Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-02-20
The House.,
YESTERDAY AFTERNOONS SESSION.

The House.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOONS SESSION.
G. B. No. so, Mr.. Curry's bill providing
for county revenue, was the frst matter
considered.
Mr.. Martin desired the indefinite post
ponement of the bill, bnt his motion to
that effect was lost by vote of II to II.
Upon Mr.. Lacome's motion the bill
then passed by vote of Is to 8.
An attempt to cinch the action thus
taken failed by p vote of 8 to Is.
H. B. No. IL, Mr.. Carr's bill relating to
general elections, was taken up and
passed by vote of % to 0.
H. B. No. II, amending section 1880 of
The Compiled Laws relative to appeals,
was on motion of Mr.. Severino Martinez
indefinitely postponed, the vote standing
IS to 4.
Mr.. Pine wanted II. B. No. So, abolish
ing the Office of district attorney and
creating the Office of county attorney,
taken up for consideration, but his mo-
tion to that effect was voted down; and
instead Fl. B. No. 81 was placed on its
passage. This was Mr.. Leaden's bill
regulating the payment of wages by em-
ployers. number of amendments were
proposed and as amended the bill passed
by vote of Is to 6.
H. B. No. 55, Mr.. Lacome's bill to i'm
prove the method of keeping records in
the offices of county clerks, was next
passed by vote of % to 0.
H. b. No. 1872, an act in relation to
county commissioners, was introduced by
Mr.. Pine.
H. B. No. 1873, an act extending to the
cattle sanitary board of New Mexico au-
thority to require the inspection of horses
and mules shipped or driven into or
from this territory, was introduced by
Mr.. Carr.
H. j. r. No. II, for which substitute
had been prepared by the committee on
territorial affairs, was now taken up. The
substitute provides that the presiding
officer of each house, the chief clerk of
each house and two other clerks shall re-
main in the city for length of time not
to exceed ten days after the close of the
session to wind up public business The
compensation fixed is respectively $40, So
and So per day for each of the class of
officers above named.
| Mr.. Martin moved the passage of the
resolution and demanded the previous
question.
Mr.. Armijo wanted the resolution
tabled indefinitely.
The previous question was ordered by
a vote of 16 to z.
just at this point Speaker Dame
ILL., L.1 Ll.l Ill
from the governor announcing that he
had signed H. J. R. No. IS, providing for
the compensation of Assistant Interpre-
ter Scott Knight and Translator Labadie.
This announcement was greeted with
applause.
Hi. R. No. II was next finally voted
upon.
Mr.. Christy explained that while he did
not believe that the legislature had any
right to make an appropriation he real
lied the necessity for the assistance con-
templated by the resolution. He there
fore voted "aye." The resolution passed
by an overwhelming majority.
G. B. No. 26, amending the law as to
building and loan associations, was, on
motion of Mr.. Pine, put on its passage.
Mr.. Martin wanted the bill postponed
indefinitely.
Messrs. Carr and Christy explained
that the bill simply affected members OF
building and loan associations and pro-
vided that the terms of office of directors
shall not all expire at the same time.
The motion to table indefinitely was
lost by tie vote of 10 to 10.
Mr.. Martin then moved to make the
bill the special order for February 20.
Just here some one made motion to
adjourn.
81 heartily favor it," promptly ex.
claimed Mr.. Gutierrez. 81 think it is our
only opportunity to get Messrs. Martin,
Carr, Chrlsty and Pine to quit talking"
Sand I, for the same reason, am OPP
posed to it," followed Mr.. Locke, "the
gentlemen named are kinder run down
now and if We take them while they are
tired think we can do some work"
Mr.. Gutierrez view of the matter was
evidently considered the most plausible,
however, for the motion to adjourn pre-
vailed by good majority.
THIS foRENooN's SESSION.
H. B. No. 1874, an act establishing sub
agricultural experimental station in Taos
county, was introduced by Mr.. La
come.
G. B. No. ~, the building and loan as
sociation bill brought over from yester-
day, was next considered.
At Mr.. Martins request, Mr.. Carr ex-
| planned that the bill was intended to. reg.
ulate the terms of Office of direc-
tors, SO that at all times there shall be in
service two experienced directors. He
said that the passage of the bill was de-
sired and asked for by building and loan
associations.
Mr.. Martin said that Mr.. Hadley, the
introducer of the bill, had told him that
the measure was introduced by request
and that he was Indifferent as to it's pas
sage.
Messrs. Sanchez and Laoome urged the
Importance of the dlsposing Of the mat
ter without further delay or postpone
ment.
Mr.. Martins m lotion to make the bill
the special order for February 20, was
lost by a vote of to Is.
Upon the passage of the bill the vote
stood IL to II, those voting mo" being
Messrs. de Baca, Gallegos, Gutierrez, Lo-
peg. Leaden, Lucero, Martin, M. Mar
tinez, s. Martinez, Mora and Padilla.
Mr.. Martin explained his negative vote
by the statement that he thought that
there was little Doodle back of the
bill.