Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-14
Little Opera Bouffe Stuff Is
Pulled Off When Page Ex-
presses Intention to Stop
the Clock,
TEMPEST IN TEAPOT IS
QUELLED IN SHORT ORDER
oWheo Did the Session End?"
Is a Question That Is Likely
to Trouble Courts for SOmeI
Time,

SPECIAL oisPAreH 70 MORNING JouRhALl
Santa Fe. March l3.-As if to
please the gallery gods who had been
50 much disappointed the past few
weeks, by the quietness Of the legis-
latiye proceedings, the senate just an
hour before final adjournment this
noon flared up and for several min
utes an old-fashioned fist fight threat
ened to develop 1t was all over an
attempt by Senator Page to stop the
clock a few minutes before noon. The
lieutenant governor ordered the SER
geant-at-alms to desist. The SER
geant-at-arms retired with his ladder.
Senator Page, after consulting with
his colleagues, stepped out TO bring
back the sergeant-at-arm with his
ladder. The lieutenant governor made
threatening move and repeated his
order, and the senate majority re-
framed from tampering with the
clock At II o'clock, sharp, the leu
tenant governor declared the senate
adjourned by limitation Of the cOnsti-
tuition but did not leave the rostrum.
Holt addressed the senate, stating
that the presiding officer had ad-
iOurned the senate against the will Of
that body and moved that the presi-
dent pro tenn. be called to the chair
President Pro TEN. Miera there
upon took q chair in front of the
desks of the clerks and on an old, un-
painted kitchen table, proceeded to
sign the certificates attached to the
bills passed over the governors veto
and other measures.
On motion of i9olt, remarks made
by the lieutenant governor and him
self (Holt) were eXpunged from the
records.
Fixing tie 1IinuIes.
Holt moved that committee Of
three be appointed to notify the
house that the senate is ready TO ad-
iOurn Miera appointed Holt, Abeyta
and Pankey. who proceeded to the
house to perform their duty.
Holt moved that there be stricken
from the certificate of house bill No.
n. the delinquent tax publication bill,
the words: Afternoon of said day
and this carried.
The president pro tenn. was author
lied to sign the journal of the fifty
ninth and siXtieth days of the legls-
lative session.
The senate then adjourned sine
die, shortly before | o'clock.
In the House.
It was considerably after II Il, M
when the house was called to order by
Fleming. Time was merely taken to
pass motion Of Mann to adjourn
for the fifty-ninth legislative day.
1t was only few minutes before
noon. when the house was called To
order for the sixteth legislative day
Fleming and Romero presided altefh-
ately Upon motion of Blood, the rec
ord Of the state college inyo sti6ati0n
committee was corrected to make II
appear that Rutherford was present
at one session of the committee but
did not participate in the proceedings
at any time
The house, under suspension of the
rules, passed senate bill No. lS9, pro-
Vdins for the sale of water ana lght
plants by municipalities
Law by Limitation.
Speaker Romero at noon announced
that house bill 304, appropriatinB
$3.50 for the investigation of the peni-
lentiary, not having been returned Dy
tle governor, either with his approx
al or his veto, has become law by
limitation
Sena tried Vainly to call up senate
damages caused by elk in the Cal
mas canyon, but was told the Dill
could not be found.
Speaker Romero added to the com
plicatons of the closing hour by re-
fusing to sign house bill 264, appro-
priating $1,000 for the expenses OF
The Texas-New Mexico boundary SUIT
The senate had amended it at the last
minute, cutting the appropriation
from SAC, 600 to $500, and putting
IN clause prohibiting any further
Expenditure in the suit. The house
concurred in the amendments. The
Speaker appointed Messrs Mann,
Martinez and Bryant to notify the
senate that it was ready for adjourn
inent, and Messrs. Davies, Francis ana
veal to notify the governor.
Davies invited the rules committee
70 The Majestic cafe to meet with MN
and to consider a repeal of the rules
prohibiting Messrs. Dow and Mullehs
from explaining their votes and pro-
nlouing the members of the mousse
lfom smoking
Cay-bank Bill's Funeral.
hsenehan invited the members 10
attend the funeral ceremonies OF the
elay-bank bill this afternoon. the Ell
ioft to have the senate resurrect II
having failed during the last hour'
Amidst shouts of roll call the
mouse adjourned.
Grave are the doubts as to the
"gality of the bills passed over the
sovernor's veto yesterday afternoon
and it also looks as if all legislation
enacted since yesterday noon, VIII
iall through the pocket veto of the
governor, who. by his veto message
On house bill 8, filed late last night