-02
In the First Session of the 58th
Congress...0ver $200,000
G Appropriations for
Territory Secured.
GOOD PENSION WORK
Sixth Judicial District Established
Through His Efforts...Much Other
Valuable Work Done by the
Delegate.

| Ii dollars and cents can measure the
ynlue of services, New Mexico has no
complaint to make for having sent
Delegate Rodey to Congress. At the
| recent session he has secured, both
through Congress and the department,
IN unusually large number of pensions
aIl increases of pensions, which will
bring into the Territory annually a
very large amount Of cash, although
but drop to each pensioner.
As member of the committee on
lnt.ian affairs, he obtained quite an in
crease in the regular appropriation for
the Santa Fe and Albuquerque Indian
schools, and direct new appropriation
! Ct $4,000 or the Albuquerque school,
ard $500 for the Santa Fe school.
He has also obtained in the general In
dian bill q i'd otherwise by his work,
before Con gress opened and since it
opened, ne rly 100000 that will be ex-
pended in New Mexico within the next
twelve months.
In conjunction with Representative
Brooks. of Colorado, an appropriation
Of $50, 900 has been secured in the agri-
cultural bill for experiments to be
made as to the fattening properties OF
Tferent sorts of grass and plants in
IT, west, most of which will be ex-
pended in Colorado and New Mexico.
Several other appropriations that in
the aggregate amount to many thou
sands of dollars, will come to New Mex
leo in the agricultural bill. He was
;als'a instrumental in the establishment
|of a. weather bureau station for the Pc
!, In sssnev.
The delegate is responsible for the
passage Of a bill that gives their home
steads to large number of families
near Los Lentes and Cubero in western
Valencia County, that were lost to
them in the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road land grant.
He secured the passage of the sixth
judicial district bill, by which the Ter
ritory will have new associate justice
of it's supreme court, and that will sure
ly bring in, in one way and another,
$4,000 or 100000 every year.
He aided materially in getting fav-
orable report for the striking out Of
the ''amity'' provision of the Indian
depreciation law This bill will prob
ably become a law in the short ses-
sion, and will do more good to New
Mexico than any other section Of coun-
try, and eventually result in it's citizens
collecting not less than $1,0O0,OOO for
property taken by the Indians from
them in the early days of the Terri
tory.
Through the department of agricul-
ture, he distributed in the Territory
during the season, 10000 farmers bull
letins, and not less than 100000 pack
ages of vegetable seeds beside the
usual quantity of flower seeds, shrub
berry and trees.
He sent out through the Territory
about 1000 copies of the publication
known as Diseases of the Horse" and
his full quota, as member of Congress
of the publications of the Geological
Survey and the publications of all the
departments of the government.
With the aid of the people of Santa
Fe he secured the donation to the city
of Santa Fe of the entire Fort Marcy
Reservation, which ought to be worth
at the very least $4,000 to the city.
BY an amendment to bill, he Sc
cured the right for the New Mexico
Military Institute to borrow arms from
the United States for the use OF its
students, and to have military officer
detailed to it as instructor.
These are some of the things he has
managed to accomplish.