Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-02-12


there were really $l7S.600, in being
impossible to say which were vail
dated and which were not, if any were
validated at all by the act of Con-
gresS. On this subject the supreme
court of the United States say: Man
ifestly such defenses should have
been set up in the original actions,
and are now precluded by the judg
ments therein rendered"
1t is to be remembered that the ac-
tions which Went to the said supreme
court were cases of mandamus
brought to compel a levy to pay the
judgments which were rendered in
1900 and from which no appeal was
sued out, and it is those actions which
are called the original ones. There
, are recently instituted other suits on
some of the coupons of the invalid
issues. The defenses aforesaid, re-
ferred to by the supreme court of the
United States should be made in those
new cases. This will probably be the
last opportunity to raise the question.
+,
default as was the case in respect
to the judgments of 1900, for it is
plain now that if successive appeals
had been taken as far as The supreme
lcourt of the United States the said
bonds would have been held invalid
as they were held invalid in the
: cases of the Arizona bonds, Pima
/ county bonds" so-called Congress, it
is true validated or attempted to
validate the bonds in question. But
the act is obscure. The decision of
the court of last resort, in the cases
b recently decided, makes our ground
: even more precarious, but nothing
}. risked, nothing gained" and the inti-
q nation of the court in the opinion
a quoted from is that the defense sug-
) gested would have been effective is
seasonably made.
S At the conclusion of his address, he
/ was warmly applauded
If Governor Speaks.
S. Hon. George Curry, governor oi
New, Mexico then arose and said that
O he had just returned from Washing,
n ton and wished to correct an impress
sion that Mr.. Renehan seemed. to have
80 in regard to President Taft ut has
been rumored that the President is
: committed to the Beveridge bill" con-
/ tinued the governor, 'but after having
| talked with him and others in Wash
/ ington who know the Presidents at
i titude in the matter, | have no hest
/ fancy in asserting that President Taft
i is committed only to that part of the
i bill which gives Congress the oppor-
/ tunity to review the bill. | certainly
/ believe we still have a good chance
! to get that land clause which was cut
/ out of the bill by substituting the
il Beveridge bill, if we get busy imme-
4 diatelT, (Applause.)
Il Il believe that if the citizens of
Il Santa Fe quickly get together and
II send man down there to go before
Il this committee on territories and pre-
4 sent or claims that something can
i be done.
i 81 will gladly give any letters Gf in
s PRODUCTION that may be of service and
II | am sure this is an opportunity for
= action that ought not to be neglected
Governor Princes Talk.
Former Governor Prince then was
- called upon to talk on the indebted
ness of the county. He began by say
ing that the speakers who had gone
-- before him seemed to wish to proceed
in two different ways to get rid of this
- burden on the county. "Mr. Renehan,
- he said, would get the desired enc
- through action in the courts; Cover
nor Curry through the Senate. | fo
one believe that the question raised b.
''s Governor Curry is a pressing one ant
| think he has stated a plain fac
"a :" in declaring that with the COMMITTEES
- in the Senate is the place for begin
~ ~. ming our action. Gentlemen, 1t is prac
~ tically impossible to make an.
"a changes in bill like this once it ha
80 gotten onto the floor of the Unitet
10 States Senate when we have a terri
n o. tory to deal with, being without sena
n tors to speak for us. And | would re
is mind you that we are no longer livin
nv in the days with Mr.. Quay of Pennsy
ha vania, to champion our causes. MI
re Quay made it his business to fight fo
New Mexico as though he were tn
bo senator from New Mexico applause.
&c "Now we have a committee on terr
of tories composed of fair men and Cor
GO gress has put the burden on these tw
es counties and | thing a potent argr
in. ment can be made that Congress
IN. should take it off. prolonged al
he plause.)
as No Lawyer Knows it All.
ng Hon. Napoleon B. Laughlin wa
en- then called upon to address the NEE
he ing. He reviewed the election whic
ng Continued on Page Three.)