Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-12-28

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SCISSORS IS objected to, lhtr lriehES Jus
thy them ny saying tNaV II eoSlS SO III uG"
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the orgnment Goes around in circle; the
cost of election is great because the fees
are SO large ana the contest Iot 'nelr pos
7esS 'o,i 80 w, ttn oo1t 81 tbo olootior ia
60 2rcat According. to this it may be
better; even for the collectors, to receive
but a reasonable compensation; for then
the office would cease to be Il. prize to be
fought for and an election would entail
no expense.
But the excessive nature of the com
peusation is best seen by comparison
with that OF some of the territorial oth-
Gals. The supreme Judges, who have had
to devote years to study, and ure employ
ed nearly the whole time, receive $4,000;
the governor, whose position necessarily
entails large expense, has $4,000; the sur
vevor general, 81 800; the auditor and
treasurer, both with large responsible
tiles and intricate duties, $4,000 each. All
of these officials have to devote their en-
tire time to their public duties 1t is safe
to say that no sheriff deVoteS one-quar-
ter of his time, the year through, to his
work as collector.
REcoNNEEDAT1
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fixed salaries proPortlohed TO the NaIua-
ton of the respective counties, and III
occnrdonra with the amount Daid for
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/ ments.
/ recommend that the Office OF collec-
tor be separated from that OF Sh9rln
mere Is no reason 'or inc union 70 VI 'n'o %
"Hr'S' l'ey are v , ,a,t I,', af thn
.'',u tm ta,,, Tho
p'r,'H ,'S' v"' " , ~ , ~, coIlector
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cor" io.' "',''' t,t
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leev''t u4'' tiaI oaIroot ,nitb al Twas
county, pu' ''','' '' ".t,' -
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PEI ,eH'' "'',' va ''i' ~ phi phi ogand
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'l'le " VI pliI9 i'iVo wy 'ie"out '' 49,
a'nou"' Ut 'io !" \ anu present q M
iIuu.''Ntu' 10 p,onlpv PaI ''t fnn ,.onann
tons in the large eastern states. and Sc
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If We can at fine same time relieves tn,
territory Of many thousands of dollars o
useless payments, and save our coun
ties from all the evils whlcl
now arise from the political contests 10
these gIlded prizes we shall nave accom-
pHshed a great work
While reforming the collection law
number of leaks for the public none.
can be stopped. At present the collec
tors are paid their travelling expenses 70
bringing the collections to the capita
each month Sometimes they send tn
money by mail and charge the mileage o
their fictitious trip as if they had com
personally In either case the expens
is unnecessary. When the law was mad
, there were no facilities for sending
money, and the only safe method was tt
bring it personally to the capital. Blu
all that has changed. 1t can now be sen
perfectly easily by express, or in checks o
rsalass and from which the territor
S"ouio DC P'oAn'''! 'eiio 'oO'
MEASURES OF RELIEF
E wish to endorse very heartily the rec
ommendation of the treasurer that tn
date for the navment of taxes be mad
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