The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-01

lection that it provides a way for the
| escape from punishment of Mr.. Bur
| sum or any other member of the fac
ton which is so vitality interested in
| the passage of the Beach bill. 1t is
believed that the Cameron bill comes
| nearer to representing the ideas OF
the members of the council than the
Beach bill. and it is possible that the
council will finally decide to pass the
Cameron bill. 1t is as certain as any
thing in the future can be that the
council will not pass the Beach bill,
because it is well understood what
is the purpose of that bill, and the
members of the council are not going
| to lend themselves to any such plan
| as the supporters of that bill have
| made.
President Spiess introduced bill
| in relation to the settlement of ac-
counts of public officers. While the
! bill is general in it's provisions, it
| would suit the case of Mr.. Bursum,
and may have been intended to take
the place of an investigation of the
| accounts of the Territorial peniten-
tiary by the legislative assembly. The
bill provides that in case of disputed
accounts the settlement shall be
made through the medium of the
courts. 1t provides that the Judge
shall appoint an expert accountant
as referee who shall examine the ac-
counts and who shall make a report
of his findings to the court. The court
has power TO approve the whole or
any part of the report or is authoriz-
ed to set it aside entirely and to ap-
point another expert as referee.
Some months ago it was rumored
that Mr.. Bursum would ask the leg
iSlqfnTn tn investigate the nQnjfantiia-
ry matter, but up to this time there
has been nothing done in this direc-
ton. The payments which have been
made by Mr.. BurSum remain in the
Territorial treasury and no attempt
has been made to reimburse him by
the legislature up to this time
There are reasons for believing
that there will be no appropriation
bill passed at this session of the leg
islature; but that will cut very little
figure on account of the fact that the
appropriations for the coming two
years will be the same as they have
been during the past two years, a
provision having been made in the
laws to the effect that if, on any ac-
count, the legislature should fail to
make appropriations for the various
institutions and for the payment of
salaries, etc, the appropriations con-
tinue the same as the last appropria-
tions made for those purposes.
There is some indication that the
band wagon leaders will have some
difficulty in keeping all of the pass
elgers aboard for the remainder of
the session. Some of them are begin
ming to see that they are not bother
ing the Governor in the slightest de-
gree and that they are simply max
ing themselves ridiculous in the
minds of their constituents in at
tempting to defend the methods of
the Bursum machine. A prominent
Republican said this week that ii did
him good to see the bunch sweating.
He said that he had not forgotten
being asked at the Las Vegas conven-
tion how he liked his medicine.
There appear to be a good many Re-
publicans in the same position. They
are willing that Mr.. Bursum and the
rest of the gang should do a little of
the sweating.
(Sfgned) LOOMS.