The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-18

undoubtedly go to prison If the dis
trict attorneys of the respective dis
tricts do their duty. All these are
of the district attorney bill. More
than this. There are some hundreds
of saloonkeepers in New Mexico wno
would not be averse to having dis
trict attorneys who would not deprive
themselves OF sleep in order to devise
ways and NEAR of convicting liquor
dealers of violating the Sunday iaw.
This combination is strong, but it is
not strong enough. A majority of the
councilmen are not willing to lend
themselves to the assistance of per-
Sol who desire protection in violat-
ing the law. Realizing this fact, it
was sought to bring some of the mem
bers of the council into line by the
Introduction of bills to create 1ew
counties. At least three councilmen
are being worked on in this manner
now, but with small prospect of sue
cess.
Other methods have been attempt
ed to weaken the governors position.
A bill has been passed by house
and is now in the hands of the gov
ernor providing that vacancies in
county offices shall be filled by the
county commissioners of the counties
where the vacancies occur, thus TAX
ing the appointing power out of the
hands of the governor. Another bill
has been introduced, but has not yet
passed, which provides that the pow
er of removal from office shall be
vested in the courts, and provides the
method of procedure, thus depriving
the governor of the power Of remov-
al, n divers petty bills, all aimed at
the governor, ave beer Introduced.
1t is a fight of graft against the gov
ernor Up to this time graft has fail
ed to score a point.
On Thursday afternoon a bill was
introduced in the house which seeks
to amend section 1872 of the compiled
laws. This section reads as follows:
"All persons sentenced for perjury,
forgery, incendiarism, coming false
money, rape, larceny, Or shall have
been twice sentenced for petty larce-
ny shall forever lose all right to vote,
and shall be ineligible to any office
specified by this act"
At the last election Jose Leon
Madril was elected a county commits
sioner of this county, n about ten
days ago proceedings were com
n to ust him from the office on
the ground of his having zen con
victed and sentenced il February,
1879, for cattle stealing. The bill
which was introduced to amend the
section which caused all this trouble
was introduced at the instance of the
chairman of the republican central
committee of this county. 1t really
seems too bad to deprive thieves,
forgers and couaterfeiters of tle right
to hold office.
Both houses of the legislature adj
journed on Thursday afternoon to al
low such members of the house and
council as desired tt take a trip over
the Santa Fe Central thro"cn Tor
rance county to inform themselves as
to the merits of Council Bill No Is.
which seeks to change the county seal
of Torrance county from Estancia to
Willard.
Friday morning a special train left
Santa Fe at 7:45 carrying 1O1 pas
sengers, among whom were 10 mem
bers of the house of representatives
and four members of the council. Five
newspaper men went out on the spe-
cial and quite a number of boosters
for both Estancia and Willard. Short
stops were made at Moriarity, McIn-
tosh and Estancia on the a down.
Willard was reached at II o'clock and
a stop of two hours was made there.
Arrangements had been mad for
short talks at the school house, and
preparations had been made to give
the legislators dinner, but the stop
was not long enough to permit of the
carrying out of the program as it had
been arranged.
AT Estancia, IN the return trip,
elaborate preparations a been made
for the entertainment of the legislat-
ors. and rigs were at hand to drive
them around town and out into the
suburbs.
From expressions made by legisla-
tors on the train, it is hardly probable
that the bill providing for making
Willard the county seat of Torrance
county will pass the house.
LOOMS.
~Suffraoists Reflect President Shaw.