New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-16

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hal the Hou,e vote on sta. ,.':r:.
suffrage for v'uE,en On presi1t'. ~
ELECTORS, constitutional a%msnInarrt,
and bond issues. 1t failed by onl,
one vote, all members voting, th'
ballot standing 2s to "a. This wa
At the end Of the session. Nevcrthe
.ess, the women kept on working
lley succeeded in. p%ersuadinz .hr-'
democrats and ~cne RcpaoM ::
Spanish American to change theil
vote from mo" to Eyes" in Ease the,
would have the bill brought ur
again and it would have passed thu
House by % to Il on a final show
down. But it was felt that the
time was too short to get it through
the Senate and therefore the effort
was not made because it would have
embarrassed the success of other me.
ritorious measures, as the liquor lob.
by and most of the Spanish Amari.
cans were logged against Woman:
suffrage.
Smooth Sailing for Other Measure,
I'm the other hand, some mea
snrc> had much smoother sailing
than had been anticipated. The
Christian Science Bill, supported
however. by a well directed lobby,
having been defeated by legislature
after legislature, this time went
through with bells ringing and flags
flying. The appropriation to COM
plete the new Building at Santa Fe,
it had been expected would find
enemies, but it never did. being given
place in the appropriation bill from
the start and at no stage of the
attacked or touched adversely. 1t
always commanded unanimous sup
port just as it should have for it
was entirely meritorious and just.
Educational Institutions.
However this was not the case
tions. Right from the start, word
had. been passed that no state instr
tuition would be given an appropria-
ton greater than what it had last
time and that not a single penny was
available for starting new buildings.
But DR.. Frank H H. Roberts would
not see it that way. He first src-
ceeded in. getting through both
houses an appropriation of $1,000 for
transportation of students to both
schools. He then got to
work on an appropriation for a
much needed dormitory at the Nor
NAL University. He managed to get
into the appropriation bill $75.000 for
that purpose. There i became the
one noint of attack K the friends
of other institutions who rushed to
Fe to lobby. These succeed.
ed in getting similar consideration
for the University the Silver City
Normal, the State College. the
American Normal and other
Institutions, so that the Chairman of
he Finance Committee declared
after the legislature adjourned: 1.-THE
Institutions got $150m more in this
hill than thew shor1d have had"
and one president went home say
'ng that he had gotten twice as
much for his institution than he
,ad hoped, to secure. A striking
Instance was an appropriation of
'2O8O for a deficiency incurred
houPh no fault Of it's own by the
san Diego Exposition Commission.
)ne county and several others who
lad pledged funds went back on
heir p'ednes and left the members
If the Commission holding the
,ag The State had gotten i'm
nense benefit from its exhibit; the
Hartman of the Commission had
day and night to make it
c without any compensa-
ion to himself. 1t was he who
would have had to pay the bill for
he state, thus adding another ms.
ance to these proving the migrate
of commonwealth Every
fort to have the deficiency in
luded in the appropriation had met
ron opposition. 1t was the last
batt,ed over and it was only
he firmness of H. o. Bursum that
he State must do Justice to those
for its good. that finally
Moulded the item and permitted the
ntire appropriation bill to go to the
Governor.
Corporation Lobbies
Many an insurance measure was
illed by paid lobbists. This breed
f course. differs from the lobbyists
UGH as were at work on the mea-
rres cited as illustrations of the use
of the enthusiasts who l"b-
;"s for q net project, or for a
arty principle. or for a great carse.
tut even the paid lobbyist has his
ses. The Tax PAYERS Ass ,ciation :
I effect maintained a lobbyist who
on a sa'ary in order to save the
AK PAYERS and especially the big
payers money and he succeeded
dmirably. The insurance comnaries
a lobby to kill off fool
ills. There is a New York apgre-
grafton bills and chokes off those
'hich are inimical to corporation
lterests. There is a medical 'obby
nd a patent medicine lobby. There
as a paid union labor lobby which
OF Though a workmen's compensa.
act apd snuffed out several bills
nfavorab1e to labor interests. There
as a wrman's club legislative COM
ittee and there were local Hobbies
ich as lobbied for new counties
VI the State Fair and for similar /.
The League of New Mex
Municipalities had a paid lobby
t and even the Woman's Board :
Trade Of Santa Fe found it neces- )
'rv to lobby for a measure of !.
mple justice. :
It can be put down as GOSPEL
nth that but for the lobbyist,
and professional. unpaid and !
lid, the legislature would have &C :
very little and what il :
ould have accomplished would have
the sorriest mess of undigested