Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-03-13

fornted with calendar containing
nearly 200 bills the house went man
fully to work to clean up, and after
working from 10 a. m. yesterday until
nearly 3 O'Clock this morning over
100 bills had been disposed Of, among
them the general appropriation bill.
The bills PASSED covered every
conceivable subject and ranged all
the way from the anti-cigarette law
TO an amendment to the act regulat-
ing the practice Of emDalmlng.
This afternoon it is expected the
house will pass the local option law
which went through the senate this
morning, and also the Hinkle local
option bill, which passed the senate
some weeks ago. This latter law
applies only to cities, towns and mu-
inequalities, and when 1t was first
passed was denounced by the pro-
hibitionists as an act to permit the
town of Roswell to 90 wet. Since
that time the prohibitionists have
grown more humble and are now pre-
pared to accept anything that looks
like a temperance law, no matter how
it affects them.
Governor Mcdonald again exer-
cised the veto power this morning.
returning to the legislature without
approval the bill placing the state
library under the conrrol Of the su-
preme court. rhe governor admitted
that probably the library, which
consist entirely Of law books. ought
TO be under the control OF the su-
preme court, but he sad it was an
attempt by a hostile legislature 10
deprive him Of power and also le-
clared that the jill was framed in
the interests OF certain family and
cor the purpose of keeping one mem
her of this family in office.
The governor also disapproVed OF
what is known as the Bursum bridge
bill. This bill allows county commits
sioners to use money from any fund
in which it is available for the pur-
pose Of constructing bridges. and to
make a levy sufficient to reimburse
the fund from which the money was
taken, the levy to cover 2 period OF
.fhree years.
Despite the nearness Of the hour Of
final Adjournment a vast a1qount ofI
work remains to be done and is
likely that both houses will be in con
tinuous session from no wuntil noon
tomorrow. Among the big things
that remain tobe done is the reaching
of an agreement on the appropriation
bill over which the houses are wide
" divided. 1t is also expected that an
other attempt will be made to agree
on a salary bill
The bill creating the state fair at
Albuquerque is expected to go through
the senate this afternoon practically
without opposition Senator Hinkle
appears to be the only senator oppos-
ed to it and it is said that the gen.
tleman from Chaves was responsible
for the cutting down of the appropria-
ton for buildings from $4,000 to $5,sI
600.
The governor this afternoon sent
the following nominations to the sen
ate:
sheep sanitary board-Eduardo
Otero of Valencia county, for a term
Of two years.
Member board Of regents Of agricul-
tural corlege-R. R. Larkin Of San
Miguel county for a term Of four
years.
Member board Of regents of New
Mexico Normal University Edward
b rittman, Sierra county for four
years.
Member boar dol regents school Of
mines -Leopoldo Contreras, Of Socor-
20 and f. H. Jones of Bernalilo coun-
II to terms Of four years.
Board of regents New Mexico inu-
scum Arthur seligman Of Santa Fe
md R. e. Twitchell Of Las Vegas for
serms Of four years.
Member board Of directors Of the
insane asylum at Las Vegas G. A.
Of Chaves county for
term Of four years.
Member board Of trustees New Mex
leo Miners hospital-D. G. Dwyer,
George King, S. A. Wiseman, all Of
Colfax county, for term Of four
years.
State librarian william r. Thorn
ton Of Santa Fe.