Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-06-03
Booster Meeting Held at Cap
itoI In Which House Leaders
Pledge Support to Proposed
Building Plan.
IMMIGRATION MUST
BE ENCOURAGED
Much Criticism is Directed
Against Those Responsible
for Strangling One of States
Greatest Needs,
Especial DIspatch to the Morning Jou,naI.l

! Especial Dispatch to the Morning Jouvnai.>
Santa re, N. NJ, June 2.--The pros.
poets for the enactment of good roads
legislation, at this session, which viii
meet the demands of the boosters
who have been working to that end
was materially enhanced when, at {
good roads meeting held In the hal
of the house of representatives Satur-
day night. Speaker Baca, Major Llew
ellyn and John Baron Burg all came
out in an emphatic and unqualified
manner for putting through such q
program.
The entlemen In question did not
announce specifically that they would
support the bills introduced by Sen.
ator Holt, which passed the senate
Friday night, but inasmuch as those
bills are the only ones now pending
which have any sort of a chance to
pass at this session, their declaration
is considered tantamount to a prom
ise to see to the passage OF the Holt
measures. With Messrs. Baca, Llew-
ellyn and Burg actively in behind the
senate bills, there is no doubt of thelI
being passed at an early day
1t had been expected that large
delegation OF Albuquerque good roads
boosters would be In attendance on
the meeting. and preparations had
been made accordingly 1t was under
stood that the party from the Duke
City would come In with the path
finder car of the Los Angeles Times
ocean-to- ocean project but when thai
car arrived, the only Albuquerque
representative who put in an appear
ance was Mayor ID. X. B. Sellers.
The meeting rs the capitol ssas W si
attended, and number of speeches
were made in the interest of goot
roads. The Dona Ana county delega-
tion, which has been In the city fol
the past three days, was very mucl
in evidence. Speaker Baca, on behalf
of the house of representatives, wei.
coined the visitors. He was followed
by Major Llewellyn and Mr.. Bure
in similar vein. All of these gentle
men pledged their support to the en-
actment OF good, roads legislation.
Other speakers OF the evening were
Francis IL. Lester, James Haye Pax
ton and Mark b.. Thompson. of Las
Cruces: Judge John r. McFie, OF
Santa Fe, and Colonel ID. X. b. Sell
lers. of Albuquerque. all of whom
spoke in favor of general system
OF state highways. and Vol. Dell Pot
ter and Mr.. Smith. Of the Los Angeles
Times party, who described the ad'
from the ocean to-ocean highway.
A Blow at Progress.
The action of the senate In prac-
tically abolishing the bureau OF i'm
migration by the simple expedient OF
refusing to appropriate any money for
its support. has excited great deal
of comment, and criticism here, and
there are many who do not hesitate
to say that II is a staggering blow to
the progress OF the state,
IL Is pointed out by those who
make this criticism that the only
thing that has ever been the matter
with the bureau is that II has suffer-
ed for funds with which to wage an
effective campaign. and that when II
Is considered that II has always been
hampered In this respect the record
which Il has made is little less than
wonderful
The senate bill leaves nothing 10
take the place of the bureau, and II
IL should become law there will be
no agency to undertake the organized
effort to advertise the resources of
the state and induce settlers to locate
here. Senator Barth made a determine
ed effort to have provision inserted
In the bin which would save the
bureau, and in this he was supported
by all of his democratic colleagues
except Senator Hinkle. and by Sena-
tors Mccoy and Sulzer but his efforts
were unavailing.
A hard fight viii be made for the
bureau I'm the house. and IL IL not un-
likely that 1t will yet be saved from
adjustment.