Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-02-21
LARGE BOUQUETS
Of FL0WE Rs ARE
SENT BY WOMEN
To LEGISLATURE
Desks of Presiding Officers
of Both Bodies Beautifully
Adorned, in Recognition
of Stuff Ratification,
SOLDIER SETTLEMENT
BOARD ACT REPEALED
1t Now Seems Likely That
{, {, Young, Chairman
and R, |, BaCa, Clerk,
viii be Paid for Services,

ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Feb. 20.-Prospects
for the creation of a soldier settle
ment board by passage of the house
bill went glimmering this morning
when that body voted down the
bill 32 to 13. The vote followed a
vigorous debate during which it
was asserted that soldier settle
ment act made discrimination in
favor of the soldier farmers and
that it would be many years before
anything tangible would be done
for the soldiers under such an act.
While the house was taking this
action on the new bill, the senate
passed S. B. No. IL, which repeals
the soldier settlement bill passed
by the 1919 legislature. The bill
was passed 19 to /, Senator Chris
man casting the lone vote in favor
of continuing on the statute books
the law which has been declared
unconstitutional by the federal dis
trict court. The house cOncurred in
the passage at it's afternoon session
by a vote of Is aye and none nay.
The bill for the payment of back
salaries to Edward Everett Young,
soldier settlement commissioner,
and r. L. Baca, his deputy, which
was threatened yesterday when the
senate unanimously adopted an un-
favorable report from the finance
committee, came to life again this
morning when Senator Clark
moved a reconsideration of the vote
on the report and succeeded in hav-
ing the bill referred back to the
finance committee, which reported
it out favorably at the afternoon
session.
The senate also passed II, B. IL.
which repeals the income tax bill
enacted by the regular session of
the legislature. II. j. IL, which Gre
ates a commission to study the in
come tax question and appropriates
5000 for expenses. S. B. II, pro-
posed by the finance committee to
reimburse the water reservoir fund
for moneys used by the soldier set
tlement board, and house joint res
olution No /. which asks congress
to define the legal status of the
Pueblo indian. The bill to create
the income tax commission passed
by a vote of 13 to 8, which elimi-
mated the emergency clause.
The action of the governor in
handling the recent coal miners
strike was endorsed by both houses
by their passage of senate joint res
olutiOn No. 2. The democrats in the
senate voted solidly for the meas
ure, while in the house, only two
democrats failed to endorse the
governors stand. Representative
Blanchard of Lincoln urged the
passage of the resolution in the
house in a speech in which he
credited the governor with saving
the state much money and possibly
several lives by his prompt and Wig
orous course. The house, however
later rejected the senate resolution
to ask congress to keep the German
ships.
At the morning session, the
house tried hard to pass H. B. 10,
which is a substitute measure relat-
ing to the public defense. The new
bill appropriates s25, 200 for mobil-
izing the militia in case of an
emergency. The bill carried by a
vote of % to Is, but this was re-
considered, since the vote lacked
the necessary two-thirds to carry
the emergency c use and the state
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