Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-18
PROHIBITION Up
THIS AFTERNOON
Advocates of Temperance
VIII Make Sturdy But
Useless Fight
SUBJECT FOR LEGISLATURES
Convention Disposes of Another
Batch of Articles as Finally
Revised.

The convention yesterday afternoon
finished the revision of the Articles
on Municipal Corporations, which
completed all the reports that had
been made by the Revision Commit
tee, which all day yesterday and up
to ten o'clock last evening, wrestled
with the report on Legislative De.
partment, which will be taken up to-
day. 1t also finished the reports on
Irrigation, on Judiciary and on Consti-
tutional Amendments, which will fur
nish the tasks for today's session of
the convention.
The evening part of yesterday after
noon was devoted to the supplement-
airy report of the Committee on Edu-
cation and two substitutes offered fof
it by w. D. Murray and Acasio A. Ga
llegos, which resembled each other,
but the Murray report was finally
adopted with few slight changes. 1t
reads as follows:
Substitute by Mr.. Murray.
Supplemental to the Report of Com
mittee on Education.
Section l. The University of New
Mexico at Albuquerque, the New Mex,
leo College OF Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts near Las Cruces, the New
Mexico School of Mines at Socorro,
the New Mexico Military Institute at
Roswell, the New Mexico Normal
School at Silver City, the New Mexi
co University at Las Vegas, the Span
ish-American Normal School at Ell
RitO, the New Mexico Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb at Santa Fe, and the
New Mexico Institute for the Blind at
Alamogordo, are hereby confirmed as
the state educational institutions. The
appropriations made and that may
hereafter be made by the United
States for agricultural and mechan-
ical colleges and experiment stations
within this state shall be paid to the
New Mexico College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts.
Sec. 2. All lands granted under the
provisions of the Act of Congress, en-
titled, "An Act to enable the people
Of New Mexico to form constitution
and state government and be admit
ed into the Union on an equal footing
with the original states; and to en-
able the people of Arizona to form
constitution and state government and
be admitted into the Union on an
equal footing with the original
states" for the purposes of said sew
eral institutions are hereby ratified
and confirmed to said institutions, and
shall be exclusively used for the pur-
poses for which they were granted;
provided, that the land granted by
said act for Normal School purposes
shall be apportioned between said
three institutions by the first legisla-
ture held by virtue of this constitu-
ton.
Sec. 3. The legislature shall pro-
vide for the control and management
of each of the institutions by board
of regents, for each institution, con-
sisting of five members to be appoint
ed by the governor for a term of five
years by and with the consent of the
Senate, and not more than a majority
of whom shall belong to the same po-
litical party. The duties of said
board shall be prescribed by law.
The fight was over the ambition Of
eastern New Mexico to have normal
school at some future date and the in
sistence of the friends of the normal
schools at Las Vegas, Silver City and
Ell Rito, that the lands granted by the
United States in the past for normal
school purposes should remain intact
for the use of those three schools,
They yielded finally so as to leave 50,-
900 acres, of the 100000 acres of lieu
lands, unassigned, directing the COM
ing state legislatures to dispose OF
those $4,000 acres as they saw tit.
This leaves an opening for new nor
NAL school project and while not sat
isfying altogether the eastern New
Mexico statesmen was accepted as the
best that could be secured under exist
ing circumstances. AS Delegate T. j.
Mabry expressed it: "This substitute
does not suit some of our people quite
as we'll as the supplemental report OF
the Committee on Education, but /
realize the difficulty of getting to-
gether on this proposition. Eastern
New Mexico is not selfish but it de-
mands the recognition to which its
population and wealth entitle it."
G. w. Prichard, chairman of the
Committee on Education supported
the substitute and expressed himself
pleased that solution had been
found to the troublesome problem.
W. E. Lindsey thought it was rather
a violent presumption to- assume that
the state legislatures would assign the
undisposed $4,000 acres for new
normal school in eastern New Mexico,
for the lobbies of the three existing
normal schools would be powerful in
the legislatures but he hoped that
Justice would be done in the future.
It was thought that this compro-
mise had allayed the storm over the
question, but an unexpected complica'
.tion arose through motion by Reed
Holloman to strike out: "The appro'