Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-10-09
C0NCRESSMEN
ARE PLEASED
Hon. J. A. Tawney and Party
Enjoyed Their Brief Visit to
New Mexico's Capital.
A CORDIAL RECEPTION
Visitors Disclain. That Their Tour Of
the Two Territories Has Any
Political Significance.

rived from Las Vegas at an early
hour this morning on It's special train
of three Pullmans and combination
car and at eight o'clock this morning
was waited upon by committees ap-
pointed by Acting Governor j. w.
to represent the Territory;
by Mayor A. R. Gibson, to represent
the city, and by Ex-Governor L. B.
Prince, president of the Board Of
Trade. Twelve carriages were in
waiting and as the visitors intended to
remain only until ten o'clock and ex-
pected to be in Albuquerque by one
o'clock this afternoon, haste was made
In starting on the tour Of the city, and
the greatest part of the program for
entertaining the guests had to be ell
minated.
The visitors were congressman j. A.
Tawney, G. R. Davis and H. Steener.
son of Minnesota; Tomas Marshall
of North Dakota; Herman P. Goegel
of Ohio; Martin B. Madden of Illinois;
H. l.. Maynard of Virginia; H. G..
Adams and F. s. Minor of Wisconsin;
Mark Smith of Arizona; V. L. Mason
of New York City and J. N. Corning
ton and Colonel Rutherford Trow-
bridge of Boston. Others In the party
were Henry Casson, seroeant-at-arms
of the House Of Representatives; F. P.
Gardner Lathrop, general solicitor Of
the Santa Fe system; H. P. Teare and
F. R. Connel of the Santa Fe System;
and F. P. Fellows, secretary of Con-
gressman Tawny. Acting Governor
James w. Reynolds, Ex-Governor l..
B. Prince, Ex-Delegate to Congress B.
s. Rodey; Harry w. Kelley of Las We
gas and other citizens Of the Territory
were on the special on Its tour through
New Mexico. Congressman Tawney,
who had arranged the trip, declared
that 1t had no official significance. The
visitors were the guests of Ex-Gov
ernor Oakes Murphy and his brother
Frank M. Murphy, who in their spe
cial car awaited them at Albuquerque
and will spend considerable of thei
time looking at mining property II
Arizona. However, the visitors were
very eager for all the Information
they could secure about the. Territory,
and Santa Fe especially, and asked
many pointed questions. The party
started at Chicago and the first stop
was made at Ration and the second at
Las Vegas, where Sunday was spent.
Then 1t came to SantaFe and this after
noon, Albuquerque entertained the
Congressman and their guests. From
Albuquerque the Santa Fe will be ta-
ken to Ell Paso, Texas, and from there
the Southern Pacific to Tucsol-. Some
time will be spent In Prescott and
Phoenix. Senator Clark's copper
mines and a number of mining camps
will be visited, after which the party
will return via the Santa Fe.
Various points of interest in this city
were visited, including the Capitol, st.
Michael's College, San Miguel church
the Old Palace, the Historical Museum
and the Federal Building, while the
drive about town gave fairly gooc
idea of the prosperity and progress O.
Santa Fe. The visitors all appeared
to be pleased and expressed their de
light and interest in everything the,
saw. The climate, especially, came II
| for a good deal of praise. There wa
very little time to talk statehood, al
though few words were gotten i
edgewise to convince the visitors tha
the majority Of the people of the Te
ritory are opposed to jointure wit
Arizona.
The special train left the depot
promptly ten o'clock. The visitors asl
ed the representative of the New Me-
lean to express their thanks throug
the columns of the paper for the CO..
dial reception given them. Naturall!
two hours afforded not enough time 7
show the sights in and about SAINT
Fe or to give the visitors more than
passing glimpse Of points OF interest
but the Bureau of immigration SUI
piled them with literature descriptiv
of the Territory and Its resources.
The reception committees were con
posed of the following citizens: Al
pointed by Acting Governor James v
Reynolds to represent the Territory
H. o. Bursum, chairman; Colonel
w. Prichard vice chairman; R. J. P
len, Arthur seligman, A. l.. Morriso
L. A. Hughes, A. B. Renehan, Amat
Chaves, Paul A. F. Walter, Hiram Hi
ley, Marcelino Garcia, 8. G. Cal
; wright, Hon. Pedro Perea and Judt
N. B. Laughlin.
Appointed by Mayor A. R. Gibson
represent the city: A. R. Gibso
chairman; Nicanor Baca, H. S. Kaun
| F. Muller, Marcelino Garcia, Jot
, Walker, Celso Lopes, Teodosio Cast
llo, r. L. Baca, T. B. Catron, !. Spark