Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-21
THE CHINO PAYS
MORE THAN ITS
SHARE NECHEM
Copper Company Taxed on
Larger Percentage VaIu-
alton Than Other Con-
Germs, He Says.

Roswell, n. NJ. Oct. 20.-"If you
want to delegate TO the president
and the senate additional powers,
you, the people, have that right.
but under the constitution as it
now stands neither the senate nor
the president. individually or col
lectively have the power to make
alliances with any other govern
ment,' said Senator Albert b. Fall
in his second campaign speech
since the republican national con-
Vention. The speech was delivered
at the largest republican meeting
ever held in Roswell, at Roswell s
largest assembly hall, in which peo-
pie were standing in order 10 hear
the address Of Senator Fall and
Merritt c. Mechem, the republican
candidate for governor.
Senator Fall said the constitu-
ton itself and all comments of the
trainers of the constitution inter-
preting that instrument, made it
plain that the U. S. government
has not the right to make alliances
with any other government. He
said that the same orators who
successfully maintained few
the right to make war, now are
telling the people only congress has
the right.
Cites Veracruz Expedition.
He cited VeracurZ, the expedition
into Mexico, and other instances to
prove the president has the right
TO make war. He cited numerous
instances of what he termed ride
ulous things which the United
States would be pledged to force
the signatOries of the treaty of Yer
sailles to carry out.
Senator Fall was asked by the
democratic campaign committee in
Chaves county if he still favored
intervention in Mexico. In reply he
declared that he had never been
in favor of intervention in Mexico
the kind of intervention which
had been practiced by the admins
tration of taking sides with one
faction or the other. He said he
favored the same policy in Mexico
that he favored for the Lusitania
incident or in any corner of the
globe, the protection of the lives
of American citizens. He minated,
however, that conditions now
looked brighter in Mexico than for
the past ten years.
Mechem Defends Chino.
Merritt C. Mechem discussed
state issues and said he was not in
favor of the present mine tax law,
although the Chino copper COM
pany apparently on the figures
used by his opponent was paying
on a larger proportionate valuation
than other individuals and corpora
tons were.
He said the democratic figures
showed the Chino, was paying on d
valuation of $lS,000,O00 and that
the present selling price was some
thing over $23,0O0,000, or about rs
per cent, while the average for the
state was so per cent. The eX-
pense of running the state had in
creased tremendously, he said, but
the greater part of this was for
education and roads, and he did not
favor reducing the work along this
line in the least.
Not BOssed, He Says.
Regarding the much discussed
boss question" he said, I'VE have
Deen 1dNOGtu WIN many w tllC
democrats"
In most states, he said, they were
content to mention only one, like
Murphy in New York and Taggart
in Indiana. But they have attrib-
uted to him many bosses, he de-
clared.
IT am not lodging responsible
ity," he said. Il never have as
lawyer, a judge or private citi-
zen, and l never shall. ! have not
sought responsibility, neither have
! shrked. AS governor l propose to
be the governor of all the people,
in every part and every locality of
the state. l will not be dominated
by any man or set of men, but
] will not be deferred from ac-
cepting advice and counsel from
any man merely because he may
happen to have been classed as a
boss by Carl Magee."