The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-22
LAST DAY OF
LEGISLATURE
Special to The Daily Record.

Special " it
Santa Fe. N. NJ. Mar 21.-The ap
preparation bill as it passed the
house this afternoon carried from
$4,000 to $1,000 more than the ap
preparation bill passed by the last
Legislature. The bill provides for the
mounted police and makes a consid-
erably larger appropriation for this
purpose than. was made two years
ago The game warden was also pro-
vided for. as was the bureau of i'm
migration, although bills were intro
duced in both houses to abolish the
mounted police. the Office of game
warden and the bureau of immigra-
ton.
Botn houses are holding night ses-
sions tonight for the purpose of clean
ing up the business of the legislature
as far as possible
A new district attorney bill was in
troduced and passed in the house
this afternoon. providing for the cleo
tion of district attorneys within three
months at a special election to be
held in the various districts in the
Territory for that purpose. and pro-
viding for their election at the regu-
lar elections in the future. A bill was
also introduced in the council pro-
vidilg for the refunding of money to
the different counties, similar to the
provision for this purpose in the
house appropriation bill which was
killed in the council.
(Sigled) LOOMS.
From Another Correspondent.
(This dispatch should have come
yesterday afternoon. but was delayed
by failure of the wires.-Ed.)
Sonfo Ar
tesla county advocates are now work
ing on a new scheme They have
drawn a bill taking two tiers of
townships from Southern Chaves and
slightly changing the lines in the Pc
nasco country, the new county to be
called Eddy county, with tae county
seat at Artesia. They claim this will
not be a new county, olly changing
over an old one, and will not be pre-
vented from being considered in the
council by the resolution not to take
up new county matters. Mr.. Newkirk
is very actively pushing this bill, but
he has no chance. The time is too
short for any such bill to pass both
houses.
This morning at 11:3O the joint
committee on the appropriations
came to an agreement. and the bill
was reported to the house and coun-
Gil The mouse passed IL as present
ed, but the council made some amend
ments increasing the appropriations
in some cases.
The New Mexico Military Institute
at Roswell gets $4,000 yearly and
twenty thousand dollars for an armo-
ry Roswell has Jared better than
the majority of places asking for ap-
preparations.
St. Mary's Hospital, Roswell. is Civ
en- $1.SOO.
The anti-gambling bill passed last
night, and now goes to the Governor
A number of less important bills were
rushed through under suspension of
the rules and without reading The
house killed the bill providing that
sheep and other stock should be as
sessed only in the counties in which
the owner or owners lived.
Mullens this morning tried TO get
consent to present a minority report |
from the special committee appoint |
ed to investigate the Pennsylvania |
Co. land deal. He claims |
that he was promised that this re-
port would be presented He was ser
iously i'll when the report was signed, |
and it is not known who attached mis- /
name to the report