The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-11-26
IHoLLoMAN AND KoHN
ARE MlsREPREsENTED

In the issue o. the sun, NOV. ith,
appeared an article denouncing the nc.
tion Of Reed Holloman and Charles
Kohn relative to the co.employer = liza.
bility act aud the initiative. The News
chose TO await the final action of the
constitutional convention before II sug.
gested a thing relative thereto. The
convention is owe aud its action prov.
es the statement Of the sun to be un.
Just, and so far as the co.employers
proposition is concerned, the statement
Of the sur are absolutely without foun.
dation. The error of the Sun was in
taking the statement Of some irrespon.
sible newspaper reporter as being true.
The facts regarding the c~o-employers
liability act are as follows:
The schedule committee, of which
Reed Holloman was chairman, report.
ed the continuation Of the Federal en-.
ployees act "until otherwise provided
by law Mr.. Holloman and delegate
Upton. from Luna County. a democrat,
were the only meE'6, g of that commit.
tee who objected to those words "until
otherwise provided by law The ma.
iority OF the committee, r.. F. Saxon
being one Of the majority, commended
that the schedule committee had moth.
ing TO do except carry forward exist.
ing laws. When the report was sub.
mitted to the convention by Chairman
Holloman he explained to the conven
ton the reason for leaving the words
in the section until otherwise pro.
vided by law and stated that he only
agreed so that with the understanding
that a provision would be later report.
ell tina. would perpetuate the princi.
pies ~ the Federal act and take away
the power of the legislature over the
provision. With ina, understanding the
report was adopted. This is all a mat
ter of record.
Later Il provision was reported that
absolutely preserved and perpetuated
the Federal act. II was drawn under
the supervision of the Legislative com.
mittee of the railroad unions. II was
called up on Monday last and adopted
without "a dissenting voice and no man
worked harder for the provision or had
more TO do with unifying the sentiment
for il than did delegate Holloman. and
Charles Kohn supported the proposition
with the same spirit. Immediately af.
ter It's passage the Legislative commit.
tee Of the railroad unions addressed u
letter Ia the convention, which is made
n part Of the records thereof. announc.
ing that the constitution was satisfac.
tory To them and pledging their sup.
port for il. We feel that those pro.
ceedings effectuaIly disproves the AS
%sertion of the Sun.
Relative TO the conduct of Holloman
and Kohn as to the initiative the fol.
lowing are the facts:
As the sun links together the actions
Of Messrs Holloman and Kohn. but pays
especial attention 10 Holloman. we will
present the reason for llollOmans ac.
tion and they can both stand or fall by
the one record.
The fact is that in Mr.. Holloman =
speech before the convention he did not
deny having been pledged to the initia.
tive. He stated Just what was quoted
in the Sun from the statement made 10
III" Railroad unions, that he had favor.
cd the initiative hut not on n lower ba
sis than twenty-five per cent. He stated
that ne had never pledged himself to
any form Of the initiative and refcren.
dun. - as also quoted by the sun, and
the fact is he never did. II the sun
can produce any statement of Mr.. Hol.
loman whore he pledged himself to any
form Of initiative we will retract the
statements herein contained. The trou.
BILE is that the Sun does not know the
difference between the principle Of the
initiative and "A form Of the initiative.
There were several forms Of the initia,
tive introduced IN the convention, no
two alike, aud the democrats introduc.
ed two reports from the Legislative com.
mittee each containing n different form,
and they both remained before the con.
v%entiOn until the day the question came