Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-20
With Certainty That Governor
Mcdonald viii Not Call Extra
Session, Legislature Must Do
Something.
STEALTHY PAPER
LARGELY SIGNED
Speaker Baca, Strongly En-
trenched Behind Power of
GaveI, Not Expected to Yield
Easily to Opponents.

Lastly ~ OppUll6lllo'
Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journal
Santa Fe, N. M, May 19.--With the
practical certainty that Governor Nc
Donald will not call an extra session
and with only three weeks remaining
in which to get rid of the mass of i'm
portant business which lies before 1t
there is every prospect that the next
twenty-one days will be filled with
feverish activity.
There are many rumblings beneath
the surface of things that indicate
that there may be some lively times
in the house during the coming week
If this should happen legislation
would be still further retarded and
the situation would become even more
complicated than it now is. The house
has big calendar before it--big NOT
only in the number, but in the I'M
portance of the bills that 1t contains
Should the fight for theAontrol OF the
house break out afresh. the calendar
would be forgotten, and instead of be-
ing cleared would grow larger.
Just what will takH place this week
Is hard to foretell. The opponents of
the committee of thirty are still ham,
mering away upon the idea of getting
all the important bid &away from that
committee and referring them to oth-
er committees. Theyshave worked in
dustriously upon individual members
of the thirty who are dissatisfied be-
cause their pet measures have not
been reported, and there Is every in
dication that they have won over sew
eral influential members OF the com
nittee, !. - -
There is report that u paper has
been quietly circulated among the
members of the house during the last
few days containing an agreement
that all of the signers of the docu-
ment will stand together In pro-
gram, the practical effect of which
would be to rob the committee OF
thirty Of every semblance of real pow
er that IL possesses. 1t Is said that
this paper already has twenty-six sig
natures attached to it--a clear major
ity of the house-and that when the
house meets Monday afternoon there
will be still others. Among the sign
ers of the agreement. so the story
runs, are a number of the men VINO
heretofore have been wheel horses In
the committee of thirty.
How far this disaffection in the
committee will extend, however, Is an
other matter. There is reason to be-
lieve that most of the recalcitrants
have a string tied to their insurgen-
cy, and that they will not consent to
any radical course that will overturn
the existing order of things. what
they want is action on certain meas
ures, and they are willing, IL neces-
sarysary, to buck the hitherto all
powerful committee of thirty If that
course is necessary to bring about
such a result. 1t is not at all prob
able that they would consent to any
action that would publicly humiliste
the committee or that could be con-
strued into personal attack upon
Speaker Baca.
There are certain hot-heads among
the opposition to the committee that
would not hesitate at anything to gain
control of the house, even to the ex-
tent of making another attempt to
oust Mr.. Baca as speaker, provided
they thought they could get away
with II. They are the men whose
mangled remains have been flattened
out by the steam roller on various and
sundry occasions during the last six
Weeks. They have been preserving a
discreet silence for some time past,
because IL was the only thing they
could do. but all the while they have
'Ntu iclIS "a BTOuCfi vi
proportions, and If at any time they
should see an opportunity to settle
old scores il is not likely that they
would pass up the opportunity.
1t is apparent, therefore that the
week just beginning may bring forth
almost anything The house may
again be the field of raging battle
even more bitter than any that 1T has
yet Witnessed, or its sessions may be
as tranquil and unexciting as those ~
well ordered ladies' sewing circle III
an depends upon how the committee
OF thirty behaves towards its dissatis-
fled members
1t should not be taken for granted.
however. that even IL the opponents
OF the committee of thirty should
muster a majority of the membership
OF the house. the committee would be |
oown and out 1t has good many
cards up its sleeve that can be played
IN an emergency. Its most valuable
asset is the gavei in the hands OF
speaker Baca. Mr. Baca is past
Grand master at the art of knowing |
now 10 rule In a pinch. and the house
very CONSIDERABLY provided early IN
.he session that a two-thirds major
~ should be necessary to overdue
any of his decisions.
~ should also be remembered that
y niie It's opponents are winning
away members from the committee.
'he committee is In a position to win
away supporters of the opposition
= Hotning has been SO serviceable to
'he democrats of the house as the
.ommittee of thirty. II has enabled
mem to get concessions and WELD an
influence that would have been i'm
oossieie with the house in control of
uhted republican majority. IL has
sANed 10 the democratic party the
seats OF at least three. and perhaps
I've members who might otherwise
ave been supplanted by republicans