Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1919-03-06
LEGISLATIVE NOTES
Special Correspondence.

DSIOlC " wi po VI opCCldl iiCWo
paper reporters who met ir
this city last Saturday Cover
nor Larrazolo set into motion
certain cogs of publicity which
are calculated to justify his ed
ucational plan before the peo-
pie of the state, and to pacify
the opposition to the point of
making less severe the grilling
which seemed in the path of
the bi-lingual bill in the legis-
lature.
Although certain press or
gans of the state have sought
to explain the governors edu-
cational plan, it is held by most
educators that the governor
has not receded from his de-
termination to force Spanish
into the states schools, and
that the interview which was
given to the public last week
was but a seance of camou-
flage on the part of the party
newspapers. That the COVER
nor is determined to force his
point it is said became evident
during the course of the inter-
view with the newspaper re-
porters when the states eXecu-
tive is alleged to have become
almost vitriolic in his denuncia-
ton of opposition to his educa-
tional plan.
That an open game of poll
tics is being played by Govern
or Larrazolo in his administra-
tion of the affairs of state is a
matter of his own declaration
according to an interview
granted by the governor in El
Paso recently.
81 would like to tell a man
who points to a man who does
not play politics in an office
like mine that he is, well-a
damn fool" so states the El
Paso Herald in reciting the in
terview of Governor Larrazolo.
'T am playing politics, and |
said that in so many words and
in plain language to the New
Mexico press that met in Santa
Fe the other day" so the gov
ernor is alleged to have con-
cluded in his interview. Lead
ing to the foregoing statement
was an editorial in the Pass
City paper accusing Governor
Larrazolo of playing politics"
solely in his appointments.
Soon the men who have been
drawn into war will return,
and the matter of what their
welcome shall be is the matter
of serious consideration in
Washington, according to Con-
gressman w. B. Walton.
"Whether or not our welcome
to the returning soldier will be
one of sentiment only or will be
one in which his future welfare
will occupy a major portion of
our consideration" now occu-
pies the attention of Congress
man Walton. In the solution
of the vast problem of what
the nation can do for it's re-
turning heroes, many wonder
full projects are in view, not
the least among them being
the Rio Grande drainage prop
osition in the reclamation OF
many acres Of fertile land in
the sunshine state.
If the present plan of the
Committee of Irrigation at
Washington, of which Con-
gressman Walton is an active
member is brought to sue
cessful conclusion and there is
reason to believe it will be, it
means a great project for New
Mexico behind which Con-
gressman Walton and Senator
Jones are putting every effort.
Waiting ninety days for pay
in these days of H. c. L. has
been the cloud that has hover
ed over the dispositions of all
county officials of New Mexico
for many moons. Through the
clouds now bursts the light
however, for Senator Mers,
fielder, Democratic member
from Curry county, in Bill No
16, provides that all county Of
ficials shall be paid monthly
together with all their depu
ties. The same bill also pro
vides that salaries of county
superintendent OF schools
shall likewise be paid MONTH!
out of the general school funt
of the respective counties
Senator Mersfelder's CORE
spondence is rather volumln
Gus at present.
Right after the discordan
elements in the house had ap
parently smoothed out and th'
Republican machine had beel
put in fine running order, tn
entire organization blew ~
again when the Nepotlsm Bill