Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-18
LEGISLATURE WORKS TO
FINISH BUSINESS
BY TONIGHT
House and Council Have Been
Grinding Out Bills at
Rapid Rate All
Day.
SESSION TO END IN
PERFECT HARMONY
The Legislators Busy Today Wind
ing Up One of the Best SeS-
sionS Ever Held
In the Ter
ritCTy

Santa Fe. y NJ. March 1S.-The
closing day of the 3Sth legislative as
sembly saw both Houses working with
might and main to clear the calen-
dars of the most important bills. A
large number Of bills were reported
FOR passage by the steering commit
tees of both houses and passed in a
hurry. Among the bills passed by
the House We're the Coronado county
bill and Nolan county bill. both Of
which are certain to die in the Coun-
ell. The House killed the walters
bill providing new form of manage
ment for the territorial penitentiary
because of an Objectionable Council
amendment.
The Council spent the greater part
of the morning session in consider
ing the general appropriation bill
and it will be passed by it this after
noon. Then the bill will be turned
over to the conference committees Of
the two houses when it will receive
its final trimmings preparatory to its
Passage tonight 1t is expected be-
fore the conferees reach an agree
ment 1t will be further slashed and il
is hard to predict what its provisions
Will be when finally passed
An attempt was made by NirabaI
IN the House just before the noon re-
cess to have the steering committee
turn all bills over to the House for
that body's consideration with or
without recommendation. but the
resolution to this effect was promptly
tabled by a vote of 16 to 8, NJ
Chaves, Galiegos, Garcia Martinez.
MirabaL Pacheco. Sanchez and Val
dez voting for it.
Both houses will adjourn sine die
al midnight and in the interim a
large number of bills will be passed
and sent to the governor.
Governor Curry today made the
following appointments, which were
immediately confirmed by the Coun-
Gil:
w. II. H. Llewellyn, to be district
attorney of the Sth district at Las
Cruces, succeeding Mark r. Thomp-
son
TO be members Of capitol improve
mcnt board, w. ). Hopewel. Albu-
querque; Major X. j. Palcn and i. A.
Hughes, Santa Fe
Alfred Ruiz, of Gallup, to be dis
President Spicss named the follow
ing members of the Council confer
ence committee on the appropriation
bill; Hanley, Mechem, Catron, Galley
Os, Upton and himself
Councilman Mechem, of Tueum-
carl. who has been sick the greater
part of the session, returned yester-
day and was able to participate in the
los Inc .
As d reward for having voted for
the MARTINEZ local option liquor dill
yesterday. Speaker Miera and each
member of the House who voted for
the measure were presented with a
Beautiful bouquet OF carnations and
ferns this morning by local members
of the w c. n. L. Those who voted
against the bill We're not SO remem-
bered.
Night Session Held.
In order to clean up the calendar
the Council and House held sessio as
last night The session Of the Coun-
ell was not called until $50 and it
was after midnight when the upper
body adjourned until this morning.
The House met at 7:45 and adjourn
ed at IL o'clock until this morning
st ~. bOtn houses passed a large
number of bills the House leading
in this respect in getting rid of a big
batch of House and Council meas
ures which were sent through the
legislative mill like creased light
ming. The feature Of the House ses-
sion was the tabling of the new bank
ing bill and its reconsideration and
passage, and the defeat OF the Hew-
lit joint resolution to change the
wording on the soldiers monuments
in the plaza at Santa Fe so az to
make the word rebel" wherever il
appears on the monument read
"Confederates." Opposition cropped
out to the resolution as soon as pre-
sented and although Representative
Roberts made an earnest plea for its
adoption the fight lead by Baca and
Chayes OF Sierra against correcting
the wording carried and the resolu-
tion was voted down by a vote Of 8
10 4.
Increase iu Salaries
After passing a batch of bills last
night the Council went into a com
mittee Of the whole to consider the
general appropriation bill. The ses-
sion was an open one and the items
in the appropriation bin were taken