Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-01-22
CAUGHT IN THE CORRIDORS.

Caballeros y amigos, bluff will not go!
Lincoln, Eddy and Chavez counties
want district attorney all to themselves
When the translated bills reach the
house that body will probably find it con-
venient to make few more changes in
it's list OF employees.
The commissions for the newly appoint
ed solicitor general and district attorney,
confirmed last Saturday, will not be issued
till February the LIST next, as the appoint
ments, although confirmed, do not take
effect till that date and run for two years
from that date.
The gentlemen of the conference COM
mittee on the pay and emoluments OF
employees had quite heated time OF it
yesterday, and all On account of the
salaries OF the house employees. The
people as whole are not so very much
interested in that matter as long as due
economy is observed.
Several representatives thought yes
terday that the house should
adjourn sine die. However, the
idea was not acted on. Had it
been carried out it very likely would
have made no difference, and the terri
torial government would have gone on as
serenely and nicely as it did during the
past two years.
Santa Feans have no small interest in
the waste water law now pending in the
council. Mr.. Richardson offered the bill,
and it is made criminal ofense for an
lrrigator not to turn the water back into
the public ditch or stream after he has
finished using it in his private ditch. 1t
also provides that every private owner
shall put in head gate, and from all
streams containing game fish the head OF
irrigating bitches shall be provided with
screen, 80 that fish can not enter the
irrigating canals.
Senator Jaramillo's bill regarding the
election OF county commissioners provides
that the person receiving the highest
number of votes at the next general cleo
ton shall continue in Office three " ars,
and the next highest two years, and the
next highest one year; but if two or more
persons have the same number of votes,
then their terms shall be determined b,
lot; under the direction of the board OF
county commissioners returning the cleo
ton, and annually thereafter one com.
missioner shall be elected and shall be
and continue in Office three years.
Petitions continue to flow into the gov
ernor's office relative to the territorial
Offices. The last mails brought largely
signed papers from Socorro and Mora
counties for Manuel G. de Baca; from
San Miguel county, for Amado Lucero /;
from Rio Arriba county, for Alexander
Read from Valencia county, for Messrs.
Ortiz and Alarid; from Las Vegas and
Cerrillos, for Jose D. Sena, and from So
zorro, for Demetrio Perez. 1t is esti-
mated that 500 signatures are filed each
day as to the offices of auditor and treas
urer.
The assertion that several honorable
members of the house would not take
passes from that gigantic monopoly, the
Santa Fe Southern railroad (thirty.eight
miles long,, for the next two months,
created quite smile when such was an
nounced in the house. That gigantic
MONOPOLY, the Santa Fe Southern, must
be watched; it is such monopoly that
even the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will not pro-rate with. The members of
the house who declined with lofty scorn
to accept the passes from that powerful
monopoly evidently had no desire to visit
the classic localities around the city of
Espanola.
Mr.. Richardson's bill for incorporation
of towns of not less than 500 population
provides that such incorporation shall
take place without an election, simply
upon the order Of the county board, after
it has been petitioned so to do BY ma
jority OF the voters residing within the
district it is sought to incorporate. The
business OF the towns shall be managed
by three trustees whose shall serve without
pay and the only salaried officer shall be
the town marshal who pay shall not be
more than $50 per month. The powers
Of the municipal board are limited to
sanitary measures, fire protection, open
Ing and improving streets, laying side
walks, etc.