Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-15
Details Of New Revenue Meas
ure 10 Be Worked Out and.
Bill introduced Within Next.
Few Days,
COMPROMISE REACHED
ON COUNTY SALARIES
Thumbs Down" Is Attitude
on Liquor Legislation and
Little Chance Exists for
Submission of Question.

edltd re- jan IA franchise
tax measure was practically agreed
upon today by the majority leaders
/ as one of the means of providing ad-
ditional revenue for the state. Tho
details will be worked out without
/ loss of time. and the bill will be in
/ troduced at an early date.
! Work will also be started next .
week on the appropriation bills in
order to avoid the congestion which /
always characterizes the closing days /
/ of the session. The finance commit |.
tee of the house viii also draft inn /
mediately a county salary bill which /.
: is TO hc a compromise between the !
proposition of the county officials /
/ and the views Of the executive. The /
salaries proposed are to average
about $4,000 year Already the
pressure Of county officials il being
| felt and the finance committee Is
ianxious to get the measure out of
the way before the legislature is
stormed by a county officers lobby
Teaching of spanish,
one Of the most important bills of
the session and one that will arouse
the widest discussion will be intro
duced by Nestor Montoya, and is be-
ing prepared by b, NJ. Read and other
educators Of note. The bill will pro-
vide for the simultaneous teaching of
Spanish and English IN the rural
schools somewhat along the lines
adopted by the Christian Brothers
f.Fa min f.1l
gestions made by Dr. Frank H. H.
Roberts at the educational conven-
tion, to segregate the Spanish and
the English-speaking school districts,
but instead will give Spanish equal
place with English in every Spanish
speaking district In the state normal
schools the teaching of Spanish is 20
be made mandatory so that eycntu- I
ally every teacher in the rural dis |
tricts will he master of two lam (
guages. A bill along similar lines is !
to be introduced by Malaquias Mar |
tinez. and was drafted by Assistant
Superintendent Of Public instruction
Filadelfo Baca.
Or. Skeen has prepared an act /
modelled after that of California and |
Florida authorizing the organization !
land Incorporation of non profit pay /
ling fruit growers and cantanoupc as (
lsocatons without any capital stock. |
The bin is prompted by the sad eX-
perience of fruit growers in the Pc !
cos, Mesilla and San Juan valleys
with commission merchants In
stances are citde in which cantaloupe |
and fruit growers made heavy ship |
ments of fine fruit to the city mar !
kets and the only returns they receiv-
ed were bills for freight or express
Or. Doepp Is to introduce bill
making the medical statute more
drastic, and extending the powers of
the state board Of health and board
of medical examiners
New Rules Adopted.
The committee on rules Of the
: house completed its work early this
evening. The principal change from
! the rules Of two years ago is that the
: Speaker can compel member to
vote. An appeal from the speaker,
! however. to the house is to be per-
mtted Another important rule is
that no member can absent himself
from n session without written ex-
cuse and the consent of the house.
The house committee on printing,
Of which Nestor Montoya is the chair
man. and on which are u. o. Blood,
ID. r. Skidmore, j. w. Mullen and M
=. Skeen, will award the contract for
printing tomorrow afternoon. It isl
understood that George r. Albright
OF Albuquerque, is TO receive the con
tract on the same basis as two years
ago on the ground that his work az
tha time was satisfactory and that
haste is demanded in awarding the
contract, so that the bills may be
printed without delay
Speaker secundlno Romero early
this evening thought he had all the
committee assignments lined up The
democrats had furnished him with
list of two members for each OF the
thirty committees, but this evening'
at their request he returned this lisl
for any notifications That the demo
Gratis desire 10 make The republican
assignments while practically com
Ipletad. may be shifted tomorrow 90
balance any democratic changes, and
therefore the committee assignments
c0uld moi be made public toniehf
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