Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-04
PENITENTIARY BILL AMENDED

PENITENTIARY BILL AMENDED
The Catron p%enitentiary bill known as
c. b. No. 32, which provides for a reduc-
ton of the number of ~penitentiary COM
missioners was taken up by a committee
of the whole house yesterday and gen
erously amended. As the bill will go
back to the council, it provides that the
number OF commissioners shall be raised
to five and that not more than three
members of the, board shall be Repub-
licans. The clause requiring the com
m~issionerS to reside within easy access
of the railway and not further than 100
miles from Santa Fe was stricken out.
Speaker Luna thoughtthat there should
be mo taxation without representation
and that all portions of the territory
should be represented on the board. He
referred to the sentence within 100
miles of Santa Fe" as the ''sphere of
influence" and thought that it was pos
sible to economic too much in the
matter of cutting down the number of
commissioners. As amended, this feat
ure of the bill provides for the appoint
ment of one commissioner from each
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The house committees on finance and
capitol met yesterday after the house
adjourned.
H. J. R. and M, relative to the OPEN
ing of ports of entry along the Mexico
border, has been passed by the council.
H. B. No. ~, to assist laborers in en-
forcing claims for services rendered, has
been tabled by the house indefnit-
ely.
The council yesterday passed II. B.
No. 20, which provides for keeping pub
lie funds within the confines of the ter
ritory.
The bill giving the cattle sanitary
board the power to eXpunge obsolete
brands from the records, has passed the
council.
Substitute for c. B. No. IA, which pro-
vides for facilitating the transcribing
of testimony and aiding the work be-
fore the grand jury, has passed the
council.
Hon. Frank Staplin, of Taos county,
has introduced a bill in the house to fur
nish copies of the Compiled Laws to
justices of the peace throughout the
territory.
Hon. VIM. Fitzpatrick, of Santa Fe
county, thinks that the proper manner
to encourage the mining industry is to
secure a geological survey, which will
serve to advertise the mineral belts of
New Mexico.
The gentlemen of the house were al
most unanimous yesterday in the belief
that a bill to relieve new Industries from
taxation would create an unjust compe-
tition and discrimination against the
concerns already operating.
G. B. No. 20, providing for the sale of
personal property under execution and
chattle mortgage, has passed the coun-
Gil. Under the provisions of this act, it
is not necessary to make a published
notice of amounts less than $500.
Hon. e. l.. Gutierrez, one OF the house
representatives from Bernalillo county,
is gaining quite a reputation as an ora
tor, and some of his friends are now
calling him the ''silver-tongued orator
of the use.-Albuquerque Citizen.
The committee on labor in the house
has recommended the passage of II. B.
No. 5, introduced by Hon. Rafael Ga
llegos, which provides that any firm
which shall fail to pay it's employees
shall be considered guilty of fraud and
fined double the amount of the laborers'
dues.
H. BIS. No. 81 and IS, introduced YES
terday, provide for relieving the work.
ings of unpatented mining claims from
taxation, and repeal the features of the
Reynolds law which are a~ntagonistic to
the United States law in relation to as
Sessment work, and the relocation of
claims.
Major W. II. H. Llewellyn has in
PRODUCED II, B. No. AZ, which reads as
follows: THAT all bonds issued by the
territory of New Mexico, or by any
county thereof shall be exempt from
taxation for any purpose whatever
The bill introduced in the council by
Hon. III. 0. Bursum, known as G. b. No.
80, provides sthat the county of
Lincoln be and is hereby attached to
the district attorney district of Socorlo
and that the counties of Socorro and
Lincoln shall compose one district at
torney district from and after the pass
age Of this act"
Considerable amusement was created
in the house Yesterday when G. B. No.
IL, came up for consideration. The bill
provides for the encouragement of indus
trial and manufacturing enterprises by
relieving them from taxation. One mem
Der of the house wanted canning and
evaporating establishments included in
! the bill, another wanted mines and min
Ing plants exempted and still another
wanted persons of good moral character
relieved from tax. The bill ultimately
received its death blow by being
tabled.
H. B. No. 21, which was introduced
in the house by Mr.. Baca, and provides
that when 500 people shall petition the
board OF county commissioners for q
bridge in a first-class county the county
shall be empowered to issue bonds for
building such bridge. In second class
counties 400 people may petition, in
third class 900, and in fourth class 200.
The petitioners must be taxpayers of
the county. This will enable the people
of Bernalillo to secure their bridge over
the Rio Grande at Pena Blanca, and
VIII ulSU give UHe people VI CeTrlllOS,
Golden, Dolores and Madrid the privil-
edge Of building a bridge over the Ga
listeO.
Mr.. Catron's bill providing for the is
suance of bonds to the amount of 500 600
for the completion and furnishing of
territorial capital and the memorial to
congress for approval of the same, ac-
companying it. passed the house this
morning with an amendment making
the interest on the bonds four per cent
instead of five as in the original bill.
The house cleaned up business rapid
ly this morni ing and both the council