Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-05
HINTS OF BRIBERY AND
CHARGES OF BAD FAITH
MADE IN STATE SENATE
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De. They were Carmody, LutA
Macstas, Montana, A. l.. OterO,
Quintana and Ramires.
With the session ending March
u, the house adjourned this after
noon until 10 o'clock Monday
morning. This leaves but six
more working days. Facing this
condition, the house adjourned it's
morning session without having ac-
complished anything, as q mark Of
respect to President Harding. For
a half hour after the opening of
the afternoon session, the house
members fdled while the Tucumcari
Boy Scout band, here for the Santa
Fe automobile show, demonstrated
its skill
Representative Bent, of Quay
cCunty, took the chair while the
band from his county was in action
and Wade, of San Juan, suggested
that the chair call for three cheers
for Harding and the Boy Scout
band.
At the morning session the legis-
ators had We'd with each other in
lating the new national admins
tration, so in the afternoon How
ard, of Roosevelt county, intro
duced a resolution commending
former President Wilson. This
was adopted by a rising vote, with
out any sign of enthusiasm, even
from the democratic members.
OterO Calls For SDccd.
In a plea that the house speed up
and get something done before the
legislative term closes, NJ. A. Otero,
Jr, Of Santa Fe, moved that a num-
Der of bills be called up. They
constituted important legislation
and included some of the republic
can platform pledges, he explained
They were house joint resolution
80, extending the powers of the
corporation commission; the sub
tute for joint resolution SO on the
land commission; the senate's sub
stitute for Joint resolution 4, which
is the budget bill, and the change
in Legislative dates and the time of
the governors inauguration; senate
bill H. to send women prisoners
to Canon City, Colo; senate bill
IA, the administrations road tax
law; senate bill 50, the juvenile
court law; senate bill 81 on hours
of women's employment, and SEN
ate bill 81, the guardianship law.
Nothing put Over Yet.
Otero assured the minority that
he was trying to slip nothing over
ON them and received the response
from Howard that they hadn't put
anything over yet.
After wasting some time with
Joint resolution 35 and reading it,
it was learned that the bill had not
been printed. The committee sub
stitute for senate joint resolution
No. was passed and will go back
to the senate for concurrence. This
fixes the beginning of the COVER
nOr's term Us December /. and the
opening of the legislative term as
the first Tuesday in February. The
bill sending women prisoners to
Canon City, Colo, was passed, AZ
to 0. Senate bill "A, authorizing
tax levies for Grant and Sierra
counties, was passed. 80 to 0. Sen
ate bill "a. the administration
guardianship law passed, 81 to O.
Among the measures introduced
today were joint resolution 40. re-
moving the two term limit for
county superintendent joint res
olution Al. which authorizes the
submission of constitutional
amendment to grant the $4,000
tax exemption to former soldiers.
This was placed on third reading
and passed by a unanimous vote
under suspension of the rules.
0ther House Bills.
Other house bills introduced
We're: 31G. by Nevares, to prohibit
importation of narcotics; 315. by
Roehl, to amend wOrkmen's COM
pensation act; 314. by Garcia, Baca
and Roehl, to furnish free text
books in grammar schools; SOL, by
Brock and Beatty, in re county
seats; 302. by Puryear, to prevent
waste of water from pipe lines;
303, by Baca, in the matter of as
sessments in cities and towns; 304, |
by Baca, TO provide stenographers
for district attorneys; 305. by Baca, |
abOlishing Mora county and Great |
ing a new county of Mora; 30G, by |
Griego, defining a felony; 307. by |
Laws and Griego. requiring invesu- |
cations by peace officers; 3OS, by |
Clancy, amending section of
chapter 81 Of the 1915 laws; 900,
by Baca. providing licenses for l
dances; 80. regulating hours and
of employment of wom-
en- and children; 81. providing an
312. by Baca. to pre-
serve purity of elections; 313. by
GallegOs, creating highway in
Among the new bills introduced
in the senate this afternoon was
one by Senator j. +. Reinburg, de-
signed to insure that the money
granted to charitable institutions
do the work for which it was in
tended. 1t regulates expenditures
for orphans and indigents and pro-
yiGes that expenditures for orphans
shall not exceed so cents per day
each and that the sum for indigents
shall not exceed $3.50 each.
Resolution by Reinbur9.
Senator Reinburg also intro
duced senate joint resolution %,
for an amendment to the
state constitution which would give
the legislature power to regulate
and control the state Institutions,
such as the penitentiary. reform
school and others.
The senate this afternoon passed
senate bill 1906. extending the com
mission form of government toI
cities of the state. 1t also passed
house bill 1919, requiring abstract
ors to give surety bonds.
The house resolution relative to
the memory of Champ Clark was
passed by the senate with rising
vote. In the house Howard pro-
rosed0 a resolution extending to
Woodrow Wilson commentator
for his achievements as command
er-in- chief of the forces of this /.
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