El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-21
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fight for Vessels bill to pay each law
yer appointed by court TO defend
criminal pauper q sum not exceeding
So, but it was indefinitely postponed
by d vote of nine 10 six
Fees in Lulacy Cases.
The Vessel bill TO pay physicians
VINO examine insane persons met with
a better reception and was reported
lor regular course At present only s.
, is paid each physician who examines q
person suspected of being insane. Wes-
sells bill was 10 allow the judge of the
superior court to fix the fee but an
amendment by Davis establishing q
limit of SO was adopted by the COM
mitJee.
Representative Balls bill regulat-
ing the sale of poisons was sent on
Tor regular course after one or two
words had been cSanged.
When the committee arose to report
DC had under discussion the Roberts
land leasing blil. senate Dill So G. B.
Mood and others declared that they
could gain no clear conception of what
the Dill meant As it stands the bill
provides that no tract Of land greater
than $40 acres in extent shall be leased,
and the leases OF farm land are limited
TO quarter section. The transfer of
leases is prohibited
House Passes Senate Bills.
Three senate bills. all by LOviu- went
through the house yesterday. One was
the Needles bridge bill, mentioned
above Another was No so, providing
1OI the establishment of a union county
high school wherever q majority OF the
VCtets express themselves favOrably at
a special election The thiyd was No.
IS permitting school districts to incur
indebtedness in excess of 4 percent OF
the assessed valuation OF property con-
tanned therein.
Five code bills We're passed. They
relate to JOwusiJeS. warehouses. part
nerships, actions for injuries resulting
IN death, and mining The last is the
new mining code and the most import
ant OF all
To Improve Asylum.
The appropriations committee intro
duced q bin making an appropriation Of
some $500 for baths and other special
equipment at The asylum for the in
sane. Buchanan introduced house bill
"a, an amendment TO the county salary
code
The house adjourned till 10 o'clock
this morning, when ii took up the read
ing Of two lengthy code bills.
1t was not highly exciting day in
the house. Several Of the measures
passed were long and the representa-
tives spent much of their time in the
corridors. There was only one ripple
Of interest and that was when the state
institutions committee brought in an
other report attacking Gov. Hunt Even
this, however, did not cause any undue
excitement
Attack on Hunt.
The report starts with a denial that :
the committee has gone out of its {
way to dig up evidence discrediting I
Gov Hunt and the board Of control 1t /
states that all the committees previous ]
reports were based on evidence secured !
from Charles r Osourn, secretary Of |
the board.
One of the charges made against the I.
governor was that supplies for the !
Globe-Ray road camp, for the insane /
asylum and for the Industrial school I
were bought from the Old Dominion /
Commercial company. of Globe, Of !
which Gov. Hunt was then president, I
In reply, the governor had stated that /
the supplies for the road camp were
bought under the direction Of the SUI {
pervisors of ella county. who allowed /
Hunts Firm Got Commission.
In answer TO this, the committee
charges that the Old Dominion COM
pany received a commission Of 10 per
cent on the orders.
The governor charged that a conf
Dental report made to him by the sec
rotary Of the board of control regard
ing conditions at the Industrial school
was stolen from his office.
In reply to this, the committee states:
In reference TO the certified COPY I
Of the report made by the secretary of
the board of control in regard to con-
d1tiOns at the Industrial school we Z
nave only TO state that it was given |
US by no other person than the secre-
Slam at Governors Argument.
The governor Is mistaken when he
says it was a confidential report of
which there was no authorized or Iegiti- I
mate copy in existence save the one in
my own possession. We also de- I
manded a copy Of a report made BY {
the secretary of the board of control I
in regard to conditions at the prison, |
out II was not given to US, and We
later demanded a copy from the gov
ernOr, but it was refused on the
ground that it was a private COM
munlCatiOn. We cannot see how re- I
port on a state institution. made by I
one state official to another at the !
states expense, can be a private com
Favorable to Fort Grant.
Excellent reasons exist for believing
that the house committee sent to in
besugate Fort Grant Will make a re-
port favOrably to the removal of the
Industrial school from Benson to that
place.
The members of the committee are
Jones, Ball, Jacobson, Cooke, and
Buchanan. All have agreed not to talk I
till they have held meetings and agreed
what the report or reports viii be.
From inside sources ii is learned, I
however. that the prospect is for only
one report and that a favorable one.
is still strongly opposed to
Fort Grant as a site for the school
but realizes that he is outnumbered. /
Girl StenOGrapher With Committee.
The committee was aCcOmpa MED on !
It's travels by Miss NIillicent Heating.
one Of the expert stenOgraphers EN- /
olOyed by the house Public hearings
were held at Stafford and Fort Grant I
and at both places Miss Heating took a
verbatim report OF the testimony.
Old timers in the Fort Grant section :
we're asked particularly concerning the
water supply The principal objection I
made TO the removal of the school to |
he fort is that the water supply is Z
limited. It is charged that the gov
arnment moved the garrison away from 4
he fort because there was not suffi-
'ient water