Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-12-07
STATEHOOD BILL
VERY LIBERAL
Generous Provision
for Support Pub
lie Schools
TERRITORIAL Institutions
If Passed New Mexico Will
Take Part in Presidential
Election in 1908.

The full text of House Bill No. 4,
the New Mexico statehood bill intro
duced by Delegate w. H. Andrews on
Tuesday last in the House of Repre-
sentatives, Is of great interest to the
people of the Territory at this time,
and hence the New Mexican publishes
the same in full in this issue that the
people might read, consider and
know Latest reliable advices from
Washington are to the effect that the
bill in it's present form stands very
good show for passage within the
Z next 90 days. A similar bill will be
introduced in the U. S. Senate by Sen
ator Penrose of Pennsylvania on Mon
day next. The text of the bill reads:
House Bill No. d.
A Bill to enable the people of New
Mexico to form constitution and
state government and be admitted
into the Union on an equal footing
with the original states.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the Uni
ted States of America In Congress as
sembled, That the inhabitants of all
that part of the area OF the United
States now constituting the Territory
Of New Mexico as at present de-
4 scribed may become state of the
Union as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. That all qualified electors
of said Territory are hereby author
lied to vote for and choose delegates
to form convention in said Terri.
tory; such delegates shall possess
the qualifications of such electors
The aforesaid convention shall con.
sist of one hundred and thirteep5 dele
gates, apportioned among the several
counties within the limits of the pro-
posed state, and the governor, chief
justice, and the secretary of the said
Territory shall apportion the dele
gates to be thus elected among the
several counties thereof In accord
ance with the voting population as
shown by the vote cast for Delegate
in Congress in said Territory in nine
teen hundred and six.
And the governor of said Territory
shall by proclamation order an elec
tion Of the delegates aforesaid in
said Territory to be held on the
sixth Tuesday after the passage OF
this Act, which proclamation shall be
issued within twenty days after the
passage of this Act; and such elec
tion shall be conducted, the returns
made, the result ascertained, and the
certificates to the persons elected tc
such convention issued as nearly as
may be in the same manner as is
prescribed by the laws of said Terri
tory regarding the elections therein
for members of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Legislative Assem-
by thereof by the board of county
commissioners of the respective coun
ties All persons resident in sale
proposed state who are qualified vot
ers of said Territory as herein pro
vided shall be entitled to vote upoT
the ratification or rejection of the con
stitution, under such rules and regu
lations as said convention may pre-
scribe not in conflict with this Act.
Sec. 8. That the delegates to the
convention thus elected shall meet al
the seat of government of said Terri
tory on the third Monday after theil
election, and after organization shall
declare, on behalf of the people Of
said proposed state, that they adopt
the Constitution of the United States
whereupon the said convention shall
be, and is hereby, authorized to form
a constitution and state government
for said proposed state. The consti
tuition shall be Republican In form
and make no distinction in civil Of
political rights on account OF race Of
color, except as to Indians not taxed
and not be repugnant to the Constitu
tion Of the United States and the
principles of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. And said convention shall
provide, by ordinance, irrevocable
without the consent Of the United
States and the people of said state;
First. That perfect toleration o.
religious sentiment shall be secured
and that no inhabitant Of said state
shall ever be molested in person o.
property on account Of his or hei
mode Of religious worship, and that
polygamous or plural marriages are
forever prohibited.
That the capital of said state shall
temporarily be at the city OF Santa
Fe, in the present Territory Of New
Mexico, and shall NOT be changed
therefrom previous to ammo Domin
nineteen hundred and twenty, but the
location Of said capital may, aftel
said year, be flxed by the electors o.