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islature of the State at the seat of government as now fixed by law, on a day to be named in such proclamation, and which shall not be less than fifteen nor more than thirty days after the date of such proclamation. Within ten days after the organization of the legislature both houses thereof shall proceed to elect, as provided by law, two Senators of the United States for the State of New Mexico. At said election the two persons who shall receive a majority of all the votes cast by the senators and representatives of the State shall be elected as such United States Senators, and shall be so declared by the presiding officers of the joint session of said two houses.

The presiding officers of the senate and house of representatives shall issue a certificate of election to each of said senators, certifying the fact of his election, which certificate shall also be signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of

state.

SEC. 19. It is hereby made the duty of the legislature at its first session to provide for the payment of all debts and indebtedness incurred and authorized to be incurred by the constitutional convention of New Mexico which shall remain unpaid by the Territory of New Mexico.

SEC. 20. This constitution shall be enrolled in duplicate, after which both copies thereof shall be signed by the president of this convention and the secretary thereof and such delegates as desire to sign the same, whereupon they shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the Territory, where they may be signed at any time by any delegate who shall be prevented from signing the same for any reason at the time of the adjournment of this convention. On the first day of December, A. D. 1889, the secretary of the Territory shall forward one of said copies to the President of the United States at Washington, and shall attach his certificate thereto, under his seal of office, certifying that the same is one of the duplicate enrolled copies of the constitution adopted by this convention; the other copy shall remain on file in his office until the secretary of state shall be qualified under this constitution, when the same shall be turned over to him and filed by him and safely deposited and recorded by him in the books of miscellaneous records.

SEC. 21. Until otherwise provided by law the number and jurisdiction of the district attorneys shall be as now provided by law.

Done in open convention at the city of Santa Fe, in the Territory of New Mexico, this 21st day of September, in the year of our Lord 1889.

J. FRANCO CHAVEZ, President of Convention.
I. M. BOND, Secretary of Convention.

The Territory's latest official voice on this subject is that of its thirtyfourth or last (1901) legislative assembly, in the form of a memorial, in which I heartily concurred, and caused certified copies thereof to he duly forwarded to the President and Congress, as in the same requested. The memorial is as follows:

NEW MEXICO'S MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.-A PLAIN PRESENTATION OF WELL-KNOWN

FACTS SHOWING WHY THE TERRITORY SHOULD BE ADMITTED TO THE UNION AS A STATE.

To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives

of the United States of America in Congress assembled : The people of the Territory of New Mexico, through your memorialist, their thirty-fourth legislative assembly, now in session at Santa Fe, respectfully demand that the Congress of the United States pass at the earliest moment possible an enabling act whereby they may form a constitution and State government, and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and in that behalf respectfully represent:

That they have an inherent right to such admission by virtue of the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence;

That such form of government was guaranteed to them by the solemn declaration of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, more than fifty-three years ago;

That both of the great political parties of the nation promised in their last national platforms that New Mexico should be admitted as a State without delay;

That the people of the Territory are ready and anxious for such admission, both great political parties in the Territory having so declared in their last Territorial platforms; and further, they ask admission—

Because a Territorial form of government is intolerable to a free people; it is an incongruity under American institutions and should be maintained only so long as absolutely necessary to prepare its people for the higher form; and

Because it is taxation without representation; it is a denial of the right of the people to take part in the affairs of the nation, as they have no vote in Congress and never take part in the politics of their country, or in the election of its Chief Magistrate, and are never appointed to any office in the nation outside of the limits of the Territory itself, save in the Army in time of war; and

Because the people in a territory are not free, for various reasons, among others their legislative hands being tied by restrictive acts of Congress; because the promises of the national platforms of both great political parties are continually violated as to territories; and because what ought to be our patrimony, the public domain, is often disposed of absolutely, and the proceeds turned into the national treasury, and restrictive and annoying regulations are made regarding the public lands that are wrong in principle and hard to get corrected; and because prohibitive national legislation as to irrigation and water rights favorable to citizens of the Republic of Mexico, but ruinous to us, is threatened against us; and because Congress nearly always turns a deaf ear to the just demands of a territory; and

Because the people of the nation have no confidence in a territorial form of government, and refuse to invest their money therein, thus retarding its growth and development; and

Because for more than half a century we have been neglected by the nation, which has done nothing for the education of our people, although they needed it quite as bad in the beginning as do the Porto Ricans and other new possessions that are not thus being treated; and

Because the Territory of New Mexico has for half a century paid tribute to the National Government through the tariffs, sales of public lands, mining entries, timber sales, stamp taxes, etc., to an amount vastly in excess of any sums of money ever received in return for all purposes combined; but

New Mexico demands statehood because she has shown her right to it, in sending more soldiers to the defense of the country per capita in the civil and SpanishAmerican war than any other State or Territory; and

She demands it because she is now better than ever well fitted to assume such higher form of government, as in the last few years she has advanced from fourth to first place as a wool-producing and sheep-raising section of the nation, and is well on toward first place as a cattle raiser, and her mineral, timber, and agricultural interests are vast in extent and are being developed in a phenomenal manner. Railroads are being built, plants erected, and industries of different kinds being established all over the Territory, which has an area as great as that of all of the New England States and the State of New York combined.

