Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-26

justice of the peace shall appoint thre
commissioners to assess the damages
The amount of the award must be pai
within thirty days efter it has been made
This bill was read twice and referred t,
the committee on railroads.
Upon motion of Mr.. Pine the commit
tee on counties was given until mex
Wednesday to report the Summit count,
bill.
Mr. Martin moved that the house ad
journ to 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Carr wanted the motion de,
so that an adjournment might instead b,
taken until to-day.
Mr.. Martins motion prevailed so tina
the house will desist from it's labors unit
next Tuesday.
Observation-Disclosures HADLEY.
Hon. Walter G. Hadley, the junior
councilman from Bernalillo county, was
born in Richmond, Ind, and has fol-
twenty years lived in the Rocky mountain
region. His very thorough education was
received at Haverford college in Phila.
delphia and at the Chicago university,
from which latter institution he holds a
diploma. Mr.. Hadley is mining en-
gineer by profession and for many years
has been identified with the mining in
| terests of Arizona and New Mexico, hav-
ing been general manager of the famous
Lake valley mines in Sierra county. He
is also one of the promoters and builders
of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix rail
road, which will be completed into
Phoenix within the next fortnight. The
present councilmanship is Mr.. Hadley's
first political distinction and it came in the
nature of an honor thrust upon him, as
he is emphatically a business man with
little taste for public Office.
Mr.. Hadley resides with his charming
family in Albuquerque, where he is a
most important commercial and social
factor. Among the private honors con-
ferred upon him he appreciates none
more highly than the presidency of the
famous Commercial club, the leading
social organization of the southwest.
There is no councilman who has more in
huence among his fellows than Mr.. Had
ley. His uniform courtesy, coupled with
his splendid business sense and, what, in
the absence of better term, may be
called his manliness, combine to make
him not only popular, but esteemed in a
degree that carries with it a significance
much beyond the conventional use of the
term. New Mexico needs more men in
public life of the type of Walter G.
Hadley.
MIR. LAooME's WORK.
Representative Lacome's bill for i'm
proving the method of keeping records
in the offices of probate clerks seems to
be good and timely one. Writing to
the New MEXICAN under date of the 21st
inst, Clerk G. p. Miller, of Taos county,
says:
Immediately upon taking charge of
this Office I discovered that there was a
great mistake in the law in regard to the
keeping of reception book in the sew
eral recorders offices of this territory. To
keep it alphabetically, as the law directs,
defeats the very object of tho book.
There is too much chance for fraud in
dating instruments back, should they
come under letter not much used. l
enclose you a copy of bill 1 have pre-
pared and sent to our representative
from this county. Won't you give it your
support? as it is certainly for the protec-
ton of everybody, and not for the benefit
of favored few, like many of our laws"
AN INJUNCTION ASKED FOB.
The much talked of suit for injunction
against payment of the territorial en-
ployes of the legislature materialized
late yesterday afternoon in the district
court.
The petitioner in the case is Celso Baca,
a citizen and taxpayer of Guadalupe coun-
ty and at the same time a Republican,
politician and e1-member of the terri
torial assembly. The attorney for the
petitioner is Judge j. r. McFie, of Las
Cruces.
Yesterday afternoon just as Judge
Laughlin was about to conclude his abors
for the day in the district court, Council
man Pedro Perea, of Bernalillo county,
presented to him the petition in question.
The Judge read the bill, which is quite a
lengthy one, and after so doing inscribed
on the back of it an order requiring the
defendants, Territorial Treasurer Palen
and Territorial Auditor Perez, to appear
before him on Monday morning at
o'clock for the purpose of showing cause,
if any, why the injunction should not be
granted.
The bill alleges that the legislature
convened pursuant to law" and was
"duly organized rs such assembly," that
it proceeded tosemploy large number
of persons, about sixty in all, over and
above those authorized and paid by the
United States government; that the leg
islature then passed two resolutions, one
giving the number of employees with the
amount of their pay and the other giving
the auditor and treasurer authority for
the payment of the amounts mentioned.
The petition goes on to say that the
resolutions are void, because, in their en-
rollment by the legislative clerical force,
authority of the legislature into one
document, and were signed by the COVER
nor in this form. 1t is further alleged
that the employment of persons over and
above those allowed by the United States
is void; that the total cost of these en-
ployes will be not less than $4,000; that
the taxable property is less than $780,
100000, while it's debt 10 fully 100000;
that the persons named, while called
employees, are in reality subordinate
officers and that the territorial organic
act and the federal statutes, as con-
strued by the supreme court of Idaho
and other former territories, prohibits
such employment.
The petition therefore prays that the
territorial auditor be restrained from is-
suing warrants for the pay of the en-
ployes and that the territorial treasurer
be restrained from paying such warrants,
if issued.
At the hearing Monday Judge John R.
McFie will represent the complainant,
while Gen. E. L. Bartlett will appear for
the defendants in their official capacities.
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