El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-03-13
Armijo County Measure
Defeated by Vote Of
rs to'30
POOR MAKESFiIF-T
SAYS BLANCHARD
Special Committee On
Appropriation
Legislation

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the most time taken up on any Ont
proposition Tuesday was that In dis
cussing the Armijo primary bill. Il
had been found impossible in the
Republican caucus to secure materia'
support for the state wide primary
bill introduced by Speaker Sedl.lc
and it was finally agreed that the
steering committee steuld report uu'
the bill of Isidoro lArmijo of Dora
Ana county, which provides for op
tional party primaries to nominate
county officers on petition Of ten
per cent of the voters, Blanchard
said it was a poor makeshift of .
bill and, as he understood it, did no.
have the teeth in it that the caucu
had agreed to incorporate. Carter
made the star speech against the
bill, saying that primaries had proved
to be a fallacy, that they put a pHe'
MUM on demagogues on the one
hand and on rich men on the otner
as aspirants for office, that they re.
suited in the nomination OF candi.
. dates by minorities of parties ami
that they would serve to d~isfranchise
residents of thinly settled portions OF
counties.
Mehlhop Of Chayes moved to SUB.
stitute his own primary bill but bis
motion was tabled. Speaker Sedilso
in supporting the bill from the flo )r
said ii was a lame duck as COM
pared to his measure but, because his
Bernalillo county constituents had
declared in favor of a primary, he
would support it as the best he
could get at this session. Barnes sail
he would not vote for the bill for
the very reason which led the speak
er to support it, because it was in
adequate.
Robertson made an unexpected
speech against the bill. He said he
could get ten Q cent of the people
any time to agree to repeal the Bible
and adopt the Koran, that he be-
lieved the primaries had proven y
mistake, that they resulted in in
competent men being elected to Of
flee, that it would bankrupt any man
to make a school house canvass FIR
primary nomination for a state office
and therefore he was against 1t.
Carter moved to make 40 per cent
of the voters of a county requisite
as signers of the petition for a pri-
mary and this, when amended to real
20 per cent was adopted by the
house. Mascarenas sought a post
ponement Of action but was voted
down 26 to 10 and Clancy then
moved to strike the eDacting clause
from the bill which carried 2S to
19, the vote being rs follows:
Ayes-Republidans: Amanda, Barnes
Blanchard, A. III. Carter, Clancy,
Curns, Griego. Gurule, Hanson, Lee,
Lobato, M~ascarenas, Medina, Ortegc,
Otero, Telesfor Padilla, RAMIREZ,
Romero, Romo, Tamony, Trujiilo,
Vargas and Winston, 90; Democrats:
Gonzales, w. A. Hunter, Livingston,
Robertson and Turner 5--total %.
neutrality-suspicious.: Armijo, lie
Almond, Baca, Faircloth, Llewelly1,
8; Democrats; Powhatan Carter, Ep-
stein, Herbert, Howard, @. e.. Hunt
er, Hull, Lynd, Mehlhop, Norris,
Rutherford and Veseley, 11--total 10.
The appropriation bill for the In
sane Asylum, the Deaf and Du.rb
school and the Blind institute for
purposes passed Al to 8 latter Hsr-
bert OF Chaves had made an unsuf-
cessful effort to add $4,000 for
building a hospital for the Military
Institute at Roswell.
Gasoline Tax Adapted.
The governors bill putting a tax
of two cents on each gallon OF gas
oline was passed rs to 16, the first
to lack the necessary two-thirds for
emergency clause, and the whole
saier's license was cut to ten dollars
and that Of the retailer to two.
Bills introduced.
Bills introduced by unanimous con
sent were:
By A. II. Carter, relating to mum
icipal ownership Of public utilities;
by DE Vargas, for the relief of grtst
millers, cattle raisers and miners;
by Barnes, providing for compulsory
school attendance and for part time
schools in certain communities and
by Clancy, fixing costs in criminal
cases.
The bill making an appropriation
for the deficiency in printing and
supplies for the third state legisla-
ture passed 40 to 3.
Herbert OF Chaves then sought 10
take away from the steering COIN
mittee his bill permitting the diver
sion OF water streams. This is the
bill which was sent back to cotn-
mittee when Attorney Hawkins OF
the E. p. g. S. W. thought it would
seriously affect the controversy over
the waters Of the Ruidoso, since5
settled. Herbert got nowhere, as
oliver Lee Of Otero county was in
the chair and ruled that the motion
was defeated when Herbert moved
to suspend the rules and not permit
ting a roll call on Incorporation.
Dog License.
Hereafter it is going to cost real
money to keep a dog whether he is
a Picking or a Pomeranian or just
plain cur as the Sanchez bill i'm
posing a license passed 81 to 6. the
vote on the bill to establish q tree
county scholarship in the state agri-
cultural college was passed 80 to
s.
The protest sent by Governor La
razolo to the director general Of rail-
roads was read in which the gov
ernor protests the importation Of old
Mexico labor, displacing American
citizens in San Miguel county az
workers for the Santa re railroad
and the judiciary committee was in