The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-10-24
the STATEHOOD BILL
Provides 10 Per Cent. Of Land
Sales for School Funds

~ BlONiotS ludt 10 pr cent Oh
the proceeds OF all sales OF public
lands shall be expended Tor the
supper; Of public schools. Okla.
homa only receives 5 per cent.
For insane asylums, 400, 900 acres;
schools for the deaf, dumb and
blind, 100000 acres; state char.
table, penal and retormatory insti.
buttons, 7oo,o 600 acres; hospital for
disabled miners, 1000 o acres;
normal schools 400, 200 acres; the
state university gets more than its
average proportion; for agriculture
and mechanical colleges, 800. 900
acres; and the present national APP.
preparation shall continue under
the state; tor school OF mines,
400, 200 acres and Tor military in.
stitute, 100000 acre..
To pay the present railroad in.
debtedness OF Santa Pc aud Grant
counties, 7,ooo,ooo acres are APP
propriated. \ commission com.
posed OF the governor, surveyor
general and attorney general OF the
state shall select all lands.
Cases pending in the territorial
courts will continue in the state
courts. A constitutional owen
;ion, composed OF ia delegates
shall be called by the governor,
delegates to be apportioned among
the several counties in accordance
with the vote cast tor delegate in
1896. All legal voters NAV vote
on the ratification or rejection oil
the constitution. Delegates to the
convention shall meet At Santa Fe,
which shall be the capital OF the
state until 1920; form a constitu.
ton, Republican in form; perfect
liberation OF religion shall be Sc.
cured. The debt and liabilities OF
the territory shall be assumed by
the state. Until the next census
the state shall have representatives
IN Congress numbering two and
they and all state, county and pre-.
clnct officers shall be elected at the
time OF voting on the constitution.
II a majority favor the constitu.
ton, the governor shall certify the
returns TO the president, who shall
issue his proclamation admitting
New Mexico as a state in the un.
ion.
AT the election November ,rd.
the most important question that
has come before the people in six.
ty years will be presented tor de.
cision. 1t should not be consider.
ed as a personal question whether
Delegate Andrews or Larazolo
should he elected. II should be
considered solely as a business
proposition. Who can secure the
greatest and quickest results tor
all the people OF New Mexico.
Always welcome Delegate An.
drews. What can | do Tor New
Mexico. am willing 10 do what
| can Tor New Mexico as halt OF
my regiment came from that terri.
tory, is not an inirequent greeting
Delegate Andrews receives at the
White House.
1T is well known that Delegate
Andrews has the hearty and united
support OF the entire PENNSYLVANIA
delegation, which is the largest
and most influential Republican
delegation in Congress. Dalzell
OF Pittsburg Sherman, chairman
OF Indian affairs and candidate for
vice-president-who requested that
Andrews be placed upon his com.
mittee-with the speaker, compose
the committee on rules, which de.
cldes which bill shall or shall not
pass. Dalzell makes the report 10
the House OF Representatives.
Delegate Andrews also has the
earnest and sincere support OF
Senator Penrose, chairman OF the
very important committee on post.
Offices and postroads. No post.
master al be confirmed against
his wish-and Senator Knox, late
attorney general. Scores OF other
senators and hundreds OF represen.
t~atives are his friends, and have
and will help him in everything he
wants for New Mexico. 4 com.
mon expression is Andrews, Just
say what YOU want us 10 do and
we will do it,
He also stands on solid terms
with the heads OF all bureaus. For
over twenty years Delegate An
drews has associated with men high
in political and business affairs,
and they often have and will con-
finne To helm him In what he mnnte