Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-31
MEMORIAL FOR
PARCELS POST
introduced by Representative
Rogers Under Suspension
of Rules
OONA ANA COUNTY DELEGATION
Given Hearing by House This
Forenoon on Good Roads
Legislation.

Forenoon on Good Roads
| Legislation.
i he Dig Doha Ana county delegation
got busy Immediately upon arrival
yesterday afternoon. Though it was
Iegal hollday, it sought out the ey.
ecutive office and made an appoint.
ment with Governor Mcdonald at
CLOCK, upon his return from the Ma.
! uonal cemetery 1t appeared before
'ie steering committees and sought
| out the House and Senate leaders mar
! ticularly Senator H. r. Holt and Ron
resentatlves Lllewellyn and Moreno,
several members called on former
Delegate W. H. Andrews, knowing that
MS influence goes far in the House. and
also Speaker Baca and Chairman Burg
OF the ways and means committee #
is quite certain that these energetic
VISITORS from the Meslla Valley will
come very near getting what they are
after
U. S. Senatorship.
The last week of the legislative ses-
sion is to be disturbed bv Senatorial
rumors. A wel-defned rumor has if
that a life-sized ATTEMPT will he mada
TO re-elect Senator A. B. Fall by Sat
urday OF next week; that there will
De no appropriations, no county or
state salaries, no appropriations for
INSTITUTIONS, no vital legislation un-
less this is done. Quite number of
legislators, it is reported, have pledg-
ed themselves to this plan, and it is
asserted that those legislators who
voted 10 elect Fall the first time will
vote TO re-elect him, so that the sena-
torlal disturbance might be ont of the
way oi the January session. The Re-
publican leaders declare that there is
nothing to these rumors but there is
noticeable scurrying to and fro. not al
together connected with the leeisIa.
tive program.
House.
Inc bo4a Ana county delegation
LOOK possession of the House this
forenoon. Speaker Baca called the
House to order and then asked Llew.
ellyn to preside. The regular order
Was suspended and +. Z. Lester as
spokesman of the Dona Ana county
ceiegatlon made plea for good roads.
He spoke earnestly, wittily, eloquently
ana cOnvincingly. He contrastea
vividly the efficiency of the good roads
in FL Paso county, with the ineff-
cency OF the poor roads of DOna Ana
county. Arizona with smaller popula.
non is spending six to seven times as
much Tor good roads as New Mexico
IN Texas, in one month nine conn.
ues alone Issued $2,50O in bonds for
5000 roads: California has provided
tor a S19,000,000 bond issue for good
ROADS, pennsylvania will issue $1,000
600 worth of good roads bonds The
need OF state highway commission
was presented from the viewpoint of
economy as we'll as efficiency. Author.
lty for counties to issue bonds for good
roads was asked and a liberal state
bond issue was advocated for the
guiding of system of state trunk
roads. He pleaded for the measure
providing that delinquent taxes that
are being collected more completely
than ever before be expended for good
ROADS, which would indirectly benefit
the schools and practically every 9th
er interest. The speaker reviewed the
various good roads bills pending in
lhe legislature, picking out those that
meet with the approval of the New
MEXICO Good Roads Association and
OF the Dona Ana county delegation.
he urged strongly a permanent. svs.
fematic good roads policy. In conclu-
sion, he insisted that good roads legis-
atlon Will benefit the entire state. ev.
cry portion of it, and that it is abso-
utely non-political in it's nature. He
was loudly applauded.
Mark B. Thompson spoke forciblv
liong the same lines, dwelling on the
lnseAflshness of Dona Ana county in
lsklng for good roads legislation. He
'sked for immediate action as post.
'onehlent Tor a year or two means
leaVy loss to all. The loss to Dona
Ana county alone he estimated at
100000.
James Fl. Paxton emphasized one
'olnt, that the Holt good roads bills,
'dd not one cent TO present taxes nor
axe one penny from current funds.
[he. schools are well provided for.
'ut good roads make them accessible
md will make revenue producing and
more valuable, the great heritage of
ands given the schools.
Llewellyn thanked the Speaker, the
House. the delegation, and expressed
he hope that the assembly would act
avorably on the petition of the Dona
INA county citizens
Speaker Baca said that the legisla-
ors are always delighted to hear the
wishes of the people and to comply
With them. He asked the visitors to
make themselves at home in the Hall
f Representatives.
Parcels Post Memorial.
Rogers offered House Memorial,
skiing Congress to establish general
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