Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-16
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VI
Santa Fe, March l5.-Deserted by
their democratic allies, the women of
New Mexico lost their battle for the
ballot in the lower house of the leg
is!ature this afternoon. The senate
resolution, introduced by Senator
Clark, which passed the senate yester-
day, was voted down, with 20 ayes and
l6 nays, Twelve members were alb
sent. OF the absent members, eight
were democrats. seven of whom had
formerly voted in favor of submission
Sfsfhe spsstlan.' EewaFeT, hs,. an the
democrats been present and voted as
expected, the measure would have
still lacked the necessary three
fourths IN the house The republican
organization made a hard fight to
pass the resolution, but the settled
conviction of a majority of the Span
Americans proved too strong for
the arguments of Judge Barnes and
Curns to fulfill their party pledge in
spite of their personal convictions,
The vote showed three changes in fa-
vor of equal suffrage. Dan Padilla Of
Bernalillo county not only voted for
1t this time, but made a strong speech
IN favor Of submission. lie declared
himself as opposed to the principle,
but IN favor of standing by the plat
form of his party. Romero also
changed and he said he believed in
parties as well as individuals keeping
all pledges made Sanchez, who voted
against the Hull resolution, today
voted for the senate measure. The
vote follows.
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chard, Carter of Socorro, Curns Ep-s
stein. Faircloth, Hanson, Hunter of
san Juan, Llewellyn, 4inwood, Loba- /
to, Melhop, Padilla of Bernailo, Roh-
erson, Romero, Rutherford, Sanchez,
Tamony, Vargas and Sedillo.
Nays-Aranda, De Almond Clancy
Gonzalez Griego, Gurule. Lee, Masca-
renas Medina, Ortego, Otero, Padilla
of Socorro, Ramirez, Roma, Wesley
and Winston.
Absent--Carter of Lea, Herbert.
Howard, Hunter of Quay, Huh, Liv-
ingston, Lynd. Norris. Padilla of Col
fax, Trujillo and Turner.
Both houses simply dragged
through the session today, The
only thing of interest was the
fight in the house over the suffrage
resolution The senate was in recess
all day while the conference commit
tee worked on the general appropria-
ton bill. Most OF the senators visited
the house and enjoyed the flow of
oratory while the suffrage bill was
under debate
The chamber began to take on
bare look early in the day The demo-
cratic members seemed seized with a
longing for the flesh pots of home,
and one by one the seats on the right
side of the house were vacated. Some
did not show up at all today, and
others slipped out during recesses.
Most of the minority members re-
NAMED to witness the presentation of
the gift to Speaker Sedillo. Mehlhop,
for the minority, presented the speak
er with a chest of silver and paid a
high tribute to the speakers fairness
and his consideration of the minority
members. Judge Barnes, speaking for
the majority, presented a silver tea
set, and Speaker Sedillo made a short
talk in which he thanked the MEM
bers and praised both the majority
and the minority for their patriotic
service during the session.
The house passed the following bills;
s. b. No. IS, establishing a state
laboratory at the A. and NJ. college.
S. b. No. 66, fixing the pay of court
stenographers at $40 a day.
s. Il. No. 81. providing for the can
collation. of animal peits
II. r. No. 4O6 making the state en-
gineers records evidence in court
s. r. No. ~, eradication of insect
pest
s. R. No. 2l5, child labor law.