Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-03-03

The Optics Embass6dor Again
Speaks Out On Leeisla<
Hive affairs.

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SANTA FE. March 3 The lower
house OF tina legislature neid onlyt one
Short session today. at which the fellow
ing business was transacted y.
House substitute for q. y. No. As be-
Ing the special order. was taken up In
mediately after the approval Of The
journal This is an act relating fo yhe
shipment Of cattle and inspection .ef
hides. The fee allowed the io6ptc< <Qr
is three cents q head for cattle and I'VE
cents for each hide inspected. Ihe5 d.
stitute was passed un..er suspeI< lion
Of the rules and now GOES back tolI Ithe
council. -
EXPERIMENT. STATION Blrfs1
IT .B: No. us. was Int1oduced 81 NJ
McIntosh Of San Juan county. ii cf
ates . sub-agrIcoltoral experimental
station at Aztec. aud provides for tie
maintenarcc OF tbe same, which; on
motion.o Of Mr. Sanchez, was referred 10
the COMMITTEES on Judiciary. The
speaker however, stated The bin. clrfy<
ing an appropriation, ought not; toe(
to that committee, 50 tie vote was re-
cor sidered and the Till went to the A.
nancial COMMITTEES.
RAwN-BRoKER BILL
f. B. No. Is. was then taken up.
The Judiciary committee repor a .
substitute for lhe bill which relssIs To-
the pawn-bTokers. 1t allows them to
charge not mole than 2 per cent B
month for money loaned, provides for
the sale of pledged pfoperty and lei
quires them 10 pay license iee Of $50
annually Passed without division.
Two council bills on the speskef'a
table were referred TO The Judiciary
committee. and the house adjourned for
the day.
THE'coUNcIL.
The council, after passing q biII reall-
lating the pay. of jurors in justices
courts. took up 9. B. No. ITO, which
was introduced by Mr.. Catron, aud ~
an act TO panishronspiracies. and was
passed without'division.
THE INTEREST RATE BILL.
House substitute for H. b. no 25.
came next, bill to limit the rate Of
interest III New Mexico, which passed
the bouse yesterday. It limited the
rate to 10 per cent Mr.. Duncan moved
q suspension of TIE rules in nosde = s
have the bill read, preparatory to It's
passage, and advocated the passage of
the bill. Mr.. Catron argued against its
passage, contending that our present
law, which placed limit not to exceed
12 per cent. should stand. Ia answer
to Mr.. Duncan, who had stated that at
Las Vegas plenty of money could be
had at 8 per cent or less, on good securi,
ty, Mr.. Catron SAID he did not doubt
that. where good real estate security
was given or loans made on long time;
but national banks, for instance, were
not allowed to loan moneys On real
estate at all, nor loan for great
length OF time. Mr Richardson
took about the same view as Mr.
Catron, and said the bill would be to
the great detriment OF small borrowers
who did not have real estate orsother
gilt-edge securities to give, and who
found it necessary sometimes to. borrow
small amounts for shert periods of time.
After some further discussion the bill
was defeated by vote of to 8, Dun-
can. Finical, Hughes, Romero aud Bur-
sum voting in favor of the bill y
Fl. J.sR. No. 10 was considered: It
raises the salary of one OF the house
employees from SO to s5 a day. Re
ferred to the committee on judiciary
GOVERNOR sEaNs BILLS.
AT this time message from the gov
ernor announced that he had signed a
number of bills and resolutions, among
the number being G. d. No 4a, house
substitute for The Duncan revenue bill.
and II. B. No. az the high. salary bill.
This latter It has been said athe COVER
nor would probably veto; bat have
always noticed that the friends and
beneficiafies Of this measure never
seemed the least bit alarmed. Tirat
THIS BILL is BAD
goes without saying, particularly fhat
p rtion which takes hundreds Of dol
lars out Of the common school fur da OF
the several counties which should go to
the education of the children and
gives it, you might say as . donation.
for they are not entitled to It. 70 per-
sons who were more than we'll paid for
all services rendered or req uired:
II. ]. r. No, s. which Is the KIlpat.
rick resolution, to mutilate the 'nonu-
meut erected By the legislature Of 1866
aud 1867. was taken up, and Oh motion
OF Mr RIchlrd sou was reported to .
leommlttee of one, composed of: the
Igenileman from Santa Fe, (Mr. Catronl
House substitute for q. B. 8s relates
to appeals "a certain criminal cases
| This bill was passed without discussion
@ B. No. Il an act concerning the
election of county com missionefs J, came
down from the house with amendments
which were properly concured il. Il
provides that at every election one Of
/ the three commissioners shall bB elected
for four years, etc.
c. B. No. 81, an act relating to tht
establishment and mainteaance q
public parks, also came back from tbs
house amended. which amendments
were concured IN.
] C. B. No 50, requiring sherIffs. con