Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-08
HOUSE CLEANS
Up CALENDAR
Public Utility Corporations
Are Given Twist by Burg
Measure
COLD FEET on LOCAL OPTION
Pending Bill Recommitted So
That 1t May Be Toned Down
Considerably

House Bill No. 60, the Llewellyn
: local option and high license measure
was recOmmitted together with all
other prohibition, local option and
high license bills and resolutions, to
the Committee on Finance, for the
purpose of preparing a committee sub
stitute that will be less drastic than
the LleWelyn act. The Committee on
Temperance worked until late last
night, or rather until early this morn
ing on this proposition, and Chairman
Burg of the Ways and Means Commit
tee made a hurried canvass of the
House this forenoon in favor of re-
commitment.
Railroad Hearing Tomorrow
Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock,
the committees on railroads will hold
a public hearing in the Senate cham
her on the pending railroad measures.
Railroad officials are gathering from
every direction TO make arguments
against such legislation as they deem
and harmful.
Artesian Well Bill.
1t seems fairly well established that
the House Will pass the Hinkle arte-
sian well bill which has been already
passed in the Senate, in place of the
Rogers bill which IS pending in the
Ways and Means Committee.
Income Tax,
House Floor Leader Llewellyn TO-
day introduced a resolution to
federal income tax amendment to the
federal constitution.
House.
Speaker Baca presided After the
routine preliminaries, he signed:
The bill making Columbus day, Oc-
tober 12 a legal holiday.
= Senate Substitute for Senate Joint
: Resolution No. IS, directing the Gov
= ernor to appoint a Panama expo 'ition
y commission of five to serve without
: compensation or expense to the State.
House Joint Memorial No / asking
' Congress to open and allot the Navajo
!, and Apache Indian reservations, and
y to eliminate from forest reserves un-
!, timbered lands.
~ Petitions were presented from Va
= lencia county signed by so Spanish
\ Americans, from Socorro against the
y prize fight and from East Las Vegas
in favor of the full crew" bill, the
latter being by unions of railroad en.
ployes
Committee Reports.
The Ways and Means Committee,
7 through Chairman Burg, reported un-
Y favorably on the Normal School Bills,
No. 40, Artesia, 127 Portales, II Clay
ton and IS Tucumcari. which is a vic
tory for Clovis. The committee also
q reported in favor of recommitting
House Bill No. 8, the Burg High Ii
cense Bill, to the Committee on Fin
ance. The committee reported favor
ably House Bill No. 109, to establish
normal school at Clovis, and House
| Bill No. 45, to create the county OF
l Sumner.
New Bills.
The following bills were introduced
~ House Bill No. $50, by Montoya, to
authorize and empower the board of
county commissioners of any county to
transfer monies from the court house
repair fund to the road fund.
~ providing additional appropriations for
~ the 63d fiscal year to pay salaries, etc,
" of state officials.
io Carter introduced House Joint Reso-
~ luton No. 23, authorizing the govern
nc or TO appoint a commission of three to
" visit the various places asking for
I" the proposed normal school in eastern
Ill New Mexico and report to the legisla-
IL tive session next January as to the at
fractions and advantages of each pro-
posed site.
"a House Joint Resolution No, "a, was
N, introduced by Llewellyn, for the ratifi-
nm cation of the income tax amendment,
ell the sixteenth to the federal constitu-
ton. The ratification of four more
states is needed to make it effective.
iv- House Joint Resolution No. 25, in
ny troduced by Chaves, by request, ap-
le- propriates 1920 for extra pay for the
ng capitol employees because of the extra
re labor imposed upon them by the ses-
be sion of the legislature.
Special Legislation Repealed.
'lp Substitute for House Bill No. 153, to
repeal Chapter IS of the 3Sth Legis-
lature, was passed after Burg had ex-
ed planned that Chapter 1876 was special
)m law passed to protect special interests
On as against the rights of the common
On people. The repeal is to deprive wa
ma ter companies of the right of lien on
on property for which water rent has not
ON been paid. Burg cited the case of
lot houses vacated in which the water
ng company Intentionally fails to turn oil
OH the water and then charges the prop
I've erty owner with the rent After a
Tor parliamentary tiff between the Speak
ion er and Blanchard, the bill was passed
Off unanimously "A voting. The measure
is especially aimed against the Albu-
rg- querque Water Company.
oil Additional U. S. Circuit Court.
at House Joint Memorial No. 5, by
nee Speaker Baca, favoring the creation
an of an additional U. S. circuit court dis
trict. was passed unanimously, AZ
members voting The memorial points
to out the cost and disproportionate size
eg. of the 13 western states comprising