Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-01-11
GOVERNORS FINANCIAL MESSAGE.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
January 10, 1898.


To the Legislative Assembly:
I have the honor to notify you that
have approved council bill No. Q, amend
ing chapters 25 and II, laws of 1891, rela-
tive to poll tax.
That have filed council joint resolu-
ton creating officers of the legislature and
fixing their compensation, and house join:
resolution No. 8, providing for the pay
ment of Legislative employees, in the Of
fee of secretary of the territory, unap.
proved.
The first of these resolutions provides
for the employment of twenty-seven Off
GERS and employees in the house and
twenty-five in the council, at salaries
which amount to $13S each day for the
house, AID $3.50 for the council, being
$263 in all. This is in addition to the
seven officers of each house provided by
U. s. law and paid by the national gov.
eminent. The council has therefore
thirty-two officers and employees for its
twelve members and the house of repre-.
sentatives thirty-four for its twenty -four
members.
Should this extraordinary number OF
officials be continued throughout the SEES.
sion at the salaries named, the total ex.
pense to the territory would be about
$4,000. l believe that every one agrees
both that the number of employees is
very excessive and that the salaries paid
in most cases are unnecessarily large
Arizona, with legislature exactly SINH
lar to that of New Mexico, has been con.
tent with three territorial clerks in each
house at an aggregate salary for the en-.
tire session of 1856; and in Kansas, where
the senate consists of forty and the house
of 1875 members, the senate has twelve
officers and three pages and the house
fifteen officers and'six pages, tho officers
receiving 50 per day and the pages
So, making total expense of
less than 800 per day;
while no good would result from the veto
of a resolution of this character, as to
which almost every member of both
houses is absolutely committed, and in
which political and personal friends OF
nearly all are interested; yet the gov
can not be expected formally to ap-
prove that which in reality he disap.
proves, and have therefore filed it az
above stated. Under the organic act il
will become operative at the expiration
OF January 10.
The chief objection to house joint res.
olution No. s, appropriating money to
pay the employees of the legislature, ia
the form and effect of the appropriation.
We have just been able to get our finan-
cial matters into somewhat systematic
shape, by keeping the fiscal year
separate and the different funds entirely
distinct. But this resolution aims blow
at all such system. The expenses of this
legislature belong to the 43d fiscal year
but by the appropriation clause in this
resolution the treasurer is. ordered to
pay these warrants tout of the appro.
priation for pay of governors rewards
and expenses of serving acquisitions in
the miscellaneous fund of the 4Sd fiscal
year, or out of any other funds, in the dis.
erection of the treasurer, in which there
may be money at the time of the presen.
tation of the warrants"
The available amount in the reward
fund is about $1,000, and In the reouisi.
ton fund about $500, 90 that tho 70.
maiudsr must come from elsewhere. To