Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-18
GASOLINE TAX BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
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discharge papers of eX-service men
free of charge; house bill 154, fix
ing fees for probate court clerks;
house bill 1876, permitting sales OF
unclaimed articles Of personal
property by municipalities and SEN
ate bill II, relative to the unlaW-
full selling of mortgaged property
Both houses Of the legislature
will meet tomorrow morning.
The senate INDUCED in q vigor-
Gus debate this morning over the
passage of house bill 81, provid-
ing for the repeal of the 1919 law
by which vehicles carrying more
than 1000 pounds were to be-
equipped with wide tires. The. bill
came from committee with a ia
vorable report and was Immediate
ly taken up for consideration.
Sellers Opposes Bill.
Senator Sellers opposed the bill
since it was opposed to the Dur-
poses of the state highway COM
mission. Senator Phillips insisted
the wide tire law was detrimental
to the small farmer. Senators linn
and Martinez also spoke in favor
of the law, while Senator Ayres,
chairman of the senate roads and
highways committee, bitterly OPP
posed the repeal Of the 1919 law.
He insisted that the small ftiTmer
did not use a wagon carrying more
than 1000 pounds and that the bill
proposed for enactment now would
ruin the roads which the state had
been building, Upon final roll call,
the measure passed, IA to 4, Ayers,
Grantham, Sellers and Morrison
voting no"
House bill 40, to regulate junk
dealers, was passed after nine sem
ate amendments had been added
Among the new bills was one by
Abeyta permitting the transfer of
women prisoners to the prisons of
any other state if they would con-
sent to the transfer. HUI intro-
duced two bills, one relative to the
payment of wages due discharged
employees and the other requiring
a shelter for car repairers.
Marriage II. c. l.. Tabled.
In the house, committee substi-
tute for, house bill 70, increasing
up for final passage. Upon mo-
ton of +. l.. Baca of Santa Fe
county, it was laid upon the table
Indefinitely. Committee substitute
for house bill so was referred to
the committee on finance.
House bill IS relative to procla-
nations in municipal elections was
passed unanimously as was house
bill 60, regulating justices of peace
sitting as police judges and re-
quiring them to turn in their fines
to the city. The following senate
bills were also passed by the
house: nine, repeating income tax;
SO, defining robbery when armed;
43, allowing county commissioners
to grant rights Of way to oil pipe
lines; and rs, setting the time for
the terms of court in the Sixth jul
dicial district. =.
The house adopted an unfavora-
BILE report on senate bill q, the
child labor law and also upon|
house bill 81, for the election oil
police judges:
Among the new bills of the af-
ternoon in the house were 219,
by Clancy. declaring the use sof an
auto without payment a felony;
22O, by M. Baca, proposing al
100000 bond issue for roads,
221, an appropriation for theTe1ief
of the widow of former Governor
E. c. de Baca, and 1926, by Tru-
jillo. preventing discrimination I'M
public places and preventing the
publication of discriminating mat
ter