Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-18

priations made and that may hereaf-
ter be made by the United States md
experiment stations within this state
shall be paid to the New Mexico Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts"
The Dona Ana county delegation
was caught unawares. A. B. Fall,
championed the Holloman amend
ment, which had been seconded by
C. c. Davidson, and it went through
by a vote of AZ to 20, before the con-
vention was quite clear as to the eff.
feet of it's action.
A long parliamentary discussion en-
sued, in which the provisions of the
Morrill, and the Hatch funds were
read and discussed w. E. Garrison
made the point that some years ago,
when the Territory had established
experiment stations at Aztec, Roswell
and Las Vegas, it was compelled to
give them up through a ruling of the
Comptroller that none of the Federal
funds could De diverted in that man.
ner from the College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts and the Expert
ment Station at Mesi1la Park; that
the appropriation is not to the state
but direct to the institution.
Reed Holloman said that his motion
was merely to leave the way open for
the establishment of an experimental
station in eastern New Mexico, that
it would not divert any funds that are
now going to the Agricultural College
and it's Experiment Station; that the
appropriations made by Congress
would presumably specify for what
purpose they are voted, but he did not
want the new state to place itself in
the position of refusing any federal
funds that may be granted for any
other experiment station than that
at Mesilla Park.
90. Bursum rushed to the aid of
the Dona Ana county delegation and
moved to restore the clause stricken
out using the powerful argument that
more efficiency and better results are
attained by one institution properly
and literally maintained, than by
three indifferently supported. A. B.
Fall, also supported the restoration
of the sentence in modified form so
as not to prevent accepting grants for
a new experiment station, but also pre-
serving to the Agricultural College
inviolate it's federal grants. He prov
ed to be the harmonizer, and the Bur
sum motion as changed upon sug-
gestion of A. B. Fall, carried after
Frank w. Parker, J. w. Childers, A.
A. Sedillo and others had discussed
the question in it's technical and its
practical bearings, and several others
explained their vote. A recess was
then taken to ten o'clock this fore
noon.
Forenoon Session.
| 1t was almost eleven O'Clock this
forenoon when the convention was
called to order by President charles
A. Spiess, Chaplain julius A. Hartman
pronounced the invocation. A petition
against prohibition from business men
and others of Las Vegas was pre-
sented. A similar petition from Ra-
ton was read A petition from the
Mesilla valley for prohibition was
presented by w. E. Garrison.
Gregory Page, by request, presented
a petition against the employment OF
convict labor in coal mines.
A petition for prohibition from Rio
Arriba county was presented by Ven
ceslao Jaramillo.
4 E. A. Miera, chairman, made the
following report from the Committee
on Prohibition and Liquor Traffic:
We, your Committee on Liquor Traf-
fic and Prohibition, beg leave to re-
port as follows: That after receiving
and considering the various petitions
for and against statewide prohibition
and local option, and after careful de-
liberation on the matter, the commit.
tee is Of the opinion that the regula-
ton of the liquor traffic is a proper
subject of legislative regulation under
|the police power of the state and Is
not proper matter to be incorporat-
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