Statehood is demanded because the Territory has now a population of about 250,000 people; and

Because it has within its boundaries property easily of the value of upward of $100,000,000 that will be available to tax for the support of a State government; and Because it has made more educational progress in the last decade than any other part of the nation, without exception, and has now a better system of common schools per capita than any other State or Territory; and

Supports more and better public institutions (all built at its own expense when the National Government ought to have built them, we still being a Territory), among which institutions may be mentioned a capitol building, a university, a school of mines, an agricultural college and experiment station, a normal university and a normal school, several other fine normal schools, a military institute, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary, besides several fine hospitals, a deaf and dumb asylum, and many other minor institutions; and

Because it has within its boundaries not less than fifteen cities and towns that are modern, up-to-date places in every respect, and that are far in advance of places in the Eastern States of equal size, and this without disparaging the many other towns and villages within its boundaries, and all of which cities and most of which towns support and have the finest kind of buildings in which to maintain as fine a system of public schools as exist anywhere west of the Central States; or, in fact, anywhere in the whole nation; and

Because the Territory supports per capita more daily newspapers that take the press dispatches, and more newspapers and other publications generally, than any other State or Territory in the nation, without exception; and because the Territory in proportion to population supports and has within its borders more banks, national and Territorial, and showing a larger ratio of deposits per capita, than any other State or Territory; and

Because the people of the Territory are a conservative, law-abiding people, more than 90 per cent of them being born American citizens, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States; and

Because in more than twelve Congresses of the United States the fitness of the people of New Mexico for a State government has been fully investigated, and bills

passed in one House or both for the admission of the Territory, all of which failed to become a law through one mishap or another, until now more than half a century has passed and the Territory has arrived at its present advanced condition all through its own unaided efforts and at its own cost, notwithstanding the continued neglect of the National Government and the tribute it has had to pay as aforesaid:

Wherefore your memoralist prays that its just demands here made for rights too long deferred may be granted to the law-abiding and patriotic people of the great Territory of New Mexico; and

Be it resolved by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, That the foregoing memorial be and the same hereby is adopted, and that the secretary of this Territory be and hereby is requested to certify copies thereof to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Delegate in Congress.

I would, therefore, most earnestly renew my recommendation, made in my last report, with reference to the early admission of New Mexico as a State of the Union. The reasons given at that time for such admission are stronger now by reason of increased population, wealth, and intelligence. The admission of New Mexico to the sisterhood of States would be beneficial alike to her people and the Federal Government. Self-government, which carries with it to every citizen the right to participate in the selection of the various officers intrusted with the management of the government, is a privilege few American citizens would willingly be deprived of and one that all eagerly seek. Self-government would not only relieve the Federal Government of the enormous expense it is subjected to in the management of the present Territorial form of government, but would also relieve it of the responsibility of selecting the officers to manage the Territory's affairs.

As for the population, physical, financial, educational, and social conditions of the Territory, particular attention is called to the separate reports contained herein.

TRIBUTE TO NEW MEXICO WOMANHOOD.

And in this connection I take pleasure in indorsing and quoting here the following beautiful "tribute to New Mexico womanhood" from a recent issue of the National Magazine:

Now, what I particularly like as to this cry of New Mexico for statehood is that the women of the White Territory ask for it.

The womanhood of New Mexico is superb. It has come up through the bubblings of the crucible of pioneer life to the threshold of a fine civilization, undaunted, unconquered, unspotted. Husbands, brothers, sweethearts have gone out into the glare of the plains, to the fastnesses of the mountains, to battle with Apache and desperado, or to fall in the Spanish-American war, and they have waited in the 'dobe, by the poplar, or back of the barred door, and held the children and home for the wanderers.

Women of such stuff have kept the home, have reared the children with a keen touch for books and music, have put the best foot forward to entertain magnates from the East, have cheered for McKinley and hurrahed for Roosevelt, have taken the worst of territorial days, and now ask for the best of statehood days.

They name their babies down there for Theodore Roosevelt, and they believe in what is good. In their homes are the latest magazines, books that have not yet been read in the East; music, paintings, photographs. There is a healthful refinement unchoked by ancient conventionalities.

New Mexico is no longer isolated. She has schools, churches, open avenues, the fine development of the Santa Fe system, the coming growth of the Rock Island, the building of many lateral lines, mines of extraordinary richness, fertile lands, extensive water rights, a law-abiding population.

