Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-16
HOUSE ADJOURNS;
BURG SAID TO
FEAR Loss OF
CONTROL
One More Resultless Week
Terminates With One Day
Wasted and Business Piling
Up on Calendar.
CLAIMED GEAR SEES
POWER is SLIPPING


fspHciai TcieEram 70 hFehtng HeEasel
Santa Re. n. ~. MAY lG.-Another
practically pf0fitless week. 80 far az
Joint legislative action is concerned,
terminated abruptly ihis morning
when the house. without even reading
the journal. adjourned until Monday
afternoon at 2:30 O'clock The sem
ate is IN session this afternoon, having
met az 2.3o o'clock with several inn
p9rtant bills on the calendar. The
house adjournment was explained by
MIR. Burg. chairman OF the ways and
means committee when he stated that
several house member were taking
the Scottish Rite Of the Masonic order
iu this city and he moved that the
house adjourn out OF respect IL a.
reported that the opposition members
10 the ways and means committee
have now mustered twenty-five votes
and that as several members OF the
committee would be absent Mir. Burg
was forced to move an adjournment
because the big committee would be-
80 weakened he feared control OF the
house might be taken from him. The
house calendar still contains some
thirty measures which nov cannot be
acted upon before Monday on the
senate calendar the special order Is
the local option and high license bill.
known as senate bill i2s. This meas
ure Is as follows;
An act 10 amend section 24O2. sub
section rs, OF the compiled laws OF
1907 as amended bs chapter 50 OF the
laws Of 1907, relative 10 issuance OF
licenses for saloons Ia cities and
towns.
BE Il enacted by the legislature Of
the state Of New Mexico
Section T. That subsection eight
cen OF section two thousand four hum
dred and two, OK the Compiled Laws
of New Mexico OF 1891. as amended
by Chapter Ilfty-nne OF the laws OF
| 1907, be, and the same Is hereby,
amended so a. 10 read as folows:
'"rhe city council aud BOARD or
trustees Ia towns and villages shall
have power To license, regulate or pro-
hibit the selling or giving away Of any
Intoxicating malt. yInous. mixed, or
3ePmcntcd liquor within the limits OF
/ the city. town or village; the license
not 10 extend beyond the municipal
year In which il shall be granted, and
/ so determine the amount TO be paid
for such license Provided, that tbs
| city council Ia cities or board OF trns-
tees In towns or villages, may grant
permits 10 druggists for the sale OF II.
Quor for medicinal mechanical sac
ramentAi and chemical purposes only
subject TO forfeiture. and, under such
| restrictions and regulations as may
be provided by ordinance; Provided
further, that IN granting licenses
such corporate authorities shall com
ply with whatever general law of tins
state may De In force reiesige TO ths
granting OF licenses Provided, fur
ther, that no city council. or board 0
trustees In towns or villages, la exer'
cising the right 20 grant licenses. reg
/ ulate or prohibit the selling or Rivinf
away OF any Of the liquors mentioned
IN this subsection shall have the po.
! wcr TO discriminate between persons
/ OF Ike or similar Character engaged
In the same class of business IA IA
vor OF one as against another. which
are situated In the stme business dts
trict Ia such city or town or village
and. Provided further. that no cib
council or BOARD of trustees In town.
or villages shall grant any license FOL
the snie of liquor ON any lot wher'
there is not a saloon in operation al
the time Of application for such IL
censc, except upon petition and writ
ten consent of che owners ~ morl
than ono-haif OF the lots Of the malt
block In which such lot is situated
or n the place described Ia such ap
pllcation ia not part or reeulari.
numbered block. then upon petition
or written consent % the owners o
more than half the property ~ th.
square or other subdivision In whici
the same O. situated; hui no iicenH'
shall be granted for the sale OF LIQUOR
| within one block ur square OF an
church. public library or pubh
school, nor IN any purely residence
district. and, Provided further, tina
/ this set shall not apply 90 saloons Hc
tually licensed and in operation win
in the foregoing prescribed limit
prior 60 the passage Of this ACT
, Sec. 2. That al acts and parts o
acts In conflict herewith are hefeo
repealed.
This bin carries the emergene
/ clause.
Another important measure is IN
p senate county salary blli, but Il vi
D not be acted upon until u has eee
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