New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-03-07
Dozen BILLS PASSED BY LEGISLATURE
S2oOO,ooo ROAD BOND ISSUE FAVORED
Child LABOR and COMPENSATION Bills
ONE MORE WEEK LEFT AND NUMEROUS BILLS WILL
FAIL OF CONSIDERATION BUDGET AND HEALTH
BILLS YET TO COME uP ANOTHER COUNTY LAW
WAS TABLED

| pected on such important matters
as the states expenditures for all
purposes for the next two years,
Many bill. have passed one house
or the other and the contents and
effect of most OF the proposed legi.-
lation is understood by the tegisla-
tors as a result OF study or com.
mittee hearings and reports.
Appointments Confirmed
The senate on Wednesday afternoon
under suspension Of the rules con-
| firmed the appointments previously
made by the governor of Charles
Spripger as member of the state
highway commission, to which posi-
ton he was reaprointed for six
year term having completed with
credit a term OF two years as the
! first chairman of the highway com.
mission as now constituted.
Thomas P. Gable the governors
appointee to the office of state game
warden which Mr.. Gable occupied
some years ago. was also confirmed
by the senate on Wednesday. Joe
Sheridan was approved as state mine
inspector as soon as the appoint.
ment reached the senate.
I The office of insurance commits.
sioner is to be occupied by Remigio
Mrabal of Mckinley county. A bill
in the house designed to abolish the
office and which it was pointed on,
on the floor would leave the insur.
ance companies operating in New
Mexico under practically no form Of
state supervision was defeated in
the house upon the motion Of K. l.
/ Baca. author of the bill. to recall il
from the senate and table it indefi.
nitely.
County Project Loses
Following the failure OF the Curry
county residents to secure support
for proposed county of Larrazolo
with Melrose in the western part OF
Curry county as the county seat, a
second proposed LarrazoIo county
was laid on the table Wednesday
afternoon, after the committee oil
county lines in that body has report.
ed on it. Venceslao Romero of Tor
rance offered the new proposition
which would take "a townsh ;ps from
Torrance, 2l from Guadalupe and l6
from Lincoln, embracing Vaughn,
East Vaughn, Corona. Cedarville
Pinos Wells and Varney, giving a
county with a tax valuation of S.
5OOOO0.
Child Labor Bill
A bill introduced this week by
Blanchard provided fine of from
$50 to $500 or a thirty day Jail SEN
tence for employers of children un-
der l6 in certain lines of work, chill
dren under Is in others, or the em-
ployment of women under Fl at work
that compels them to stand all day
Six days totaling 48 hours a week
is made the MAXIMUM time of em-
ploying children in permitted occupa-
tions. Employers by the terms of
the proposed law would be required
to obtain certificates from school
superintendent to allow :hem to en-
ploy children, and when school is in
session, it would be illegal to have
children at work. The board of
health would be given power to re-
gulate the kind of work youths
under 18 would be permitted to do.
The house passed the workmens
compensation act, which provides
that disability for a period of from
three weeks to $50 weeks must be
paid for by the employer at rates
varying from So to Sl2 weekly; and
in case of death funeral expenses
of SIS may be collected by the de-
pendents of a worker from. his en-
ployer.
Public Health Measure
The house on Wednesday went
into committee of the whole to con-
slider the public health bill being ur-
ged by Holm o. Bursum president
and John Tombs secretary of the
New Mexico health association. The
tax for carrying on public health
work it was informally agreed is to
be cut from one fourth to one eighth
mill, the state board is given more
authority over the local boards, and
vaccination of school children is to
be required once in seven years
rather than every year as originally
written into the bill.
Would Classify Lands
Baird in the senate and Llewellyn
in the house offered laws to classify
all the public land in the state and
place valuations on il.
A senate bill introduced takes up
all the irrigation laws so far enact
ed and practically codifies them into
one law on the subject.
Baird also introduced A till prohi-
biting big employers from requiring
their workers to trade at the COM
pany store.
Baca in the house offered a bill
putting a penalty on fake and mis-
leading advertising, which is called
a misdemeanor.
Baca's soldier memorial bill carry
ing $4,000 for a building was reported
favorably by the house. Baca ais
has a bill authorizing the use of
convict labor to build the scenic
highway from the state capital to
the Pecos country.
Many Other Measures
OF 81 bills introduced up to last
Monday in the house, but IS were
acted, upon. The chances of success
of a mass of other legislation may
therefore be judged. The house bill
for q state law translator however
was accepted by the house after the
bill had been considerably modified
by amendment in the upper house.
Lobato Offered . bill to make the
term Of county officers four years
instead Of two.
Asaisse Lsasus q Natisss
The senate passed . resolutioa Of