Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-20

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efforts to slaughter and plIaee, and
which is still 10 be regretted. to the
work Of bleeding their fatherland. so
! that when it may be dehabilitated and
( Impoverished, it should submit to the
dangers from abroad, and without
restrictions.
THE house endeayored to prevent
every effort OF the government. It
iaggressvely invaded not only the prov
ince of the judicial power, but the
executives in order to cooperate in
the infamous purposes of the rebels,
Having come TO this extreme, the gov
ernment, under my direction, had to
face this painful dilemma; either to
consent in the preservation of the
house as an assembly of demagogues,
so that it would end by strangling the
other two powers, dragging the coun-
try to the chaos of a bloody anarchy
in which our nationality inevitably |
would have probably perished, or to .
take legal action of defence and pub
IN NdIf MS IOi Il Dlltl tlilt Sp-
called popular representation and ap-
pealing to the people to come before
the polls, in order that they might
express their ultimate and sovereign
desire.
1T is impossible to hesitate before
such situation. the executive adopted Il
the extreme measure and dissolved /
employing for this purpose
just the necessary amount of energy |
to face so delicate a condition, and
the people to new elections,
your investiture, Messrs. /
Representatives proceeds. The exc
cutive has not the slightest doubt
that before a serene criterion, consti-
order was not interrupted
when congress was dissolved but at
he precise moment in which series
If infractions against the province of !
,ction of the other two powers be-
gan. Even If such was not the case, ]
hough it is, it shall always appear, Is
is high and noble motive, preferable Y
lnder any circumstances to save ma r
ions even though principals may suf h
er and not to maintain intact at the +
Expense of the life of the country, v
provisions of rigid and inanimate G
haracter, whose justice and useful r.
less may yet be the subject of dis Il
ussion because. in fine, the words
f the great Bonaparte that the law is Ct
ot violated when the country is saw el
d, shall always be true. ir
Congress having been dissolved, m
nd in the absence of this important
rgan of the government from that
ate until the assembling of the new
hambers, it became necessary to de- ia
rec extraordinary powers. Under is
imilar circumstances, the great Benz "
0 Juarez long governed under the re- ST
ime of extraordinary powers. There d
ore, it does not seem excessive that m
~ government may have resorted to lc
hem in view of the lack of the legis- ],
ative power, but the national repre- ]
entation will not fail to observe how g
Moderate has been the action of the W
xecutive in not decreeing nor eXer- st
sing them except with reference to
lree branches of the administration OF
gobernacion and war; that 7
to say, in those branches in which w
S action was absolutely indispensi-
le. CT
"This would seem as propituous r
oment to give you an account of the 10
Sc made of the above powers; but VI
as it is the purpose of this &C
ongress to pass on them | shall In le
ne time and under separate distribu- III
on give you an itemized account of pS
le use made of them by the eXecu 10Y
We, to the end that if you find his ac-
on useful, honest and patriotic you
lould afford him your supreme sane
on, and in case that you are of diff Ut
rent opinion, you should lay the re- ei
on him who may de- III
srve them, with the assurance that VI
le chief executive, as we'll as his sec az
,taries, shall make no efforts to
7ade them, as they have all accepted ns
to
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