Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-16
TROUBLE ALONG
THElBORDEB
Adjutant General Brooks
Meets With Legislative
COMMITTEES
NEED MORE MOUNTED POLICE
There May Be Serious Develop
ments on Line at Amy
Moment.

A meeting Of the House Ways and
Means Committee and of the Senate
Finance Committee was called for late
this afternoon to discuss and devise
means for protecting the New Mexico
border in case Intervention by Uncle
Sam which now seems inevitable oc-
ours. Even now, depredations by ban
dts and rebels from the Mexican side
are more frequent and more annoying
and the county authorities are unable
to cope with them. Northern Mexico
is at the point of starvation and the
people are desperate. Train hold-ups
are feared and cattle and horses on
Isolated ranches are being driven Off
by raiders. 1t is proposed to detail a
force CT mounted police, or possibly a
company or two of the National Guard
to be prepared for any eventualities
and to protect the scattered settlers
and property. Adjutant General
Brookes will address the committees.
number of complaints have been
received from ranchers in tnat locali-
ty calling attention to the unprotected
condition of the border in the event
of more trouble near Juarez or of in
tervention by U. S. troops. 1t is erron-
eously supposed that U. S. troops now
on the border are there to protect the
ranchers. They doubtless would do
anything in their power, were they on
hand when the trouble arose but their
present status is to enforce the nell
trality laws and not to recover stolen
horses and cattle. Major Llewellyn,
a member of the House, had valua-
Bile mare stolen from his ranch near
Las Cruces by insurrectos a short ,
time ago. Various cattle thefts have
been reported
While it is not the intention at this
time to make any great show of
strength along the border, it may be
considered advisable to have some
members of the mounted police near
the border and also to arrange plans
for placing some members of the Ma
tional Guard in the field, should occa-
sion arrive.
While no serious condition is believ-
ed to exist at this time, the members
Of these committees will discuss the
matter with the adiutant general, the
captain of the mounted police and the
governor this afternoon.
Senate.
1t was only a brief session of the
Senate that was held this afternoon |
when adjournment was taken to three /
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
A petition was presented by Holt |
from Las Cruces, favoring the pas
sage of the bill providing for travelling
school libraries. To Committee Oh
Education.
A petition from Socorro signed By
26 names, and presented by A. Ro- /!
nero. asked TO" law to prohibit |
prizefighting. To Committee on Ju-
dietary.
The following bills were introduced:
Senate Bill No. S3, an act for the |
protection of meters, conduits, pipes, |
wires, and other apparatus, was in
troduced by Laughren. To Commit |
tee on Private and Municipal Corpora !
tions
Senate Bill No. 81, by Sulzcr, an act !
to amend Chapter 40, Laws of the 37th
legislative assembly and to amend Sec !
ton 4137 of the Compiled Laws of
1897, regulating the sale of liquor on
premises where manufactured. To !
Committee on State Affairs.
Senate Bill No So, by Holt, an act
to prohibit the unlawful appropriation
of electric current, gas or water. To
Committee on Private and Municipal
Corporations.
On motion of Holt, the printing and
translation of Bills Nos. SO and So, is
dispensed with for the time being.
Announcement was made that the
Finance Committee would meet with
Adjutant General Brookes at 4 p. m.
to consider conditions on the Mexican
border.
The Committee on State Affairs
meets at II a. m. tomorrow. The Com
mittee on Private and Municipal Cor
porations was asked to consider i'm
mediately the two bills referred to it
this afternoon.
Barth asked when the Committee on
Constitutional Amendments would
meet A meeting of the Committee
on Mines and Manufacturing is to
meet at 10 a. m. tomorrow.
Adjournment was taken to 3 p. m.
tomorrow.
House.
After the preliminaries, Speaker
R. L. Baca being the chair,
The following bills were introduced:
House Bill No So, by Campbell and
House, an act creating a normal school
al Tucumcari.
House Bill No. Sc, by Carter, an act
to provide for the regulation and ST.
pervision of investment companies
and providing penalties for the viola
tion thereof
House Bill No. 81, by Gurule, an act
to amend Section 1851 of the Compiled
Laws of 1897, fixing fee of so cents
for recording chattel mortgages.
Petitions were presented against
prizefghting and in behalf of other
matters and were referred to the