VIOLATION OF
OIL LAND LAW
BY MEXICANS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—In formal representa
tions filed with the state department,
the Association of Producers of Petro
leum takes issue with recent declara
tions made in Mexico City by Leon
Salinas, acting head of the Mexican
department of industry and commerce
and chief of the oil bureau of that de
partment, justifying the Carranza gov
ernment s attitude on the confiscation
question. Besides refuting statements
by Salinas, the petroleum producers
again charge that the acts of the Car
ranza government against which they
complain are in violation of the laws
of Mexico itself and in contravention
of the accepted laws of nations.
“It is admitted,” says the statement,
“that the question of proprietorship
of coal lands in Mexico and the Span
ish colonies was subject of contention;
bur nowhere in the Spanish grants or
subsequent ordinances of the Spanish
crown was petroleum treated as the
king’s patrimony of the nation. If
any contention did exist it was set
at rest in Mexico by the mining law
of 1844.
“Before this date neither coal nor
petroleum had been developed in Mex
ico at all; the law of 1884 simply
cleared up a matter in question. From
that time, therefore, rights to -coal
and oil were acquired by Americans
under this lawr and the laws to the
same effect of 1892 and 1910. By the
expenditure of vast amounts of money
American individuals and companies
have given a value to these lands, re
lying upon the laws of Mexico. Their
tenure never was questioned; in fact,
it was repeatedly ratified by acts of
Mexican courts, and the Mexican gov
ernment has since 1912 continuously
recognized rights so acquired under
Mexican law by collecting taxes upon
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the lands and upon the product.
“The Mexican government’s conten
tion that a mere change in constitu
tional precept, appearing in a con
stitution which itself prohibits any
retroactive legislation, which precept
against retroactive effect was called
to the attention of the ambassador of
the United States, with an assurance
that no law or constitutional provision
would take effect retroactively in ad
vance of the presentation of his cre
dentials in February, 1917, may oper
ate to divest foreigners of rights le
gally acquired, has been well answered
by protests of your department. In
harmony with such protests, the mem
I bers of this association have taken a
united stand and refused to be trapped
by any of the exigencies of Mexican
| government decrees demanding the
performance of acts the effects of
j which would be to acquiesce in the
| confiscation and render the American
protests nugatory.
“Because we have refused to admit
the loss of our properties, the Mexi
can government has seen fit to refuse
us permission to drill on our lands un
til we perform such acts of acquies
cence. The government has gone to
the extent of sending armed forces to
stop the drilling of a well on a prop
erty of a member of this association,
which member had, in harmony with
your protests, refused to acquiesce
in the confiscation of his property.
In other cases the Mexican govern
ment has granted rights to third par
ties under mining claims provided for
in decrees against which the Ameri
can government has protested, and
wells have been and are being drilled
on such lands by such third parties.
“In reply to Secretary Salinas’
statement we beg leave to call your
attention to the fact that these acts,
as is well known to you, are in open5
violation of the laws of Mexico under
which our investment of time, money
and energy was made, and violate the
accepted law of nations.”
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The common council of the town of
Cordova, Alaska, has instructed me to
give notice to all persons owning dogs
within the corporate limits of the town
of Cordova that Ordinance No. 65,
which requires an anual tax of six
dollars, will be strictly enforced, and
all dogs upon which said tax has not
been paid by the 20th day of October
will be impounded and destroyed.
K. G. ROBINSON, Town Clerk. 7-20
Job printing at Daily Times office
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Demobilized Soldiers Need Work, But
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By COL. ARTHUR WOODS, U. S. War Department
When he was in the army the buck private could communicate with
his superior officer only through military channels. Now that he is out
of it I want him to forget military channels and tell his troubles directly
to me. The red chevron on the discharged service man’s sleeve does not
mean that the army is through with him. We are not through with our
men until we have put them into the job which fits them and for which
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all the organizations in the United States which are so splendidly endeav
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