road lands will result in enormous benefit to the livestock interests of New Mexico." Now, Therefore, the Legislaure of the State of New Mexico respectfully petitions and memorializes the Congress of the United States of America to enact appropriate statutes that shall make provisions for the mutual exchange of such lands by the United States and said Railroad companies so that each shall own larger bodies of said lands suitable for cattle and sheep ranches, instead of units of sections, with a further provision for leasing to stockmen, by the United States, such of its larger bodies of land, acquired in such exchange; That the Senators and Members of the House of Representatives from New Mexico to the United States Congress are hereby requested to introduce a bill carrying into effect the suggestion herein contained. That copies of this memorial be sent to the President of the United States and to the Presiding Officers of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, and to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and to each of the Senators from the State of New Mexico, and to the Member of Congress at large from the State of New Mexico. JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 4. A JOINT MEMORIAL TO HALE HOLDEN, REGIONAL DIRECTOR, CenTRAL WESTERN REGION, UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINIS TRATION. Senate Joint Memorial No. 1; Approved January 23, 1919. Whereas, Thousands of cattle and sheep in certain sections of New Mexico are threatened with starvation and the stockmen with enormous financial losses as a result of a protracted drouth followed by the most severe winter in thirty years; and Whereas, The situation is more acute at the present time than it was earlier in the winter on account of heavy snows obliterating what little grass there is on the ranges and compelling the stockmen to import all feed at considerable expense for their livestock; and Whereas, You have notified the State Corporation Commission of New Mexico that the half rate on stock feed consigned to the drouth stricken districts of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, which has been in effect for a month or more as an emergency relief measure, would be withdrawn on January 25, 1919; Now, Therefore, Your Memorialists, the Fourth Legislature of the State of New Mexico, respectfully represent and submit that the livestock industry of the state is imperilled and the nation's meat and wool supply seriously affected, and urgently recommend and petition you to extend for a period of sixty days the half rate on hay, corn, cottonseed cake and other stock feed for the benefit of the farmers and stockmen, and to issue such additional or revised instructions as will permit this concession to be applied on less than carload as well as carload shipments, with a view to affording relief to the owners of livestock who cannot afford to buy more than a small supply of feed at a time. JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 5. THE A JOINT MEMORIAL MEMORIALIZING THE CONGRESS OF UNITED STATES TO LEGISLATE WITH RESPECT TO THE RECLAMATION OF SWAMP, ARID, WASTE AND UNDEVELOPED LANDS TO AID HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MA RINES. Senate Joint Memorial No. 6; Approved February 25, 1919. Whereas, there is pending before the Congress of the United States a bill, numbered H. R. 13651, having for its object the expenditure of $100,000,000.00 for the reclamation of swamp, arid, waste and undeveloped lands in the United States for the purpose of providing employment and farms for honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the United States; and Whereas, the passage of a bill of such purport would result in incalculable benefit to the State of New Mexico during this period of reconstruction in the affairs of the world, and would greatly assist in the free development of the vast resources of this state; Now, Therefore, the State of New Mexico, through the Fourth State Legislature, respectfully memorializes and requests the Congress of the United States to enact laws respecting the reclamation of the swamp, arid, waste and undeveloped lands in the United States at the expense of the Federal Government and for the benefit of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the United States. Appropriate copies hereof shall be transmitted to the presiding officers of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, to the respective chairmen of the Committees on Appropriations of the United States Senate and House of Representa tives, and to the Senators and Representatives of the United States for New Mexico. JOINT MEMORIAL No. 6. A JOINT MEMORIAL MEMORIALIZING AND REQUESTING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO LEGISLATE WITH RESPECT TO RESOLUTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION. Senate Joint Memorial No. 2; Filed March 5, 1919. SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of New Mexico hereby respectfully memorializes and requests the Congress of the United States, at the earliest possible time, to enact appropriate legislation carrying into effect the resolutions adopted by the American National Livestock Association at its convention in the City of Denver, in the State of Colorado, on January 22 and 23, 1919. SEC. 2. The said Legislature of the State of New Mexico declares that the immediate passage of federal legislation upon said subject is imperative in order to relieve the pressing situation now obtaining in the industries necessary to the production and conservation of food supplies. SEC. 3. Appropriate copies hereof shall be transmitted to the Honorable Albert Bacon Fall and Honorable A. A. Jones, Senators of the United States for the State of New Mexico, to Honorable William B. Walton, member of the House of Representatives of the United States for New Mexico, and to the Speaker and presiding officer of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States. JOINT MEMORIAL No. 7. MEMORIAL OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO, TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICUL TURE AND THE CHIEF FORESTER OF THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE, WITH REFERENCE TO GRAZING FEES IN NATIONAL FORESTS. Senate Joint Memorial No. 7; Filed March 5, 1919. Whereas, the years 1917 and 1918 have been years of severe drouth causing extraordinarily heavy losses to all kinds of livestock on the ranges of New Mexico, practically wiping out the calf and lamb crops of 1918 and thereby reducing the incomes of the cattle and sheep men below the cost of production for the year; and Whereas, the cost of production has increased more than one hundred per cent within the last four years, while the value of calves and lambs has not appreciably increased during that period; and Whereas, the stockmen of New Mexico have been liberal subscribers to Liberty Bonds, War Savings' Stamps and other war work activities to such an extent as to greatly reduce their working capital, and at the same time to reduce bank deposits throughout the state to the point where it is extremely difficult for stockmen to get money for operating expenses; and Whereas, the present winter has been the most severe known to the history of the livestock business in New Mexico, resulting in heavy losses and forcing the stockmen to heavy expense for high priced feeds, with the further prospect of greatly reduced calf and lamb crops for the season of 1919; and Whereas, permittees of the National Forests within New Mexico were deprived from participation in government financial aid extended to stockmen throughout the drouth stricken area because of a ruling of the War Finance Corporation of refusing to make loans on livestock except where held within fenced pastures, which ruling was in direct conflict of the rules and regulations of the Forest Service, prohibiting enclosures or pastures upon National Forests; and Whereas, the National Forest Service has raised the grazing fees approximately 65 per cent for the year 1919 over 1918, and nearly 200 per cent since the year 1914; and Whereas, these increased fees become due and payable March 1st, 1919, at a time when practically all stockmen within the state are operating on borrowed money, and at a time when the payment of such fees will force them to borrow more money from the banks of New Mexico, and at such a time when the banks of New Mexico are not in a position to make such additional loans. Now, Therefore, the Legislature of the State of New Mexico respectfully petitions and memorializes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief Forester of the National Forest Service, by appropriate order and ruling, to abate the forest grazing fees within the State of New Mexico for the year 1919. Be It Resolved, that copies of this Memorial be sent to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Chief Forester of the National Forest Service at Washington, the District Forester of the District of New Mexico, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States. |