Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-29
RODEY In
ROLE OF
REFORMER
Wants Campaign Contributions Over
$50 Reported and Published
Members Assembly to Be Incl
igble to Territorial Ap-
pointive Office.

The following is the text of the bill!
introduced by Delegate B. S. Rodey II
the House of Representatives durins
| the present session:
l. A bill providing that all contribu
tions exceeding fifty dollars in amoun
hereafter made to the expenses of po
litical parties at elections where presi
dental electors and representatives OF
delegates in Congress are chosen shall
be reported to the clerks office of the
District Court of the United States OF
| territory for the district in which the
donors reside, and for the publication
Of such reports.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled, That whenever any sums ex-
ceeding fifty dollars shall be contrib
uted to the funds of political party,
or any moneys shall be expended by
or on behalf of any candidate for rep
resentative or delegate in Congress or
for presidential elector, before an
election at which representatives or a
delegate in Congress or presidential
electors are to be chosen, a statement
shall, within three days from such
contribution or expenditure, be filed
by the person or persons making such
contributions or expending such mon
eys in the office of the clerk of the
District Court of the United States or
of the Territory for the. district in
which the person, firm, corporation, or
society making such contribution or
expenditure shall reside, specifying the
amount, the names and residences OF
the donors, and of the person or officer
receiving it.
Sec. 2. That such statement shall
be published within one week by the
person or persons so filing the same
in two newspapers supporting candi-
dates of opposing parties and published
in the judicial district where such
statement was filed.
Sec. 3. That on failure of the per-
sons making such contributions or ex-
pending such moneys, within three
days thereafter, to file such statement
as above required, it is hereby made
the duty of the persons receiving such
contributions or moneys to file such
statement in said Office and to publish
the same in such newspapers.
Sec. 4. That every person making
or receiving contributions or expend-
ing moneys for the purposes aforesaid
and who shall fail to file the certificate
required by this act and to make the
herein required shall be
guilty of felony, and on conviction
thereof shall be punished by imprison-
ment for not less than one year nor
more than three years, at the discre- |
ton of the court.
The second bill is to amend section |
eighteen hundred and fifty-four of the |
Revised Statutes of the United States |
restricting appointments to Office of |
members of the Legislative Assem-
olies in territories.
Be it enacted by the Senate and |
House of Representatives of the Uni.
ed States of America in Congress as
'embled, That section eighteen hun
lred and fifty-four of the Revised
Statutes of the United States be
lmended SO as to read as follows:
"Sec. 1854. No member of the Leg
slative Assembly of any territory now
'r hereafter organized shall hold or
'e appointed to any Office whatever, by
he governor of said territory or the
legislature thereof, during the term
or which he was elected and for one
rear after the expiration of such term;
tut this restriction shall not be ap-
,licable to members of the first Legis-
ative Assembly in any territory here
.fter organized; and no person holding
commission or appointment under
he United States, except postmasters,
hall be member OF the Legislative
or hold any Office under the