The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-13
Special to the Daily Record.


Santa Fe, N. NJ, Mar. 12.-The
crowning piece of legislation of this
legislative assembly came this after
noon, when Holt from the Commit
tee of Finance asked unanimous con-
sent to make a report. He reported
House Bill No. 142, the appropria-
tion bill, unfavorably, and reported
favorably a substitute for that bill
He moved the adoption of the report,
which was carried, and then moved
that the substitute be read first
and second time by title and third
time in full preparatory to its pass
age under suspension of the rules.
The reading of the bill consumed
more than an hour.
The educational institutions of the
Territory are given increased appro-
priatiols over last year, the Military
Institute at Roswell getting an ap-
preparation of sixteen thousand dol
lars; the University at Albuquerque,
twenty thousand, and the Agricultu-
raj College, School of Mines aid the
and. The appropriations for hospitals
and other institutions are about the
same as the last appropriation. An
appropriation of twenty thousand dol
lars is made for an electric light and
power plant at the penite1tiary.
Ten thousand dollars is appropriat-
ed for the Territorial Fair at Albu-
querque; three thousand for printing
five hundred copies of the Governors
message in Spanish.
Sixteen thousand dollars for the
improvement of the Rio Grande, is
to be distributed as follows: one
thousand for each of Taos and Arri-
ba counties; two thousand for each
ra and Dona Ana, and four thousand
for Bernalillo, all of which is to be
expended under direction of the Ter
ritorial engineer.
The bill provides for the division
of the Territory into three districts
for the inspection of coal oil, and
names c. B. Stockton, Eugenio Rome
ro and r. L. Baca, speaker of the
house as the inspectors.
1t provides for the issue of one
hundred aid twenty-five thousand
dollars four per cent Territorial in
stitution bonds, the proceeds from
the sale of which $4,000 goes to the
University of New Mexico, $35. 900 to
the Agricultural College, $4,000 to
the Military Institute, $4,000 to each
of the Normal SCHOOLS, and SIS, 900
to the School of Mines. The bill ap-
propriates $12,50O for the support of
the students at any of the above nam
ed schools to be appointed by mem
bers of the legislature and county
commissioners and provides for re-
fund of $4,000 to counties which
have paid an excess over their appor-
tionment. The refund to- Chaves coun
ty amounts to $4,043
The omnibus bill also embodies the
district attorney bill which was in
troduced By Beach the first week of
the session. It also repeals the law
providing for the bureau of immigra-
ton and provides for an immigration
agent at a salary of sixteen hundred
dollars and two thousand dollars for
maintenance Max Frost is named
in the bill as immigration agent. The
bill also embodies a bill previously
introduced in both the house and
council abolishing the office of pub
lie printer and authorizing the Sec
retary of the Territory to contract
with the publisher of some daily pa
per OF the Territory for the public
printing 1t also provides for the
building of public roads by convict
labor and appropriates five thousand
dollars for road construction in Dona
Ana county, and ten thousand for q
scenic road out Of Alamogordo-
It provides also for revision of