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Show P0RT0 RICAN LEGISLATURE SHOWS MODERN TENDENCIES SAN .TUA'N. P. R , March IS. The Legislature adjourned today, the clot'k being turned back forty-eight hours. Many important bills were "introduced during the session, nlnoty-four of which became laws. The lottery and cock-fighting cock-fighting bills, the former providing for the allotment of S40.000 a month in prizes, which were Introduced by natives, and passed the House, were killed in executive execu-tive council. The public utilities bill, drafted after that of New York, was passed. Big appropriations for education educa-tion and good roads were made. |