The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-02-15
LEGISLATORS AND THEIR LABORs.

House bill No o. requiring live stock
buyers to pay license. was adversely
reported bycommittee. Mr.. Dalies. Mr..
Barnes and Mr.. Pendleton spoke against
it, and tho bill was indefinitely tabled.
House bin No 80, authorizing foreign
railway corporations operating lines ia
New Mexico to construct branch lines,
passed.
The judiciary committee having re-
ported favorably Councilman springep's
bill, council bill No. ], for the protection
OF minors and school children against
games Of chance, intoxicants, the deadly
cigarette, etc, the house took it up and
passed it unanimously.
House bill No. 8, fixing the maximum
legal rate Of interayt in New Mexico at
8 per cent, introduced by Mr.. Gutter.
rez, was reported back with an amend
ment making the maximum rate 10 per
cent. Amendment accepted, and the
bill passed by q vote Of ~ to 4.
Regarding Judge Pendleton 3 bill pro
viding for normal school TO be located
at Aztec, the Santa Fe New Mexican
says;
"The bill to establish normal school
at Aztec, and making certain appropria
tions therefor, was fayorably reported by
the committee in charge to the house
yesterday. It creates a territorial insti-
tuition Of learning, to be known as 1.-THE
Aztec normal school of New Mexico" to
be located on a suitable tract Of not less
than ten acres Of land within one mile
OF the county seat of San Juan county,
the same to be decided to the territory
without cosi. The bill also provides
that the land heretofore donated the
territory ae site for the Aztec agricul.
tural sub-statiOn, together with the i'm
provemente thereon, shall be sold and
the proceeds applied to the benefit Of the
J normal school. A board OF three mann.
bers to be named by the governor, is to
manage the new institution; these shall
meet within thirty days after the bill
becomes law, elect a secretary and treas.
urer, who shall give bond for not less
than $4,000 for the faithful perform.
ance OF duty. The powers and duties
OF. these regents are very minutely sci
out in this bill. They shall receive 81
per day while actually employed in dis
charging their duties, and cents mile
age in going to and returning from the
meetings Of the board, but DO session
shall last longer than Ave days, and the
secretary and treasurer shall receive s.
day during sessions Of the board. The
bill also provides that this normal schOo
shall be endowed with $4,000 acres of the
! land donated by congress for the use oI
normal schools in New Mexico, and the
board of public lands and board Of re-
gents is empowered to dispose Of thil
lana, or any part OF it, to create a funo
for the erection and maintenance of said
school, and to issue its bonds in tbs sum
Of $4,000, at per cent, payable il
twenty years, these bondst to be sold and
, the proceeds used for the erection OF
suitable buildings and equipments oil
the school, All rents and profits de-
rived from the land are to be used first
to pay the interest and second 20 create
} sinking fund to pay the principal, ano
if necessary the land may be sold tc
meet the principal when due, the pro
ceeds to be handled by the territorial
treasurer for that purpose. In framing
this measure, Representative Pendleton
has thrown around the subject every
possible safeguard, so that it shall be
economically and wisely ministered
San Juan is one Of the rapidly growing
counties Of the territory. It is peopled
by highly prosperous and enterprising
class, whose numbers are being con
stantly augmented. There are already
good public schools in the county, but
the demand is for higher training, and
in response to this feeling a number OF
citizens OF Aztec have maintained at
their own expense during the past year
or twoa normal school, which has been
pronounced a success. They have built
up nucleus there which they now seek
to have the territory foster and render
better than it is by permitting the util-
ization Of share of the lands donated
by congress according to the plan above
specified. That northwestern New
Mexico is fully deserving of this much
recognition at the hands Of the educa-
tional interests OF New Mexico is gener-
ally conceded, and it seems more than
probable that this measure will meet
with approval by both branches Of the
assembly"