Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-01
HOUSE TAKES
Up CONTESTS
Committee on Privileges and
Elections Relieved Of Duty
to Consider Them
DEMOCRATS VOTE PROTECTION
At Least They Favored Memo
rial For Higher Duty on
Wool.

There is to le a ojint Republican
caucus of both houses tonight and it
| seems certain that a legislative pro-
gram will be agreed upon There
was an informal conference last ev-
! ening, and there is every evidence that
| the Republicans will get together on
a sane platform that will give the
state needed and wise legislation.
| There is every disposition to be eco
nomical. 1t is unlikely that any new
state institution that needs an aprop-
| ration will be created 1t is also
| likely that the demands of the state
siderably, except that the legislators
recognize the imperative need of put
| ting the penitentiary square with the
board, and appropriating sufficient
! funds to assure the inmates of the in
stitution at least decent equipment
The State Board of Education after
a rather lively session yesterday aft
ernoon decided to put off for year
/ lHS duOpttoll VI uHllOl III tGAL uOphS lUI
the high schools, the plea being made
hat the high schools in cities like
Santa Fe, are far in advance of the
high schools at some other points and
that the text books used here would
not answer at some other places.
! The House calendar this afternoon
was so heavy that there was little
hope of its being disposed of before
adjournment tonight.
Senate.
A favorable report on the substitute
for the Senate Public lands Bill was
expected this afternoon. The meas
ure is voluminous one and practi
/ cally places the management of the
/ school lands in the hands of the
Commissioner of Public LANDS. The
| disposal of state lands under certain
conditions and after appraisal by a
board of surveyors is permitted lnder
! the act, as well as the lesae of coal,
gas and oil lands
Petitions against prize-fighting were
| presented from the Missouri and Mas
sachusetts Christian Endeavor Unions.
tSenats 3I9 20. IS, taS criminal
code prepared by former Attorney
General Hervey on request of the New
Mexico Bar Association, was intro
duced by Holt.
! Chairman Mccoy of the Committee
on Education reported favorably the
Sulzer resolution, Senate Resolution
No. for probe of the alleged School
Book Trust in New Mexico. but so
amended as to give the chairman of
the committee and not the presiding
officer of the Senate to name the in
vestigation committee OF three. The
resolution was recommitted With dir
ection to the committee to proceed
1 Under the amended resolution.
Corporation Commission Bill.
Chairman Clark of the Committee
on Finance, reported substitute for
Senate Bill No. 43, providing for en-
ployes, duties and expensesAof the
State Corporation Commission
The committee also report Senate
Bill No. 100 to reimburse secre-
tary of the state but offered 4 fA.mend-
ment.
! Senate Substitute for Senate Bill
No 43, appropirates $7,S75 for the ex-
penses of the State Corporation Com.
mission to date: $7,425 for emploees
per year and S14,700 or as muchoes
may be needed for travelling expenses,
the total being $4,000.
The Senate went into Committee of
the Whole to consider the measure.
4 Walton asks Clark how many en-
ployes get the money. Clark says
that is left to commission. Hinkle
says committee could not agree on the
number of employees nor on their sal
aries, but the committee finally agreed
upon lump sum for this purpose
which is $1,000 less than the commits
sion asked for Barth says he is op-
posed entirely to the corporation COM
mission because it takes away power
from the Legislature, the power to con-
troll the rates and tariffs, etc., OF cor
porations, and opposed the measure.
The Senate in Committee of the
Whole passed the corporation commis
sion bill as reported by the Committee
on Finance, and then adjourned until
10 o'clock tomorrow forenoon.
! House.
Speaker baca presided Clancy in
troduced House Joint Memorial No. 6,
to Congress, asking for an amendment
to Schedule X, placing specific duty
on wool ON the secured and shrinkage
basis. The memorial was passed. 1t
slightly amends a similar memorial
passed sometime ago by the House
and now pending in the Senate from
where it will be recalled. Both Re-
Ipublicans and Democrats voted for it,
showing that the New Mexico Demo-
Gratis at heart favor a protective tar
if. The vote was "A to /.
4 A petition from Red River, Taos
county, was read, asking for the
! speedy printing of the state laws and
their distribution to citizens at cost. A
petition from Curry county, included
all the resolutions adopted at the city
/, Democratic convention at Clovis