The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-11
Santa Fee, N. NJ, March IL.

Santa Fe, N. M, March IL.
The band wagon met with disaster
last week and the leaders of the
band wagon forces were reduced to
the extremity of crying for quarter.
GallegOs, the representative from
Quay county, who has been following
the band wagon leaders from the be-
Ginning of h session and who has
been receiving very little cOnsidera-
ton at the hands of Holt. the self
constituted czar of the house, conclud
ed to try his HAND at leadership last
week and selected a bill which was
introduced on January 20. by Hud-
spetn, an act providing a maximum
rate of three cents a mile for passen-
ger fares in the territory of e Mex
leo, and which had been in the hands
of the committee on railroads for
more than five week with 70 pros
pect of getting a report on the meas
ure. as the bill which he would try
to pass. He quietly the
House and obtained promises from
two-thirds of the members to support
the bill. He copied the Hudspetn
bill and introduced it at the after
noon session of the house last Friday.
The bill was read a first and econd
IlI1e ullu6T IL TulSS anu tuSI d
legos moved to suspend the rules and
have the bill read a third time prepa-
ratory to its passage. Holt wanted
the bill read for information and
when this had been lone he moved,
as an amendment to Gallego5' motion
that the bill be referred to the COM
mittee on railroads, Of which Beach
is the chairman. AS the Hudspeth
bill had been in this committee for
h a mont Gallegos did not
want his bill referred to that COM
mittee and so the amendment vas
voted down by a vote of 6 yes to 16
nays, Abbott. of Santa Fee, Abbott, of
Colfax, Beach, Green, Holt and Stud
ley voting aye. Holt saw that there
! was two-thirds of the entire house in
favor Of the bill and fllibusteFing was
comennced but to no avail. Motions
to postpone consideration OF the bill,
take a recess. to adjourn and to make
me bill a special order we're voted
down. but Abbott. Beach, Holt AMI
Studley explained their votes and talk
ed against time to no avail. Beach
plead for time to read the bill, a copy
of which he had had in his possession
for more than a month and which
could be e and understood by any
one in two minutes. Holt, who as
an ally of Beach. rushed the district
attorney bill throngn tae first week
of the session without 1t having been
printed or referred. asked the support
ers of Gallegos bill to be fair. He
could not see the necessity for rush
ing the bill through the house before
its legal aspects could be considered.
In fact he talked like a railroad attor-
ney pleading a case for a railroad.
Abbott of santa Fe, saw no reason for
L--&~ =: - AA $1,000 o.
whom Abbott, when the dlstric: At
torney bill was before the nouse. re-
marked that he had better get on the
band wagon said that there were IL
votes for the passage of the bill and.
turning to Abbott, said: Get on the
band wagon"
After having delayed action on the
bill for two hours. Holt and his fol
lowers, the remnant of the band vag-
on bunch, were cut off from further
delay by the previous question and
the fnal vote was taken on the bill.
1t resulted in Is ayes and 3 nays, and
the bill was declared passed.
Gallegos has undoubtedly secured
several of the former followers of
Holt and he is likely to keep them.
One of the best speeches made in sup
port Of the bill was mad by Sanchez,
Of Taos, who thought that there ought
% be some legislation during the ses-
sion for the benefit of the people.
The investigation which Is going
On as to the connection of Governor
Hagerman with the land deal by
which h Pennsylvania Development
Company secured title to between
1000 and 5000 acres of valuable land
was still in progress at end of the
week and the resolution which was
introduced by Hudspeth On Thursday
morning was still in the hands of the
committee on judiciary A report
was expected by some from the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
land matters last week, but none was
made as the investigation was not
complete. It is rumored hat a re-
port will be made this afternoon when
the house convenes at 3 o'clock
This investigation will serve as a
pretext for a complete exposure Of
the and deals which have been la
within the past six years and when
it is all ready for publication 1t will
make some of the most interesting
reading which the people of New Mex
leo have had the opportunity to e
for some time.
The committee will use every effort
to put Governor Hagerman in a bad
light but the evidence which they
their purpose if they use 1t as 1t Is
ton with this deal will ear the clos
est scrutiny.
Announcement a been received
here of the birth OF a girl at the home
EAf Mr. and Mrs II Shaver In KAN