Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-02-13

LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY
Eighteenth DAY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY l3 l9O3.

and on notes from d 10 B years. MI.
Dalies endorsed the bill, and Mr.. Llew-
ellyn opposed it's passage. Mr. Dale :
moved to pass the bill, and Mr.. Cristo-
val Sanchez moved to amend to lay the
bill on the table. The bill was tabled
by a vote of Is to g.
House Bill No. 12 by Mr.. Gutierrez,
An act to amend the laws in reference
to Jurors, was unfavorably reported by
the committee on judiciary as it's pro-
visions are embodied in House Bill No.
SO, recently passed. The bill was ta-
bled.
House Bill No. 55, by Mr.. Cristoval
Sanchez, An act to provide for an as
sistant secretary of the Territory of
New Mexico, was reported favorably
by the committee on territorial affairs.
The bill takes it's regular course.
| The same committee reported House
Bill No. 1, and House Bill No. 16, both
repeating the coal oil inspection law.
The rules were suspended and both
bills laid on the table as action has
been taken on the question.
Council Bill No. 80 was favorably re-
ported as amended, by the committee
on judiciary. The bill takes its regular
course.
House Resolution No. was favorably
| reported by the committee on private
corporations and assigned to it's regu-
lar course The same committee favor
! ably reported House Bill No At, by Mr..
Turner, An act requiring officers Of
companies and corporations to disclose
to the officers levying thereon the num-
ber of shares owned by each sharehold-
er. 1t takes it's regular course.
The committee on military affairs
favorably reported amended Council
Bill No. 6, providing for the burial Of
INDECENT soldiers. House Bill No. 35,
which provides for the same thing, was
adversely reported.
The committee on irrigation recon-
mended the passage, as amended, OF
House Bill No. 70, by Mr.. Baca, An act
for the purpose of adjusting water
rights; House Bill No. 56, by Mr. VAR
gas, An act relating to the distribution
of the wlter of bitches by commission
ers or surerintendents; and House Bill
No. 26, by Mr.. Ortega, relative to COM
munity bitches or acequias and to
amend and repeal certain sections Of
the existing law in reference thereto.
| All the bills were assigned to their reg
ular course.
Mr.. Cristoval Sanchez then moved to
suspend the rules and take up House
Bill No. g. Mr.. Pendleton, when his
name was reached on roll call, protest.
ed against suspending the rules. He
said the people of his county were W.T.
ally interested in any legislation on the
subject of irrigation and he had not
had time to examine the bill. He did
not know that he was opposed to It,,
but he wanted to examine 1T. When
the roll call was completed all those
who had voted to suspend the rules,
and there was large majority for It,,
changed their votes out Of courtesy to
Mr., Pendleton and the motion to sus-
mend was withdrawn. The bill takes
Its regular course.
Mr.. Cristoval Sanchez then moved to
suspend the rules and take up House
Bill No. IS, An act to provide for an
assistant secretary for the territory OF
New Mexico. The rules were suspend
ed by a vote of 16 to s. Mr.. Turner
raised the point that the secretary OF
the territory being an appointee by the
president of the United States and un-
!, der United States authority, might not
have his powers legally delegated to
another by the territorial legislature.
| He believed such bill might be un-
constitutional although he was not op'
nosed to it. Mr.. Llewellyn sustained
the point and said it should be care
fully investigated before action was ta-
. ken on the bill. The bill was therefore
l recommitted to the committee on judi
ciary and made a special order fol
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. A mes
sage was received from the governor
announcing that he had signed House
Substitute for House Bill No. IS, Al
: act relating to the Cattle Sanitary
Y Board. The House then took recess
4 until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.