Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-01
SANTA FE, N. M. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY |, 1907.
LEGISLATIVE POINTERS.

Among the bills for introduction in
the House soon, is said to be an act
providing for a system of weights and
measures to be used by licensed fuel
dealers. The bill provides that in
spectors of weights and measures be
appointed by the boards of county
commissioners in the various coun-
ties to be paid 500 a year. The
salary is to be paid semi-annually,
$50 at time and the inspectors are
required to make two inspections
year. The bill will not in any way
conflict with the business of the
poorer fuel dealers who cut wood and
haul it to town for sale or who pack
wood on the backs of burros, 1t is
aimed TO control the sale of fuel by
the larger companies that deal in
coal, wood, charcoal, ice etc. These
companies will be required to main
tain proper scales and submit to
inspection at any time upon the de-
mand of an inspector.
IF the district attorneys bill pass
es the Council by good majority, |
am going to get on the band wagon"
This statement was made today by a
member of the House who opposed
the passage of the bill there, 1t is
the sentiment of others who opposed
the measure in the House.
The Committees on Education from
both Houses of the Legislative AS
sembly, Superintendent of Public In
struction Hiram Hadley, the members
of the Territorial Board of Education,
members from the Council and House
and others interested in Educational,
matters met in caucus last night and
discussed radical bill, having for its
object the removal of the public
schools of the Territory from politics
and the appointment by the Territor-
ial Board of Education of County
School Superintendent instead of
their election as under the present law.
The new bill also provides for the
modification of the present school laws
of the Territory, repeating some,
amending others and enforcing the
balance. The session lasted until af-
ter II o'clock last night and there
were frequent and warm debates.
However, bill was partly agreed upon
and while the committees did not
pledge themselves to such bill, it
will be drawn up in proper form and
submitted to the Legislative Assembly
probably early next week. 1t is one
of the most bulky documents yet pre-
pared for consideration by the Assem-
bly, and covers eighteen closely type
written pages This morning the Ter
ritorial Board of Education met again
in the Office of Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction Hiram Hadley to fur
ther discuss the provisions of the bill
Copies of the proposed measure were
prepared in duplicate last night and
are being used by the educators In
considering the matter.
The Albuquerque FakR Journal
keeps on publishing lies and fake
stories concerning doings of the AS
sembly. In recent issue 1t assert
ed that arrangements were ready to
unseat Representative Francisco
Lucero y Montoya and to place in
his stead Modesto c. Ortiz, of Ber-
nalillo County, who was defeated by
! big vote November 9Th last. This
was to be done for the humiliation
of the Governor and in order to
strengthen the opposition to the Gov
ernor. The story is fake, pure and
simple, no more and no less. The
Republicans of the House and Re-
publican leaders never contemplated
such action and never had it in mind.
Like the peach of the Emerald Hue,
| 1t grew In the brains of the gang that
controls the Fakir Journal and was
published to injure Republican party
of the Assembly and to befowl the
good name of the people of the Ter
ritory. A representative of the New
Mexican interviewed nearly every
member of the House of Represen-
tatives on this question and was CIV
en- emphatic denials of the Albuquer-
que Fakir Journals lie by the twen-
ty-four members interviewed.
In Legislative circles it is report
ed that the territorial officials inter-
ested in defeating Mr. Beachs dis
trict attorneys bill are doing their
utmost to procure votes against the
measure and that they are none too
scrupulous how they proceed and are
not too careful in their promises and
methods. This is considered legitl-
mate by their side of the House, but
it is called lobbying, grating and
boodling" were citizens and Repre-
sentatives who favor the measure, to
work for it's passage in legitimate
and proper way. 1t makes a good deal
of difference whose OK is gored in
this matter Officials having soft
snaps desire to hold them, that is
natural, but they should not howl
about the splinters in the eyes OF
their opponents when they carry great
big beams in their own eyes.
William Mcintosh, the well known
sheep raiser and land owner of Tor
rance County, George H. Van Stone,
prominent merchant at Estancia and
Moriarty, and other citizens Of Tor
rance County are in the Capital in
opposition to the bill of Councilman
Dalies, providing for adding certain