Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-02-14

The New Mexico Legislature Taking
IN Colorado Scenery.

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OF two normal schools in this Territory,
ono 10 DO located in this city and tho other
at Las Vegas, has passed both houses
OF the Legislature. The bill as it was
originally introduced IN the council pro-
vided for the establishment aud mainto-
nance OF a normal school in Silver City,
but when the bill came up in the council,
Veeder, Of Las Vegas, moved an amend
meat providing for two normal schools
one at Silver City and one at Las Vegas.
Mr.. Fail made a strong fight for one
school TO be located in Silver City, and
while the debate was at its height, Hub
bell moved that the provision locating
the normal schools at Silver City and
Las Vegas be stricken out aud that Los
Lunas be inserted This motion was
lost and the bill passed the council by a
vote Of Z to 5. The house passed the
bill Thursday.
The subject Of the visit TO the Colora-
do legislature was revived in the early
part Of the week and It was resolved to
accept the invitation to visit Denver on
the 18th. A joint memorial was intro
duced and passed asking congress to
extend The time Of the Legislature ten
days in order to provide for the trip to
Denver. The program is to leave Santa
Fe Sunday morning at ten o'clock,
dinner will be served at Alamosa, aud the
special train Of Pullman sleepers will be
sidetracked az Salida Sunday night so
the run through the Grand Canon can
be made by daylight. Dinner will be
taken on Monday at Pueblo and the
legislators will arrive in Denver at 5
o'clock on Monday afternoon. They will
remain there Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday and will start back on Friday
morning. When they get back to Santa
Fe they will have spent a weeks time Of
what should be the busiest part OF the
session. AS the legislators are paid by
the United States there may DO some
objection to paying for the time spent
in Colorado.
The council made short work Of house
bill No. 1O1, which provides that sherffs
must keep a record OF taxes collected
and that they must make quarterly set
Elements. When it came up In the coun-
Gil the committee TO which 1t was referred
recommended that the %enacting clause
be stricken out which was done.
On Thursday morning the council
passed the house bill providing for q
contingency fund" for the Legislature
of $1,000 under a suspension Of the rules
This bill was hurried through IN order
to have it disposed of before the mem
bers left for Denver.
There was a lively time in the house
on Wednesday evening when the bill
introduced by Representative Lady To-
the formation Of new counties came up
for consideration. The bill was read il
full soon after the opening OF the evening
session. 1t provides that no new county
shall DO created unless a majority OF th'
citizens in the old and proposeC
new counties shall be in favoI
Of the creation OF the new coun
ty; that no boundary line shall be estab
lished within Is miles Of the county seat
that no new county shall contain les
than 5000 square miles Of territory anC
that now counties shall have at leas
i 100000 OF taxable property within
their limits. Representative Stovall lee
the opposition to the bill and no method
was left untried to defeat it. Ate.
having exhausted every method which
the opponents OF the bill had at theil
command the bill passed the house by
vote OF u to IL and the house adjourned
until 10 o'clock Thursday morning
During the night Representative Bow
man experienced a change Of heart anC
on Thursday morning moved to recon
slider the bill. Lady raised the point o
order that a motion to reconsider coulC
only be made on the day the vote wa
taken and the point was sustained b.
the speaker. Bowman then moved Il
suspend the rules to reconsider the votl
by which the bill was passed and the
rules we're suspended and the vote wa
! reconsidered. Myers moved to lay tn
bill on the table but it had already beel
sent to the council so that a motion I
! lay it on the table could not be made
? Then a motion vas made to recall tn
bill from the council which was carried
I The following appointments we're cor
/ frmed by the council on Friday:
7 Demetrio Perez, Of Socorro county, (
be Territorial auditor,
R. ]. Palen, Of Santa Fe county, to b
D Territorial treasurer.
j Amado Chaves, Of Valencia county, I
9 be superintendent OF public instru'
Q ton.
j. E Saint, Of B~ernalillo county; w. s
Hopswell, of Sierra county, and S.
D Booth, OF San Miguel county, member
s Of the Territorial cattle sanitary board.
II. l. Pickett, OF Grant County, men
Der ct the board Of regents, a%gnoulturi
D college.
7. b. Mills, Of San Miguel county,
be ~penitentiary commissioner.
Juan Jose Baca, Of Socorro count
Q trustee Of school Of mines.
8 George B. Barber, OF Lincoln count
y district attorney for the counties OF Iii
q coin, Chavez Bud Eddy.
S. B. Newcomb, Of Dona Ana count
n district attorney for the county Of Dor
Ana.
j. A. Ancheta, Of Grant County, al
d trict attorney for the counties OF Grar