El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-21
NEW MEXICO
LEGISLATURE
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is being made however in dispOSing Of
ton bills should be reported soon and
la limit set for the introduction of new
bills. Such measures like the proposed
insurance bill. the travelling auditors
bill and several others which will GER
tainly be introduced, have not yet
shown up.
Governor Otero today signed his
sixth bill for this session. the bill auth
orizing bond issue of $25 900 for new
buildings and improvements at the
military institute at Roswell. This
imposes no extra burden upon the tax
payers for the interest and the prin-
cipal of the issue is to be paid out of
the rental and sale of public lands
granted the institute by act of con-
gress.
The house today passed three more
bills creating three more territorial
ing third one simply because the
member pushing it has made himself
somewhat obnoxious by his obstreper-
BUSINESS upon various occasions when
the party desired to act together. One
of the bills provides for the erection
county, other for a normal school at
Aztec The former was fathered by
Representative Dalies of Valencia
county and the other by Representative
Granville Pendleton of San Juan coun-
ty. What fate both of these bills will
meet in the council is uncertain for
the disposition of the council is to be
more closefisted in voting funds for
the creation of new public institutions
in addition to the three which had
been determined upon previously ow-
ing to the grant of lands made to them
by congress, vix., the reform school,
located by the house at Belen, the
blind school located b ythe house at
Chamita and the miners hospital at
which Gallup had an inning this after
noon but on which final action has
been postponed. To Mr.. Trujillo's eff
forts are due the location of the asy-
lum for the blind at Chamita by the
house, which the council will doubt
lessly ratify. Cerrillos will probably
get the miners hospital.
A three hours debate was precipi- |
tated in the house this forenoon by
Cruickshank's health bill which had
passed the council. Sanchez of Mora !
thought that consumptives should be |
placed under the same restrictions as
smallpox patients and for two hours |
clear however by Pendleton and others |
that there is a heavenwide difference /
in the nature and degree of contagion |
between smallpox and consumption. |
While the native people of New Next |
co do not regard smallpox with near |
yet the protection against the spread |
of each must necessarily be entirely
different to be effective. The house
saw it in this light and passed the bill
by a vote of 10 to 5. 1t now goes to
Governor Otero for signature. 1t is a
New Mexico in the estimation of east |
ern people considerably and may be a
deciding factor in securing statehood.
The council this forenoon passed an
important bill relative to the inter-
change of business by railroads. 1t
traffic arrangements and agreements
with other lines. At first there was
a disposition, it is said. on part of one
Of the big railroads to fight the bill,
but upon a hint from headquarters no
fight was made and the bill passed the
council unanimously. 1t had been in
dorsed by the Commercial club at AL
the Las Vegas chamber of /
and by many businessmen
in other parts of the territory. 1t !
amends section 1910 of the compiled |
laws by adding thereto the following: |
Provided that any railroad corpora
ton whose railroad shall have been or |
may hereafter be constructed to con-
nection with the railroad or railroads. |
of one or more corporations, directly /
make exclusive contracts or arrange
ments with such other corporations for
the running of through cars and trains.
and for the interchange, routing and
of traffic over their re-
spective railroads and all such con-
tracts or arrangements heretofore en-
tered into between such corporations
are hereby ratified. confirmed and de-
Jared valid
The council also passed the bill