Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-02
GOOD MEASURES
SHOWED THROUGH
Senate Puts on Working
Clothes and Disposes of
Many Measures
KICKING BARTH BILL AROUND
His Ideas For Benefit of Human.
ity Are Not Approved by
Colleagues.

Colleagues.
The State Senate disposed of more
measures this forenoon than it had al
together during the preceding 1ifty-two
days of the session. 1t addressed a .
memorial previously passed by the
House. to Congress asking for a spe-
citiC duty of twenty cents per pound
en- secured wool with allowance for
shrinkage and a corresponding duty on
manufactured wool In both houses. all
the Republicans in the House, all the
Democrats except one, and in the Sen
ate, all the Democrats except six, yOt-
ed for it. The Senate tabled bills
providing for eleCtrocution, against
nepotism, for equal rights OF women in
community property, for the payment
of wages in cash or checks Immediate
ly payable, for the punishment of
{ abandonment. 1t passed bills to pro-
hibit deficits by officials except for
! clothing and food in penal and charit-
| able institutions, an act fixing the time
for holding court in the eighth judi
! cial district, a measure relieving dis
! trict attorneys from giving bond and
bill to punish the throwing of filth
into public highways or near to public
buildings or private dwellings, and also
code fixing the fees to be charged
/ by the secretary of state. Senator
Pankey also introduced a Pure Food
/ bill
| Senate.
! The Senate was in session this fore
noon.
/ An Anti-Prizefight petition was re-
ceived from Dayton, Eddy county A
petition from Magdalena, Socorro
county, signed by thirty-four persons,
asked that Abelino Romero be per-
mitted to retain his seat in the Sen
ate. Walton moved that the petition
be referred to the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections. Miera moved
that the committee be relieved from .
further consideration of the contest |!
case. This carried.
Pure Food Bill Introduced. |
Pankey introduced Senate Bill No
1870. Pare Food Act. Referred to the
Committee on Judiciary.
Committee Reports.
:, The Committee on Judiciary report
ed the following bills: Senate Bill
!, No. 90, to prohibit officials from con-
tracing deficits by exceeding approp-
, riations. The committee recommend
| ed that the bill be amended.
: 1t reported favorably Senate Bill
: No. rs, fixing the time for holding
district court in the Eighth Judicial
District.
1t reported unfayorably, Senate Bill
No IS, an Act defining the offense of
abandonment.
, 1t reported with recommendation
+ that it be not passed, Senate Bill No.
t 80, a Community Property Act, that
e would give women equal rights in the
disposition of community property.
0 1t recommended favorably, Senate
4 Bill No. 35, providing for electrocution
n in inflicting the death penalty.
1t recommended that Senate Bill No.
V &c, to amend Section 2, Chapter %,
{ Compiled Laws 1897, regarding bond
: and oath of Office of district attorneys
be not passed. that Senate Bill No IA,
t, forbidding nepotism in filling appoin.
:, tive Offices, be not passed; that Sen
- ate Bill No. 81, prohibiting the throw
ing of filth near public buildings be
- passed A majority report was against
the passage of Senate Bill No. AZ, pro-
viding for the payment Of wages in
t cash or by checks of an even date
e The minority report signed by ALI
dredge and Barth, recommended the
II passage of the Act. Miera moved
u adoption of majority report. Barth
Z moved adoption of both reports. Holt
/ moved to table minority report and this
II carried. The majority report was
- then adopted.
The Finance Committee reported
= favorably Senate Bill No. 100, cover
- ing the fees of the state secretary's Of
a flee
Final Passage of Bills.
Senate Bill No. 92, to prohibit defi-
cits by officials, was amended so as
: to permit the mourning of deficits by
= heads of penal and charitable institu.
!, tions for the purchase of clothes and
n food for inmates. The bill as amend
ID ed passed unanimously, 19 voting.
in Senate Bill No. rs, fixing the time
S. for holding court in the Eighth Judi
r, cial District was amended and passed
unanimously by 19 to 0. 1t carries the
emergency clause.
< Senate Bill No. 70, an Act defining
y abandonment, was tabled
' Senate Bill No. so, by Barth, Com
munity Property Act, giving women
equal rights in the disposition of com
munity property, was tabled over tht
protests of Barth who declared thai
y ;ahling the bill is a rank discourtesy
< Senate Bill No. 35, providing FOL
< electrocution of persons sentenced tt
e death. was tabled