Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-02
COUNCIL ALSO WANTS
INFORMATION ABOUT
THOSE CHARGES
Passes Resolution Asking the
Senate Committee to For
ward Thehi to the
Governor.
RAILROAD BILL
PASSED YESTERDAY
House Holds Only Short Session
This Morning While the Coun-
Gil Is Meeting Late
This After
noon.

Santa Fee y. NJ. March 2.-The
Council this afternoon passed sub
sttute joint resolution for House
Joint resolution No s. which passed
the lower body yesterday 1t calls up
on the Senate committee on terrific
ries to forward to Governor Curry at
once all the charges filed with 1t af-
feCtng officials in New Mexico and
upon which the defeat of the state
hood bill was based. that they may
be refuted.
| Numerous bills were reported by
standing committees and several bills
passed. The Council was still in ses-
sion at a late hour this afternoon.
The House held only a brief session
this morning and the only business
! transacted was the passage of Joint
resolution appropriating $500 to pay
the freight on furniture for the gov
ernor's mansion. After this the
House adjourned to meet tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock. The members
viii put in their time considering bills
IN committee.
Momentous Day i'm House.
Yesterday was a momentous day In
the House. When that body convened
for the sixth weeks session at 3
O'Clock, after a prolonged caucus of
the members, the proceedings began
to get lively in short order and the
AFTERNOON proved one of the most ex2
letting well as interesting OF any
held this session thus far in the low
or body.
Every member was in his seat when
the speaker raped for order and
after the roll call, Mr., Walters of san
Juan county, by unanimous consent
introduced House Joint Resolution
No. g, relative to the charges prefer
red against the territory and its peo-
pie by certain individuals in COM
munication addressed to the chair
man of the Senate committees on ter
ritories, Mr.. Beveridge, and asking
that all these letters containing
charges, etc, be made public that
they might be rcfuted. The resolu-
tion passed the House unanimously,
but when it reached the Council.
where it was sent for that body's
concurrence therein, IL met with op-
position and after considerable de-
bate was referred to the Judiciary
committee Its construction was o0-
Ijected to and II was also shown that
the time was too short to get the res
oluti1n before the present Congress,
(which is on the eve of adjourning.
Pass Three-Cent Rate Bin.
But by far the most exciting event
Of the afternoon in the House was the
passage of over an hours debate of
House Bill No. 191, the three-cent
railroad passenger fare bill, intro-
duced by the whole House" but
which did not meet with the approval
OF the whole House Mr. Roberts led
the fight on the passage of this bill
which was taken up for passage un-
der suspension of the rules. His OBJ
lection To the measure was that It
would be unconstitutional and not
worth the paper it was printed on,
He argued that the railroads of New
Mexico were directly under the iuris-
diction of the Interstate Commerce
commission and that to pass the bill
would simply show the antagonism
Of the legislature to these corpora
tionS. Speaker Miera, took the seat
@. Mr. Mirabal On the floor, the lat
ter occupying the speakers place, for
the purpos" of taking issue with the
gentleman from Coltax Speaker
Miera scored Mr.. Roberts as being a
railroad attorney and the representa-
tive of the corporations, and said that
this was his reasons for opposing the
lreduc,d railway fare bill Speaker
Mirra called upon Mr. Roberts to
state whether ne came TO santa Fc 10
represent the people, or to represent
the corporations. He asked every
Iu,mbrr but the member from Col
fax county a~ ne put il, 10 vote for
the passage of the bill. Mr.. Roberts
Iu replying 10 the remarks of Mr..
AUyr5 ana I'M the way of explanation
stated mat ha did not represent any
railroad ~sporation and that ne new
en- had s@sived one cent from any
railroad In his capacity as an attor-
ury or otherwise. Mr.. Baker opposed
tH, bI' uu the grounds that it would
not Dee valid. Mr. BriCe did not be-
Iieye the legislature had any power
lo enact such "a law. Mr. Brown be-
Hayed the law ii enacted would be-
GOOD one and was In favor Of H. Mr..
Gushkeyitz favored the creation OF
rlIIroJd commission. as did also Mr..
Roberts as a means of regulating the
l'roads but he was not I'm favor Of