Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-02-28
THIRTY.FIFTH
LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY

THE COUNCIL.
Morning SeSsion,)

THE COUNCIL.
(Morning Session.)
The Council was called to order a
1920, and prayer was offered by Rever
end w. A. Cooper. The Journal wa
read and approved. President Chave
announced having signed Council Join
Resolution No. formally accepting tn
Cecil Rhodes scholarships
BY unanimous consent, Amende,
House Bill No. LIS was called up. /
relates to transferring the Spanish ar
chives and manuscripts to the librarian
Of congress. Mr.. Fall presented a sub
stitute, which provides that those man
uscripts shall be transferred to the gen
eral government for classification, in
dex, and indexing, and If any ar
printed, New Mexico shall have reas
enable number of copies. 1t also pro
vides that, at any time In the future
New Mexico can recall the archives or
payment Of reasonable proportion o.
the expenses of classification, etc. The
original bill was laid on the table, ant
the substitute bill was passed. The
Council then indefinitely tabled Council
Bill No. 10, an 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 20 sections.
was read section by section, and minor
amendments were made. The section
relating to transfers Of stock was
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 county 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 special order for
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr..
Fall had moved the adoption Of the re-
port, and there was parliamentary
discussion as to how to proceed. 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 h consideration
and Mr.. Hughes said 1t was understood
when the report was adopted that 1t
was not to carry that portion calling
for immediate reference. President
Chaves held that the regular order
could be demanded and that the report
as adopted would have to include all
that was in it when Submitted. 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 6
to 5, Messrs. Duncan, Hawkins,
Hughes, Spiess and President Chaves
voting against it. On motion Of Mr..
Fall, the Council then went in to 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 ex-
plain his position. He said that when
the project to divide Bernalillo county
was first brought to his attention, he
favored 1t. He informed those who had
approached him that there might be a
fight and It should be fought out Wig
orously and without compromise. He
was assured there would be no compro-
mise, and the next thing he knew the
bill was withdrawn from the House and
there was compromise. He did not
believe the bill was introduced In good
faith or that there was good faith in
the proposition. He belived 1t was a
scheme to deprive the chairman Of the
Republican county committee of Berna-
lilo county Of his power, and that It
all grows out Of political combination
or combinations and a factional fight In
the Republican party In Bernalillo
county, He thought It was a scheme
to get or divide the county patronage,
and for that reason he would no longer
have anything to do with 1t. Mr..
Hughes said that he spoke for and rep
resented 95 per cent Of the people Of
Albuquerque when he demanded the
creation Of the new county. He said
the people Of the city want the county
divided, and have wanted It done for
ten years, and bill to that effecet was
introduced in the legislature ten years
ago. He said the former bill was with
drawn, but he has been acting for Al
buquerque and in response to petitions
from there. He had done all he could,
but he saw that he was beaten. and II
was not the first time and he would try
to be cheerful about 1t. He thought the
bill should have been made special
order, 20 the people Of the new county
ana Of Albuquerque could have beer
heard.
Mr.. spiess said he considered the bil
a. largely q local one to the people d.
rectly affected, and he did not take
much interest init. but he had been ip.
formed that the division was satisfac.
tory to all parties and was desired. and
for that reason he had supported thu
Measure and would support this one.
Mr.. Hawlsins said he had been an
sured by representatives Of both fac