Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-07
LEGISLATURE WILL MAKE
4 SPLENDID RECORD
Final Action Many Measures Carefully Drafted and
Discussed at Length in Committee Sessions-Publc
Lands, Appropriations, Salaries, Taken Care of.

Both Houses buckled down to sys
tematic work this forenoon on the leg.
iSlative program and by Sunday noon
! it is expected to have cleared the
decks and to have placed on the stat
ute books a system of laws which
will work for the best interests OF
| the state, and of which the Republican
majority may We'll be proud. AS the
portant measures as the public lands
| bill, the drainage bill, the delinquent
tax good roads BILL the legal adviser
to the governor bill were sent to
Governor Mcdonald, on whose desk
the bills passed by both Houses this
week have already stacked up very
high. In addition, the House sent to
conference the General Appropriation
Bill. The conference committee on
the Salaries Bill also came to an
agreement.
Senate.
Clark, Romero and Hinkle We're eX,
cused so as to enable them to attend
4 conference on the salary bill DOepp
was also excused because he was per
forming an operation at St. Vincent 8
hospital.
Committee Reports.
The judiciary committee reported
favorably Senate Bill No. 147 House
Bills Nos 259 and 2G5; Senate Bills
Nos. 6 and 81, with amendments, and
unfavorably Senate Bill No. 149 and
House Bill No. 264. The committee
reported amendments, practically a
substitute for the House Drainage Bill
! The amendments were drawn by for
mer Attorney General w. c. Reid.
Final Action on Bills.
! Senate Bill No. 147, prohibiting the
election or appointment to Office of any
person convicted of felony was passed
! is to 2.
Substitute for Senate Bill No. 149
providing for a drainage commission
in Socorro county, was tabled.
House Bill No. 264, regarding claims
| for damages to leased and patented
lands. was tabled.
House Bill No. 259, the Chrismar
Horticultural Bill, was passed II to
House Bill No. PCS, an act authoriz
ing blind men or their women to make
use of irrigation water from communi
ty bitches, without charge, was passet
after a slight, technical amendment
by vote of 20 to O.
Champion in speaking on the Sen
ale amendments to the House Drain
age Bill, explained that they have beel
most carefully drawn by former Atio1
ney General w. C. Reid of Roswell
that all rights had been CAREFUL;
guarded that the procedure prescril
ed is complete in detail, that the Peco.
Valley has $4,000 acres and the Ri
Grande valley more than 100000 acres
which could be reclaimed by drainage
that the bill carries no appropriation
and that the people of the Pecos an
Rio Grande valleys have been workin
for such law for the past thre
years The amended bill was passe
under suspension Of the rules by
vote of 10 to 9.
There was Wrangle over an effol
10 compel Evans and Mabry to vote o
the measure. The Senate voted nc
to excuse Evans and Mabry from vo
: ing. The Senate bill is identical wit
House Bill No. 240.
Senate Bill No. 166, relating to tn
conservation of waters, was taken IL
under suspension of the rules, ament
ed and then passed 1t also provide
for the fees of the state engineer 2
to 0.
Champion, Clark, Miera, Ilfeld, Hol
Walton and Doepp were named
steering committee.
! House Bill No. 21O, providing for
legal adviser to the governor at $500
a year, was passed.