Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-01-10
CONFIRMATION Of
RAYNOLDS HELD
Report Of Com
nittee is Not
Ready Yet.
HAGERMAN Us APPROVED
Delegate Andrews at Work
Looking After Affairs of
Territory.
Speci,.l to the New Mexican.

Speci,.l to the New Mexican.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 1O.-At the
meeting of the committee on terrific
ries yesterday, the nomination Of ].
w. Reynolds to be secretary of the
Territory went over for one week, at
the request Of U. s. Senator Knute
Nelson, of Minnesota. 1t is we'll un-
derstood that as soon as the nomina-
ton comes before the Senate 1t will
be confirmed.
Delegate Andrews attended the
meeting Of the Senate committee on
territories yesterday in the interest
Of New Mexico. He is urging the adop-
lion Of the amendment appropriating
additional public land to the new
state for the payment of the state debt
and Of the railroad debts Of several
counties in New Mexico and Arizona,
which debts were validated by an act
Of Congress several years ago.
Nominations.
The nomination of Herbert j. Hag-
erman to be Governor of New Mexico
was reported favorably yesterday by
the committee on territories.
The nomination of l.. F. Parker, Jr,
of Vinita, Indian Territory, to be U.
s. district Judge for one of the dis
trictsN in that Territory, will be re-
ported favorably. The charges against
him have been fully investigated and
have been dismissed.
The charges were investigated by
U. 8. Attorney John Hamilton and Mr..
Parker has been fully exonerated. 1t
will be remembered that for several
years, he was stenographer for the
U. s. court of private land claims in
Santa Fe. He is we'll known In New
Mexico and Arizona.
The Philippine Island tariff bill will
be disposed Of before the Hamilton
joint statehood bill will be taken up.
This is expected to be tomorrow.
Against Jointure.
Kingman, Ariz., Jan. 10.-The peo-
pie of this county are holding a mass
meeting protesting against the pass.
age OF the Hamilton joint statehood
bill. Messages from all the outlying
towns and camps report that the SEN
timent against jointure is unanimous.
Every town is sending resolutions
Of protest to Washington demanding
Of Congress the right to vote separate
" on any measure considered inimical
TO the welfare Of the people of Arl-
2ona.
Regulating Railroads.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 10.--At a
secret conference the Republican
members of the House committee on
interstate commerce last night, what
will hereafter be known as the ad-
ininistration measure for the regula.
ton Of railroad rates, was formally
considered and adopted.
This bill will be called the Dolliver
measure and Is much more cpmpre-
hensive than the Esch-T Townsend bill.
1t is by~nos means radical and treats
both the railroads and the shippers
fairly.
Against Intoxicants.
Plttsburg, Jan. 10.-A permanent
committee on temperance Of the gen
eral assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church at its meeting here took a
decided stand against the manufacture
or the sale Of intoxicants in the pro.
posed new states to be formed out Of
Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Arizona
and New Mexico Professor Charles
Scanlon, the field secretary, was In.
structed to appear next week before
the committee considering the state
hood bill at Washington and ask that
NO intoxicants he sold or manufac.
tured IN the newly created states for
a period Of 81 years.
Statehood Question.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 10.-Speak.
er Cannon's efforts to win the insur-.
gents over to the Hamilton Joint
statehood bill, have met with but lit
tie success apparently, and the joint
statehood proposition is still shroud.
ed In uncertainty.
The insurgents claim that they have
fifty.eight votes, number of which,
coupled with the solid Democratic
vote will force a consideration Of the
amendments to the Hamilton bill
Two or three Republicans are re
ported to have been won over to the
administration measure, through
Speaker Cannon, but the weakening
Of the opposition is go slight, thai
until further changes are brough,
about, the Hamilton bill will not be
taken before the House.
Compromises Offered.
All sorts Of compromises have beer
suggested, but these have met Will
I no favor at the hands Of the sup