Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-15
Work Of Constitutional Convention
Fraught With Importance to
Future Generations.
POLITICS HAVE NO PART
IN SELECTION OF DELEGATES
Honesty, Ability, Integrity and Sin
cerity Only Qualifications to
Be Considered in Choice
Of Candidates,

one OF the strongest documents ever
issued from the executive office of
New Mexico is the proclamation just
issued by Governor Herbert j. Hager-
man for the election of delegates to
the convention which Is to choose a
constitution for the new state of Art-
IONA. The governor urges In the
strongest possible manner the grave
need of selecting the most able men
for this purpose and OF leaving poh
ties out of the question in the selec-
ton of delegates who shall be the
brainiest and most representative Cit
izens of the territory. The following
is the proclamation:
Proclamation.
To the people of the Territory of New
MeXico
on the sixteenth day of June, 1906,
the president of the United States ap-
proved an act of congress, entitled:
IAN act to enable the people of
Oklahoma and of Indian Territory
to form a constitution and state
government and be admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with
the original states; and to enable
the people of New Mexico and of
Arizona to form a constitution and
state goverpment ara iie. admitted
into the Union on an equal footing
with the original states"
Sections % and,Al, inclusive or the
said act of congress provide that the
inhabitants of all that part OF the
area of the United states now con-
stituting the territories of Arizona and
New Mexico may, IL the people OF
those territories so elect become the
state of Arizona ana set forth in de-
tail the procedure whereby the wishes
of the people OF the two territories
are to be asCertaincd.
II is provided by section "a of the
said act that, at the general election
to be hold on the sixth day OF NoVem-
Der, nineteen hundred ana six all
the electors of said territories. respec-
lively, qualified to vote at such elec-
ton, are thereby authorized to vote
for and choose delegates TO form
convention for said territories, when
convention shall consist of one hun
dred and ten delegates, siXty-six of
which delegates shall be elected To
said convention by the people of the
territory Of New Mexico aud forty
four by the people of the territory OF
Arizona, and that the governors, chief
Justices ana secretaries OF each of
said territories, respectively shall ap-
portion the delegates to be- thus elect
ed from their respective territories
as nearly as may be, equitably among
the several counties thereof, In ac-
cordance with the voting population
as shown by the vote cast for delegate
In congress in tho respective terrltor-
les in nineteen hundred and four. Ii
Is further provided by the said act.
that the governors of said territories.
respectively, shall within thirty days
after the approval thereof. to-wit Oh
or before July sixteenth. 1906. issue
"A proclamation IN which the aforesaid
convention shall bc fully specified aud
announced, and In which other mat
ters. hereinafter referred tp, shall be
clearly stated.
In accordance. therefore with such
provisions OF the s1id act. |. Herbert
j. Hagerman. governor Of New Mcxi-
co, do hereby specify and announce.
that, pursuant to an official call,
dated June "a, 1906. the chief Justice
of the territory of New Mexico and
the secretary Of the said territory did
meet with the governor OF the ter
ritory In the executive officss
In Santa Fe, and, after a full
and careful consideration OF the
subject and thorough examination
Of the certified election returns OF the
several counties of the territory, show
the total vote cast for delegate 10
congress at the general election held
In November, 1904. found that the
total vote cast for all candidates for
delegate to congress at the said elec-
ton was 1901; that, as sixty-six deli
egates are TO be apportioned from
among the several counties I'm accord
ahce with the voting population NJ
shown by such total vote, the unit
for apportionment Is one delegate for
each 652 votes cast at such general
election; that fractions In excess OF
one-half OF said unit, which would be
326. should entitlc county 10 another
delegate. Upon this basis the number
of delegates apportoned TO each
county was. ana | do hereby specifl-
cally announce the same to be as
follows:
To Bernallllo county, delegates.
Chaves, 2; Cofax. 4: Dona Ana N Ed
dy, Il. Grant. 3; Guadalupe, 2: Lin
coin, 2; Luna, ]; Mckinley, 1; Mora.
4 Otero, q Quay, 1; Rio Arrlba. f.
Roosevelt, Sandoval, 2; San Juan.
! ; San Miguel. q Santa Re. 4. Slerra
/. Socorro, 4; Taos. 3. Torrance. i
Union, 3: Valencia, 3. Making n total
Of sixty-slx delegates.
In further accordance with sectiou
~ Of said act Of congress I hereby or.
der that at the general election 10 Ia
held In the territory OF New Mexies
on the sixth day Of November. nine.
toen hundred and slx. there shall Il.
rubinittcd to al the Quailncd electors