Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-21
SPECIAL MESSAGE
To CONGRESS
President Taft and Senate
Straighten Out Texas-New
Mexico Boundary
PECULIAR SITUATION DEVELOPS
Senator Lorimer Is Completely
Exonerated by Report of
Senate Committee


message to Congress, President Taft
today advised the adoption of a joint
resolution authorizing the annulment
of that portion of the constitution of
the new state of New Mexico attempt
ing to change the boundary lines be-
tween New Mexico and Texas.
Lorimer Completely Exonerated.
Washington, Dec. 21.-The report
of the Senate committee on privileges
and elections, in the Lorimer bribery
case today was presented to the Sen
ate by Senator Burrows. The report
says: mo testimony was offered
which tends in the remotest degree to
implieate Senator Lorimer in any per-
sonal act of bribery or attempted
bribery or corrupt practices of any
nature"
Clark Survey Goes.
Washington, Dec. 21.-The senate
quickly adopted the joint resolution
authorizing the annulment of that
portion of the New Mexico constitu.
! ton, attempting to change the estab-
lished boundary between Texas and
New Mexico. 1t also provides for re-
marking the boundary as established
| by the Clark survey made in 1859-60.
The House has not acted on the reso-
| luton.
Telegraphed to Governor Mills.
Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, Dec. 21.-The, Presi-
dents special message today was up
on the lines of the Culberson and
| Stephens resolutions introduced in
the Senate and House respectively by
those Texas statesmen His object is
to avoid hard feeling along the boun-
dairy and litigation in the courts for
the next twenty years. In the House,
Stephens. moved that his joint resolu-
ton be passed at once but Paine, the
Republican floor leader, who defeated
the Stephens resolution for Delegate
Andrews in the last session of Con.
|
ruled that the resolution must be re
ferred for action to the committee on
judiciary which reported against it al
| the last session. Delegate Andrews
will this afternoon at o'clock tele
graph the Presidents message to Gov
ernor Mills.
Congress Takes Holiday Recess.
Washington, Dec. 21.-Congress ad-
journed today for the holiday recess
until January s.
No Dissenting View Filled.
Washington, Dec. 21.-The conclu
sion reached by the committee was:
THAT Mr.. Lorimer's right to a seat
in the Senate has not been shown ia
be invalid by the employment of cor
rupt methods or practices" The re
port declares that those who confess
ed receiving bribes should not be be
lieved and that the votes of those who
are charged with paying bribes should
/ be counted. The dissenting views OF
Senator Frazier were not filed with the
report.
Bill by Andrews.
Washington, Dec. 20,-Delegate An.
drews introduced the following bill:
That the Secretary of the Treasury
be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to pay out of any money in
the Treasury of the United States
not otherwise appropriated. to Atan
asio Casus of San Miguel county
State of New Mexico, the sum of five
hundred dollars in full compensation
for loss of property sustained by him
at the hands of the Navajo Indians
on or about March, 1859, and the
court of claims is hereby given juris
diction to investigate and try said
case under the provisions of the Tu
cker Act, approved March 8, 1887
irrespective of the Indian Depreda
ton Act of March 8, 1891.
Chairman Clapp, of the Senate
committee on Indian Affairs has re
ported to the Senate the appropria
tion bill for the bureau of Indian af
fairs. Besides the usual appropria
tion, previously reported, it now con
tains the provisions for Delegate An
drews for constructing two bridges
across the Rio Grande River, one al
or near the Isleta Indian Pueblo, New
Mexico, and the other at or near Sar
Felipe, New Mexico, not far from Al
buquerque, fifty-five thousand dollars
Provided, that Indian labor shall be
employed as far as practicable in the
building of said bridges Also the
provision for Delegate Cameron fol
constructing bridge across the Lit
tie Colorado River on the Navajo Re
servation at or near Tanners Cros
sing, Arizona, ninety thousand dol
liars. The sums for the 1ndiaI
scholls at Albuquerque, $S5,OOO, Sants
! $4,000, Phoenix, Fort Mojave ant
Truxton Canyon, Arizona, remains al
previously reported.
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