Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-21

Union in the present legislative council
is native of Rio Arriba county, having
been born there In 1854. In 1861 his
family moved to Mora county, and it was
in that county, at the Christian Brothers
college, that he received his education
For number of years Mr.. Abeyta has
been engaged 10 farming and mercantile
business. He Is also proprietor of q
large saw mill about four milea from the
town of Mora and Is most important
factor in the welfare of the com munity in
which he lives. Mr.. Abeyta has happy
family circle, made complete by wife
and one child. Up to the time of his Sc
curing his present high honors in the
legislature Mr.. Abeyta had never held
public office. In the deliberations of the
body of which he is member he has
shown himself to be most industrious,
painstaking and watchful representative
of the people. He is an orator of no lit
tie force and ability and his speeches on
tho council floor always have plenty of
good hard sense in them.
THE HINKLE SCHOOL FUND BILL.
From present appearances Mr.. Hinkle's
bill! dividing the license fund proportion
ately among the precincts of the counties
will meet very strong opposition in the
council. All of the cities and towns are
being heard from and they are each protest
ing against a change, which, they allege, will
cripple their local school systems. TIE
Santa Fe board Saturday night passed
resolutions condemniny the proposed Law
most earnestly. delegation from So
zorro consisting of Messrs. Silas Alex
ander, E. l.. Browne and j. H. McCutch-
con were here yesterday impressing upon
| the law makers the inadvisability of such
a step. From Las Vegas, Hons. Frank
Manzanares, M. A. Otero and others have
been putting in good work against the
bill, while number of Albuquerq ueans
headed by Mr.. Mariana Armijo, a mem
Der of the school board of that city, are
giving their views very forcibly to all who
are open to conviction and to others as
| well. Chairman Tony Neis, of the Ger
rillos school board, is also in town to-day
on similar business. The opposition to
tine blu is thus quite formidable already
and it promises to grow as the days pass
by. Representative Hinkle aud other
friends Of the measure are, however, view
ing the situation with great serenity and
claim that the bill will pass the counci
without doubt
| LEGISLATIVE CHAT.
The third house will be in session TO-
night at the council chamber.
Representative Pablo Padilla and Hon
| EaIiY Nh rtInov Loot nj, e.
Las Vegas, where they spent Sunday.
Carlos NJ. Dreamer, who en- joys the dis
tinctlon of being the youngest page evel
employed by a New Mexico legislature
is quite ill at his fathers home in thi.
city.
Messrs. LAURA Moses, of Ocate, Nor.
county, and j. M. Valdez, of Springer
were among Representative Severint
Martinez friends on the floor of the hous,
this morning.
Councilman Hadley is to a very con
siderable extent interested in the SAINT,
Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railroad, and h,
is in receipt of letters to the effect tina
that railroad will be completed to Pheni,
) about February Is.
Col. T. F. Moore, sergeant alarms o
the house, being absent to-day In Berna
lilo county, his assistant, Mr.. Ed Priest
efficiently performed the duty of keeping
order among the statesmen of the lowe
house. h 4.
Representatives Christy and Pine ar
getting numerous protests against tn
Florida county movement from the citi
zens of Dona Ana and Grant. Some o
the protests sent up are signed BY scorer
of voters.
The Legislative bill giving women tn
right of suffrage also provides that the.
shall be entitled to hold the offices o
school uperintendent, school dlrecto
and member of the board of examiner
Of teachers. Tie age at which they shall
be entitled to vote is 20 years.
Mr.. d. j. Clark and Mr.. J. A. Mahoney
of Deming, are moving in legislative cir
Giles to-day. They state that they are VI
hero representing the people," which
from the standpoint of Deming citizen
means just now that they are pushing
the Florida county enterprise. Col.
R. Smith has returned to Deming, bu
will be back in day or two to assist il
the matter.
Mr.. L. A. Sicily, postmaster at Sllve
City, is in town to-day. He was ap
pointed at mass meeting of the citizen
of Silver City Saturday night to come t,
Santa Fe for the purpose of representing
them in their opposition to the Floridi
county BILL Mr.. Sicily spent most o
the morning mingling with the member
of the two houses.
Representative Leaden thinks his bill
to prevent greater charge than o cent
a mile for passengers on New Me1ic
roads will certainly become law. II
has prepared an important amendmen
to the original bill imposing such penal
ties for over charges as will make the la,
effective.
Even-handed Justice was asleep whe
soma of the schedules of compensation
were established by the two houses FRI
day. For instance, Col. T. F. Moore, til
sergeant-at-arms for the house, gets S
per day from the United States govern
ment. while his assistant gets sc per da
from the territory.
Representative Carr says that the Ne,
MEAlCANs ethIemen0h lew udys dSO u
the effect that he had introduced bill
req uiring wife to live with her husban
irres pective of his treatment Of her, ha
seriously impaired his popularity wit
the ladies. He says that his bill, on tn
contrary, repeats the present law, whic
is as above stated. The New MEx1oA
cheerfully makes the correction.
some Proposed Laws.