Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-10-19
PROVISIONS
FOR LEGISLATURE
House Is to Have Forty-Nine
and Senate Twenty-Four
Members
MANY DRASTIC PROVISIONS
Subcommittee Has Formulated
Complete Report for
Submission.

What has been probably the most
difficult portion of the constitution to
draft has been completed by the sub
committee on legislative department
tee to the convention on Thursday
afternoon and taken up for discussion
on next Monday afternoon. The sub
committee however failed to take any
action on any of the initiative and
referendum propositions and the
whole matter may be passed up to the
convention without recommendation.
The draft made by the sub-commit-
tee provides for a legislative term oi
four years. The two houses shall be
called a Senate to consist of "a mem
bers over which the Lieutenant Gov
ernor will preside, making a twenty
fifth member, and House to consist
of 49 members, an odd number to pre-
vent tie.
A person must be 25 years of age
to be qualified for election to the Sen
ate and 81 for election to the House.
No person holding any Office of trust
or profit under the state, county or
national government, except officers
of the militia who receive no salary,
and notaries public, shall be qualified
for election to the legislature.
Vacancies shall be filed at a spe-
cial election called Wy the Governor.
The first session of the state legis-
'lature shall be called by the Governor
who fixes the date but subsequent ses-
sions shall convene on the second
Tuesday of January after the general
quadrennial election and every second
year thereafter. The first session
shall not exceed ninety days and the
second shall not exceed sixty days.
Special sessions not to exceed thirty
days may be called by the Governor
but shall transact no other business
except that specified in the call for
the session.
The number of employees of the leg
islature is limited to the following for
the Senate:
Chief clerk Sc day; assistant chief
clerk $5; one chief and one assistant
enrolling and engrossing clerk IS; one
sergeant at arms Sc; assistant SER
geant at arms $5; two reading clerks
SIS; one messenger $5; four pages 81
each; two doorkeepers 81; six stem
ographers Sc; one postmaster So;
chaplain So.
For the House: Chief clerk Sc; as
sistant chief clerk $5 one chief and
one assistant enrolling and engross-
ing clerk IS; one sergeant at arms
S. one assistant sergeant at arms IS;
two reading clerks So; one messenger
S.; four pages So each; three door
keepers 81; eight stenographers Sc;
postmaster So; chaplain So.
Each member shall receive S. for
each days attendance and 10 cents a
mile for going to and returning to the
capital. The members are granted the
customary immunities from arrest,
etc. Bills may originate in either
house, the yeas and nays must be re-
corded upon demand of one-fifth of the
members, appropriation bills shall
contain no riders not appertaining to
appropriations; the yeas and nays
must be taken on the final passage of
any bill.
Changing or altering materially, or
getting away with a bill pending or
passed shall be deemed a felony pun
ishable with Imprisonment in the pen
itentiary from one to five years.
The Governor is given the veto
power and any bill not signed by him
within three days after passage shall
become law. The Governor may veto
any portion of any bill appropriating
money. All laws are to go into effect
ninety days after the adjournment of
the legislature, except appropriation
and emergency measures.
The legislature shall not pass To-
cal or special laws in the following
cases: Divorces, roads, changing coun
ty seats or changing county lines ex-
cept to create new counties, regulat-
ing county or township affairs, change
rating or changing charters of muni-
cipalities, punishment of crimes, de
claring any person of age, assessment
and taxation, summoning or impanel
ling jurors, management of the pub
lie schools, regulating rate of inter
est, elections, chartering ferries OF
toll bridges and roads, and in every
other case where general law can
be made applicable, legalizing except
as against the state, the unauthorized
or invalid act of any officer.
No exclusive rights, privileges OF
immunities shall be granted to any
corporation or person.
No compensation of public office
shall be increased or diminished dur
ing his term.
No legislature shall be appointed
during his term to any state office
nor can he be appointed during his
term and for one year thereafter tt
any Office which has been created OF
whose emoluments have been increas
ed during his term, nor shall he be in
terested directly or indirectly in any
contract with the state or any muni
cipality thereof authorized by any Law
passed during his term.
No bill shall be passed authorizing
any Indebtedness which does not al