Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-25

ZONES ...-...ZZ Il 70 Z.
=. Fall ....22 90 26 % % L
Andrews =. IL 16 II II Is l.
Mills 80. III 19 10 20 16 2,
Catron E. ....15 10 s S s L
Larrazolo -. 6 4
} EHagerman -. 3 3 3 2
: Gillenwater =.
s Baca 90. .....2 4 5 10 I
\ S. Romero ....
\ Prince ... ....2 8 2 2
6 B. Sanchez / l -
\ Significant in todays senatorial bal
\ lot, was the gain of five votes by
' Thomas B. CatrOn, and that while A
\ B. Fall and w. J. Mills each had fewer
: votes than Saturday, w. H. Andrews
' forged one vote ahead running ever
' for the first time with W. J. Mills
' and disputing second place with the
' latter in the Republican column, A. B
y Fall being first with % votes. Felix
= Martinez, Democrat, however, led al
' with % votes; the other Democrat, A
: A. Jones receiving % votes. The Pro
= gressive Republicans for the first time
' united on two candidates, Herbert ]
' Hagerman and William A. Gillenwa
: ter giving each of them five votes. But
! the trend to Andrews and Catron as
the best solution of the deadlock
! seems unmistakable
! The first column gives the totals OF
! today's vote, the second column Sat
; urday's etc.
Senate.
' After the opening preliminaries
= Holt presented a petition from Dona
y Ana county asking that A. B. Fall be
' elected United States Senator: also a
:, petition from the Young Mems Repuh
' lican Club asking Holt to use his bes;
: judgment in voting for United States
' Senators.
:. he following bills were introduced
Senate Bill No. so, by Evans, an
anri-White slave act.
Anti-Whte Slave Act.
e Senate Bill No. 80, White Slave
= act, very drastic in it's provisions
5 was introduced by A. j. Evans, Sena-
S tor from Roosevelt county. 1t reads:
l An act creating the offense of pan
Cer;ng ana to define and prohibit the
: same; to provide for the punishment
. thereof, for the competency of certain
: evidence at the trial before, and pro-
+ viding what shall not be a defense
: Be it enacted by the legislature OF
d the State of New Mexico:
: Section 1. Any person who shall
procure or attempt to procure or be
concerned in procuring, with or with
. out her consent, a female inmate fol
la house of prostitution, or who, by
, promises. threats, violence or by any
device or schemes, shall cause, induce
persuade or encourage a female per
son to become an inmate of a house
, of prostitution, or shall procure a place
as inmate in house of prostitution
for female person, or any person who
shall, by promises, threats, violence OF
by any device or scheme, cause, in
duce, persuade or encourage an inmate
of a house of prostitution to remain
therein as such inmate, or any person
. who shall. by fraud or artifice, or by
duress of person or goods, or by abuse
of any position of confidence or au
thority, procure any female person tC
become or remain an inmate of d
, house of i'll fame, or to enter any place
in which prostitution is encouraged OF
allowed in this state, or to come into
| this state or leave this state for the
purpose of prostitution, or who shall
procure any female person to become
: an inmate of house of i'll fame within
. this state, or to come into this state
or to leave this state for the purpose
of prostitution, or who shall give OF
agree to receive or give any money OF
thing of value for procuring or at
tempting to procure, any female per
son to become an inmate of house OF
i'll fame within this state, or to come
> into this state or leave this state fol-
L the purpose of prostitution, shall be
guilty of pandering, and, upon conVlc
; ton for an offense under this Act
shall be deemed guilty of felony and
) shall be punished by confinement in
t the penitentiary for any term of years
not less than five.
l Sec. 2. 1t shall not be a defense to
prosecution for any of the acts pro-
hibited in the foregoing section, that
e any part of such act or acts shall have
b been committed outside this state, and
J. the offense shall in such case be deem
y ed and alleged to have been committed
!. and the offender tried and punished
e ! in any county in which the prostitu.
+ ton was intended to be practiced, or
/ in which the offense was consummat-
t ed or in which any overt acts in fur
l. therance of the offense shall have
n been committed.
e Sec. 3. Any such female person re-
ferred to in the foregoing sections
S shall be competent witness in any
{ prosecution under this act to TESTIFY
n for or against the accused as to any
S transaction or as to any conversation
!. with the accused or by such accused
h with another person or persons in her
p presence, Notwithstanding her having
married the accused before or after
the violation of the provisions OF this
Act, whether called as witness dur.
ing the existence of the marriage or
after it's dissolution; provided, how.
ever, that any testimony or statement
giving by such female during the trial
for any such offense above named
shall not be used as evidence against
her in any criminal prosecution.
Sec. 4. Any person who shall keep,