Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-02-27
IMPORTANT MEAS
| URES ARE PASSED
Busy Session of the
[ House This Fore.
noon
|NOETERM|NATE SENTENCE
Measure to Protect Tourists
and Curio Dealers Finds
Favor.
HOUSE.
Saturday Forenoon.

| saturday FORENOON.
When Speaker Miera called the
House to order this forenoon there
were number of vacant seats, Upton
: Garcia, Baca, Brice and Brown being
/ excused
| Reports Of Standing Committees.
The Committee on Livestock re-
lported House Bill No Z, recommending
! its passage.
The Committee on Printing reported
ifavorably Council Joint Resolution No.
i3. Also House Bill No. So.
The Committee on Capitol reported
| favorably House Bill No. 9S, providing
| for convict labor and free brick for the
rebuilding of the Santa Fe County
Court House.
New Bills.
The following new bills were intro
duced:
House Bill No. 1S9, by Stackhouse,
an act to protect the industry of In
dians in New Mexico. 1t makes un-
lawful the selling of imitation blank
cts, pottery, baskets, ETC., unless
stamped Imitation" and with the
name of the tribe whose work it
claims to initiate. The penalty clause
provides for fine of $25 for every
offense. Under suspension of the
rules, the bill was passed by II to l.,
only Pacheo voting in the negative.
House Bill No. 1870, an act to amend
Chapter 80, Laws of 1907, repeating
the bee inspection" law. Referred to
the committee on internal improve
ments.
Bills on Third Reading.
House Bill No. 124, by Walters, an
act providing for the indeterminate
sentence and parole Of conviGts, per-
sons convicted of treason and murder
in the first degree being excepted
from it's provisions. The bill does not
interfere with granting of pardons and
was carefully drawn and then recon-
mended by Governor Curry, Attorney
General j. M. Hervey, Judge John R.
McFie and the Society for the Friend
less. The bill passed unanimously aft
er an amendment by Roberts was
adopted. providing that the court shall
impose both the minimum and maxi
mum sentence in sentencing convict.
Walters and others made eloquent
pleas for the passage Of the bill, calling
attention to the fact that the most
progressive states now had such law
and found it to work very success
fully.
House Bill No. 80, by Sweezy, an
act to amend Section 3, Chapter So,
| Acts of the 37th Legislative Assem-
IDLY. The measure provides for a road
/, tax of $500 by all able-bodied citizens
/, between the ages of q and 60 years,
, except in incorporated cities. San
| chez offered an amendment extending
| the provisions of the act also to resi-
dents of cities. On motion, the bill
/ was recommitted to enable the COM
mittee to add this provision, the vote
on recommitment being 10 to T.
House Bill No. 147, by Moffett, an
act to amend Section 27. Chapter 1O4,
;of the Laws OF 1907 relating to the
removal of timber from the public
lands of the Territory, SO as to ena-
,ble settlers to secure timber for do
nestle purposes at nominal price,
was passed unanimously. The bill
will not only benefit the poor man
but also the Territory in securing adj
ditional revenue from the territorial
| lands.
House Substitute for House Bill No.
.47, by Bushkevitz, an act to amend
Section 242, of the Compiled Laws of
1897, providing for damages to be paid
owners Of livestock by railroads on
which such stock was killed by trains,
was taken up for consideration and
Mullens moved to recommit it.
! Mullens said that the substitute fol
the original bill looked to him like q
Joke and moved that the bill be re.
committed. Bushkevitz also express.
ed himself dissatisfied with the meas
lure in the form that it was reported
and Roberts suggested that if the bill
did not suit Mullens that 1t should be
referred to a committee of which Null
lens is member. The bill was re.
ferred to the Committee on Judiciary
AS a final act of the mornings ses-
sion, the House unanimously killed
House Bill No. 109, by Blattman, II.
censing the users of Intoxicating Ii.
quors. Mullens offered and had passed
i an amendment which made the meas
ure still more ridiculous and inopera-
tive, and thereupon the House tabled
1T indefinitely by unanimous vote.
! Adjournment was taken until two
o'clock Monday afternoon.