Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-03-15
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
COUNCIL.
Morning Session-Friday.

red for the present.
The following bills Were introduce
under suspension of the rules:
Council bill No. 10, an act to author
ize taxpayers to organize for mutus
benefit and protection, by Mr.. Cruick
shank.
Council bill No. Ill, by Mr.. Harrison
an act to amend section 65 of the ses
sion laws of 1899.
Council bill No. 112, by Mr.. Fielder
an act relating to employees, commonl
called "fellow-servants law"
Council bill No. 113, by Mr.. Hinkle
relative to the killing of stock by rail
roads.
Council bill No. ia, by Mr.. Hughes
an act relating to contempt cases in tn
district courts. An effort to pass TIL
bill Immediately failed.
Council bill No. 115, by Mr.. Fielder
an act to prevent employers from pay
full money.
Council bill No. 116 by Mr.. Navarro
an act relating to the distribution O.
water for irrigation.
Council bill No. III, by Mr.. Martinez
| by request an act validating certain
county bonds.
Council bill No. 49, an act relating tc
practice in the supreme and district
courts of the territory of New Mexico
was taken up. The judiciary commit
tan Il ,te.
which were explainedby Mr.. Springer.
The bill was made the special order for
2 o'clock.
A joint memorial, asking congress to
make liberal grants of land to New
Mexico for educational purposes, was
passed unanimously.
House bill No. 80, an act to prevent
the running at large of hogs and swine,
was then considered and passed.
House bill No. SO, relating to the re-
issue of stock of corporations where the
original stock has been lost or destroy
ed, was passed.
Council bill No. 5S, an act authoriz-
ing county commissioners to make sur
veys for assessment purposes, was read
as amended by the house, limiting the
operation of the law to the years 1901
and 1902 The amendment was concur
red in.
COUNCIL-Afternoo Session.
The Council at the afternoon session
amendment to Council Bill No. AZ, relat-
ing to licenses for meat peddlers and the
inspection of hides. The amendment
substitutes ''bears" for the word 'neat
cattle" in the bill. The bill now goes to
the governor.
Council bill No. SO, relating to practice
in the supreme and district courts, being
a special order was taken up and con-
sidered section by section in committee
of the whole. There are many amend
ments to the bill.
HOUSE.
Morning Session-Friday
Mr.. Trujillo was in the chair during
the opening preliminaries of the house
this forenoon. A number of clerical er-
rors in council bill No. 10S, the Cruick-
shank refundng bill, were ordered to
be corrected The house took up house
substitute for house bill No. 1877, an act
for the inspection and testing
of coal oil. Mr.. Barnes explained that
the past three years the inspector of
coal oil received $4,000 for fees, and the
bill provides for cutting this
one-half, out of which the inspector of
coal oil must pay his deputies and Of
flee expenses. He also pointed out that
raising the fire test to $50 degrees would
result in the increased cost Of Oil to the
consumer, as well as giving him an oil
really inferior as an illuminant. Penn
sylvania and ten other states have a
fire test of 10 degrees. About 100000
gallons of coal oil are brought into the
territory annually, and the merchants
and not the consumers pay the inspec-
ton tax, for if the tax were taken off
to-day the price of coal oil would not
be reduced an iota. The act is to go
into effect on July 1, so as to give the
chance to dispose of the
stock Of coal oil on hand. Mr.. Chap
man also made a speech in defense of
the old coal oil law, as we'll as the new
law. Mr.. Gutierrez spoke in opposition
to the bill Mr. Valdez spoke in favor of
the bill.
Mr.. Winston offered an amendment |
making the school of mines the official |
BOARD of inspection, which must inspect |
'ree Of charge any samples of oil sent |
t, and to receive $3.50 year from the |
erritory for that purpose. Mr.. Bate |
nan spoke in favor of the amendment, |
md Mr.. Sanchez of Mora against it.
Mr. Pendleton made a characteristic |
md witty address in favor Of the |
and incidentally advising
he house to stop wasting time and get |
lown to business. Mr.. Winston's |
amendment was voted down, II to 6.
Mr.. Slaughter offered an amendment |
compelling the coal oil inspector ito in |
'pect coal oil within certain time Of |
,eing notified by the holder Of such oil. |
rhe amendment was voted down, 16 |
OF
Mr.. Dalies moved that all amend |
nents be tabled without being read.
Passed, IA to 9. The substitute bill |
passed. II to 6, only Messrs. Ascarate,
3ateman, Slaughter, Walton, Winston !
Ind Chaves voting against 1t, the |
'peaker and Mr.. Pendleton not voting. |
4 motion to reconsider was tabled, 16 |
o Z. Adjourned to 2:3O p. m.
HOUSE-Afternoo Session.
The house took up the special order |
or the afternoon. H. B. No. 66, the mar
'iage license bill. The bill was tabled |
by vote OF 10 to 8.
c. B. No. 80, an act to provide for the |
,urchasa of fling cases for the clerk of |