The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1906-09-01

of the annual meeting of the
New Mexico Bar association
which closed its session at Cloud
croft last Thursday, and which
proved to be one of the best at
tended meetings held by the as
sociation for years. Santa Fe,
with an attendance of almost
thirty out of a total of seventy
FIVE, contributed materially to
the success of the gathering:
BUSINESS SESSION.
The association was called to
order on Wednesday forenoon,
August 2l, by the president, W.
A. Hawkins, who with Secretary
X. II. Hanna had made the ar
rangements for the meeting with
much forethought.
After the reading and approval
of the minutes the president ap-
pointed A. B. Mcmillan and l..
B. Prince to fill two temporary
vacancies on the committee on
admission. The secretary's an
nual report brought out the en-
couraging fact that within the
past two years the association
has increased its active member
ship by sixty per cent.
EULoGY BY EX-GOVERNOR PRINCE.
Ex-Governor l.. Bradford
Prince of the committee on reso-
lutions upon the death of the
late Judge Tuley, of Chicago, at
one time attorney general of
New Mexico, delivered an elo-
quent eulogy of the Judge who
at the beginning of his career in
Santa Fe in 1S47 managed to exc
out an existence with an average
income of 81 week until APP
pointed attorney general of the
Territory. Appropriate resolu-
tions were offered and ordered
engrossed and a copy sent to
Mrs. Tuley, who shared with
Judge Tuly his early privationS
and successes in Santa Fe. The
address was of great historical
and biographical interest and
will be printed in the proceedings
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT.
President Hawkins followed
with his annual address in which
he discussed vital features of the
statehood question expressing a
belief that if the Legislature call
ed a constitutional convention to
consist of the delegates elected
for New Mexico at the November
election and this convention
adopted constitution which was
ratified by the people, that the
submission of this constitution
to congress with a demand for
statehood would logically result
in the admission of this Terri
tory under its present name and
within its present boundaries.
Mr.. Hawkins in his paper, among
other things cited many historic
al precedents of constitutional
conventions held without being
first authorized by Congress,
notably the examples of Tenne-
ssee, Arkansas and Florida.
He compared the treaties and
their statehood promises which
resulted in the acquisition of the
northwest territory and Louis
lana territory and the admission
of the states framed from them,
with the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, pointing out their SINH
larity of phraseology.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session was de-
voted to the delivery of strong
addresses, which were mainly
concerned with the statehood
question. Hon. T. b. Catron of
Santa Fe being prominent among
the speakers, partial outline of
his address is as follows:
Mr.. Catron in speaking of the
racial peculiarities of the native
people of New Mexico said that
they are not so much of Spanish
or Indian blood as they are of
Moorish descent. He said that
they are not only close kin of
the Syrian but are identical with
the Arabians and that their re-
lationship to the fair-haired blue
eyed natives of northern Spain
is very remote. He then out
lined the expeditions of the white
man into what is now New Mex