Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-19
ADJOURNMENT
On MONDAY
Election For Approval of
Constitution to Be Held
January Fl
CALL TO Commissioners
They Are to Meet on Tuesday
of Next Week to Appoint
Registration Boards

The constitutional convention will
adjourn some time on Monday. A res
olution introduced by G. J. Roberts
last evening clinches this. It was
unanimously adopted and the election
for the approval of the constitution is
to be held on January 21. A hurry
call has been telegraphed to all
boards of county commissioners to
meet on next Tuesday to appoint
boards of registration The document,
if approved at the polls, is to be in
the hands of Congress and President
Taft early in February. The following
is the resolution as adopted at last
evenings session:
Whereas, in order that the election
on the question of adoption of this
constitution to be considered by the
present Congress, it is necessary that
said election should be held not later
than January 81, 1911, and
Whereas, this convention will COM
plete it's labors not later than Mon
day, November q, and
Whereas, it is deemed advisable
that registration of voters should be
required, as provided by the present
law Of the Territory of New Mexico
and
Whereas, said law requires that
the boards of county commissioners
in the various counties shall appoint
such boards of registration sixty days
before the date fixed for the election;
therefore,
BE it resolved, by this convention
that the secretary of the Territory be
and is hereby requested to wire at
once to the clerk of the board of coun-
ty commissioners of each county, in
structions to have said boards con-
vene in session on Tuesday, Novem-
Der %, 1910, for the purpose of ap-
pointing boards of registration for
said election, to be held on January
81, 1911, for the adoption or rejection
of the constitution, and
BE it further resolved, That the
secretary be and is hereby authorized
to pay the cost and charges for such
messengers and messages, required in
giving such notice, out of the funds
provided by Congress for the payment
The convention last evening adopt
ed the revised article on Judiciary,
making a few minor changes and also
the report on Irrigation and Water
Rights. 1t then adjourned to this
forenoon at 10 o'clock, when the re-
vised articles on Corporations other
than Municipal and several minor ar
ticles are to be taken up. The Com
mittee on Revision has practically
completed all of its labors.
Memorial to President.
The convention this forenoon took
up memorial offered by T. B. Catron
addressed to President Taft and ask
ing for an official survey, to be ap-
proved officially, to determine cor
rectly the boundaries between New
Mexico and Colorado on the north and
Texas on the east, and south. The
memorial recitesrbrief1y the historical
facts and the differences among sur
veys of the 37th parallel on the north;
the 103 meridian on the east; the 32d
parallel on the south; and also the
shifting of the bed of the Rio Gran
de between New Mexico and Texas
since 1850.
J. H. Canning offered a resolution
providing for a committee of three
Santa Fe delegates at $4.O0 day to
supervise the printing of the constitu-
tion. 1t was adopted.
J. N Upton offered a resolution
which the president of the conven-
= ton, characterized as a reflection up
on the convention as it stated that
the convention had bartered for cleo
tive offices the rights of the people to
direct legislation.
A. A. Sedillo in scorching speech
said that the resolution was unfit
to be offered and scored the Demo
Gratis numerically and exposed the
fallacies, the inconsistencies, the lack
of harmony among the Democrats,
their obvious playing to the galleries,
their demagogery. He was interrupt
ed again and again by applause and
by remonstrances of individual Dem.
ocrats The resolution was unani-
mously referred back to it's author.
Resolutions of thanks were adopted
to the Citizens Entertainment Com
mittee of Santa Fe, to the committee
on Revision for the conscientious
discharge of its duties, the last named
resolution being introduced by Solo
mon Luna and the former by H. o.
Bursum.
Jose D. Sena was called to the
chair at this juncture.
The revised article on Public Build
ings was adopted.
A recess was taken to 2 o'clock this
afternoon, when the article on Cor
porations was taken up, to be followed
by the, articles on Elective Franchise,
Education and Apportionment.
Almost the entire afternoon was
consumed in considering the article
on Corporations, and number of min
or changes were made SO as to clari-
fly the intention. These changes do
not appear in the constitution as