Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-01-27
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when Major Llowellyn charged tha,
the whole matter was a political trick
and was designed to affect the sen
atorial situation and for no other pul-
pose He declared that the demo
cratic members of the house had no
love for the Spanish but
that they were trying to hoodwnk
them into political trap.
He directed his remarks at Mr..
Rogers, of Chayes county, democrat
and asked Mr.. Rogers if there wasn't
a pool hall in Roswell with sign on
III that No niggers or MeXicans allow
cd" He made other sighting re,
marks, asserting that Tucumcari's
democratic administration had passed
an ordinance forbidding barber shops
to shave MeXicans. Mr. Rogers re-
torted bitterly asserting that when
Major E.lewellyn was Il sworn officer
CT the law, a Spanish American citizen
mad been murdered within his district
and that he did nothing. At this point
the debate was halted by a point of
order by Br. Blanchard who said the
debate was becoming personal"
A dozen different members of the
house spoke on the resolution.
Vargas and Blaz Sanchez, Spanish
American members denounced the
democrats in scathing terms and de-
clared they had no love for the Span
ish-American.
4 Speaker Baca adopted rule Of
permitting everyone to speak who de-
sired to be heard before he would
permit any member to speak twice
on the subject.
AT four thirty this afternoon, Mr..
Vargas offered an amendment to the
resolution to place the words "Re
publican standpatters' wherever the
words Spanish Americans" appear
ed in the resolution.
A feature of the debate was the
tribute paid to Miguel A. Otero, Mar
cos G. de Baca and Speaker Roman
Liberato Baca by Mr. Rogers who as
serted in his remarks that the demo
Gratis would support any of those men
for United States senator in prefer
ence to some stand pat, ring con
trolled republican.
The debate throughout was bitter
but was conducted along parliamen-
/ tary lines and there was no approach
to personal violence as has been the
case during several stormy scenes in
legislatures of the old territorial days
An interesting feature of the occa-
sion, was the presence upon the floor
OF the house of a number of old guaru
bosses who took the republican party
down to defeat in the last election.
At fve o'clock the debate was still
in progress and the resolution had
lot yet reached a vote. The resolu-
ton offered by the democrats was as
follows:
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. IL.
Be it resolved by the house of rep
resentatives of the second session of
the first legislature Of the state OF
New Mexico.
Whereas, the ancestors of the Span
ish-American people of New Mexico
first raised the standards of civiliza
ton and planted the cross of chris
tianity on the soil of this western con-
tinent, and
Whereas, succeeding ancestral gen
continent, reclaimed the soil of New
Mexico from the dominion of the wild
beasts and the savage and made it
fit place for the habitation OF civil
lied man, and
Whereas, many of these memorable
ancestral pioneers We're martyrs in
the cause in which the Ever Blessed
Redeemer of the world was the first
and ccnsecrated the domain of our
Sunshine State with their blood to
the Christian civilization of the mass
eS, and
Whereas, more than siXty-five per
cent of the people OF New Mexico to-
day are the direct descendants of
those historic conquistadores and
belong by blood and language to that
venerable race whose undying glory
it was to discover and open mans (
last and greatest continent. and &
Whereas, New Mexico is the only
state in the Amrican union that is
distinctly dedicated by history to the
nable achievements OF the Spanish
lace, and
Whereas, race with such go-
rlous past and such a preponderance
of population in the state today is en-
titled by every consideration of his
tory and current times to have rep
of the race in that august
legislative body of the world. the
United States senate; and
whereas the Spanish-American
people of the state have many men
who are competent to fill that exalted
station in patriotism, integrity and ,
ability.
Now Therefore Be It Resolved that /,
t is the sense of this house that ,