Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-08-15
TUESDAY IS
UNLUCKY DAY
Therefore Senate Committee
on Territories Meets To-
morrow Morning
TAFT APPROVES SMITH BILL
Drafted After Conference at the
White House With Terri
torial Delegates.


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= Washington, D. c., Aug. Is. y
= Senator Smith has called a u
= hurry meeting of the Senate y
= Committee on Territories for \
& tomorrow morning to consider \
s his bill, which embodies the y
- principles of the Nelson reso- y
y luton and which was introdu- y
is ced following a conference he =
s had with President Taft and X
is Delegates w. H. Andrews and y
is Ralph Cameron, and which y
is they will seek to push through y
is Congress at this session or =
= early during the regular ses- =
IS sion, thus proving that they X
IS are the real friends of State- =
s hood. If the Democrats do not =
is oppose, the bill will become =
IS law before adjournment next =
is week. Mr.. Smith declared to y
= the Associated Press that al =
s though an attempt to pass the =
is Statehood Bill over the Presid- =
is ent's veto would fail, there y
l. y still was a good chance of =
is statehood legislation at this y
is session. This is especially =
= true If the Democrats are sim y
= cere in their desire to give y
Is the territories statehood. \
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Praise for New Mexico.
Special to the New Mexican.
| Washington, D. c., Aug. 15.-One of
the ablest state papers ever written
by President Taft was the message
/ of veto of the Flood Joint Resolution
1t is of vital Importance to New Mex
! leo that the House Joint Resolution
was passed in the House by unani-
nous vote. 1t only failed in the Sen
ate by technicality of interpreta-
ton in the last congress, owing to
which New Mexico is entitled to en-
ter sisterhood states under its own
present constitution, when Congress
adjourns next June. The message
gloriously comments on New Mex
ico's splendid constitution, requiring
only one paragraph, but there arf
thousands of words searching the re
call of judges in the Arizona consti
tuition. 1t was received with extend
ed applause on the Republican side
''Blue Ballot" Jones heard the veto
message read and quickly turned
"blue" under the gills.
Delegate Andrews introduced bill
for the relief of homesteaders in Ten
Mile Gap in the Organ, and Franklin
Mountains, Dona Ana county, twenty
eight miles north of Ell Paso. Also
a bill for an appropriation of 5000,
600 for buildings including hospital
commissary at Fort Bayard.
Bacon Against Recall.
| Washington, D. c., Aug. 15.-Sen
ator Bacon of Georgia declared today
in the Senate that many senators
were being misrepresented because
of their stand on the statehood bill
He took objection to publications thai
those who vote for the admission o1
New Mexico and Arizona voted il
favor of the recall of judges.
i Il am opposed to the initiative, re
clared, "and yet l voted for the bill
ferendum and recall of judges" he de
because I am of the opinion, although
I disagreed with the Arizona consti
tuition, we had no right to keep thu
people of Arizona from having the re
call if they wanted it."
| Arizona Nut Stay Out.
/ Washington, D. c., Aug. 15-Arizons
| will not become a state SO long as the
recall feature is kept in the Arizona
constitution, if President Taft can pos
sibly help it.
The vote on the bill in the Senate
which was placed before him in detail
surprised him good deal. The vote
was sc to IS. The vote on the Nelson
amendment, which provided for the ell
limitation of the recall provision wa.
As to %. That so many senator!
should have waived their opposition
to the recall principal simply to secur.
the passage of the bill seems incom
prehensible to Mr.. Taft. There is /;
provision in the bill that the judiciar!
recall shall again be voted on by tn.
people Of Arizona as separate propo
. sition, but this plan does not satisf!
: Mr.. Taft. He is opposed to the recall
/. OF judges as dangerous principle an
does not consider under any circum
stances 1t should be allowed in stat
! constitution.
Democrats Will Oppose Statehood.
q Representative Flood, of Virginia
chairman of the House committee OF
!, territories, who sponsored the resolu
tion in the House, called at the Whit,
House and discussed the matter will
the president. He professed to b.
greatly surprised at Mr.. Taft's attitld'
and asserted that he had understood
when the resubmission provision wa
. added to the oil in the House that MI
!, Taft had waived his opposition. HI
, said that he believed that all Mr.. TAT
, wished was to be freed from approving
!. the recall provision and that it coul'
) be shown beyond doubt by separate
!. lyote that he people of Arizona wante'
s it placed in their constitution. Thi
e was the reason for placing the result
, mission in the bill. He. added that tn
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