Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-02-04

Representative Sanchez in the house and
Col. Chaves in the council, Valencia ooun-
| ty is certainly in position to have her
interests carefully and ably guarded.
AN OUTSIDE VIEW.
The Pueblo Chieftain has this: ut is
proposed in New Mexico to pass law
requiring a deposit of $4,000 from every
insurance company before allowing it to
do business in the territory. Whether
that is good thing to do may be left for
New Mexico to decide, but certainly there
are various ways in which state can i'm
prove upon fire il urance methods in a
more practical mt Aer than that. There
is an immense amount of glaring fraud
in this insurance business, and it is evil
dent that until the law takes hold there
will be no correction of it. There are too
many mysterious fires, and there is too
much talk about them. If anybody has a
house he can not sell ard on which he
can not pay the taxes, or the interest on
the mortgage, it is perfectly easy to get
pretty good sum of money out of 1t from
the insurance companies. Suppose the
house ostensibly cost $4,000 to build and
is now worth say SLIGO. He has it in
sured with one agent for $500. Then he
goes to another agent and puts on $500
more. After little time he gets the con-
set of these agents for the addition of
5000 or $500 more. Some windy night
disaster happens, and it is in order for
the neighbors to pass resolutions about
the .inscrutible wisdom of all-wise Provi-
dence.'
"Now are we to suppose that the insur-
ance com panies pay for all these fresf
Not much. They pay the money, to be
sure, but promtly assess it against the
rest of us; so that while we neighbors
make after-dinner remarks about the sad
lamp explosion over at Mr.. Whatshis-
names house the insurance people are
putting the rules and rates up another
peg on our own property.
"If insurance was conducted in bust
ness-like way we might not have to pay
such high rates. 1t ought not to be pos
sible for man to be tempted to commit
arson. As it is now, the more insurance
on house the more the agent makes out
"
let the owner get up to high figures. This
is an injustice to the rest of US who in
the end pay the interest. 1t isn't bust
ness"
LEGISLATIVE CHAT.
Council Journal Clerk Zimmerman
spent yesterday with his family in Las
Vegas.
Master Carlos Dreamer, one of the
house pages, is out again after an illness
of a fortnight.
message was received by the house
this morning from the council to the eff
feet that the capitol rebuilding bill had
passed that body. The bill is being
engrossed to-day and will probably reach
the governor this afternoon.
DR.. s. I. North and Mr.. j. 8. Holland,
two prominent citizens of Clayton, we're
among Representative Thomp son's Wis
itors in the house this morning. Mr..
Holland was member of the legislature
several years ago.
The New MEXICAN can endorse this,
even if it does come from the Albu-
querque Citizen president Curry, of
the territorial council, Is one of the rising
young men Of New Mexico. He is i'm
partial in his rulings, and in the dispatch
of business sinks politics and labors for
the public good"
Councilmen Victory, Bunker, Chaves,
Perea and Larragoite, comprising the
committee on territorial institutions,
paid visit of inspection to the peniten-
tiary this forenoon. 1t is needless to say
that they found matters in excellent
shape, for Col. Bergman has them that
way all the time.
That bill to consolidate the counties of
Grant, Dona Ana and Sierra, one of the
practical efforts of which is to throw
District Attorneys Harlee and Young out
of their jobs, was favorably reported by
majority of the house committee ON
judiciary this morning.
Representative Locke is in receipt of
letters from home which state that very
satisfactory progress is being made on
the grand canal in the neighborhood of
Aztec. This canal will irrigate the Farm
ingten mesa, which contains several
thousand acres of land, and will add very
greatly to the material prosperity of San
Juan county.
| The hOrticulturists of New Mexico are
booked for meeting here on Wednesday
next to consider pending measures in the
legislature touching the good of that in-
dustry. An effort will be made to secure
legislation of Importance to fruitgrewers.
It ID hoped citizens interested will make
it point to be present. The time and
place will be announced later.
1
Representative Pine was back in his
seat this morning after his serious illness.
Notwithstanding his recent indisposition
he wears very radiant smile and all be-
cause of this telegram received this morn
ing from his family physician, DR..
Mickey, of Las Cruces: "Borl at 8 a. M,
| girl; wife and baby ara doing nicaly.n