Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-02-09
LEGISLATIVE
POINTERS

during Ine coming week.
Captain Solomon Spiegelberg, of tn
board of capitol custodians, made
trip of official inspection over the BIZ
state building yesterday.
Hon. w. s. Hopewell and Col. A. w
Harris, leading citizens of Sierr;
county, were greeting friends about tn,
council and house yesterday.
A bill creating an insurance depart
ment and the Office of insurance com.
missioner may come up at an early
date. If so, the measure is likely tt
pass.
Hon. J. P. Martinez, Of Guadalupe
watches proceedings closely. He Il
earnest and honest, and votes for bills
as they come up intelligently and after
due consideration
Council bill No. 40, introduced yester-
day by Mr.. Burns requires that sher-
ifs shall make quarterly inspections of
all gambling houses and places where
liquor is sold to discover if the law is
in any respect being violated.
The assembly will do we'll to enact
the pending bills giving the newspapers
of the territory a better chance to make
a living. Newspapers are becoming
more powerful in this territory right
along, and it will be but good Republic
an policy to help them. A word to the
wise and to those who shape legisla-
tion.
Mr.. Read has pending resolution in
the house authorizing the board of pub
lie lands to convey the old palace prop
erty "either to the United States or the
institute upon condition
that a branch either Of the National
or the museum of the Smith
sonian institute be established and
naint aimed therein"
Mr.. Reads new measure for enlarg-
ng the capitol grounds-a thing that
everybody admits to be a public duty
Ind a eeessity-contempla acquir-
ng the several small pieces of land ly-
ng between the capitol grounds on the
lorth and the Santa Fe river, and pro-
tides that should the owners of these
small tracts decline to sell the same at
| reasonable price then condemnation
may be instituted under
he present law and appraisers named
~ the court and land owners to fix the
ralue of such lands.
THE AZTEC NORMAL BILL.
The bill to establish normal school
It Aztec, and making certain appro-
,riations therefor, was favorably re-
,orted by the committee in charge to |
he house yesterday. 1t creates terri |
orial institution of learning, to be |
.nown as "the Aztec normal school Of |
Jew. Mexico to be located on suit
BILE tract of not less than ten acres 5f |
and within one mile Of the county seat |
f San Juan county, the same to be
eeded to the territory without cost.
he bill also provides that the land
ite for the Aztec agricultural sub-sta-
on, together with the improvements
nereon, shall be sold and the proceeds
pplied to the benefit of the normal
chool. A board of three members, to
e named by the governor, is to man
ge the new institution; these shall
leet within thirty days after the bill
ecomes law, elect a secretary and
'easurer, who shall give bond for not
'ss than $4,000 for the faithful per-
,rmance of duty. The powers and du-
es of these regents are very minutely
1t out in the bill. They shall receive
per day while actually employed in
ischarging their duties, and s cents
ileage in going to and returning from
lie meetings of the board, but no ses-
on shall last longer than five days,
nd the secretary and treasurer shall
.ceive SO day during sessions of the
oard. The bill also provides that this
ormal school shall be endowed with
1000 acres of the land donated by con-
ress for the use of normal schools in
ew Mexico, and the board of public
l
ed to dispose of this land, or any part
it, to create fund for the erection
nd maintenance of said school, and to
sue its bonds in the sum of $4,000, at
per cent, payable in twenty years,
lese bonds to be sold and the proceeds
red for the erection Of suitable build
gs and equipment of the school. All
nts and profits derived from the land .
e to be used first to pay the interest !.
I'd second to create sinking fund to
" the principal, and if necessary the
nds may be sold to meet the principal
hen due, the proceeds to be handled
, the territorial treasurer for that
lrpose. In framing this measure,
representative Pendleton has thrown
ound the subject every possible safe
lard, so that it shall be wisely and
onomically administered. San Juan
one of the rapidly growing counties
the territory. 1t is peopled by a Z
ghly prosperous and enterprising v
ass whose numbers are being con-
antly augmented. There are already 4
cd public schools in the county, but a
e demand is for a higher training, 8
i'd in response to this feeling num- s
r of citizens OF Aztec have MAIN /
ined at their own expense during the
st year or two normal school, which a
$ been pronounced success. They t
we built up nucleus there which Il
ey now seek to have the territory fos- e
r and render better than it is by per- p
tting the utilization of a share of the I
nds donated by congress according to s
e plan above specified. That north o
stern New Mexico is fully deserving Il
this much recognition at the hands t
the educational interests of New G