Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-10-09
ANIMATED MEETING
|. OF BOARD Of TRADE
Step Toward Unity
ing Santa Fe
Businessmen
ADDRESS BY HON. B. N. READ
Historic in Part It Also Point
ed Out Need of Law
Revision.

W. Frank Owen, Paul A, F. Walter
and Frank F. Gormley, were last
evening appointed by the Board of
Trade as committee to confer with
a similar committee appointed by the
Commercial Club to draft a basis for
an agreement by which the two bodies
may unite into one strong commercial
organization. Two of the three mem
bers of the committee appointed by
the Board of Trade are also members
of the Commercial Club which indi-
Gates the willingness of the Board of
Trade to arrive at some satisfactory
| arrangement which will unite Santa
Fe's business interests.
The meeting of the Board of Trade
was a very animated but harmonious
one and number of important sub
jects were informally discussed. b.
NJ. Read presided, and Secretary j. A.
Rolls, Treasurer Carl A. Bishop and
Corresponding Secretary w. Frank
Owen were at their posts of duty. The
treasurer reported a balance of $50 in
! the treasury in addition to $3.50 in
the tree planting fund Within the
next few weeks, he will make a syS-
tematic effort to collect the annual
dues of S. from the fifty members
who are in good standing on the
membership rolls. The corresponding
secretary reported that he had an
swered 81 letters of inquiry since the
last meeting last month and had sue
c eeded in locating a family from the
east at the Valley Ranch. DR.. j. A.
Rolls, chairman of the tree planting
committee, reported having made a
, very satisfactory arrangement with
: Superintendent J. W. Reynolds of the
J, territorial penitentiary which will re-
, suit in the planting of trees on Ger
rillos road all the way from Monte
yuma avenue to the penitentiary next
spring. The board ratified the agree
ment.
| A committee was appointed to Graft
/, resolutions of praise for Ex-Governor
L. Bradford Prince and A. H. Brod-
head for their services as president
of the board
S. B. Grimshaw, T. z. Winter,
Charles c. Catron and J. w. Norment
were admitted to membership.
w. Frank Owen was elected a men,
Der of the board of directors in place
of A. H. Brodhead resigned
. The feature of the evening was a
brief but interesting address by At
! A. nTS Al if,y
of law revision in New Mexico, it be-
, ing the plan TO have one such address
! at each meeting of the board, the ad-
dress for next months meeting to
be by Superintendent of Public In
struction ]. E. Clark on the feasibility
of manual training in Santa Fe's pub
lie schools, and of the December
meeting an address on the need of
sanitation in Santa Fe by DR.. J. A.
Rolls.
Address by 3. M. Read.
Mr.. President and Members of the
> Board of Trade:
1t is with the greatest pleasure that
complying with the kind invitation of
our ex-president, Mr. Brodhead, | have
consented to say few words concern
ing the necessity at the present time.
of either compilation or revision of
our laws. A revision is what we most
need, but next to that compilation
even if it is poor one is. by far, pre-
, ferable to the chaotic condition of our
statutes now. OF course. of all men
only judges and lawyers can fully ap-
preciate the importance of a revision
: of the territorial laws.
Some few years after the organiza
tion of our territorial government
what might be now considered an ex-
cuse for compilation was made by
man named Whiting, but it was not
official, thought | suppose, generally
i used. From that time the territorial
S legislatures kept on passing laws,
S some amendatory. others repeating
i. and others enlarging the acts of the
b preceding legislative bodies until 1865,
V when the legislature by an act approx
+ ed January "a, 1865, received and ap-
J, proved the report of a committee ap.
pointed by the governor of the terri
tory to revise the laws, and on the
10th of February Of the same year w.
:. F. NJ Army, the secretary of the ter
ritory, certified to the correctness of
II the printed copies thereof. That work
is known as the Revision of 1865"
From 1865 no revision had been un-
dertaken. but three compilations have
: been made one by a private individual
t included all laws from the Promulga-
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