Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-10
In Face of Vigorous Opposition
It Forces Passage of Sumner
County and Clovis Normal
School Bills.
BACA ORGANIZATION
WEATHERS ACID TEST
Senate Adopts Substitute Res
oIution Appropriating $1,000
for Relief of Flood Sufferers
in South,

III OOdtIlI
Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journal
Santa Fe. n. NJ, May 9.-The hous
got two very troublesome bills out o
its system this afternoon. One wa
the bill. creating the county of sum
ner, with Fort Sumner as the count!
seat, and the other the bill to estab
lsh normal school at Clovis. Boil
bills had rough shedding before the,
finally passed, and the committee o
thirty was put to the severest tes
that it has yet endured-for both bills
had the endorsement Of that commit
tee.
There had been those to predict
that on one or the other of these two
bills the committee of thirty would
go to pieces, and for awhile this aft
ernoon it looked like the guess was
not such bad one. On one of the
test votes on the normal school bill
five members of the committee de-
serted its standard and had it not
been for the fact that an outsider,
Mr.. Trip, of Sam Miguel, came to
its rescue, the famous thirty would
have suffered defeat. On the final
vote on both bills, however, the lines
ing to indicate that the committee is
in any worse state than it was week
ago.
Mr. Toombs of Union county, led
the fight on both bills, and vigorous
fight it was. In opposing the SUM
ner county bill he declared that the
new county, If created, would come
into existence saddled with a big
bonded Indebtedness, with the GER
tainty of being compelled to incur a
still larger Indebtedness in the near
future, and with less than million
dollars of taxable property upon
which. to draw for the income neces-
sary to run the county. He was sup
ported by Mr.. Clancy, of Guadalupe,
who has for some time past been
working hard to defeat the plan OF
his colleague, Mr.. Manzanares, the
author OF the bin. Messrs. Burg,
Llewellyn and Manzanares made fore
ible arguments in favor of the bill,
declaring that the new county is rich
in resources, Is populated with an en-
llghtened and progressive people, and
that the matter of the Indebtedness
that it will have to carry will make
little difference in such a growing
and prosperous community. The bill
was finally passed by a vote of
26 to 30.
Normal school Bill Also Passes.
The normal school bill met with
even a more stubborn resistance than
the sumner county bill, and some
more or less sensational charges were
made in the course of the debate.
Mr.. Toombs, who had presented to
the legislature a bill 60 establish a
normal school at Clayton, his home
town, declared that the advocates of
the four other normal school propo-
sitions, besides Clovis, had not been
treated fairly by the ways and means
committee, and asserted that the fact
that Mr.. Nichols. of Curry county,
was member of the committee hau
placed everybody at a disadvantage.
Mr.. Toombs said that the three
normal schools that the state is now
operating are badly in need of
financial assistance and that it would
be exceedingly unwise to establish |
another normal school until the ones
now in existence could be taken care |
Of He said that he had stated to /
the committee that he did not believe
a normal school should be established |
at this time and had offered to with |
uraw his claims for Clayton If the |
others would do the same thing.
Mr.. Toombs also handed one to
Clovis in his discussion of the ques-
iion. He declared that Clovis is |
mushroom town. dependent entirely
upon the Santa Fe railroad for its
prosperity. and that 1t is likely NJ
my time to fold It's tent and move
several miles down the road, perhaps
nto another state. He did not be-
leve II proper site for a permanent
educational institution.
Mr.. Gage, OF Eddy county, and Mr..
'arter, Of Roosevelt. both of whom
ilso had introduced normal school
nils. one for Artesia and the other
or Portales. likewise made strenuous
'nlections to the Clovis proposition
dr. Carter was even more vigorous
n his attacks on Clovis than Mr.
-oombs aad been. He said that In
tead Of being a growing town II had
ess population today than IL had
"o years ago. and declared that the
moral atmosphere of the city is such
5 TO make IL undesirable as a place
Or the education Of young people.
ie further stated that II Is wide
zen town, where saloons and houses
lll-fame flourish.
Inc fght for the bill was led by
n. Burg. chairman OF the commit
-e' aided by Mr. Llewellyn and Mt.
lcnols. On a vote to table the bill ,
ldehnitoly. the adherents of the
ieasure had their closest call, the
.ouon being lost by the narrow vote
u 10 20. on the final show down.
le ways and means committee man
sed 10 rally its forces and carried I
ie biit- lgy a-Sote OF 26 to L.
MI. Burg's bin q provide for coun- ;
surveys was repc rted favorably by :
y WAYS and meai : committee to- I
y and Is on the salendar for to- Z
orrow.
The Senate.
inc session OF the senate this Z
.,ning was brief and uncVentfni j