Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-08
Measure Promptly Killed Un-
der Orders Of BurSum-HoIt
Combination Speaker De-
CIineS to Allow Roll Call,
NOTICE TO BERNALILLO
COUNTY TO LINE UP
Curious Inconsistency Dis
played by Chief Opponent of.
BiII-Other Counties Would
Share Fund,
The Morning Journal Bureau.

Santa Fe, ~ NJ, Feb T..
Another notice was served on the
people Of Bernalillo county in the
house of representatives this morn
ing that they must get in line" and
that their representatives must get
in the band wagon if they expect to
secure any consideration whatever
from the band wagon crowd which as
sumes to control the legislature The
notice. while not in the plain words
used by Representative Abbott, OF
Santa Fe county in his classic band
wagon speech, was none the less plain
1t was served in the summary man
ner in which the majority in the
house, just now controlled by the Bur-
sum Holt crowd killed Councilman
Suffers bill to appropriate $4,000
from the federal funds provided for
that purpose for the improvement of
the Rio Grande near Albuquerque,
and for the protection of property
from floods This bill. it viii be re-,
membered. was passed by the council
Tuesday by unanimous vote after
having been fully explained to the
council by Mr.. SulZer and Mr. Spiess
Immediately after the house convened
this morning without waiting for the
regular order in which the bill would
have come up for reference TO the
committee. Mr. Holt moved the sus-
pension of the rules to take up coun-
ell bill No. 80. the Sulzer bill. The
rules were suspended by viva voce
vote. and Mr.. Holt then moved to lay
the bill on the table indefinitely, Mr..
Beach being ready with his usual
second.
Speaker Baca announced that there
could be no discussion of the motion.
nd Il nd fo,. ha onn
The bill was declared tabled by the
same viva Voce vote. Had the bill
proposed some vicious legislation
striking at the foundation of the well
fare of the territory, it could not have
been thrown out of the house more
summarily; and Mr., Holts manage
ment of the bill can be construed in
no other way than as a second delib-
crate notice to the people of Ber-
nalilo county and their representa-
tives that they must submit to the or
ders of the machine and 'get in the
band wagon" If thev expect any meas
ures in which Bernalillo county is in
terested to receive any consideration
at the hands of the machine directors
in the house.
MIR. HOlt's Peculiar Consistency.
The part taken by Representative |
t1Oll III uiItGllIlb lllt llSlN d~cliioN NhN
Sulzer bill is peculiarly inconsistent
when it is recalled that Mr.. Holt him.
self assisted to engineer through the
last legislative assembly what is now
chapter 81 of the laws of 1905, under
which the Rio Grande Water Users
association of Las Cruces has drawn
several thousand dollars from the two
funds on which the Sulzer bill sought
to draw for the benefit of that part
of the valley contiguous to Albu-
nuercue.
10 be exact the Rio Grande Water
Users association, of which Mr.. Holt
is an officer. has drawn from these
funds the sum of $5,297SS, of which
$2,500 was a direct appropriation,
similar in form to that sought by the
Sulzer bill, and the rest the product
of 10 per cent of the Rio Grande in
come fund allowed by the law re-
ferred TO above. OF this $4,000 APP
preparation more than $1,000, accord |
ing to the accounts of the Rio Grande
Water Users association, has been ex-
pended for travelling expenses Yet
with the record of this water users
association behind him. and the large
sums he has obtained from this fund
for use In Dona Ana county Mr.. Holt
today led the attack on the bill by
which money would have been appro-
priated from these funds for the pro-
lection of the people of Albuquerque
and the farmers Of the Rio Grande
valley for miles north and south of the
cit..
Claim Other Counties should Share.
II is claimed and with considerable
justice by several members of the
house in support of their action this
morning that the other counties along
the Rio Grande have right to a
share of the money now In the two
right. however, could hardly justify
the manner in which the bill was
thrown out OF the house. II is pro-
posed BY these representatives. that
bill be drawn which shall provide for
the equal distribution Of the money in
these funds among the several coun-
ties through which the Rio Grande
flows:
This course. If followed, would not
only give Dona Ana county several
thousand dollars the best of II, but
would give to each county sum of
money so small that no good could be
accomplished and the result would be
the mere fritterlng away of the money.
Ii is true that there are other counties
I'm which work of the same character
Is needed but In none of them Is the
need so pressing as IN bernallllo' duu
even II the $4,000 sought by the Sui
zer bill should be appropriated there
would still be a large sum available
for wort. IN other counties. Mr.. Abb
bott OF Santa Fe. Mr.. Walters Of Rio
Arriha and San Juan, and other rep-
resentatlves Of river counties said
after the session that monea was
needed IN their counties for river
work. There would be no objection,