Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-02-26
HOUSE HAS BUSY DAY
TO WIND UP WORK
OF THE WEEK
Many New Bills were Intro.
duced This Morning and
Several We're
Passed.
SHERIFF FEE BILL
GOES TO GOVERNOR
House ConCurS In Council Amend
mentS to the ACt---ReS0-
luton Provides
Pay for En-
plOyeS.

House wound up the final day of this
weeks session with a big rush of bus
mess, the feature of which was an
avalanche of new bills, fourteen in
number, chief among which was
oil by Brice, prohibiting the ''toting'
of deadly weapons, a bill by Battman
lrepealing certain laws exemptng rail-
roads. smelters and other corporations
from paying taxes; a bill by Roberts
to approve and adopt revision of the
laws of the territory and a bill by
Mirabal to amend the act providing
for the lease and sale of public lands
and creating the office of land com
missioner.
Many committees made reports on
bills and with one or two exceptions
the reports were favorable.
The following bills were passed: A
bill by Catron authorizing certain cit
les to enlarge and extend their
boundaries, amended so as to affect
Santa Fe county; House substitute for
a bill by Walters, providing for the
furnishing of proper bonds by various
officials and for the deposit of public
funds in banks: the House concurred
in the amendments of the Council to
and fixing fees of sheriffs and the bill
nature. ".. q y
| Baea introduced a resolution pro-
Ividing for extra pay for regular cap
itol employees. This is the regular BIZ
| ennial resolution and carries an APP
preparation of about nine hundred
dollars to pay those employees who
haN IN a n Cinnnn
the legislature being in session.
The governor today announced
having signed the following bills: Act
allowing corporations to sell shares Of
stocks, etc; act authorizing county
officials to settle their accounts; act
to stamp out infectious and contagi-
Gus diseases among livestock; and
House joint resolution opposing any
change in the name of New Mexico.
Little Doing Yesterday.
Contrary to expectations the ses-
sions of both houses of the Legislature
yesterday were uninteresting, al
though much business was transacted
| by each. The only really important
! bill passed by the Council was one
reducing the fees of the sheriffs of
the several counties; while in the
House the Sanchez bill providing for
the holding of summer teachers in
stitutes and appropriating $4,000
therefor and also providing for the
revising of the school laws of the
| territory, was the only measure of
| interest to go through the lower body.
| There was considerable caucusing
| yesterday in both houses before they
| convened for business and because of
this it was generally supposed there
would be something out of the ordin-
AIRY doing. When the Council ad-
| journed in the afternoon over until
| Monday afternoon, it was q genuine
surprise. Following is the business of
! the two houses in detail:
| In the Council
All the members were present at
! the afternoon session of the Council
! except Mr.. Mechem, who is confined
to his home at Tucumcari by a slight
| attack of illness.
Several petitions were introduced,
| including one by Gallegos protesting
/ against any division of Guadalupe
| county; and two by Mr.. McBee, one
| from the citizens OF Melrose, asking
! the establishment at that town of a
! demonstration farm, and the other
: being relative 10 the herd law, re
| Gently enacted. These petitions were
referred to the proper committees.
! Several committees submitted re
| ports on bills in their hands and the
! reports being favorable to the passage
| of the bills, these were passed as fol-
/ lows:
House bill 2S, by Moffett, an act
! amcnding section 30. chapter 104,
! laws of 1907, allowing the commits
sioner of public lands TO grant rights
of way on the public domain to rail-
road, telegraph and other corpora
! tions; Council bill Sc, by Navarro, an
act relative to the changing of county
/ seats and Council substitute for House
| joint resolution No. A. extending the
thanks Of the people of New Mexico
and the Thrty-eighth Legislative As
sembly To the president Of the United
Q States, those members of both houses
I Of Congress who worked for the pas
sage OF the statehood bill, Governor
Curry and the members Of the spe-
cial statehood committee. and also