Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-03-02

Trujillo, an act with reference to COM
munity bitches. The bill was read
the first and second time by title and
ordered translated, printed and re.
ferred to the Committee on Judiciary.
House Bill Number 1853, by Mr.
Herrera, an act declaring in force
Chapter II of the Laws of 1897, rela.
tive to land grants The bill was
read the first and second time by title
and ordered translated, printed and
referred to the Committee on Terri
torial Affairs.
The report of the Committee on Ju.
dietary on amended Council Bill Mum.
ber 65, an act for the settlement of
disputed accounts of public officers,
was adopted by the House upon mo-
tion of Mr.. Holt, duly seconded and
carried, Two minor amendments in
the wording of the bill recommended
by the committee were read and, upon
motion, duly seconded and carried,
they were adopted. The bill as
amended was then read in full the
third time preparatory to its passage.
Mr., Holt moved that amended Council
Bill Number 65 do now pass. Mr.
Hudspeth asked to be heard upon this
bill and was given the floor by the
Speaker. He made a speech of some
length, declaring this measure was
special legislation for one man and
rank discrimination against the people
Of the Territory Mr.. Holt challenged
him to name ANY one man" for which
this bill was special benefit and Mr..
Hudspeth weakened his argument by
not naming the person to whom he re-.
ferred, If such person existed. AZ
ter flood of Democratic for the peo
pie phrases" Mr.. Hudspeth closed his
speech with an appeal against the pas.
sage of the bill.
Mr.. Holt was the next to speak. AL.
though he has already shown himself
the most forceful and convincing
speaker on the House floor as we'll as
leader Of the party organization, the
speech which he made in favor of
Council Bill Number 65, surpassed all
his previous efforts. There is no doubt
that the argument he made changed
several votes on the measure in the
brief time he consumed in speaking.
i regret exceedingly that the gentle
man from Lincoln did not see fit to
name the public official to which he
referred and to point out one single
provision of this bill which gives to !,
public official any privilege citizen
In or out of public life does not have.
In the very first section of this meas,
IRE, gentlemen, call your attention
to the words any official or any per.
son may invoke this law. Is that
special legislation?
This law, gentlemen, is designed, to
use slang phrase, simply to give an
even break to all persons and, con-
trary to the statement of the gentle.
man from Lincoln, embezzlement does
not enter into it at all.
I will ask him: Can not the ac.
count OF any public official be disputed
without some person having embez.
sled the funds?
4 Want - .,...-s thai as the present
law exists on our statute books. the
county or the Territory, has all the
best OF it. An official or person whose
accounts are in dispute, is hog tied
Such a person can not move hand or
foot to straighten out such accounts.
NO, gentlemen, he must wait until
such a time as those officers who rep
resent the government bring suit to
straighten out those accounts, If such
officers ever do bring suit and in the
he must be subject and sub.
nit to the basest slurs upon his hon.
esty and integrity at the hands of his
enemies and the press of this Terri
tory.
THE law does not give him the
right to bring suit to have those ac.
counts audited SO that he may clear
MS name before his fellowmen. No
ne can have no recourse but to sub.
nit as best he may, to all that NAV
be said to his detriment
Gentlemen, the great Congress OF
Fhe United States has created the
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