Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-02-15

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astee0 upon, Incorporated ~ v bil
at the end Of section 8, - ri
N ther. that If the party does not own
- Homestead to the value of 5000 /.
shall be permitted to make it up to tha,
amount out of his personal property
With this proviso the bill passed and
now goes to the hofs. Only one bin
i was introduced, G. b o. 81. BY Rich
ardson, being an act repeal and har-
monize certain sections of the Compiled
Law as recommended by the solicitor
Il general.
>---a SILVER CITY NORMAL
A. ii. b. No. 80. An act to complete ami
n furnish the Normal school bnIoing al
d Silver City, and appropriatinq 5000
J for that purpose. came up with favor.
: able report from the committee. Mr..
n duncan moved the adoption Of
l the report. Mr.. Catron asked
. Tor information; he said he had
not bad time to look into the matter
End the committees his farnished no ia
formation; he wanted to Aaow. the ne-
cessity Of the appropriation, &C etc
) Ancheta explained the need ofXe.
: money. Mr.. Catron made MOI
that the bill be recommittsd to tht
ucatioaai COMMITTEES. with instruction
70 furnish information; this Ancheta
opposed, and said it was dlIiiory tac-
tlcs. THE motion was lost, tos. OIL
motion to pass the bill Mr.. Catron IN
explaining his vote, said in part: -
I'VE are following 10 the trail of other
legislation enacted at this session.
which would result in inducing trustees
OF other similar Institutions to incnr
debts beyond their appropriation ) con-
trary to law.'
lie gave little history OF the insti-
tuition, saying that the original appro-
priatlon was $4,000; that two years
ago $4,000 more was appropriated for
the identical purpose of this bill to
complete and furnish THE building.
Thus far $4,000 had been expended and !
Tor all this eSssaQditure, Mr.. Catron
sad, he was sznsu that about
tweuty-seyen persons were being edu-
Gated for teachers: the rest OF the
scholars, (about seventy-dve pupils, be-
'ing-in grades that belong to the COM !.
mon schools Of Silver City. =
CATRoN TELLING TALES. =
He also said he understood they had y y
had defaulting treasurer and il any q
steps hld been taken to rec over the j,
money on his bond he was not aware of Ia
l.; He said that we are appropriating : :
thanto the common schooTs efft eff tttttle1tians tttle1t
ritory, which he thought o great mis- e
take. Il
However, the bill passed and now goes 81
to the governor, Burns, Catron aud Il
Chaves voting in the negative. d
House substitute for G. B. No 20, an
act to regulate the sale of personal al
under execution and chattel oI
provides where the amount
Is less than $500, notice of sale shall be !,
given by posting six notices instead of :. :,
advertising ina newspaper as at pres i i
ent. passed without opposition and
-->s1- oaas to the governor.
THAT PRIS3Fktzsy III
Several bills were tzre1 = l5. : :; Z Is rs Y
ferred or recommitted, 55g them t
being H. b. No. 56. which passed the 4
lower house yesterday H donates co q
the several counties copies OF the Com
piled Laws for the use ofjustice Of the j
peace, and appropriating $4,000 for
that purpose. Mr.. Catron had the bill
read in full and some OF the sections at
bis request were read twice. He evi- !
IDENTIFY has his eye on this measure.
Mr.. Richardson moved the bill be ta- !
bled Immediately but withdrew the
motion aud it was referred TO the COM
mittee on Territorial affairs.
Although referred to this bill at
considerable length yesterday, ] will
mention it again to show the readers of
THEOPTIc what chrome legislature
does for this Territory. Under the bill
providing for compiling the laws, !
passed at the Bod legislature, 1000
copies of such compilation have been
printed, of which about 250 volumes
have been sold, and forty-eight vol
umes have been given to members Of
the legislature, leaving 1.7o0 volu mes
stoWei away in the Territorial library.
Now, if this bill passes. after all has
been sold that there is apparently any
sale for, (there being not more than
450 voting precincts in the Territory
and one justice of the peace IN each
Iprecinct,) it will require only $50 copies
to supply them all. This leaves i.250yol-
umes still on hand, which at $3.50 per
volume, the price at which they have
been sold, amounts to sl0620. What
use will we have for these? What can
| be done with them. Itis safe to say !
THAT LOO volumes, at least, will be a |
Total loss to the Territory. So much
! for the class Of legislation enacted two |
!; years ago, and it looks very much as
though this legislature would even do
J worse.
Il The last action taken was on i ]. r.
No. 4, which provides that .2500 copies