El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-20
SESSION BOGY
LAID, IS OPINION OF
BLA HARD HOUSE
STARTS ON HIGH GEAR
MESS OF BILLS CLEARED UP
RAPIDLY YESTERDAY; DAN PA
DlLLA HAS A LITTLE HARD
LUCK

Mr.. Blanchard OF Lincoln, one oil
the best read IiteTati in the house,
has an eye for humor. After the
house had come to itself Tuesday af-
ternoon and actually passed~13 bills
and a memorial and resolution or two,
he felt very gleeful. So geeful was
he in fact that he could not resist
kidding the press a little bit anent Its
fear that there would nave to be an
extra session. Mr.. Blanchard has
been wondering about it too but he
0pined that references which had
been made in the papers along that
line amounted to a tragedy" Asked
why 1t was tragic he quoted Huxley's
definition thusly "A ~trage6y--a beau
tiful young theory murdered by a
great ugly fact"
And the fact is that the house work
ed like As Trojans Tuesday afternoon
and cleaned up an awful mess of the
calendar. They railroaded the live
stock bills. all 10 of them, in a man
ner that would have credited the
Cannon machine in its palmiest days.
Not that there was any protest from
the minority. Wesley and Barnes took
turns at eliminating this and that
perfunctory bit of work by unanimous
consent and the only question was
which bill would have the most votes.
It ranged from Al to 40 accordingly
as the members were in and out of
the chamber.
They passed to the bill repeating
the permission to De Baca county to
bond herself for $50. 600 to build a
courthouse and jail as the people
down there, want a special election
to vote more money than that; they
passed a bill whereby a juryman can
be summoned by the sheriff on a ven
ire by registered mail and a bill
amending the trial and judgment act.
Dan PadiIla was IN the only hard
luck Of the afternoon. He had an in
teresting but innocent looking bill
which regulated the .'trespassing of
herds upon the lands of Others" Dan
evidently knew something unkind was
brlited for he tried to consent to
postpone the bill to next Monday but
was refused coldly. Then the house
motion Of Isidoro Armijo tabled
the bill indefinitely ana fater refused
to consider that action. The bill was
lost by six votes. Mr.. Armijo ex-
afterwards that in the opin.
ion of the slayers the bill would have
put the small cattle and sheep men
Of the state out OF business.
The bill to allow municipal school
districts to issue bonds for purchase
Of sites and erection of buildings was
as was the amended and re-
Vised quo warranto act which is said
Tor the first time to give the state
IN adequate modern statutory proce-
lure along that line.
All in all they passed eight bills
)ut that was not the. extent Of their
sudden display of energy. Baca in |
reduced a memorial asking congress
o permit stockmen to lease lands for
purposes in township rather
han sectional units by exchanging I
ederal and state lands now held alter I
lately with railroad sections, and stat
ng the railroads are ia the attitude
f Barkis. 1t went through without !
objection and this made three for :
iaca in n day and a half too for /
o got out of committee with a favor !
BILE report his bill providing for the !
ubmission of a constitutional amend :
lent authorizing the issuance of GER !
of Indebtedness to the amount :
I $500, 900 to buid an extension on :
ne State Capitol =
Both houses adjourned in honor Of =
he memory of the late Charles A. c
piess, the senate appointing Lieuten-
Mt Governor Pankey, Senators Clark,
onald and the house naming Curns,
alleges, Skeen, Salisch and Mel G
.amirez, Clancy, Romo and Chief 0
Jerk Delgado as the committee to 81
tend the funeral. c
The calendar is now clean for the a
rst TIME this session that there has il
zen a calendar. G'