Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-02-25
ADDITIONAL LEGISLATIVE.
LEGISLATIVE APPoRTIoNMENTs

bill reapportioning the territory for leg
islative purposes was introduced by Mr.
Curry. The bill divides the territory
into twelve council districts and twenty
one house districts. The house members
shall be: Two each from San Miguel
Santa Fe and Bernalllo counties, one
each from Chaves, Colfax, Dona Ana
Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Mora
Rio Arriba, San Juan, Sierra, Socorro
Taos, Union and Valencia counties; and
one from San Miguel and Mora jointly
another from Taos and Rio Arriba Jointly
and third from Dona Ana and Grant
Jointly.
The council districts shall be: Two
from the district of Taos, Rio Arriba and
San Juan counties; one from Santa Fe;
two from San Miguel and Guadalupe;
two from Mora, Colfax and UniDn; one
from Grant and Dona Ana; one from
Bernalillo county; one from Bernalillo
and Valencia; one from Sierra and Soc
corro; and one from Lincoln, Chaves and
Eddy counties.
REMEDY NEEDED.
G. B. No. 106, requiring guarantee de-
posit to be made by insurance agents, ap-
pears to be an excellent bill, and will, if
it becomes law, save the territory thous-
ands of dollars. The present law pro-
vides that insurance agents pay license at
the end of the year; hence those agents
going ont Of business before the expira-
tion of the year do not pay the license
to which the territory is entitled under
the present law; nor have those agents,
or at least, the large majority of them,
paid license, who have been engaged in
the business only part of the year. This
evil would be remedied if bill No. 1O6
becomes law.
GAS AND Electric MONOPOLY.
House bill No. III, which provides,
among other things, that "not more than
one company furnishing electric lights
and one company furnishing gas lights
shall hereafter be authorized or permitted
to be established or do business in any
Incorporated city, town or village in this
territory having population of less than
12,000," is q kind of hydra-headed mon
opolistic monster. 1t is intended not only
to increase the price of gas and elec-
tricity for the benefit of the corporations
now in existence, but is a covert effort to
have the legislature confer "exclusve''
privileges upon these corporations, a
thing which acts of congress forbid. The
bill has already passed the house. In be-
half of the welfare of the people the New
MEXICAN trusts that it will meet merited
1ofo Of thu hnp5c nf ho oor,oit
NEW LAWS.
The governor has approved the follow
ing bills which have thus become law:
G. B. No. II, the GALES game law.
H. j. R. No. 10, providing for the COM
pensation of certain employees.
9. B. No. 4s, amending chapter 3S of
the acts of the Both legislative assembly,
providing for the funding of outstanding
school indebtedness in different counties.
G. B. No. 81, Mr.. Currys bill to provide
for the signing of election returns on the
poll books of election where such sigma
lures have been omitted.
II. B. No. 53. an act relative to brands
and for other purposes. This is the cattle
sanitary board bill.
II. B. No. So, an act to amend section 2
of an act relating to practice in district
courts and providing for the service of
process by publication.
APPROPRIATION BILL AS PASSED.
The appropriation bill passed the coun-
Gil Saturday afternoon precisely as it
left the house. An outline of the bill as
it was originally introduced in the house
appeared in the NEW MEXICAN some time
ago. A number of changes were made by
the house before the measure was finally
acted upon.
Among the amendments to the bill were
the following: An allowance of $500
to be devot to the erection of terra
Gotta plant and an electric light plant at
the penitentiary, the latter to be of size
sufficient to furnish the penitentiary,
capitol and other public buildings with
electric lighting; the district clerks get
$4,000 each instead of $4,000 as provided
by the original bill; for the expenses of
the penitentiary board and clerk, $l,7OO
instead of $1,40O is provided; provi-
sion of $4,000 for the purchase of books
for the territorial library is made; the al
lowance for the bureau of immigration is
$4,000 per annum instead of $4,000; the
New Mexico Children's home at Albu-
querque is given $4,000 for each of the
two fiscal years, and the deaf and dumb
school at Santa Fe is given $4,000 for the
46th fiscal year and $4,000 for the 47th.
The territorial institutions are more
kindly dealt with in the amended than in
the original bill, with the exception of
the University of New Mexico, which gets
80 of mill instead of 40.
Councilman Hadley has, however, rem
edied this change by getting through the
council bill making direct appropria-
tion of $4,000 for the institution. The
Las Cruces college receives, to be used
for building purposes only, 30 of a mill
instead of .O5; the Socorro School of
Mines gets 20 of mill instead of 10;
the Silver City and Las Vegas normal
schools, each get 20 of mill instead of
10; the Las Vegas Insane asylum 60 of a
mill instead of 40; the Roswell military
institute 20 of mill instead of .15.
The school of mines is required to
maintain preparatory department, and
the board of regents of the several edu-
cational institutions provided for must
charge as tuition between SIS and $25 per
session. The Roswell school may charge
more, if this be found necessary, to sup
port the institution.