Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-18
BACA PAVING
BILL PASSED
Sulzer Alone Voted Against
1t and 1t Now Goes to
Governor
SENATE HAS FUN WITH WAL TON
Resolution Brought in From
Committee to Unseat Him in
Favor of Murray.

In the absence of Lieutenant Cover
nor +. c. de Baca and President Pro
TEN. E. A. Miera, Senator Hinkle call
ed the Senate to order and Senator
Clark was chosen to preside
Committee Reports.
The committee on education report
ed a substitute for Senate Bill No.
II, an act to provide for the study of
! the effects of alcoholic drinks in all
educational institutions, The substi-
tute is modelled after a federal act on
this subject. The committee recon-
mended that Senate Bill No. 81, pro-
viding for free travelling libraries. for
the public schools, be not passed. be.
cause of the danger to public health.
Holt said that he is much interested
i'll the measure that the Woman's
Federation is behind the bill and that
it ought to pass, and had he known
that the committee was ready to re-
port, he would have asked for a hear
ing on the bill. He therefore moved
to recommit the measure. This was
dOne Dy vote OF I to b.
The committee on public institutions
reported an amendment to Senate Bill
Nc. 81, an act to prohibit the furnish
ing Of narcotics and alcoholic drinks
to convicts The amendment merely
makes it an emergency measure. The
committee also reported an amend
ment TO Senate Bill No 90. to give
convicts working on the outside of
the penitentiary, further time allow
ance of 10 days a month for good be-
havior. The amendment strikes out
. the emergency clause
The committee on private and muni-
cipal corporations, reported unfavor-
ably Senate Bill No. 80, providing for
punishment of those tampering with
! meters, pipes, conduits, but reported
favorably Senate Bill No. So, to punish
the unlawful appropriation of electric
current, gas and water, and of tamper-
: ing with meters.
u The committee on privileges and
elections reported House Bill No 10,
. by Skidmore, with amendments. The
% measure gives employees two hours
time without loss of pay for voting.
To unseat Walton.
eThe committee on privileges and
u elections in the contest case of w. d.
u, Murray VS. W. B. Walton. reported in
- favor of Murray, the report being
u signed by Romero, Republican, and
u Barth, Democrat. motion was made
I, rpfar tho +n bn a
l. on revision of which Walton is chair
= man. Barth declared that the hear.
a ing in committee was the most fair he
- had ever attended, that Walton had
y presented absolutely no evidence that
- he had been elected. Mccoy moved
IL to refer the report to Abeyta Walton
D rose to the occasion and made an elo-
4 quent farewell address, along the
I'll lines Of the dying gladiator He de
clared himself we'll satisfied with
what he had accomplished for his con.
'e stituents the past sixty and more days.
Has not the Senate passed his famous
dog, cat and bird bill? Is not a Senate
IL committee about to report favorably
e. his Whiskey Greek bill? He added that
he his S. a day have given him suffi.
ut cient wealth to retire in comfort for
We the rest of his life even without count
nj ing in what he had made on the side
q, lin view of the record of this legisla
n ture thus far, if DO not go home now
I'd better not go home at ALL
Alldredge asked to be excused from
lie serving on the revision committee
&c Champion moved that a mounted
re policeman be present while the revi
te sion committee is considering the con
r test
is Holt appealed to the Albuquerque
H. Herald not to censure the Senate for
OF wasting time on so trivial a matter as
ne the unseating of the Senator from
on Grant county and Hinkle asked that
the Journal be included in this appeal
Barth catching his breath, rose tc
al remark, that like the Junior Senator
ir, from San Miguel he didn't care q
he hang what the newspapers said about
IL him.
p. Walton. solemnly and tearfully, ten
he dered his resignation to Bowman from
sc all the social clubs of which Bowman
l. is the president
The next move is to be to unsea
he Barth for not having been a residen
'e- Of the state for the time required BY
la the constitution.
olt New Bills.
q: The Senate having had it's littl,
ell fling so as not to be outdone by tn,
ge House with it's Clovis battle field, reso
90 luton of Major Llewellyn, settlet
SIS down to business. The following ney
bills were introduced
Senate Bill No. $50 by Walton, rela
y" tive to tax exemptions The bill wa
as sent to the committee on judiciary.
an Senate Bill No. Isl. by the Commit
an tee on Public Institutions, providin,
ad- for a capitol custodian committee an
)rs defining its duties. The bill const
tutes the governor, the state audito
m and the commissioner of public lands
I'M the custodian board of the capitol an
,ur of the executive mansion The bi
es- went over to Monday after being rea
ort first and second time and taken up fo
our passage under suspension of the rule
n" Bills on Third Reading.
ma. Senate Substitute for Senate Bill NJ
YES 1O6, the district attorneys bill, wa