Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-14
What the Present State Of Legislation in the
33d Assembly Indicates.

in Las Vegas. the organ Of the corrupt
Union party combine in San Miguel
county. that was repudiated by the peo-
pie of that county in great shape last
November. grows historical and frantic
at the supposition that the 33d leglsla-
tive assembly will raise the salaries OF
all county and territorial officials, in
fact will double them and will swamp
the people and the tax payers under
greatly increased burdens of taxation.
In a column TRADE. our more or less es-
teemed contemporary shrieks and hoWls
and yelps and news and scratches and
bellows and roars and cries; calling on
the dear people (the same people whom
| Union party officials in San Miguel
have robbed and plundered for years
past), Ito rise in their'might, to hold pub
lie meetings and to raise cain in general
and in particular, concerning the sup
positions, spooks. ghost stories and the
like concerning the action of the lcgiS-
lative assembly already had or to be
had.
ANYTHING for an issue and an issue
must be made somehow and in some
manner. That no facts underlie this
issue matters not to the men who con-
troll this contemporary of ours. Such
minor considerations are swept,away like
chaff before the wind. The paper does
not seem to be built that way; truth and
veracity cut no ice, as long as an issue
is to be made up. The dear people must
be aroused; there must be agitation;
there must be turmoil and strife else
their vocation would be gone and they
would have as much to do, as a painted
ship upon a painted ocean.
So far but one bill increasing salaries
of county officials has become law ano
that is the one increasing the mileage o
!, sheriffs to 12H cents per mile while ser
!, wing process and allowing them so cent,
l per day for feeding prisoners. No salar.
t of any territorial official out of the ter
ritorial treasury has yet been increased
: There is Il bill pending increasing tn
/ salary of the %adiutant general iron
$500 to 81 200 per mum and there i
another bill pending increasing the sala
t ries of county school superintendent II
certain counties and allowing the asses
sors Il larger per centage OF taxes asses
sed and collected as fees. 1t is elaine,
by these officials that these measure
l are Just and right. However there is II
certainty of these becoming law an
there certainly has been no wholesal
increase in salaries and none such
l contemplated.
: Making an issue, based upon nothin
but misrepresentation and suppression Q
I facts or falsely coloring facts will not g
/ down. There are too many decent an
self respecting papers that will show II
, this policy in it's true light and and Ell
tighten the people fully thereon.
Howling and yowling will not max
an issue that will last or that can b
, successful.
=, Statements like the following copie
. from the columns of this contemporar
of ours are not born out of the fact
and are untrue: ''but the present stat
of legislation indicates, the most eXtraN
agant, uniustitiable and ineXcusabl
waste of the peoples money. Indeed til
present stage of legislation indicate
nothing of the kind. Quite the reverst
"the present state of legislation,
specially should the Duncan revent
bill and the Bursum refunding b1
pass and become laws, indicates tina
the territorial financial system will b
bettered UNNECESSARILY in every dire'
+ ton and that much money will be save
e the tax payers.
n Parading under a lamb skin will ne
90 down with the sensible people {
New Mexico and the attempt to pla
$ this old game will end in ignominiou
g failure.