Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-10-22
BLUFF WONT WIN,
Commissioner WHY'S Grows Hot Under
the Collar and Declines to An
swer Tax Payer,
information Wanted on Some Grave Pub.
lie QuestIons--The Undergraduates
Has the Law Been Com
piled WITH

County Commissioner WHY'S declines
to answer the interrogatories put to him
through the New MEXICAN few days ago
bv citizen signing himself Tax Payer"
These interrogatories are five in number
and as follows!
LIST. Since you have been county COM
missioner has the board ever made de-
mand upon Sheriff Chavez for settle
ment of his aCcounts2
I'd If the board of county commission
ers has made such demand, when was
1t made, who voted for it, and was the
settlement had with the sheriff?
Sd. Snce you have been county COM
missioner, how many settlements have
been made by the collector and sheriff?
4th. If such settlement was made,
did you as county commissioner vote for
the same and was it satisfactory to you?
9Th. During the past three wears has
Collector Chaves made any settlement
with the county board of his accounts,
and if 80, when, aud did you vote for it,
and if 80, was it satisfactory to you?
These are certainly matters of great
pnbIic concern about which the voters of
this county have right to demand infor
nation from their public servants.
The New MEXICAN is in receipt of a
communication from County Commits
sioner WHY'S Democratic candidate for
re-election) and publishes it herewith
To the Editor of the New Mexican.
CERRlLLos, N. M, Oct. 20, 1890 My
attention has been called to an article in
your paper of the 10th instant signed
Tax Payer" and addressed to me as
county commissioner, asking certain ques-
tons regarding the action of the board of
county commissioners toward the sheriff
and collector of this county, and how |
voted in the premises. wish to say that
am not in the habit Of replying to ques
lions asked in the public press by a cow
ardly wheel p who is too dishonest to sign
his name, but if any respectable citizen of
Santa Fe county desires anv information
about any o. the public business of this
county | will be only too glad to answer
any questions, and give any information
in my knywledge, If he will call on me at
the clerks office when | an in Santa Fe,
or at my home at Cerrillos. Or, if the
questions are put in the press in a proper
manner and signed by any citizen, will
respond most cheerfuIy, as it is my duty
to do. | We uld suggest, however, that
before Mr.. Taxpayer signs himself as
such, he had better pay his taxes as well
as his own private debts. Respectfully,
GEO. l.. WHY'S.
1t will be observed that County Com
missioner WHY'S is inclined to lose his
But that doesn't serve to
ture, put to him in all earnestness by a
citizen who pay s taxes on property TWEEN
ty times greater than the amount at
which County Commissioner Wyllys is
assessed-viz: $54Ol
The question is whether or not the fol- |
lowing law (section 1897, Compiled Laws
OF so, has been complied with by the
Democratic county board Of which MIR. !
WHY'S is member:
ut shall be the duty of the collector to
make a settlement semi-annually with
The board of county commissioners, at
their first meetings in January and July
and he shall at such times furnish to the
board an itemized report OF the transaC-
tons OF his office for the previous period
of six months. He shall also make to
the board detailed statement OF all the
double, improper assessments and of the
taxes, setting forth the facts
and verified by his affidavits; and the
county commissioners shall at such meet
ings, or, as soon thereafter as possible,
pass upon such accounts, allowing or re-
j+cung the same, and enter an order OF
record accordingly"