Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-12
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
The Number and Compensation for
Employees Proves Lively
Discussion.
Mr.. Hadley Becomes Facetious and Is
Called Down by Mr.. Curry
Perea on Lawyers-Many
New Bills.
The Council.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOONS SESSION.


At the beginning of the afternoon ses-
sion of the council, the report Of the COM
mittee on the pensation of employees
was submitted. The committee reported
that the employees and their schedule of
com pensation shall be per day as follows:
Interpreter, IS; translator, So; postmas-
ter, S.; doorkeeper, $4 messenger, So;
porter, So; reading clerk, S.; journal
clerk, IS; assistant chief clerk, IS; assist
ant translator, S.; assistant enrolling and
engrossing clerk, 81; assistant sergeant
alarms, 81; assistant door keeper, ST.;
one copying clerk, 81; assistant journal
clerk, 81; two committee clerks, 81; one
educational committee clerk, 81; one
clerk, committee on to, rltorial instJu-
tions, 81; one finance committee clerk, s.;
four pages, 50 each; one additional COM
mittse clerk, S.; two typewriters, IS.
1t was recommended that the porter DO
exc ffico sweeper.
This joint resolution was reported
| Be it resolved by the council and house
of representatives of the 3lst legislative
assembly of the territory of New Mexico.
! That for tie purpose of expedlting the
business of the present session of the
legislative assembly and for the conven-
ieuce of the members of the council and
house Of representatives and iu view Of
the fact that the officers as prescribed BY
the act of congress of the United States,
providing for the holding of the legisla-
ture IN the territories, are insufficient un-
der the state of affairs existing in the
| tnr -
Resolved, By the council and house of
| representatives, of the 3lst legislative as
sembly, that IN addition to the subordn-
ate offices provided by the act of congress
that there be employed for the conven-
fence and disposition Of business coming
before the said council and house of rep
resentatives the following number and
list of employees who shall receive as full
compensation the amounts per day herein
set forth: Assistant sergeant-at-arms,
ST.; door keeper. S.; interpreter, SIS; as
sistant Interpreter, SO; translator, S.;
assistant translator, s.; journal clerk, S.;
reading clerk, Is; copying clerk, 81; as
sistaut copying clerk, So; assistant en-
rolling clerk, ~; assistant engrossing
clerk, 81; clerk judiciary committee, ST.;
clerk fnance committee, 81; clerk peni-
Tertiary committee, 81; porter, 50; mes
senger. SO; clerk of committee on educa-
ton, S.: typewriter, S.; expert type
writer, S.; general committee clerk, 81;
general committee clerk, 81; assistant
chief clerk, IS; assistant door-keeper, S.;
postmaster, 50; four pages, So each;
clerk of committee on counties, 81; gen
eral committee clerk, 81; assistant gem
eral clerk, III.
| Mr.. Hadley, the Republican member of
the committee submitted minority re-
port recommending employment and
payment on the terms and in the num-
bers mentioned of the follw1ng: One in
terpreter, So per day; one translator, Sc
| per day; one assistant translator, 81 per
day; one assistant enrolling clerk, 81 per
| day; one reading clerk, SIS per day; one
postmaster, 60 per cent of all stamps
cancelled by him; one doorkeeper rs
cents per day when he is kept in the
council chamber with extra allowance for
hack fare when he is req uired to carry it
home to keep it; one assistant doorkeeper
only Is cents per day as there is NO door
yet provided for him to keep; one mes
senger, SIS per mile, limited to So per
| "och, oHo po'poIs oo CcAUS poC toA lOt III
freight and s71a cents per ton for out
freight; no allowance to be made for
stationery and supplies carried off by
other employees and their friends; one
journal clerk recommended to mercy at
the hands of the chief clerk, the enroll.
ing and engrossng clerk provided by
the government of the United States for
this honorable BODY az we'll as to til.
mercy of assistant enrolling clerk here.
matter provided for.
"One assistant journal clerk, recon
meuded to the journal clerk for honor
able mention. One enrolling clerk, Is
cents roll with 10 cents n roll additional
contingent upon our success in complete.
ly rolling the territorial treasurer. One
assistant sergeant-at-arms, rs cents pei
day when in artillery service; if found
guilty of trea- on he shall be hung il
Great Britain with loss Of pay until tht
32d assembly convenes. One copying
clerk, Is cents per day with the hope
that he will not become a dipsomaniat
after the public teat. Two extra com
mittee clerks, also one educational com