Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-28
HOUSE IS IN
WORKING MOOD
Rapidly Dispatching Bills APP.
proved by Ways and
Means Committee
IMPORTANT MEASURES PASSED
Public Drinking Cup and Other
Senate Acts Are Again
Sidetracked.

III N"iHIS " Oiutf OF tHe HOuS
thls forenoon was DELAYED by commit
!, tee meetings. The committee on fin
. ance listened to large delegation
which urged a favorable report O,
House Bill No. 230, the Archaeological
) Museum bill
The ways and means committee
"restled with the salary bill at the
same time in another committee room
ana it was II a. m. before Speake,
Baca called the House to order, Thirty
tour Of the bills on the calendar re
celved the 0. K. mark of the WAYS
and means committee. The other;
We're passed over for the present. in
Guiding every one of the Senate meas
ures on today's calendar.
I The reading of the journal was dis.
pensed with.
Among the important measures
/ slated for passage this afternoon are
! 'he BernalillO county survey bill, the
act distributing $4,000 of the Rio
Grande Improvement fund among vari-
! Gus counties, bill to exempt new in
GuStries from taxation; the Baca bill
iHr establishing poor houses, the
mounted police bill, the Chrisman
, renee act the convict labor good roads
act. ratifying the amendment to the
federal constitution for the direct cleo
Tion of Senator's: and the substitute .
for the Edmunds Act
New Bills.
The following bills were introduced:
House Bill No. 265, by Miguel f.
Baca, exempting blind men and wild.
oWs from their share of work on COM
munity bitches.
House Bill No. 266, by Padilla, re-
quiring railroads to build cattle
guards.
House Bill No. 267, by Moreno. by
request to regulate the brands on
certain kinds of animals.
A communication from the chief
clerk of the U. S. Senate informed the
House that the term of U. S. Senator
A. B. Fall expires on March 9.
Bills on Third Reading.
An effort to recommit House Bill
No. 229, by NJ. c. de Baca. to regulate
logging in New Mexico streams, fail
ed. The bill requires the construction
of breakwaters to protect headgates
of bitches and makes those who float
logs in streams, liable for any dam
age caused thereby. The bill passed
2S to p Cordova, Lovato and Quin-
tana voting no.
House Substitute for House Bill No.
3S, by Mullens, an act to authorize
incorporated towns, cities and vii
lagos to construct permanent street
improvements, was amended and then
passed. Blanchard made the point of
order that amendments passed by the
House when previously considered
had been withdrawn in committee.
Mullens declared that the amend
ments had been offered by himself but
had been withdrawn before the House
Baca ruled that Blanchard's point of
order was not well taken, that when
a bill has been recommitted, it is the
privilege of the committee to report
the bill in whatever form it pleases. |
Rlanchards effort to amend the bill
was cut off by a motion for the pre-
Vious question. The bill passed SO to
?, Blanchard and Catron voting no.
House Bill No. II, by Manzarares, /
appropriating $4,000 for gauging the
was explained by Mullens. He /
said that the funds are derived from
the federal government. The bill /
passed 43-0.
House Bill No 70, by Smith. to
amend certain sections of chapter 90, /
Of the laws of 1907, relating to weights
and measures, gives the county in
'pector of weights and measures s301
year salary, and 500 year for trav-
cling expenses. The office is made
elective, except that the first Inspector
lnder the new law, shall be appointed
)y the county commissioners. The bill
vas amended and then passed 46 to 0.
House Bill No. 90, introduced by
jhrlsman, an act to conserve and reg /
llate the use and distribution of the
waters of New Mexico, to expedite de-
.isions of appeals from the state ell.
'ineer either to the board of water
commissioners or to the district court,
vas amended and then passed ~ to 0, j
The House took a recess until J
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Memorial Day Program.
The Third House of the State OF ,
Jew Mexico will tomorrow night rem
er the following program: 4
'oday in History. ...B. L. Martinez
<ew Mexico in the Sisterhood of
States :. ........J. f. Hubbell
(Spanish) .....D. Truiillo {
tepublicanism (from the Progressive .
standpoinD .... E. Victor Ulibarri
lodern Republics. -. Albert Clancy
'arty Loyalty ..... VIM P. Lapoint {
Why Prize Fighting Will Be Beneficial i
to the State of New Mexico. II
.................. e. Llian |
'rohibition ..........W Llewellyn
referendum ...........M IN. Luiau
he Future Spanish American. T
...................A "A. A. Romero. Jr. {
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