El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-05
TRIES To KILL
PAYDAY MEASURE
Committee to Investigate
Educational Department
and College.
BY GUTHRIE SMITH.

Santa Fe, y NJ, March 5.-A final
effort has been made in the house to
kill house bill No. "a, which provides
for two pay days a month, and in
which the senate had concurred. The
effort to kill was through an attempt
OF Mares. of Colfax, to reconsider for
the purpose of amending. II the bill
had been brought back for reconsider
alton and amendment. there would
have been no remote possibility of its
passage at this session. Sanchez, OF
Valencia. moved to table the Mares mo-
ton, and his motion was carried by
the vote OF 80 to s.
House bill S1s. creating the county
of Alvarado. was brought back for re-
consideration. under motion Of GriegJ
which was carried by % 10 16. Mares
then moved to table the bill. when
Sanchez. Valencia, moved to table the
Mares motion. his motion being carried
by big majority. Under motion OF
Barnes, Republican flJorleadsr. the
measure was referred again to the
committee on county and county lines
Under a suspension Of the rules, the
house concurred in senate bill No. s5.
which provides for the payment OF
normal school students who are pre-
pairing for the work Of teaching. The
dill apprOpriates $4,000 year each for
the normal university at Las Vegas
and the normal school at Silver City.
The vote on the bill was IL TO l.
Investigating Committee Named.
\ resolution was passed BY the house
TO Investigate the affairs of the office
Of state superintendent of public in
struction, and also the expenditure of
HsaH Of r.~~He
lege, AZ Las Cruces. It is charged that
the college authorities have advanced
money 10 q printing concern for the
purchase OF paper and supplies. and
that such advances were not authorized
hy law The members appointed on
the committee to investigate are over
son. Of Mckinley, Romero, OF san
Miguel, and Lucero, OF Santa Fe.
Race Discrimination Bill
After having spent the major pOr-
tion of two days in debating the mer-
its Of the race discrimination bill, the
house stil has not disposed o. the
question The bill provides that no
keeper Or proprietor OF any hotel res
taurant. saloon or place Of amusement
shall discriminate against any person
on account Of his color or race The
bill was introduced by special request
Of negroes Of Albuquerque. but Span
isf-American members took the posi-
tiOn that members Of their race had
been Disseminated against. in hotels
ana restaurants IN the eastern part OF
the state, and that such Discrimination
was the grossest sort of injustice. The
bill finally was referred to the judi
clary for revision with special in
structiOns 10 report the following day.
The committee returned the bill. with
the report that il had no further re-
port To make.
A resolution was then passed, rec
ommending that Spanish-American
ought not to be Disseminated against
in any instance. This resolution, how
ever. does not become a law. and there
fore has no real restraining power An
additional bill was introduced by York.
TO prevent discrimination against Span
lupe, novel to table the bill A mo-
ton to adjourn was put and carried
before the Ortiz motion could be put
before the house
Correspondent Causes UprOar.
Filled with bitter invectiye was a
part Of the argument which preceded
the vote on the resolution which fin
ally visited the wrath of the house of
the third legislature upon the corre-
spOndent who has been representing
one OF the New Mexico papers. The
vote on the resolution was &c 10 Is.
an dthrough its terms the correspOn-
Ogy to c W. 3. Bryan, of Union coun-
~, the member who is said TO have
had his dignity compromised by the
newspaperman's prank The aiterna-
tive was TO be expelled from the floor
of the house and t. be denied all the
privileges accorded TO newspaper rep
resentatives during the remainder OF
the term The offence charged was
that the newspaperman had pinned