El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-13
DOingS of
NEW MEXICO
Legislature.

SANTA FEE, n. NJ. March PAL
though the end of the legislative ses-
Sion : in sight and a tremendous
amount OF legislative work remains 10
be done. the members of the legisla-
ture still manage to waste an immense
volume of wind. The council wranglcd
all forenoon with the Luna county bill
and the hoLse devoted almost two
hours to ? discussion of the bill regu-
lating the free running about of hogs
In the cOuccil the Luna county bill had
been made the order for the day
Hughes moved to go into a committee
of the whole for the purpose of con-
sidering council bill No. 50. the Luna
county measure. This motion failed.
Easiey raising the point of order that
the Rinkle compromise substitute bill
on the subject was properly before the
council as unfinished business and not
the original bill. The chair announced
that the two are on equal footing but
that the substitute had prior right of
way at this stage. The substitute was
then put on third reading. seven to
five those voting against the motion
being Burns. Harrison. Hughes, Mar
tineZ and Springer. Fielder then arose
the creation of Luna county. He said
that the whole scheme of Luna county
is a pet measure of Governor Otero,
Hon. Solomon Luna and Hon. Frank A.
Hubbell and two or three parties from
Deming OF the two bills however
Fielder said that the substitute was
much fairer toward Grant county than
the original bill.
Spiess Agrees With Fielder.
Spiess agreed with Fielder that the
original bill menaced the best interest
of citizens of Grant county and con-
sidered the substitute a fair and just
measure. Hughes said that the subject
of county division had constituted a
menace and disturbing element in the
legislative circles for sixteen years and
he thought it time to tackle the prob
lem settling il definitely and for all
time. Easley added that the substi-
tute bill had been agreed upon practi-
cally by the parties most interested
and he advocated its passage. Harri-
son expressed the opinion that the sub
stitute had been brought forward with
a view to killing the original bill.
President Chaves after calling Cruick-
shank to the chair made a vigorous
speech in which he said that he hoped
the matter would now be taken up and
finally determined as the people of
Grant county had been fighting it for
years and he deemed it time that Sill
Yer City and Deming be divorced He
repudiated the suggestion that Solo
mon Luna had the least interest in the
subject one way or the other and Frank |
A. Hubbell. he declared, as chairman |
of the republican party of New Mexico |
had a perfect right to be there at the |
capital and confer with the legislators |
on matters of public concern.
Hinkle Substitute
On the motion to pass the Hinkle |
substitute the vote was six to six, |
Burns. Harrison. Hughes. Cruickshank,
Martinez and Springer in the mega
tive. The motion to table indefinitely
the original bill Jared in the same man
ner. Hughes then presented an amend
ment to the substitute bill providing
that the governor. auditor and solicit
tor general shall ascertain the proper
ton of debt to be assumed by the new
county and changing the boundary
lines so as not to include so large a
part of Grant county in the new coun- |
". Springer offered a substitute for
the Hughes amendment to the effect |
that all territory now covered by Grant |
county shall be followed into Luna |
county and taxed for existing debts. |
This was adoDted and the council af- |
ter hearing the first section of the |
Hilkle substitute read a third time
took a recess until two o'clock in the |
afternoon.
Discussion of the Hog and It's Habits. |
The house devoted the forenoon to |
the discussion of the hog and its hab-
its. The debate was caused by the |
measure to prevent hogs from running |
around at large. mot referring to the |
human species). house bill No. 80 in
troduced by Trujil1o. Gutierrez and |
Gomez sought to cut down the penalty |
for violations of the act. Trujillo |
made an earnest fight for the measure.
Gutierrez read the existing law on the |
subject which he thought good enough.
Sanchez. OF Valencia. detailed how
he had seen six children devoured by
hogs in Lincoln county and thought
every hog running at large should be
killed. Sanchez of Mora. said that his
cousin from Valencia was evidently
not fond of ''mantequa'' and if all
hogs were that bad their products must
also be bad. Throwing the
would not be policy to neglect protect
ing the hog. Chapman here inter
vened calling everybody to order. Tru-
lilo then called on Bateman to vote
Barnes followed Immediately saying:
ago-is it still hogs?'' Half a dozen
were offered almost sim
cutting down the penalty
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