Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-14
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
MEMORIAL CONCERNING PUBLIC
DOMAIN,

MEMORlAL IONCEkNINp IbDLlS
DOMAIN.
Council joint memorial to congress,
introduced by Hon. j. A. Ancheta, asks
the president of the United States, the
secretary of the interior and the com
missioner of the general land office, to
refrain from the selection, designation
or reservation of any public domain
within the territory of New Mexico into
forest reserves, until subsequent to such
time as the territory may be able to
select and designate the public lands
donated to the territory by the act OF
congress approved June 21, 1898. The
memorial shows that by the act OF con-
gress, section 16 and SO in every town
ship or lands in lieu thereof were grant
ed to the territory for the support OF
public institutions and that the territory
was to have the right to select such
lands under certain rules and regula-
tions to be provided by the secretary OF
the interior. 1t states that the legisla-
lure now in session is engaged in con-
sidering means for taking advantage OF
the act and shows that the greater
portion OF the territory is either mineral
or arid in character and the lands OF
greatest value to be selected under the
act are limited in extent and largely
confined to the mountain regions such
as are beingIcreated into forest reserves
under executive proclamation. Since
the approval of the act of congress, the
Interior department, through its forest
reserve superintendent, proposes to
create extensive forest reserves in
the territory and has designated
an extensive tract of land in the
Mogollon mountains in Grant and So
zorro counties and is proposing to desig-
of the territory. The memorial further
states that the segregation of such
tracts for forest reserves will force the
territory to select an inferior character
of lands, which will be non-productive
and of little value and thus defeat the
intention of the act, and concludes by
requesting that the selection be further
dispensed with, pending the designation
by the territory of the lands suitable for
its use.
The bill to give justices of the peace
copies of the Compiled Laws has passed
the house.
The house has passed H. B. No. So,
which allows sheriffs to succeed them
selves in office.
Fl. j. R. No. 4, which provides for
printing the report of the superinten-
dent of public instruction, has passed
the house
Ho:. Thomas d. Burns, has re-
covered sufficiently from his illness to
attend the council meetings again.
The bill to app, opriate S., 1000 for the
completion of the Silver City Normal
School passed the council this morning.
Council bill No, 43, being the Duncan
revenue bill, after reconsideration,
passed the council this morning with
some slight amendments.
Representative Kilpatrick's bill for a
reform Industrial school at Santa Fe,
should meet with favorable considera-
ton and should become law. Such all
institution is greatly needed.
This house has passed the bill provid-
ing for the location of mining claims by
four substantial posts or monuments
upon which the direction of the claim
must be plainly marked.
H. B. No. SIS, to encourage the discov-
cry and development of the mineral re-
sources of the territory by relieving I'M
patented claims from taxation has been
favorably considered by the house.
Governor Otero expects to visit Otero
county within a few days to satisfy him
self personally as to the situation before
the appointment of the new county Of
icers. 1t may be that he will spend
next Saturday in the new county.
The Duncan revenue bill is proving
quite a bone of contentious but is such an
excellent measure. and will do the terri
tory so much good when enacted, thatit
is believed that it will become a law, al
though some of it's provisions may be
amended.
Major w. H. H. Llewellyn, chairman
of the house judiciary committee. is not
so well this morning and has gone to st.
Vincent's s%anitarium, where he will re-
main for a few days. He is still suffer
ing from fever contracted by him while
serving at the front during the Santiago
campaign.
The famous Duncan bill has gone to
the house, amended to provide that the
exemption of real estate amounting to
5000 to the heads of families shall also
apply to farming impe ments, team of
horses, oxen, or household goods, in cases
where the head of a family is not the
owner of a homestead.
The New Mexican is now issued in
two editions, daily. The first edition is
issued In time to catch the afternoon
train out of that town and is a great
accommodation to its many readers in
the southern part of the territory, who
depend on it for information as to what
the legislature is doing.
Colonel Dick Hudson, VINO is in the
city from Deming, states that he has no
bills to lobby in the legislature, that he
is not looking for a job of any kind from
the territory and that he has money
enough to pay his expenses while in
town. The colonel will doubtless be a
welcome caller at the executive mansion
under these conditions.
Hon. Marcelino Baca, of Bernalillo
county, has proper petitions prepared
and is having them circulated in Ber-
nalillo county, praying the county COM
missioners to order the construction of O
bridge across the Rio Grande between
the towns of Pena Blanca and Bland, in
accordance with the provisions of the
law recently enacted. Mr.. Baca did
good and successful work in the passage
of this law.
The committee on stock and stock
raising In the house Is considering the
following council bills: A measure to
prevent the introduction and spread Of
disease among sheep in New Mexico and
provide remedies therefor; and to fur
Their protect the sheep industry in the
territory, introduced by Hon. T. D.
Burns. A bill to prevent the larceny Of
calves and young cattle, introduced by
Hon. G. A. Richardson.