Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-01-21
JUDICIARY TO
PLAY GAME
IT SEEMS
At ALL EVENTS Mr.. CHAMPION and
HIS COMMITTEE REPORT UN-
fAvORABlY ON PANkEY BILL TO
ELIMINATE JUDGES |
SYMPATHY FOR
WYOMING SOlONS

One of the first acts OF the senate
committee on judiciary, Mr.. e. T.
CHAMPION. of Colfax county, chair
man, was to report yesterday after
noon. on Senate Bill No. g.. by Mr.
pankey, with the recommendation
that the bill be not passed
This bill is entitled AN act to Sc
cure purity of judges and its pur'
poses are to eliminate judges, except
justices of the peace from participa-
tion in politics.
Mr.. Pankey. during the previous
sessions of the present legislature
was identified with the stand pat ele-
ment. Whether or not he will remain
with them in view of this action upon
the measure he introduced early after
the opening of the legislature remains
to be seem He made no comment
upon the action taken with respect to
this bill.
The Pankey bill, which such a
recommendation is practically the
same as defeating, is as follows;
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature OF
the State of New Mexico:
Section /. That it shall be unlaw-
full for any candidate for nomination
or election to any judicial office in the
state. except justices of the peace, to
take any part in any political cam
,nl, n q
election shall be in question, or con-
tribute any money or property OF any
kind. directly or indirectly, to the ex-
pense of any such political campaign;
and for the purposes of this act any
such candidate who makes public
speeches for orr against any political
party, or for or against any candidate
for nomination or election to any Of
flee. or who solicits votes for himself
or for any other candidate, Or who
acts as member of any political COM
mittee, or who assists by way of aG-
vice, recommendation or control, in
the management of a political cam
paign, shall be considered as taking
part in such political campaign.
Sec. 9. Any person violating the
provisions of the preceding section
shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor, and shall be punished by fine
OF not less than fifty dollars or by i'm
prisonment for not less than thirty
days, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment in the discretion of the
court imposing the sentence, and upon
conviction, he shall be disqualified to
hold any judicial office in the state
for the period of four years after such
conviction, but the institution of any
criminal prosecution in any of the dis.
trict courts, which are hereby given
original jurisdiction of such criminal
prosecution, shall be no bar to the in
stitution of proceedings by way of i'm
peachment, as provided in the consti-
tuition.
The senate judiciary committee
recommended for passage Senate Bill
No. 6, by Mr.. Pankey-being the bill
to abolish the public drinking cup
which Mr.. Pankey tried to land last
session, but which was lost in the
shuttle. 1t also recommended the
passage of the bill fixing the time
for holding the terms of court in the
eighth judicial district These are the
only bills thus far to find their places
upon the senate calendar
PROGRESSIVE BILL BY SENATOR
Mccoy.
Senator Mccoy this afternoon pre-.
sented Senate Bill No. 33-the com
pensation act for injured employees, a
measure modelled after the platform
in the progressive national platform.
The measure is similar to the law
now in force in the state of Wash.
ington and which has proven efficient
in every way since it was passed. 1t
is in the nature of forward legisla.
ton and hence is quite likely to fall
before the standpat element in the
senate which, it is said. does not look
with approval upon such innovations.
Wisconsin has a similar law and half
a dozen of the big states of the union
now have commissions working upon
measures of similar purport with a
view to relieving conditions covered
under its provisions. Following are
some of the benefits claimed for the
new measure by Senator Mccoy:
/. Furnish certain, prompt and
reasonable compensation to the vic.
Tins of work accidents and their de-
pendents, eighty per centum of whom
have heretofore had no right to re-
dress under common law rules.
Z 2. Free the courts from the delay,
cost and criticism incident to the
great mass of personal injury litiga
ton heretofore burdening them.
3. Relieve public and private char.
ity of much of the destitution due to
unco1pensated industrial accidents.
4. Eliminate economic waste in the
payments to unnecessary lawyers,
witnesses and casualty corporations |
and the expense and time loss due to
trials and appeals.
5. Provide a method whereby one
hundred cents shall 60 to the injured