Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1919-02-27
LEGISLATIVE NOTES
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
1t is rumored that Democratic
members of the legislature will
doubtless call upon the State Council
of Defense for an itemized statement
Of the expenditures of that body dur
ing the prosecution of war measures.
This action, it is said, is to ascertain
whether that body has used the funds
for war work in the advancement of
political purposes within the state.
In what manner this request for
financial statement from the Council
of Defense will materialize is yet un-
known. However, according to Demo-
cratic members of the legislature, it
is felt that the people Of New Mexico
are entitled to a knowledge of the
manner in which the funds of this
body were and are being expended.
What was known as the Checker
board bill met with swift finish in
the legislature on Tuesday, when it
was tabled without ever having been
read, and when motion to reconsid-
er the bill was lost by a handsome
majority. The bill was fragrant
attempt to oppress the small stock
men and the sheepmen by shutting
them out from passage across the al
ternate sections that might be owned
or leased by the bigger companies,
and it was slain with a wholehearted
enthusiasm that wrought the lobby
lists who were working for its pass
age up to state of speechless wrath.
The city of Santa Fe is to have
the use of as many convicts from the
State Penitentiary as it needs for
work on the city streets and parks, if
the bill introduced by R. L. Baca
passes the senate. Baca managed to
jam his bill through the house by a
narrow margin after fight. Under
the terms of the bill the mayor Of
Santa Fe may call on the warden Of
the penitentiary for as many con-
victs as he desires, and by this means
he can secure men sentenced from
all over the state and put them in
chain gang to work on the streets of
the capital city.
A bill introduced in the house on
Tuesday by W. A. Hunter of San
Juan county provides for the building
and improvement of road from
Pennington to Albuquerque, with the
counties through which the road
passes bearing the expense of its con-
struction and maintenance. This
road would open up vast territory
and would link up the rich San Juan
county to the rest of the state of New
Mexico, instead Of making it tribu-
tary to Colorado, as it has been in
the past.
That the flag shall not be desecrat-
ed nor used for other than the pur-
pose for which it has always stood
before the world; that the standard
of liberty and the champion of hu
manity shall not be dragged down to
the level of becoming medium for
advertising purposes, found express
ion this week in House Bill No. 70,
introduced by Mr.. Powhatan Carter,
of Lea County, who would prohibit
it's use in any manner other than the
high purpose of its national dedica-
ton. It's use is also prohibited as a
portion or decoration of any mer-
chandise.
No person shall carry, fly or dis
play in any public place any red flag,
black or any other flag, banner or
emblem OF thing, representing any
organization or order antagonistic or
opposed to the organized federal
government of the United States, ac-
cording to bill offered in the low
er house of the legislature this week
by Mr.. Carter, Democratic member
from Lea county.
The measure, according to Mr..
Carter, is a thrust at the inception
of any organization having Bolshe-
vistic tendencies in the State Of New
Mexico. All red flaggers, or carriers
of such flags, face grave charge un-
der the measure which the Democrat
ic legislator from Lea county has
framed in his support of the national
government.
Democratic members of the House
of Representatives stated to a news
paper reporter today that the lower
house has become a rich field fol
comedy. Mirth provoking situations
arguments and bills liven the hours
of the junior body. The latest com
edy enacted in the lower house is
bill introduced by one of the Span
ish-American members of the major
ity party, providing an eight hou
day for sheep-herders, and settln'
forth their minimum wage at tift.
dollars per month, board to b
thrown in on the side.
Trusting that the senate Will D
the slaughter house in which all un
constitutional and Objectionable Dill
will find their doom, the lower nous
with wild abandon is passing every
thing in sight which has the llterar
form of a bill. :,
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