Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-03-20
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

oIHclullleHl.
House joint memorial No. 4, askin
that the United States government pr
vent the Jicarilla Apaches and the NAY
ajoes from trespassing on the land ad
joining the reservations. was passed.
Council bill No. 113, referring to In
payment of damages by railroad com
panies for cattle killed on the tracks
was passed.
Council bill No. 27 was reported ad
versely from the committee on rail
roads. The measure is Cruickshank'
bill providing for geological survey o
the territory, and making a tax lev;
of one-flfth of a mill therefor. The vo'j
/, was 13 to'sy in favor ~ the bill, and =
therefore, passed.
Council bill No 81, concerning the ID
ation of bawdy houses in incorporat u
cities and county seats, was amende J
and passed, % to /, Mr.. Winston votins
against the bill.
Speaker Read complained that tllf
house and council have been passing
council bills at the rate of twenty-fiy .
to one house bill This forenoon sever
council bills were passed by the house
and not one house bill. He asked that
own business.
Speaker Read appointed as confer
ence committee on the appropriation
bill Messrs. Gutierrez, Martin Sanch n
and Walton.
(Afternoon Session)
Council bill No. 124, relating to assess
ment and taxation in Luna and Nc
kinley counties, was passed
During the consideration of house bill,
No. 1O9, Mr.. Dalies was called to the
chair, and Speaker Read made a strong
grafton in behalf of the bill, which pro.
vides for the extension of the limits of
tire area of the grant made to congress
by Santa Fe. The bill was introduced
by Mr.. Read The bill passed unanl-
mously.
The house then adjourned until 5
O'Clock this evening.
CII-WEDNESDAY FORE
NOON
Council bill No 9S, an act for the +,
lief of the Indians of New Mexico, IS
taken up. 1t provides that the Indians
be permitted to take salt from the SAT-
lands for personal use. The saline lands.
it will be remembered, have been by act
,f Yet, t,
of New Mexico at Albuquerque. Mr.
Hughes, therefore, vigorously opposed
the bill saying that the university does
not care to accept the Gift from corr
gress if there is a string attached to II.
Mr.. Spiess spoke in favor of the bill,
and it passed, 8 to 4, Messrs. Fielder,
Hnkle, Hughes and the president vo:-
ing against it. The bill had been drawn
up upon recommendation of the secre
tary of the interior.
House bill No. 167, an act to amenl
section 4132 of the session laws of 1897, |
referring to the United States census, |
was passed unanimously. 1t provides
that the census taken by the United |
States i'm 1900 be taken as official until |
a special census is taken in any pr..
cinct or county.
Council bill No. 124, an act providius;
for the assessment for taxation in Ll- |
na and Mckinley counties, passed. i. |
10 1, Mr.. Fielder voting in the negative. |
House bill No. 200, an act to provide |
'or capitol custodian committee, to |
consist of the commissioner of publ. |
ands and two appointees by the gov
ernor passed unanimously.
Council bill No. 1875, an act in refe:.
ence to appeals and writs of error, was
passed unanimously.
The council n-concurred in house |
substitute for council bill No. 95, Tie
general appropriation bill. The presi.
lent appointed Messrs. Cruickshank,
Harrison and Spiess as conference
committee.
House bill No. 80, an act to amend
sections so and Sc of the Compiled Laws
# 1897. relating to water rights, was
passed unanimously.
House joint resolution No. II, relat-
ng to the supply of a copy of the Com
,iled Laws of 1897, the session laws of
S97, and the governors message to1
ach member of the legislature, WIS
passed unanimously.
House bill No. 233, an act amending
ouncl bill No. 60, an act to prevent do
nestle animals from trespassing on prl-
ate property, was passed unanimous
y. 1t repeals sections ! and 2 of coun-
il bill No. 60.
House bill No. IS, an act for the pro-
ection of fish, was defeated by vote
f to 5.
The council then went into executive
ession to consider the following nom,-
lations by Governor Otero, and con-
irmed them:
House bill No. Sc, an act providing ?
of the time in which actions
or mining claims was defeated.
BY GOV. oTERc.
For solicitor general, Hon. Edward
:. Bartlett; for inspector of coal oil
Hon. John S. Clark; for territorial
reasurer, Hon. j. H. Vaughn; for land
Hon. A. A. Keen; for gu
,erintendent of the penitentiary, Hon.
O. Bursum; for librarian of the ter
tory. Hon. Lafayette Emmett; for
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