Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-25
BARTH LEADS futile
FIGHT ON COLER
BOND ISSUE IN
SENATE
Measure Gets Through Upper
House and is Sent to Cover
nor With Only Two Votes
Recorded Against II.
CONSTITUTIONALITy
OF MEASURE ATTACKED

Especial rciegrans 10 tho Herald
santa Fe. ~ A.. May 25.--.Thu sen
Rte ycaterdas afternoon pHssed % q
vote OF 20 20 ,, amended house oiii
no. a. by Speaker iacn. providing
for the payment OF the railroad bond
pd Indebtedness OF the counties oi
Grant ana of santa Fe million
ucTeg Of land having been granted by
congress for this purpose.
Tho measure now goes 90 Governor
Mcdonald for action and VIII likely
be- submitted 90 ciose scrutiny in the
office % the executive.
The measure PASSED the mousse
about ten daYs ago with only one vote
against Il, that vote being caRt ny Mr..
House. Democrat
IN tho senate the bill was oppuscd
strennousiy hy Mr.. Barth in speech
that lasted over an hour II was de-
fendcd b, Mr. walton ana bs Mr.
Holt, who spoke al some length, de-
claring that the measure WAS simply
carrying out the directions of the en-
abliug act and of the constitution
The two senators voting against y
were Alldredgc and Evans. Mr..
f5arth. being paired. could not vote.
but ne made up for that defect by
his utteranceE on the floor ~ the sem
Bte IN opposition 20 the hlll
Ills chief objection was that the bill
went further than the constitution,
and ne asserted that the bill specific
alls Violated a provision IN the consti-
suiion which said that no county
should Doe made 20 assume the debts
or another county He chnrged that
this bill threw the indebtedness ot
Grant and santa Pc counties back on
the other counties
when the bal had been read for
final passage MI harth spoke upon
a. He said that he hoped the bill
would not pass Tor the reason thnt
he did not believe Il was a good meas
uro for the people of the state He
told the entire history of the hoha
issue. which he charged WIS invaiida'-
ga. and then Dl Wrongful legislation
on the part 0f congress validated he
told OF ihe Pima county bonds ~ Ari-
zona and reviewed the history 81
each transaction.
He charged that after the supreme
court had specifically invaiidutod an
such bond Issues, the mon who owned
those bonds went before the congress
W AltE AANN|M HNNNNH WNiA NNN AN'hf
validated Ho then told. as nearly as
he had been able so learn, he said.
the amounts of monies involved ia
the big bill
Iie said that he believed that AR.
Ferguson was wrong when the con-
grommun after tho constitutional COLI
Vcntion had declared fhat there Was
Joker IN The constitution he said
that ho had gone upon che platform
in opposition 90 Mr., Ferguson on
the constitution because he believed
Tint he knew what the bin conlained.
liui be- said that u he knew what u
containrd. then this blll went further
han the constitution. and II he did
not know what WIS in the constitu-
lion thon there WAS Joker there that
aided such a measure.
He quoted Mr Forgusaun Qs aayinf
that the debts OF those counties were
gons to he saddled upon the conn
ties 0f the state
Argument has been made that VIZ
must support this hill Nlld Mr
Earth. "boeauac Mt spioas gets $50.
600 out of a. 81 snmething like that.
re then caid that such "a matter wa,
no argument for nr AGAINST the hill
since the state paid the money On
the end lie mid that the men who
had worked 90 lizard 90 validate hondi
"a then put them up GO their pres