Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-01-30
LEGISLATIVE
PROCEEDINGS.
THE COUNCIL.

| DlllS were lIlIOuuCCu, OldClCu u dIlsld
ed and printed and referred
BY Mr.. Cruikshank, council bill NJ
80, creating territorial institution t
| be known as a miners hospital an
providing for the maintenance thereof
| The measure contemplates the utiliza
| ton of the congressional land donation
of 10000 acres for the establishment o
a hospital for miners at some conven
lent point in Sierra county The bill
creates a commission of three, to b.
named by the governor, to dispose o
the / nds and nut the proceeds into, :
suitable building, and creates b boar
of managers of five, also to be name
by the governor. The bill was referred
to the committee on lands and public
institutions.
Council bill No. 81, by Mr.. Fielder, ::
bill providing that the pay of district
judges shall be $1,000 per annum: refer
red to the committee on judiciary.
Council bill No. 80, by Mr. Springer
appropriates the sum of $3.50 for tht
purchase of filing cases and other fur
nishings for the supreme court cham
ciary.
Mr.. Cruikshank gave notice of =
meeting of the finance committee, and
Mr.. Springer announced a meeting OF
the judiciary committee, and adjourn
ment was taken to 10 a. m. tomorrow
THE HOUSE.
The house met at 10 a. m. and put r
the whole morning discussing the re-
port of the committee on rules as pre-
sented by Mr.. Pendleton. The numer-
GUS motions to amend, for the previou:
question, and such involved the mem
bers in frequent parliamentary tangles
but Speaker Read was very lenient al
around, and permitted the widest lati,
tude of procedure to prevail. Finally
after repeatedly voting down amend
ments, the motion of Mr.. Sanchez OF
Mora to adopt as reported by the com
mttee was carried by a vote of 19 to 5
and recess was taken to 2 p. m.
The council memorial offered by Mr
Hinkle, asking congress to permit the
erection of drift fences on the public
domain, was read, and on motion of
Mr.. Gutierrez, was indefinitely tab,ad
by vote of II to 5, Mr.. Pend1eton and
Mr.. Walton not voting.
Upon reassembling this afternoon The
house took up and adopted the council
joint resolution requiring that the chief
clerks supply the newspapers in New
Mexico with copies of nll bills intro 4.
duced. The council joint resolution IN
respect to the printing of reports, etc,
was taken up and adopted.
A motion to reconsider the vote or
the proposed "drift fence memorial
was lost
On motion of Mr. Dales 1876 copies of
the new rules We're ordered printed, a:
as possible.
The following bills We're introduced,
ordered translated and printed and re-
aerred:
dill No. 49, to amend eectlon 1 Of chap
.er 3S, acts Of 1899, relating to bounty
'or killing wild animals.
By Mr.. Dalies, house bill No. so, to
If 1897 in reference to appeals from
Justice of the peace courts in water
light cases.
By Mr. Abbott, house bill No. 81, re-
,ealing certain sections of the corpora
ion laws and modifying others.
By Mr.. Barnes, house bill No. 81, TO
establish an asylum for the blind and
for it's maintenance.
By Mr.. Jose Sanchez, house bill No.
3, to amend section 80, chapter g. scs-
ion acts of 1899.
BY Mr.. Gutierrez, house bill No. 54, to
mend section 1887, Compiled Laws If
S97, an increasing the minimum tax
evy for school purposes.
BY Mr.. Manuel Sanchez, house Dill
No. So, to repeal section 3143, Compiled
Jaws of 1897, relating to legal proceed
Ire.
BY Mr.. Walton, house bill No. Sc,
period of limitation for
ction on mining claims.
By Mr.. Bateman, house bill No. 81,
epealng certain laws and validat ny
ertain provisions Of the Complied |
laws of 1897.
BY Mr.. Slaughter house bill No. S. |
mending the laws relating to the pay |
1ent of bountes for the killing of wild |
nimals.
BY Mr. Ascarate, house bill No. 50,
epealing chapter 40, session acts Of
399, relating to banks. !
By Mr.. Ascarate, house bill No. CO,
rovding for the safekeeping of funds
elonging to certain territorial insti IL
ons, and for other purposes.
BY Mr.. Ascarate, house bill No. 81, tc
apeal sections 700 to FOG inclusive, Com
lied Laws of 1897, authorizing the
uilding of irrigation reservoirs.
Representative Bateman's bill relat
lg to chattel mortgages is intended to
mplify the existing law on that SUBJ
,ct in many respects, particularly as
agards the filing of affidavits of re-
ewals. When real estate is included
requires that a single filing in the
aal estate records of the county will
lffice, and also provides that such Ger
ficates of renewals need not be filel
| full, covering the whole of the NOR.
age.
RELATING TO MINING CLAIMS.
The bill introduced in the house tc-
ay by Mr.. Walton, of Grant county,
rovides that the prescribed time for
lie limitation of actions for mining
aims situated in this territory, as
by section 1882 of .hei
nited States Revised Statutes, is fixed
ten years. That no location or cl ,imJ