Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-05-04
Senate Committee Redrafts
Public Safety Bill, Confer
ring Greater Power Than
That Asked For,
EFFORTS TO CUT DOWN
APPROPRIATION USELESS
House Committee Agrees to
, Let Emergency Bond Issue
Stand at 100000; Ex-
, pect to Finish Saturday,

Santa Fe, May 3.-The house COM
mittee on appropriations this after
noon finally agreed to let the propos-
ed emergency bond issue stand at
s1,500,000. Much pressure had been
brought to cut it cut all together or to
as low a figure as $25. 900 If it is per-
mitted to stand at s1,500,00O in a 40
year bond issue it will mean a tax Of
less than rs cents per inhabitanC a
year.
The senate com mttee on emergency
legislation this afternoon entirely re-
drafted the act to lroVde for tho clb-
lie he alth, safety Ind welfare, making
much wider and &C mprehensive the
powers TO be vested in the governor in
case OF an emergency. In such a case
he would become a virtual dictatcr
with ample power to order the seizure
of seed lnd food products, or drafting
men and machinery for agricultural
and industrial work as well as for
military purposes, to send boys ont on
the farms - gather the crors AMI TO
regulate all industrial and agricultural
activity, employing any and all re-
sources of the state, either of men,
properties or instrumentalities and
exercise any and all jower convenient
or in his judgment necessary to pro-
tect and to provide for the public
health, safety and welfare.
Committees Report Bills.
The house was In session this after
noon for only ten minutes, during
which the committee on military in
troduced house bill No. 5, the national
guard act, The committee on appro-
priations reported favorably the vo-
cational training bill and the commit
tee on agriculture reported with rec
n iny hn hn n1 ar
at 10 o'clock tomorrow forenoon
house bill No. 4, the agricultural ex-
tension bill. TO the public defense
bill number OF amerdmeNts So Gs s
o., -ss:-tAe val committee have been
added.
The leaders in both houses expect
to complete the session by Saturday
evening.
The insistence of Spanish american
members upon having all bills printed
in Spanish and upon their desks be-
fore final action, blocked the efforts
of Majority Leader Barnes and Mi
nority Leader Pardue in the house
this forenoon to get immediate action
on emergency measures submitted
yesterday by Governor Lindsey and
reported favoraby by the committees
which had them under consideration
since yesterday afternoon. No plea
that everv day, every hour, counts III
the food production, was of avail,
except to gain the consent that house
bill No. 4, providing for an agricul-
tural agent in every county, should
have the preference tomorrow as soon
as a copy of the bill in Spanish is on
every members desk
Favor County Agent Bill.
In the senate, too, there were signs
of dissent and the forenoon was given
to arguments by members of the war
board for the necessity of the action
proposed. Governor Lindsey consent
ed to appear before the committee in
charge of the emergency legislation
to explain its urgency and it's impera-
tive necessity.
1t was 10:45 when Speaker Llewel-
lyn called the house to order, the de-
lay being caused by the session of the |
committee on agriculture, consisting |
of sixteen members, which had under |
consideration almost continuously |
since yesterday afternoon the bill
which is to make possible the placing
of an agricultural agent in every coun-
ty. The committee approved Of every |
feature of the bill and recommended
its passage without amendment.
When Father Basset pronounced
the invocation every member of the
house except Judge Dills was in at
tendance. The reading of the journal
was dispensed with.
Bills were introduced by the COM
mittee on appropriation, as follows,
the committee having made no change
after due consideration, in the draft
of the measures as submitted by Gov
ernor Lindsey in his message and as
they had been formulated by the war
board:
Committees Introduce Bills.
House bill No. 1, by the committee
On appropriations. An act for the
public Defense" providing for an ap-
preparation of $1,5AO,000 to be pro-
duced by bond issue. for the raising
Of the First regiment of New Mexico
cavalry and for the repair, improve
ment and maintenance Of roads. Re-
ferred to the committee on appropria-
tions.
der the supervision of the Department.
on appropriations, IAN Act to accept
the benefits of an act passed by the
senate and house of representatives to
provide for the promotion of voca-
tional education and appropriating
$4,000 annually to be expended un-
know what they were voting for. He
of education motion by Barnes
to pass this bill on third reading un-
der suspension of the rules, was with
drawn upon objection OF Cipriano Lu-
cero, who protested against the pas
sage of any bill before 1t is printed
in Spanish and thoroughly understood
by every member He said that the
same newspapers that are now urging
undue haste criticized the regular ses-
sion for passing bills in such great
hurry that many members did not
know wha tthey were voting for. He ,