Alamogordo news-advertiser. (Alamogordo, Otero County, N.M.) 1912-1914, 1913-02-01
SANTA FE DOINGS
Many Ihady issble Bills introduced
for the Purpose OF Pleasing the
Constituents Back Home
NEW MEXICAN THROWS
AN UNTIMELY FIT
Race Issue Forced 10 the Front in
Senatorial Contest
BLUE-SkY BILL Is IN
HANDS OF COMMITTEE,

Santa Fe, Jan. 31.-If, in writing
the constitution Of the great state
Of New Mexico, il had been proyid-
ed that only certain number Of
bills might be introduced by each
emmber, it would have added con
siderably to the welfare of the 81 ate
IN general and lifted not only a
burden from the shoulders of the
various committees but given vastly
less cause for complaint against thei
action in recommending u1iaYoTabie
reports on proposed laws by these
Of their constituents VINO see and
near but one side of the story. In
the present session OF the legisla-
ture now sitting at Santa Fe, there
are to BE- found members in both
houses who insist on playing to the
galleries. AS introducers of bills
they are as unSirinS as Lhey are
prolific. 1t is not charged against
them that they draw these various
proposed statutes, for the majority
of them are the product OF some
one on the outside some person
who has pet act which they long
to see upon the statute book and
which, usually, concerns no one in
particular except themselves. Thas
bills are introduced By members who
do not take the time TO read tnem
and as consequence, when they are
brought up in the committee to
which they are referred the Niger
in the wood pile is discovered and,
If the committee does It's duly. an
unfavorable report is voted Then
the committee is held up for scorn,
or graft, to the eyes Of their con
StiLuents. However, the matters be-
fore the committees Of tthe two leg
islative branches are gone into pret-
ty thoroughly, and when it is there
voted to report bill unfayorably
the people at home should be SLOW
to condemn such action. on the Wort
of the intrcducer alone. He may be
! prejudiced; the committee as a
whole, with no ak to grind, is net;
and, with an opportunity to view
the matter from all angles, It's ac-
ton in any matter before il is usu-
ally the best proposition TO tie 10.
Some newspapers, aL.agonistic tC
the majority OF legislative body,
can certainly garble the fac,s in any
given incident, and cofuse its read
ers as to what actually happened.
| Such a case was the introduction OF
a bin in tle senate Thursday of las.
week by Senator Evans and concern
ing the printing of which the New
Mexican blew up in two-column styl
and exhausted its blackface head
letter. II hoped nimbly over the
Fu.,, x.FL L.. II.1A I,Fy -,
ed him and the republican majority
from alpha to omega, from Dan to
Bersheba, from hell to breakfast.
When It's not too certain grammar
was sifted down and the rays of
common sense dispelled the gloom
of the black map of woe, 1t was
found that Senator Evans, pro-
gressive democrat, had introduced
bill seeking to put the recall on
our statute books; that he had so
introduced this bill for the only pur-
pose of defining his position on
the much-mooted su uDjeot, and that
he had not the slighte st hope of hav
ing it passed. He. therefore, did
not care TO have it printed, as he
thought il useless. Senator Barth
and one or two other senator's pre-
vailed on Mr.. Evans TO ask that the
bill be printed and take its regular
course. The majority of the senate
were not in favor Of the bill, and
Floorleader Holt, voicing the ssn,i-
ment of this majority. and in sup
porting the idea of economy express
ed by Senator Evans. moved that
the bill be not printed. which mo-
tion prevailed. The senate was not
aware It was making such blacklet-
ter history as the New Mexican
thrust upon it--not until the men,
bers read OF their doings in the
said New Mexican that evening.
The minority in the House on
Monday last introduced a resolution
which sought to bind up the men,
bers to vote for a Spanish-American
for senator on the following day,
which. by joint resolution of the
two houses, was the day fixed for
! this purpose. The resolution was
introduced by Messrs. Rogers, Car
ter, Mullen, Campbell. and other
democratic members. IL sang the
praises OF the pioneers of this par
/ ticular portion OF Gods Footstool In
siren sextette; they painted the
hardshIps and conquosts of the no
. BILE Spaniard with a beautiful mock
, ing of life; in fact. their picture tu'
tored nature in all things. TheiI
, comments on the resolution were
, ieverish with fawn-oolored fealty tC
; the cause OF the down-trodden ma
. tive; they sought 20 abridge theiI
own rights as citizens of a free
country In orer to accord to these
descendants OF Coronado a repre-
G sentative in the senate of the Unite'
States. II was n vain effort tt
I break down the Fall forces and wen
to the mat with a duh. sickenins
) thud. The bait did not cover th'
} hook. as Representative Sanchez re-
, marked; aud when Represan ativ'
: Vargas handed up an amendmen
that such s3arishamericea % B.