Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-01-09

resolution which should have been passed
without dissenting voice from the Demo-
cratic side! In the past years, when the
legislature of this territory was Repub-
lican in both branches the first work per-
formed by INSCRIPTIONS and designing
representatives of the party was to carry
out plans to besmirch the characters of
honest men in the Democratic ranks for
no other purpose than to manufacture
capital for corruption, intrigue and spoils
for members of the Republican party.
What do the Democrats OF the lower house
of the legislature mean? Are they elect
ed to countenance the robbery of the
people of New Mexico by refusing to
select committee to investigate the
spoils system by which the Republican
officials of this territory havefor so many
years been robblng the territorial treas
ury? More will be said uponthis subject
anon"
Mr.. Meyers sent the article to the desk
and had it read, making a denunciatory
speech against the author. Mr.. Hope
we'll called for the reading of the bills and
resolutions adopted, by unanimous con-
sent of the house. Six different meas
ures were then read. Mr.. Read. Mr.
Barela, Mr.. Hinkle and others spoke on
the matter and q committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the authorship
of the dispatch and article. The COM
mittee consists of Messrs. Read, Hopewell
and Barela.
| The New MEXICAN desires to say in
passing that no Associated press dispatch
stating '.that the house had refused to
pass the resolution to investigate the
condition of the territorial institutions"
ever went out of Santa Fe. A good deal
of valuable advertising was therefore CIV
ing for ''much ado about nothing"
The special order for the day was then
taken up, H. B. No. A being the gen
eral county bill
The house then resolved itself into a
committee of the whole and the bill was
read in Spanish and English.
Mr.. Barela then moved to amend Sec
ton l by striking out in line eight the
words 1000 and inserting in lieu thereof
$500, so that it will take $500 instead OF
1000 people to constitute county. The
motion was adopted with little debate.
Mr.. Read then offered the following
amendment, in section l, page l, line 4
strike out the words "signed by SOC
householders, and insert Shy at least 1,50(
tax payers" and in line twenty strike out
the words householders and insert in lieu
thereof the words tax payers, also in
lines twenty-five and twenty-three strike
out the words householders and insert
in lieu thereof the words tax payers.
The committee was to report progress
with this amendment pending.
Mr.. Hopewell moved to adjourn till Il
o'clock Monday morning. Mr.. Barels
moved to amend SO as to read 10 O'Clock
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Hopewel rose to address the chair
but was ruled out of order. The speaker
subsequently gave permission to any gen,
tleman to explain wherein his decision
erred.
Mr.. Hopewell on this again rose, and
was proceeding to show that a motion to
adjourn to time certain, other than that
fixed in the rules, was debatable SO far as
the change of rule was concerned.
Mr.. Read rose to point of order that
the chair having decided the question the
only recourse for Mr.. Hopewell was to
appeal from that decision. The chair
sustained this ruling, and Mr.. Hopewell
sat down.
Mr.. Barela's motion to adjourn over
until Tuesday was then put to the house
and carried.