Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-10
Five Year Old Clovis Bitterly
Attacked and ElOquently
Defended in House Before
She Wins Fight for Insti-
tuition.
NEW COUNTY CREATED
BY SAFE MAJORITY
Voice From the Toombs Heard
in Strong Opposition TO
ManEanares Bill; Short and
Ugly Words Numerous.

Especial Telegram 90 Evening Hcrnld)
Santa re. n. NJ, May iO--There
were oratorlcal pyrotechnlcs, linguistic
skyrocke,s, parliamentary short and
ugly words. questions OF personal
privilege ana other forms Of legisla-
tive wrath In the house yesterday af-
ternoon. when that body passed tho
sumner county bill by vote OF 2G 10
20 and the bils creating a normal
school o C'evis by vote Of 26 u
i6.
II was another trying day for the
committee on ways and means which
split TO a considerable extent on both
measures. az no time polling It's fui,
strength. But the committee weather.
ed the gale and while there are some
sore spots here and there. II came out
Gf the fracas fairly weB united
AIR. Clancy led the nght against
the sumner county bili declaring that
II robbed the adjoining counties of
taxable property ana that Il could not
sustain itself.
Mr.. Toombs led the ight against the
Clovis Normal Bin, declaring that
Union county and other counties had
not had square dead" and inti-
mating that Mr. Nichois who Is
member OF the committee on ways
and means. had not given the other
bidders for the school fair opportunity
TO present their claims.
Taken by and large. II was about
the most warlike session the house has
had and Il developed opposition for
-. ..N
ways ana means committee. In the
past. measures have shot through the
house by from 40 TO AZ or ~ votes.
These two measures, however had
rough shedding and a motion 20 table
at one time during the fight on t~e
clovis bill was defeated by only one
vote.
speaker Baca was on the job with
the gayel and whenever any mem-
her was ruled out OF order by the
speaker there WIS bang of the gavei
and a peramptory order to ''sit down''
The offending member usually sat"
A sensational feature of the after
noon, was when Mir. Carter. In charg-
ing that Portales and other appli~
eants for the school had not received
proper hearing, declared that Clovis
was not the place for the school oe-
cause ID was not morally 1T place
for an educational institution. He
said Il was "wide open"
Mr.. Niohols asked him what he
meant hy wide open, and he replied.
saloons running day and night ana
houses OF IN fame"
This brought the Clovis men into
the fraCas with renewed energy.
The first bin taken up was house
/ bin 80. 45, the Sumner county bill,
which Mr.. Manzanares has been eham-
pionlng day and night since he intro
duced n, The bill came before the
house with q majority report faVoring
Il and a minority report Opposing u,
lrom the committee on ways ana
means. AIR. Manzanares moved TO ta-
Bile the minority report. The report
/ was tabled by the close vote Of 70 Ia
2l During the roll call Mr. Burg,
/ chairman OF the committee on ways
and means, who apparently wished 10
take no part IN the fight asked TO be
excused from voting 30 table the re-
port. The speaker put the matter az
10 the house and the house refused
20 excuse AIR. fiurg, The chairman
then voted TO table the minority re-
port
MIR Toombs then launched into a
lengthy speech attacking the measure
ana using the time honored argument
lagnlnst an new counties, that thia oGe
could not support itself. that Il would
De heavily IN debt and that u would
be a burden instead of a blessing "a
the people there. lie said he wai
opposed 20 All new counties unless
they could make a showing OF india.
putable financial resources. And ~
eald that then, he would not favor d
new county n q left the old counties
crippled He said that sumner courtl
with only S522,276 assessabie proper
would begin life with a debt OF 42H,'
geo and a suit by san Miguel c9uui1
for a pro rata of the debt owed bl
Guadalupe county 90 san Miguel roah
ty He said a. was mistake 20 as
sumo that the state takes over ih'
county debts az under the constitution
che counties would have 20 aho1liel
their own burdens. Mr. LleWcliyi
caused q laugh. when he said that Mf
Toombf reminded him of a nynin h'
used 10 know and which struck feal
into his heart as a child ~ shall no
attempt 10 sing the hymn said th'
major, "but u sturts on like THIS
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