JOINT RESOLUTION 14.

PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF EMPLOYES AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE. H. J. R. No. 12; Passed over Veto March 14, 1903.

Resolved: By the House of Representatives and the Council of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for the pay of interpreters, translators and the contingent expense of the 35th legislative assembly, up to and including the 60th day of the session the following sums, to-wit: For the house of representatives the sum of. For the legislative council the sum of....

$ 4,840 00

2,800 00

Sec. 2. The territorial auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the speaker of the house and the president of the council respectively, for the sums of money appropriated for use of each house and the territorial treasurer is directed to pay the same out of any funds in his hands except funds for the payment of interest on public debt:

Provided, that no amount herein appropriated shall be deducted from any funds which will in any way decrease the appropriation allowed the penitentiary.

JOINT RESOLUTION 15.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE EXPENSES OF THE INSTITUTIONS INSPECTION COMMITTEES.

H. J. R. No. 10; Approved March 14, 1903.

Be it resolved by the House and Council of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

That there is hereby appropriated out of the territorial salary fund the sum of two hundred and fifty-five dollars ($255.00) to cover the expenses of the house committee named by the speaker, for the purpose of inspecting the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell; and,

Be it further resolved that there is hereby so appropriated the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) to cover the expenses of a like committee which was named for the purpose of inspecting the New Mexico Agricultural and Mechanic Arts College.

The territorial auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the territorial treasurer in favor of the speaker of the house for the respective sums mentioned herein.

JOINT RESOLUTION 16.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PAY WAGES OF OFFICERS AND CLERKS FOR TEN DAYS AFTER ADJOURNMENT OF THE

LEGISLATURE.

H. J. R. No. 11; Approved March 16, 1903.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, the Council concurring therein:

First, that there be and is hereby appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to meet and pay the wages of the speaker of the house and the chief clerk, and additional clerks to be selected by the speaker of the house at five dollars ($5.00) per day, for ten days after the adjournment of the legislature; and the further sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to meet and pay the wages of the president of the council, the chief clerk, and additional clerks to be named by the president of the council at five dollars ($5.00) per day, for ten days after the adjournment of the legislature;

And be it further resolved, that on presentation of this resolution to the auditor of the Territory of New Mexico, the said auditor shall draw his warrant upon the territorial treasurer in favor of the speaker of the house, Nestor Montoya, and the president of the council, J. Francisco Chaves, for the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) each, respectively, and the territorial treasurer is hereby ordered and directed to pay the same out of any funds in the treasury except the interest fund at the time of the presentation of said warrant: Provided, that no amount herein appropriated shall be deducted from any funds which will in any way decrease the appropriation allowed the penitentiary:

And provided further, that the chief clerk of each body of said assembly shall certify the pay roll in the manner herein provided by law.

JOINT RESOLUTION 17.

PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL PAY FOR THE REGULAR CAPITOL EMPLOYES. H. J. R. No. 4; Approved March 19, 1903.

Be it resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:

That the regular employes of the territorial capitol be and they are hereby placed on the roll of the additional employes of this body, viz: Cosme Alarid, Jose Amado Martinez, Luis Baca, Manuel Alarid, Ricardo Alarid and Fred Thayer, to be

paid each fifty (50) cents per day from the first day of this session and during the duration of the same.

That the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) or so much thereof as may be needed is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the hands of the territorial treasurer, for the payment of said employes, not appropriated for the payment of interest on the territorial debt, and the territorial auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant in behalf of the chief clerk of this house who shall pay the same to the said employes at such times as the other employes of this body are paid, and the territorial treasurer is hereby directed to pay the said warrant out of any funds in his hands except moneys for the payment of interest on the bonded debt.

JOINT MEMORIALS.

JOINT MEMORIAL 1.

PETITIONING SENATE OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO PASS THE OMNIBUS STATEHOOD BILL. C. J. M. No. 1; Approved January 22, 1903.

To the Senate of the United States Congress:

Your memorialist, the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, most respectfully represents, that on the second day of February, A. D. 1848, by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, entered into between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, the territory embraced within the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona was ceded to the United States.

That by that treaty the government of the United States solemnly pledged the people of the ceded territory that the same would be incorporated into the union of the states, and the people thereof admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States.

That the national conventions of the republican and democratic parties have repeatedly pledged the support of their representatives in the United States senate and house of representatives to the admission of the Territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, to the sisterhood of states. That the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, has, in compliance with the treaty obligations of the United States and the political obligations of its members, passed a bill (H. R. 12,543) to enable the people of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, to form constitutions and state governments, and to be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states.

That this bill has been transmitted to and is now pending in your honorable body, without final action having been taken thereon.

That said bill embodies the hopes and aspirations of the people of New Mexico, who are well fitted to assume the form of government provided for in said bill, as is evidenced by the fact that New Mexico has made more educational progress during the last decade than any other part of the nation, and has a common school system the peer of any in the

nation; that within her boundaries there is taxable property of the value of more than two hundred million dollars; that she has a sufficient population, who have manifested their devotion and loyalty to the government of the United States by furnishing more soldiers for the defense of the government, according to population, in both the Civil and SpanishAmerican wars, than any state or other territory in the nation.

In the opinion of your memorialist, the people of Oklahoma and Arizona are likewise entitled to the blessings of statehood which will be secured to them by passing said bill; and because the people of the Territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, have an inherent right to such admission by virtue of the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, because such admission is vouchsafed them by the policy pursued by the government of the United States in the admission of nearly all the states to the nation at a time when they were less fitted to assume self government than are Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, at the present time, because a territorial form of government is intolerable and obnoxious to a free and ambitious people, because it is an incongruity under American institutions and should be maintained only so long as absolutely necessary to prepare its people for self government, because it is a denial of the right of the people to take part in the affairs of the nation which requires allegiance and support from it, and because capital has not complete confidence in such a form of government, and reluctantly lends its aid to the development of its

resources.

We, therefore, most respectfully petition your honorable body to pass at the earliest date possible, consistent with the rights of and courtesies due to every one of the members of your honorable body, said bill (H. R. 12,543) now pending and popularly known as the omnibus bill. And it is hereby resolved by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, that the chief clerks of the legislative council and house of representatives respectively, are hereby directed to transmit certified copies of this memorial to the honorable president pro tem of the senate of the congress of the United States; and it is hereby further resolved that the president of the council and the speaker of the house of representatives be directed to telegraph a copy of this memorial to the president pro tem of the senate.