Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-18
M,KINLEY COUNTY Ill

When the bill creating the county OF
Mckinley from Bernalillo and Valencia
with Gallup as the county seat, came up
before the council yesterday, several
letters and kilograms were read request
ing that the bill be passed at once.
They were signed by a great many citi-
zenS and taxpayers of the county pro-
posed. Hon. Thomas Hughes, of Ber-
naIillo county, made a speech on the
bill and said he was not originally in
favor of the measure for the reason that
it did not include a large enough area.
He had delayed the bill the day pre-
vious because he desired first to know
the wishes of the people of Gallup and
said that he was in favor of giving them
all the country west of the eighth mer-
idian. Mr.. Finical thought that the
matter was about evenly divided in re-
gard to the wishes of the people of Gal
lup, and while he was in favor of CIV
ing them a larger slice of territory,
thought that if the bill was not passed
as it came from the house, that no legis-
lation could be secured IN the subject.
The bill was then passed. A short time
later two kilograms were received by
Mr.. Hughes and Mr.. Duncan requesting
that the bill be delayed until a COM
mittee could reach here from Gallup.
1t was too late then to do anything for
them.
The bill to regulate the charges of ex-
press companies has been re-committed
to the house committee for correction.
1t is known as H. B. No. 4.
The famous Duncan bill for the re-
form of the venue of the territory
has been made the special order of the
house for Monday morning.
A facetious member of the council re.
marks that it is easy to distinguish the
members who are on the long trip jun
kets. Their grips are marked glass,
handle with care"
G. b. No. "a, to facilitate che holding
of Supreme court by providing steno-
graphers and typewriters for associate
judges, the salary of said employees to
be paid from the county funds, has
passed the council.
Hon. R. Herrera is the author of q
house bill which provides that the
boards of county commissioners may
appoint one student each year from
every county said students to be admitted
to tuition in the New Mexico university
free of charge.
The bill granting the purchasers of
tax titles O lien on the territory and
va rious counties in event OF defective
title, was amended in the council to
provide that the holders of certificates
shall pay the full amount of taxes due
on the property purchased, and was then
G. B. 96, introduced by Hon. I. b.
Catron, which passed the council yester-
day, provides for correcting an error in
the capitol rebuilding bill. The words
interest coupons were in some man.
ner left out OF the clause relating to the
payment of taxes with coupons in event
of default in the payment of the in
Hon. H. O. Bursum now has his atten-
tiOn drawn to the floods which came
down the arroyo from the Magdalena
inundating the town of So
1t would not be q hard matter to
a means to dam the arroyo, but
It will be a difficult scheme to move the
The bill to tag" lobbyists should be
amended to have them regularly in
by the lobbyist sanitary board
and eel titicates of inspection granted II
lound free from lucre or other con-
tagious7diseases. The bill is about the
best ''josh" that has been sprung during
The session and the funny part of the
is that 1t is liable to pass the
house.
Hon Frank Staplin has introduced q
in the house which provides that