Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-02
TWENTY-EfCHTss DAY, SATUR-
0AY,IFEBROARY 10, 1908.
The Council.

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The council was called to order at
1920, and prayer was offered by Rev.
W. A. Cooper.
The journal was read and approx
ed.
President Chaves announced having
signed council joint resolution No. s
formally accepting the Cecil Rhodes
scholarships.
BY unanimous consent, amended
house bill No. 11S was called up. 1t
relates to transferring the Spanish ar
chives and manuscripts to the librarian
of congress. Mr.. Fall presented sub
stitute, which provides that those man.
uscripts shall be transferred to the
general government for classification,
index and indexing, and II any are
printed New Mexico shall have a rea-
sonable number of copies. 1t also pro-
vides that, at any time in the future,
New Mexico can recall the archives on
payment of reasonable proportion OF
the expenses Of classification, etc. The
original bill was laid on the table. and
the substitute bill was passed. The
council then indefinitely tabled council
bill No. 10, IN act relating to trust
companies, The council then went into
committee Of the whole to consider
council substitute for council bill No.
10. on the same subject
The bill, which contains twenty-nine
sections, was read section by section,
and minor amendments were made.
The section relating to transfers of
stock vas stricken out.
The bill as amended was adopted
and reported to the council. 1t was
then passed.
BY unanimous consent, Mr.. Albright,
from the committee on counties and
county lines, reported house bill No.
S5, an act to create Sandoval county,
with the recommendation that the bill
be recommitted to the council in com
mittee of the whole for immediate con-
sideration.
Mr. Duncan demanded the regular
order, and Mr.. hughes moved to make
the bill a special order for Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock.
Mr. Fall had moved the adoption OF
the report, and there was a parlia,
mentary discussion as to how to pro
ceed The report was then adopted,
and Mr.. Fall called attention to that
part of it which demanded immediate
consideration.
Mr.. Duncan renewed his demand for
regular order and there was a further
discussion of points of order.
Mr.. Fall insisted on immediate con-
sideration and Mr.. Hughes said it was
understood when the report was adopt
ed that it was not to carry that portion
calling for immediate action.
President Chaves held that the regu-
lar order could be demanded and that
the report as adopted would have to
include all that was in it when sub
mitted.
Mr.. Hawkins moved TO reconsider
the vote by which the report was
adopted, and Mr. Fall moved to table
the motion. The motion was tabled
by a vote of to 5. Messrs. Duncan,
Hawkins, Hughes, Spiess and Presi-
dent Chaves voting against 1t.
On motion of Mr. Fall the council
then went into a committee of the
whole to consider the bill.
Mr.. Martinez at once moved that
the enacting clause be stricken out.
This was done and Mr.. Fall rose to
explain his position. He said that
when the project to divide Bernalillo
county was first brought to his atten-
tion, he fayorel it. He informed those
that approached him that there might
be a fight and il should be fought out
and without compromise.
He was assured that there would be
no compromise. and the next thing he
knew the bill was withdrawn from the
house and there was a compromise
He did not believe the bill was intro
duced in good faith or that there was
good faith in the proposition. He be-
lieved it was a scheme TO deprive the
chairman of the republican county