Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-03-23
The Morning Journal Bureau.
Santa En y NJ MHrch -.


1t has been well known in Santa Fe
during the present week that upon the
day the report of the inquisition on
Governor Hagerman's connection with
the Pennsylvania Development COM
pany land deal was read in the house
of representatives the governor sent
an executive message to the house,
bearing upon the same subject This
became known on Monday the day
the report was read when members
Of the house demanded the reading Of
the executive message. this demand
being deliberately refused by the rep
resentatives of the machine, thus vio-
lating all parliamentary precedent
and also all the elementary principles
of courtesy Upon the demand for
this message and its refusal, Mr.. Hud-
Speth was led to charge Mr.. Holt with
cOWardice, leading to one of the sem
sational Incidents of the session.
The nature of the report made by
the house inquistion, its aims and OBJ
iects, its total disregard for even the
probabilities in its wild endeavor to
connect Governor Hagerman IN some
way with the Pennsylvania Develop
ment company transaction, have been
smaae ~ Aiain that they are new Woll
understood not only in New Mexico,
but wherever there are newspapers, II
was plain, unVarnished and rather
clumsy effort to assail the character
of the governor, and its failure was to
be anticipated.
The failure of the machine leaders
of the house to allow the executive
message to be read however, puts.a
ierb q lipbt nm tho uuturn and rp1-
sons for the inquistiou's report. The
executive message is plain and to the
point, and it was examined in the
house by the machine managers
There is but one conclusion possi-
Bile, and that is that the machine
managers, knowing the contents Of
the executive message and the clear
way in which it sets forth the facts
in the land deal in question, feared
to allow it to be read in the house,
because of the way i'm which it shows
up the Misrepresentation Of the inqui-
sition report 1t is i'm keeping with
the suppression Of the minority re-
port which Mr Mullins, of the COM
mittee. says he made. and it shows
that the remnant of the machine
knew how weak were the grounds
upon which the inquisitiOu's vicious
attack on the governor We're based.
The suppression Of the executive
message on the subject has made alb
solutely plain the fact, well known
and not denied that the report was
made for the express purpose of
spreading through the country the inn
preston that Governor Hagerman
had had some connection with some
fraudulent land deal.
Tho t,1psgnpA nf tho Governor Inpu
this question, in spite Of the fact that
it was suppressed in the house, was
duly received by that body ana in
the regular order placed upon the
presidents table II Is, therefore, a
part of the public records of the
house, and the buugling character
wreckers who perpared the inquis-
tiOn report cannot escape the exposure
of their stileto tactics. The message
of the governor follows in full:
March IS. 1907.
TO the Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives of the
Thirty-seventh Legislative Assem-
bly,, Santa Fe n. NJ,
Gentlemen; on March the 4th,
house resolution No. 9, introduced by
Mr.. Beach was passed by the house
of representatives. This resolution
provided for the appointment by the
speaker of a committee of five MEM
bers to investigate certain alleged
charges against me as governor of the
territory in connection with the de-
livery of certain deeds to w, s. Hope
well for timber lands heretofore sold
by the territory to the Pennsylvania
Development company.
The speaker named a board in ac-
Ia n nit In
course of its proceedings, namely, on
Saturday, March ., 1907 a subpoena
was issued by said board requesting
me to appear at o'clock in the after
noon, with all documents and papers
connected with the matter In question.
The subpoena was signed by the Hon.
Il. C. Abbott, as chairman OF the COM
mittee. ! sent to Mr.. Abbott the fol-
lowing letter:
"ro Hon. r. G. Abbott
Dear Sir. | shall be pleased to re-
ceive you and any other members Of
the house Of representatives, who de-
sire to accompany YOU this afternoon,
at my office at o'clock, and to fur
nish you with any information con-
cerning territorial matters, which 1t Is
proper for me to furnish, ! have the
honor To be, respectfully yours,
III j. HAGERMAN.
saturday, March 3. 1907
The members of the committee
were not disposed to come to my Of
flee and later in the day sent another
subpoena commanding me to APP
pear before them which / refused
20 do.
1t Is a well-known principle that
one branch of the government can
not interfere with coordinate
branch of the government, and II may
be proper 10 say here that the eXecu-