Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-17
The House..

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Council bill No. lis, an act providing
for indexing the archives of the terri
tory, was favorably reported by the
committee on territorial affairs. On
motion of Mr.. Dalies. it was tabled in
definitely. The same committee favor
ably reported on council bill No. 8, an
act providing for the boring of an ar
tension well at the penitentiary. Mr..
Bowie tried to table the bill indefinite,
ly but failed on a vote of 6 ayes to Is
nays.
The bill was then passed by 10 to Z.
Council bill No. 81, an act to author
ize county commissioners to establish
electing precincts in a district of over
500 votes, was passed unanimously.
House bill No. 293, an act to simpli-
by unanimous vote.
b. unanimous consent. Mr.. Level
Ign introduced house bill No. 209. an
act to amend section 1882 of the com
piled laws of 1897. 1t was referred to
the judiciary committee.
House bill No. 1863. an act relating to
the publication of articles of %incorpor-
alton and amending the law relating
thereto, was taken up and passed I'M
animously, as was house bill No. 176,
an act to repeal section 1894 of the
compiled laws of 1897.
House bill No. 8, an act to prevent
the wasting of waters used for irriga-
ton purposes, was tabled indefinite
ly.
Under suspension of the rules. house
bill No. 1913. an act to amend section
1850 of the complied laws of 1897, was
taken up and read the third time by
title preparatory to its passage.
At this point the finance and steer
ing committees of the council appear
ed and asked for the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the
council amendments to the house sub
stitute for the appropriation bill. The
committee named consisted Of Messrs.
Dalies. Cristoval Sanchez, Pollard,
Baca, Llewellyn and Bowie.
House bill No. 1913 was again taken
up and passed by 90 to /, Mr.. Dalies
alone voting against it,. The house
then took a recess in order that the
conference committees might meet.
No agreement having been reached at
$50. the house adjourned.
monday Mornings SESSION.
The house Eel to work promptly
at 10 O'Clock. BY unanimous consent
Speaker Montoya introduced a bill re-
lating to Bernalillo county. District
court meets there today and many
witnesses and jurors have been sum-
moned as from Bernalillo county when
in fact they live in Sandoval county.
The bill provides that for this term of
court all witnesses and jurors shall be
considered as being from Bernalillo
county. 1t was passed unanimously.
Mr.. Pedro Sanchez moved to dispense
with the reading of the journal on ac-
count Of the great amount of business
Mr.. Dalies made the same motion. Mr..
Ortega objected. After it had been
partly read Mr.. Llewellyn moved to
dispense with further reading. Mr..
Ortega objected and said unanimous
consent was required, but the speaker
ruled against him. Reading was or
dered dispensed with by Is to 5. House
joint memorial in. favor of the good
roads movement was adopted. House
joint resolution No. Is, allowing extra
pay to d. C. Hobart of Silver City as
interpreter of So per day and to E. P.
Shields as stenographer of 81 per day
during the session was presented by
Mr.. L~lewellyn.
The resolution caused a spirited de-
bate, but the rules were suspended by
II to Z. Mr.. Ortega presented an
amendment to give Jose Gonzales as
translator So per day extra for the
session. The amendment was adopt
ed. Mr.. Christoval Sanchez opposed
it spiritedly. Mr.. Llewellyn sarcastic
ally referred to the speech and favored
the adoption of the resolution. Mr..
Turner objected to it. Mr.. Dalies said