El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-13
SESSION FINALLY
CEA5ESiT NOON
New Mexico Legislature
Quits With Filibuster
and Much Oratory.

Santa Fe, n. H., March 1S.-After
much speechmaKing and applause, the
legislature closed at noon after having
prolonged the present session for "a
hours in order TO force governor Nc
Donald to act on several important
political measures.
The tense interest which has mar 1ed
the final week Of the session continued
10 the last roll call and the Legislators
were watching closely TO see that moth
ing was sprung at the last minute in an
effort to railroad it through When
his pet measure, the claybank bill, was
defeated by a vote Of 10 TO y IN the
senate, Renehan started another fill
buster against all senate bills in the
house.
The senate, however, passed the two
Spanish-American educational bills.
Renehan permitted two Of the senate
educational bills TO pass the house. one
giving the state board Of education
greater discretion in the certification
OF teachers and appropriatlng Sl2OB to
pay for grading OF examination papers
and the other providing travelling eX-
penses for members Of the state board
Of education.
Prohibition Bill BObs Up.
There was loud handclapping among
the audience when the house sent TO the
governor by unanimous vote the COM
munity property bill A dramatic Incl
dent occurred a minute afterWard when
representative Palmer made another ef-
fort TO drag the prohibition resolution
out Of committee. The gavel in the
hand Of representative Fleming ocm-
PEELED MIN 10 sit down. Palmer appealed
from the ruling OF the chair and there
were demands for roll call, but Elem
Ing ignored these For a minute or
two there was pandGmonium, but the
house finally quoted down and pro-
ceeded with business.
The senate rejected the nomination Of
Elmer j.. Needer for member of the
board of regents Of the New Mexico
Normal university at East Las Vegas.
1t was stated that governor Mcdonald
had promised 10 appoint q woman to
the place. a sisterinlaW Of assistant sec
rotary Of the interior A. A Jones The
other appointments. except that of A p.
Hill for game warden, were confirmed
The Pankey cattle sanitary board bill
was sent to the governor.
A. & VI. Report Adopted.
The report on the state college was
adopted in both houses. House bill No.
1, repeating the road tax, in accordance
with the Republican platform pledge,
was finally sent to the governor by the
house cOncurring in the senate amend
ments- A Measure appropriating $500
from the state highway fund for dykes
to protect the town Of Mora from floods
was sent to the executive, as was bill
apprOpriating $4,000 for bridge IN Taos
county.
Other measures sent to the governor
were; Romero's firemen's bill; the SEN
ate bill reducing the contract rate Of
interest from Il to 10 percent; the
Black bill TO regulate hog shipments
and stamp out hog diseases; the game
protection bill; the Veal auto tax bill
and the Blood anti joy riding measure. /
Road Tax Law Passed.
The senate passed the road tax law
as amended the only important change Z
from the existing law being prohibit {
ton Of the deduction Of the So road tax I
from payrOlls.
The house passed, over governor Nc /
Donald's veto, the delinquent tax Dill /
similar action having already been /
taken BY the senate.
Both houses are holding night ses-
siOns tonight. The senate confirmed j
the appointments TO the tax commits ]
sion. cattle and sheep sanitary boards
Forced Governor TO Sign Bills.
Having accomplished what was in ]
tended when the house voted to extend /
the session a day by forcing the gov
sion bill and the Hawkins mine tax I
bill, the last session Of the legislature 4
was In the nature Of an anti-climaN
after the strenuous session Thursday.
During this session the Blood commit
tee, which investigated the A & H. \
college and First State bank at Las \
Cruces made its report severely criti-
clsing the governor and the travelling
auditor The session was prolonged a
day TO prevent the governor from 4
putting anything over the legisla-
ture and when the most important
matters Of legislation were finally dis
posed Of either by passing them over
the governors veto or allowing them
to stand, the legislators were anxious
10 get TO their homes for Sunday and 4
could hardly wat for the final ad-
5Ournment-
PrOhibitiOniSts Stiu Fighting.
The Prohibitionists seemed TO be the
only ones who We're not content to let
the session end peaceably- They have
been fighting every minute of the ses-
sion. even injecting the dry issue
into the jubilee in the house Thursday
night when the remembrances We're .
given speaker Romero and floor leader
Mann The presentation was made
with much speech making and beer
drinking, which ended abruptly when
the dry leaders started a stirring
appeal in favor OF Prohibition legisla-
ton This caused hurried adjourn
menL
The Republican majority leaders .ex-
press themselves with being well salts I
fled with the session Just closing. The
county salary bill was considered the
most important single piece Of leEis-
-atiou. although the Bursum tax com /
mission and the mine tax were of al
most equal Importance The majority Z
leaders point TO the fact that no freak
legislation has been passed and in
spite Of the opposition Of a Demo-
cratic governor the party has re-
deemed most Of its platform pledges /
Spanish Education Bill Lost.
Lost strayed or purlOined from the
senate committee on education" said !
HOntOya Of BernalilI0 county in re-
ferring to house bills Nos. 19S and I9g, |
by Sena, the Spanish educational bills.
The disappearance Of the bills caused /
much commotion among the Spanish
American members Of the house and
resentment that threat
aned another deadlock
An understanding was reached
quickly under which substitutes for
the measures were introduced, consid-
srably modifying tie originals No :
-9S provides for the teaching Of Span. Z
sh in the schools where the boards I
L IlranInrs Mar-.nn Il AID !