Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-25
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
THE MILITARY INSTITUTE BILL.

THE MILITARY INSTITUTE BILL.
Quite a spirited debate resulted in the
house Yesterday over the bill to provide
for the maintenance of the military
institute at Roswell by permitting the
cadets sent each year by the boards of
county commissioners to receive board
at the institution free. Hon. L. b.
Catron attacked the measure, stating
that the board of regents had in the
past Incorporated the money con-
tributed by the territory because they
had admitted the pupils to free board
when the law only provided for free
parents of the cadets were able to pay
for the board of their sons and daugh-
tiers, and he did not think that it would
be right to legalize the acts of the board
of regents in the matter. Hon. G. A.
Richardson warmly defended the insti-
tuition and insisted that the territory
should pay for the board of the pupils
which it sent there. He denied that 1
cent had ever been misappropriated by
the board of regents and said that no
other institution in the territory could
show a better financial record. AL
though Mr.. Richardson made a hard
fight and a good one, the bill was tabled
indefinitely.
Hon. B. A. Romero has introduced H.
B. No. 81, to regulate gambling licenses.
Hon. Pablo Trujillo has introduced H.
B. No. 95, which provides for building a
dormitory for the school of mines at
SocorrO.
Hon. M. Valdez always starts the
house IN the right tract in each days
proceedings by having the journal of the
previous day approved.
According to the ruling of the com
mittee on rules, it will be impossible to
introduce bills in the council after the
9th of next month.
H. b. No. 60, introduced by Hon. w.
Fl. H. Llewellyn, to insure county and
territorial buildings against loss by fire,
has passed the house.
II. j. R. No. q, which provides for the
printing and distribution of $500 of the
report of the superintendent of public
instruction, has passed the council.
c. B. No. rs, to promote irrigation by
relieving reservoirs and irrigation canals
from taxation for a period of six years,
has been tabled indefinitely in the
council.
Hon. j. A. Ancheta has introduced
another acequia bill in the council by
request. As fast as the bills to control
irrigation are killed off new ones bob no
serenely.
H. B. No. o6 provides for regulating
matters relative to building fences
across and along the public roads of the
territory. 1t was introduced by Hon. B.
A. Romero.
G.. B. No. IS, which provides for
building schools houses in central por-
tions of the various districts, has been
recommitted to the council committee
on education.
Hon. Pablo Trujillo is sustaining his
reputation as ''silver tongued orator of
the house." He can make speeches with
the best of them and never overlooks an
opportunity to do so.
H. B. No. 70, which was tabled in
definitely, e%ndeavored to provide that
all lands irrigated must be enclosed by
.barbed wire fences, the posts to be Is
feet apart and the wires strung at in
tervals of IL inches.
t Young men who do not care how long
heir tenure on life holds good, will be
delighted to know that II. B. No. GA,
which sought to prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale of cigarettes in the terri
tory, has been killed.
The committee on finance in the house
has recommended that II. j. r. No. 8,
relative TO the elimination of the word
''rebel" from the monument in the plaza
at Santa Fe and the substitution of the
word confederate" be tabled indefini-
tely.
In the council yesterday Hon. Thomas
Hughes introduced a bill to provide for
the publication and distribution of the
roster of the volunteer army of New
Mexico during the war with Spain. The
bill calls for 500 copies, and is known as
G.. B. No. 1903.
H. B. No. 40, defining legal news
papers for the publication of legal no.
tees, has gone to the council committee
on printing.