Above all this is her womanhood, the woman who came from comfort and safety with father and husband to make the home-gaining battle in the old land of the Pueblos; the woman who, loving and loved, has given the best of herself to keeping

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home for the pioneer, to maintaining the hearthstone virtues, to upholding love and faith through all the hard years of waiting for the necessary right to be a State. And these women desire statehood. It means a great deal to them. It will unlock the gates of commerce, it will give stability to local securities, will provide a certainty of social order and progress that Territorial government can never give.

M'KINLEY MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

On behalf of the patriotic citizenship of New Mexico, I take pleasure in incorporating herein the appended report by the president and secretary of this Territory of the McKinley National Memorial Association. It is a matter of deep-seated pride among our people that they have been able to contribute to this noble purpose a larger amount, per capita of population, than citizens of any other State or Territory. This fact, and the fact also that New Mexico sent more volunteers to the Spanish-American war, in proportion to population, than did any other State or Territory, is evidence enough that the hearts of our people are throbbing aright. In the case of the fund for the memorial to the beloved martyred President, the contributions came largely from the public school children of the Territory. Such contributions, small though they be, significantly indicate the loyal and patriotic spirit that pervades the hearts of the most humble of our school population, the country-bred "native" boy and girl. On this subject it has been aptly said:

The mute appeal contained in this quick recognition of true American citizenship is more potent, more patriotic than all the formal speeches made by the advocates of the admission of New Mexico to statehood. The circumstance is well worth taking note of. It demonstrates that the influence of father and mother here are good. It also proves the character of the teachers employed in our schools.

SANTA FE, N. MEX., August 13, 1902.

DEAR SIR: At a meeting of the executive committee of the auxiliary committee for New Mexico, held at the capital, on the 8th day of August, 1902, for the purpose of receiving and passing upon the report of the treasurer, and closing up the business of the association, the report of the treasurer was presented, accompanied by vouchers and receipts, showing total amount received by him $1 134.90, as follows:

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Remitted to the treasurer of the national association as by his receipts
The total expenses of this committee for stationery, printing, and postage
are as shown by vouchers returned by the treasurer..

1, 134.90

1, 101.35

33.55

Every county in the Territory contributed with the exception of Union, and in addition to the amounts submitted by the treasurer, there was sent direct to the national treasurer between $150 and $200, which did not pass through the hands of this committee or its treasurer, but for which the Territory will receive credit, and the official souvenir receipts will be sent direct to the contributors.

At the organization of our committee it was stated that $1,000 would be expected from this Territory as our proportion of the fund, and it will be seen by the above report that we have considerably exceeded that amount, which is extremely gratifying to the national association, as well as this auxiliary, especially so as our committee had thought it best to limit the amount of subscriptions from any individual to small sums in accordance with the suggestion of the national association, that a large number of names with small amounts was more desirable than a smaller number of names with large amounts, and this committee expressly restricted the amounts to be given by school children to 5 cents each, and their aggregate subscription shows a most appreciative and patriotic spirit among them.

As there is nothing further for the New Mexico auxiliary to accomplish under its organization, its executive committee respectfully presents the above report, and asks to be discharged from further duties in connection with this auxiliary.

Hon. MIGUEL A. OTERO,

JEFFERSON RAYNOLDS, President.
EDWARD L. BARTLETT, Secretary.

Governor and Vice-President for New Mexico,
of the McKinley National Memorial Association.

EDUCATION IN NEW MEXICO.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

Santa Fe., N. Mex., June 30, 1902.

SIR: I have the honor herewith to transmit a copy of my last annual report on the educational progress of New Mexico, covering the period from October 1, 1900, to October 1, 1901.

Respectfully,

Hon. M. A. OTERO,

J. FRANCO. CHAVEZ, Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Governor of New Mexico.

NOTE.-Extracts from the report of the commissioner of public lands, reports in detail on the conditions of the several higher educational institutions and on the progress of higher Indian education, etc., for 1900-1901, contained in the report of the superintendent of public instruction, have been eliminated therefrom as here printed, for the reason that later reports covering these subjects are available, and these appear elsewhere.

NEW MEXICO SCHOOL SUMMARY.

"There is not gold enough in the mines of the world to measure the value of a teacher who lifts the souls of children to the true dignity of life and living."

STATISTICS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1900-1901.

School population, 62,864; increase over previous year, 9,856, or 18.6 per cent. Enrollment of pupils in all schools, 42,925; average daily attendance, 29,825. Number of teachers employed, 1,046; number of schools, 726.

Average number of months taught in all schools, 7.35.

Total salary paid teachers, $412,340.28.

Annual receipts, $838,018.70; annual expenditures, $723,048.32.

Value of all school property in New Mexico, $2,071,702.25.

Enrollment in public schools proper, year 1899, 21,761; 1900, 31,510; 1901, 35,227. Enrolled in city schools, 7,243; enrolled in rural schools, 27,984; enrolled in Territorial institutions, 907.

Expended in improvements on public school property during year, $242,617.60.

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