Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1895-01-08

/ A motion of Mr.. Leaden to the effect
that house bills Nos. 3, and 5 be placed
upon their second reading was lost.
II. r. No 6 was made the special order
for Friday morning.
On motion of Mr.. Hinkle, after a lively
spat between Mr.. Carr and Mr. Martin, of
| Socorro, II. J. r. No. l, to the effect that
the printed minutes of each days session
be sent to the probate clerk of each coun-
ty as o maeter of public record, was
tabled indefinitely.
The communication from Secretary
Miller as TO the employment of sweepers
was referred to a special committee COM
posed of Messrs. Pine, Lucero and Ar
milo.
On motion of Mr.. Carr the house then
| ad djourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon.
CHRIsTy SEATED.
| At this afternoons session of the house
a. L. Christy, on motion of Martin, of So
corro, was seated without objection. A
resolution was passed making a two
thirds vote necessary to unseat an official
of the house.
THE THIRD HOUSE.
In obedience to call issued by recog-
nized authority the employees of both the
council and house of representatives.
gathered together In heterogeneous homo.
geneous assembly last night at 8 O'Clock
at the council chambers and organized
an institution with about as much un-
certainty and oratorical diff lencs, inter-
larded with fits of volubiity, as character
ized it's prototypes in the performance of
Il similar mission. The Hon. Nestor
| Montoya was viva voce elected to mount
the rostrum and preside. The former he
did with an elasticity of step and com
posure of countenance which indicated
the great man rising to his level, whilst
the latter office he fulfilled with all the
dignitied self-possession of an ermine-
appareled juriscorsult or a Roman pra4-
tor or imperator sitting in HIS chariot and
gazing around upon the trophies Of his
triumph. From San Miguel hailed the
clerk, weighed in the balance and not
feather scant, Antonio Lucero. Glorifed
and bedizened with the vestments of an
office whose primal function it Is to
| transmute the expression of transcen
dsntaI cogitations into the honely form
of English or into the soft, melodious,
slipping syllables of CASTLE and Aragou.
Don Hilario sped from plase to place,
vociferating aud gesticulating as he gent,
till uncouth speech became poetical, as
Cinderella at the fairy godmother's touch
assumed the guise and bearing of a
princess.
At the invitation of the president, Mr..
Lucero, hence. forward the gentleman
from San Miguel, stated the object of the
meeting. 1t seems it had been rumored
that cut in pay or bounce of en-
poyes had been contemplated by
economic senators and unfeeling repre-
sentatives. To the pursuit of any such
course the third house must interpose a
vigorous objection. They were the
parties who would suffer; they were the
parties with whom it was proposed to in
augurate the Democratic policy of re-
trenchment and the principle of a gov
ernment economically administered. The
gentleman from San Miguel disclaimed
any personal interest in the movements;
he stood high and dry above the reach of
unsym pathetic counclImen, but IA an
EN- ploye he felt it to DO his duty to
gather with his colleagues. No matter
what resolution the house might come to
he counselled his fellow-members to be
resptctfnl to the members Of the other
two houses and not to allow the fear
which confronted them to run away with
their senses. If thev were to attain the
purpose of their organization it must be
by an exhibition of decency and industry.
1t was moved that joint COMMITTEES
of SIX, thre from the employees of each
house, should be appointed by the chair
to draught resolutions to be presented to
the joint committee on conference on
compensation named by the presiding
officer of each legislative branch, declar-
ing that for forty years the salaries of
legislative employees had remained about
the same and protesting against a reduc-
tion of the perennial wage; showing that
many of the said employees had come
from afar and that it would be an un
considerable hardship to disappoint their
righteous expectations, especially as they
had contracted debts and incurred obi
cations upon the assumption that COM
pensation would be allowed them &C.
cording to the precedent of other years.
The resolution WIS adopted and the as
semhly adjourned to meet again at 7
o'clock this evening.
TWO PROPOSED LAWS.
Representative j. F. Hinkle yesterday
introduced two important bills in the
house. One of these provides for a
modification of the present change of
venue laws and the other is intended to
regulate the canvass of the votes of the
people for members of tho legislature.
In speaking of these bills last night Mr..
Hinke said"T think they each touch upon
subject matters of much Importance to
the people Of New Mexico. The first of
these bills is intended to remedy the evils
in the present statnte as to change of
venue so that 1t will not he capable Of
the ahnse at present practiced under it.
Az Gov. Thornton very strongly sets forth
in his message, ths present law Is a CON-
venient avenue of delay and sometimes
of escape on the part Of criminals. Under
the bill which have introduced u charge
of venue rests in the discretion OF the
presiding judge, who grants a change
only upon such proof rs will satisfy him
that there is real occasion for change
in the place of trial. This will be in
finitely preferable to the present system
under which with three criminals in Jail
each can secure transfer of his cas-. to
another county by submitting the affida-
Wits of the other two.
"The bi! regulating the canvass of the
vote for members Of the legislature is de.
signed to take out of the hands of the
county commissioners the duty Of issuing
certificates Of election for those officers.
II this bill becomes H law, the only duty
of the commissioners will he to certify
the correct returns to n territorial can.
vassing board consisting of the governor.