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Show 004 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY eter teeter fee es kt 1 a eenee aT ee ne te as by a great majority of the representative business men of New Mexico, was appointed and confirmed, holding the office for four years. Benjamin Morris Thomas was secretary during this administration. The twenty-eighth legislative assembly passed an act providing for the holding of a constitutional convention. A feeling of keen disappointment, almost of indignation, was THE CONSTITUTIONAL experienced in New Mexico when the terriCONVENTION OF 1889 tories of the northwest were made states of the Union and New Mexico and Arizona omitted from the list. The political reason, well known in Wash- ington, for this action on the part of congress, was that New Mexico vious to require characterization. Pe and Arizona were both represented in congress by men of democratic political faith. The injustice of the action of congress was too ob- The people of New Mexico, in the face of this apparent disregard of their rights as stipulated in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, proceeded in a dignified manner to perfect every preliminary that could possibly be required as a requl- thereafter, never saW assigned to special duty in connection with all of the agencies in New Mexico. He was with Agent might appropriately be the cause of Presbyterianism of October, 1899. y m in in N New i Mexico. His death oceurre ,d on the 2d x 5 leSe ~ FPbn * itr ceer Res ee *-* re acon var pean weed ae wee ert Pea ren ier ser vee 2% Sign pF ee ea} Co Ins “ years in that capacity. It was during his ineumbency of that office that the forfeited railroad lands which included a part of the celebrated Peralta-Reav's grant and the Salt River Valley were thrown open to settlement. In 1889, he was appointed by President Harrison secretary of New Mexico, the duties of which office he discharged most acceptably until hig death. wete man of forceful character and high ideals; he was possessed Dr.of Thomas some adminis’ trative ability, with a conscience that never permitted him to swerve from what he deemed right. In religion he was a Presbyterian and gave valuable aid. to re industrial school; also he secured the first contingent of pupils, twenty ™ number, for the training school at Carlisle, Pa. In 1883 he was appointed register of the land office at Tueson, Arizona, and served four and one-half Battle of Las Guasimas pment P| He x: Apaches. Fam SelM southern Ps the a ee rn Sea rehe I for called ‘‘The Father of Education’’ for the Pueblos, for he inaugurated the present system of day-schools among them and established at Alburquerque the first boarding and Par agent Miller of the Navajés, when the latter was killed by them himself received an arrow shot through a blanket he was wearing He was the center of many turbulent and stirring incidents while ee 2 in 1872 and at the time. ee eae RF. ben bee | The congress, whether of republican or democratic for nearly a quarter of a century Pioa5 complexion, Bb Ba BP et oa Sieh ek ach. tne tig, Spee.tee Lie ee ee teak ot ea eek ee ek ee it aSe Eenese aan a ee eae Senne ie Se ee congress the responsibility for their deprivation of the rights of self-government. EC site to admission, and to prepare themselves for the position in the union of states corresponding with their history, their character, and their real importance, whenever the time should arrive, leaving to |
