El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-23
IN
LIS CRUCES FOR
STATEHOOD
People May Not Like Bill in
Every Particular, But
Are Glad Anyhow.

] Las Cruces, n. NJ, June 23-The in
| terview with judge Albert B. Fall con-
corning the statehood bill. published in
The Ell Paso Herald, on June 81. has
caused considerable comment among
| men of affairs. political and otherwise,
in Las Cruces and throughout the coun-
ty. Although differences of opinion ex-
ist as TO some of the statements of
Judge Fall. in the main he has sounded
the keynote OF thought arlong the
voters.
The qualifications of all state officers
and members of the state legislature.
that they be able 20 read. write and
sUeak English is excepted to by many,
but they do not object to the clause so
much as they do TO senator Beverages
reference to It when making a state
ment Of the differences betv cen the
house and senate bill on which he
said:
everybody knows, as the report I
presented points out, that one Of the
particularly in New Mexico, has. been
the c'1ricus continuance of the solidarity
of the Spanish speaking people, the
people of Mexican descent.
These people have kept together in
a most amazing way and have main
tsined not only their social relations,
LIVING close together and not scatter
ing out and mingling with other peo
pie. but they have maintained also a
rena rFable tenacity to the tongue OF
their fathers. It would be well, of
course. If at least the men who make
the laws could speak the language which
all the rest of US speak
Our bill does not require that any
body else shall do so. hut certainty
the Legislators should. That viii be
one of the first things that will break
up the condition, which has been for
a long time . serious problem before
congress and before the better people
down there. The whole subject IS a
profound chronological and Sociological
question. Our bill begins its solution"
The nonpartisan constitutional con-
vention is and has been the slogan Of
the entire people here since such a
convention was deemed a vague prob
ability and It IS known that there are
those in Las Cruces who have been
gathering. Information and posting
themselves On the constitution of other
states and constitutional law, prepar-
ing themselves in case the emergency
fell to them.
All are in line with Judge Fall when
he thinks that both Democrat and Re-
publicans will insist upon at least one
senator coming from the southern part
OF the territory So far do they coin
eide with him in this that 1t is. generally
said that the territory should be treat
ed as two senatorial districts and one
prominent attorney run a blue pencil line
on the southern boundary OF the coun-
ties of Valencia. Torrance, Guadalupe
and Quay, designating the Is counties
above as the northern district and the
10 counties below as the southern dis
trict, believing that this would be a
fair division on the senatorial propo-
sition.
Judge Frank ". Parker says that he
is so glad New Mexico has got Just
what it has been wanting for so long
time that he is not disposed to fall out
with congress for not handing it out
just as New Mexicans would have liked
1T, without the unnecessary strings tied
to it and, judging from the '-jollifica-
ton" planned for tonight, it would seem
that many more of the citizenship of
the Mesilla valley are of the same opin-
ion; II has also been limited that Ell
PasO should be in this demonstration
because even the president of the Unit
ed States on his visit there last fall
said that he was not right sure wheth-
er Ell Paso was in Texas or not.