Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-15
SLIGHT CHANGE
IN FRANCHISE
School Districts May Suspend
Voting Privilege Given
to Women
REVISION COMMITTEE BUSY
Constitutional Convention Il
Drawing to Close With
Its Labors. '

as well as on the matter of giving
women the franchise at school elec-
tions.
The prohibition hearing in the
Council chamber last evening was.
well attended. e. A. Miera presided,
limpartially and ably. Strong address
es favoring statewide prohibition
were made by Mrs. Patterson, Mrs S.
/ G. Nutter, Mrs. E. E. Friday, E. s.
Slower, r. w. Hefin, w. E. Garrison
| who favored separate submission, M.
D. Taylor, and other speakers. There
were some questions by M. L. Stern,
Venceslao Jaramillo, F. q. Wood and
| others.
Forenoon.
At 1850 a. m. President Charles
A. Spiess called the convention to
order and Rev. julius A. Hartman pro-
nounced the following poetic invoca-
tion:
Lord, Who giveth strength to the
weary and increaseth force and might
to them who labor and toll, confirm
on the last days of our journey our
souls with special strength from
above; give us manly courage which
shrinks from nothing; perseverance
which goes forth heroically and self
denyingly to it's end. And now, that
the lighthouse of hope looms before
us and land is in sight, steer the
barge of our constitution in it's on
ward course securely into a safe har-
Dor. Amen.
| Petitions for and against prohibit
ton were presented and referred to
tthe Committee on Liquor Traffic. A
telegram to the Bernalillo county del
egation demanded positive action eth
Ter for or against prohibition.
p. S. Slower presented file, writ
ten originally by Senator Root and
embodied in the New York constitu-
ltion. 1t refers to the penitentiary and
convicts.
The Committee on Revision report
ed the articles on Agriculture and Con-
servation, Executive Department,
Compact with the United States, Pub
lie Lands. The Committee on Judi
ciary reported two additional sections
covering the apportionment of judi
cial districts and district attorneys.
| w. E. Lindsey introduced Resolu-
ton No. 26, authorizing Territorial
Secretary Nathan Jaffa to employ a
competent proof reader and providing
for the distribution of the printed
copies of the constitution.
The Preamble and Article I, Name
and Boundaries, as reported from the
Committee on Revision were adopted.
They read as follows:
Preamble.
We, the people of New Mexico,
Igrateful to Almighty God for the
blessings of liberty, in order to secure
the advantages OIL a state government,
do ordain and establish this constitu-
ton.
| ARTICLE !.
Name and Boundaries.
The name of this state is New Mexi-
co, and its boundaries are as follows:
| Beginning at the point where the
| thirty-seventh parallel of north lati-
tude intersects the one hundred and
third meridian west from Greenwich; !;
thence along said one hundred and
third meridian to the thirty-second
parallel of north latitude; thence
Ialong said thirty-second parallel to the
Rio Grande, also known as the Rio
Bravo del Norte, as 1t existed on the
ninth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty; thence fol
lowing the main channel of said river,
las 1t existed on the ninth day Of Sep
tember, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty, to the parallel of thirty-one
degrees forty-seven minutes north lati-
jtude; thence west one hundred miles
to a point; thence south to the parallel
Iof thirty-one degrees twenty minutes
north latitude; thence along said
parallel OF thirty-one degrees twenty
minutes, to the thirty-second meridian
of longitude west from Washington;
thence along said thirty-second meri-
dian to the thirty-seventh parallel of
north latitude; thence along said
| thirty-seventh parallel to the point Of
beginning.
| Printing Of Constitution.
Nestor Montoya moved that the
Lindsey resolution providing for the
printing of 100000 copies Of the con-
stitution, the proof reading and their
distribution, be adopted. The resolu-
ton was adopted without dissent.
| The Committee on Franchise re-
ported a substitute for part of Sec
| ton /, Of it's report, modifying the
provision as to extending the right OF
franchise to. women at school cleo
tions.
| Upon petition of so per cent Of the
QUALIFIED voters of any school district,
| the right of women to vote at school
elections may be suspended, while a
similar petition would restore ll.
! J. w. Childers offered an amend.
rnent to Section z, that the legislature
enact a direct primary law. A. B.
Fall offered to amend that nothing in
the constitution shall prevent the
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