Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-30

The house agricultural committee made
this morning unanimous favorable re-
port on the bill establishing bureau of
crop statistics, etc., under direction of the
United States weather bureau.
Representative Thompson the watoh-
full Union county legislator, is back in
his seat after trip home. He says that
his section has, like the rest of the terri
tory, been blessed by big snow fall.
/ In the absence of Chairman Pine, Rep
resentative Severino Martinez presided
at the meeting of the house judiciary
committee yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Mar
tinez is one of the most useful and atten-
tive members of the present assembly.
Capt. J. G. CLANCY was one of the rep
resentatives who renamed over in Santa
Fe Sunday. He was engaged here in
comforting with his house finance COM
mittee associates as TO the general APP
preparation bill to be submitted within
few days.
Representative sverino Martinez spent
Sunday and Monday at his home at Black
Lakes, Colfax county. He says that the
snow there is the heaviest IN years. Rep
resentstive Sanchez brings back the same
report from Valencia county.
The vote on the preliminary questions
affecting the Summit county bill, showed
the house to be very evenly divided on
the question of it, passage. The preva-
lence of the motion to adjourn by ma
| joritv of four was victory for the friends
of the measure.
Representatives Martin and Armijo,
Socorro's pair of able representatives in
the house, are back from the south. They
say that their people are very much OPP
posed to the transfer of the Mogollon
country to Grant county, as it ia now, as
part of Socorro county, most valuable
tax-yielding section.
Representative Locke has so many
friends in his home section that he hasn't
time to write even a small portion of
them. He accordingly adopts the novel
method Of communicating with them by
means of letters published in the San
Juan Index and Times-and mighty
good letters they are.
Several very important bills found their
way to the light in the house yesterday
afternoon, among them the sheriffs' COM
pensation bill, tie probate clerks bill ana
finally bill abolishing district attorneys
and substituting county attorneys there
| for.
A strong fight will be made by the
representatives. from Grant county for a
continuance of the $1,000 annual appro-
priation to the Grant County Charity
hospital and St. Joseph's Sisters hos
pital, each located at Silver City. These
institutions are not purely local, but care
for scores of sick and injured miners and
others from Grant and the neighboring
counties of Dona Ana, Socorro and
Sierra.
Celso Baca is said to have permitted
himself to be used by Judge McFie and
Mr.. Pedro Perea as cat's-paw to defeat
the payment of the legislative employees,
in order to try and play even with certain
Democrats who made 1t their business two
years ago to see that he was not permit
ted to occupy seat in the house as rep
resentative from Guadalupe county to
which he had not been legally elected.
Mr.. Hinkle's insurance bill, which has
been referred to the committee of the
whole in the house, is just now creating q
good deal of discussion and some objec-
ton is being made to the expense attend
ing the enforcement of the proposed law
rs we'll as to the disposition of the funds
to be derived Hereunder. Mr.. Hinkle
says that he recognizes fully that some
of these objections are well founded and
that he will prepare and submit such
amendments as will make the bill gener-
ally acceptable.
The why-ness of the presence in Santa
Fe of sheriffs from number of counties
appeared yesterday afternoon when Mr..
Dame, at the request Of q committee of
these officers, introduced bill providing
for their compensation out of the terri
torial treasury. 6herifs in counties of
over 1000 inhabitants are to get an an
nual salary Of $4,000, while those in other
counties are to get $4,000 per year. The
house finance committee is now deliber-
ating on the subject.