The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-01-30
NEW MEXICO CITIES HAVE
CONTROL OF OWN TAXES

Santa Fe, N. NJ, Jan. 2S.-With the
introduction on Monday afternoon OF
twenty-four new bills and the pro.
posal of a resolution endorsing the
Susan b. Anthony suffrage amend.
ment, the house Of representatives, op.
Grating for the first time under its
new rules, started its third week with
a rush that surprised those who had
been predicting monotonous session
, w. j. Linwood of Colfax county
was the chief contributing element in
the high record. Mr.. Linwood him
self proposed thirteen bills, which be.
J came house bills 32 to "a inclusive
The suggestions of the Colfax county
representative deal largely with the
present livestock laws, amending those
in regard to branding and prescribing
heavier penalties for wrong branding
The sale of meats is also included in
one proposal.
A. II. Carter, of Socorro county pre-
sented house bill No. SO, an act au-
thorizing county treasurers to turn
over to city, town or village treasurers
the amount paid in road taxes by each
district. This would permit cities to
spend their own road tax money in
stead Of allowing the county boards
to distribute the road work as they see
fit. The bill is of Importance to the
larger towns and cities of the state
and will doubtless be the occasion of
much debate. 1t was referred to the
committee on state, county 4. ID muni-
cipal Indebtedness.
A law against gambling was broach-
ed by w. +. Blanchard, p. Carter and
Coe Howard. 1t stipulates that leach
and every person who shall deal, play
or carry on, or cause to be opened,
whether for hire or not, any game of
faro, monte, roulette, poker, draw
poker, or any banking game or any
other game played with cards or dice,
or other device, or any game played
for money, checks or credit, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor,"
The maximum fines are $500 or six
months in Jail.
Santa Fe, N. NJ, Jan. 2S-Demo-
cratic members of both the Senate and
the House of Representatives exerted
every effort possible last week in be-
half of the stockmen of the state when
they went on record supporting mem
orial to the Regional Director of Rail-
ways, asking that the period of half
rate freight charge on shipments
feed be extended. In view of the fact
that the period of the half rate charge
had about expired and realizing that
the danger of great loss to the stock
raising interests of the state still pre-
vailed in nearly every portion of the
state, Democratic members of both
houses sought prompt action upon the
situation. The result of the memorial
to the Regional Director of Railroads
is that the half rate freight charge
upon all shipments of feed into the
state will be extended sixty days, or
in other words, beyond the time when
there is any danger of loss to the
stockmen of New Mexico.
Many appropriations will be asked
of this legislature for purposes which
are non-essential at this time and may
be dispensed with in view of the strain
of taxation under which the state is
now laboring. Opposition to these
appropriations has found
incipiency in the Democratic ranks of
both houses.
Holding that it is the americaniza-
tion and not Latinization of New Mex.
leo for which the citizenship of the
state should strive, the Democratic
Legislators will no doubt oppose very
strongly the governors plan of COM
schools of the state. Granting that the
in the state where Span
ish is spoken largely should have its
teachers of dual lingual attainments,
the law, it is not felt by democratic !
legislators that Spanish should he plac-
ed on an equal footing with the Eng
lish language in the states schools,
where the objective il would seem from
all educational points of view is high
er degree of development of English /
as Commercial and educational fac
tor. 1t is not through the Spanish |
but through the English language that
the state may hope to hold tbs "place
in the sun" among the other states
of the union, according to Democrat
ic Legislators at the State capitol.