Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-05

Boasted Economy Great Fake Big Deficit Confrons
Superintendent Littrell

and legal by the fake reformers and
their crowd.
Prison Strong Box Almost Empty.
AR examination of the financial rec
ords OF the prison discloses very bad
financial condition in the accounts of
the institution. An examination of the
official records in the Offices of the
Territorial auditor and treasurer con-
clusiyely prove so. The maintenance
fund is a special case in point This
fund mas been used to date for the
, present fiscal year as follows:
First quarter, $13,034.47 second
quarter, $6,SS6.95, and month of June,
$2,4S4.25, making total to date of
$22,405.67. There are now outstanding
accounts amounting to about $1,000
which must be added to the above sum
showing that about $4,000 out of the
appropriation of $4,000 for the pres
ent fiscal year have been expended
up to date although but seven months
OF the fiscal year have elapsed. Ii the
Hagerman-Trelford rate of expendi-
ture is kept up for the remaining five
months over $4,000 will be required
from the tax payers for the support
and maintenance Of the penitentiary
! during the tifty-eightn fiscal year.
That great economist and magnifi-
cent administrator Trelford as super
intendent of the prison has used about
so per cent of the maintenance fund
in about seven months and the new
superintendent is confronted with the
problem of maintaining the institution
for the remainder OF the fiscal year,
five months, with $l,400 per month.
while Trelford used up the funds in
seven months at the rate of $4,000 per
month. That is what the fax, reform
Ex-Governor called great economy
and splendid administration
Comparison Of Expenditures in For
mer Years.
1t appears from a reference to the
penitentiary reports of recent years
that the total expenses of the insti.
tuition were as follows: 1903, 70,400;
1904, $4,000; 1905, $S6,2O0; 1906, s97,-
900. The record for the first seven
months of the present fiscal year dis.
close the following figures: Expendi.
lures from maintenance fund $22,-
405.67; bills payable for maintenance,
about $1,000; conyicts' earnings fund,
$22,711.64; road fund, $4,42331; cur
rent expense fund, $9,099.39, making a
total of $65,64O0l.
Accordingly were the methods of
Trelford to be carried on for the next
five months as they were used during
the first seven months OF the present
fiscal year the expenses would foot up
Sill 600, very great sum when com
pared with the number of employees
and convicts, and indeed one beyond
all precedent and beyond all reason
At that rate the maintenance Of the
prison for the present fiscal year
would cost the tax payers--not Trel
ford, because he does not pay any
taxes and has no property mere and
not the tax dodgers of the fake re-
form stripe but the real property own
ers and tax payers, $4,000 more than
ever before in one year and with alb
solutely no corresponding benefit to
show in any direction. At that rate
the prison this year would cost $685.
900 more than it did in 1905 and SAL,
600 more than in 1904, and prior
years.
| Poor Excuse Better Than None.
The fake reform Ex-Governor and
his man from Kansas, the Albuquer-
que Morning Coyote and it's water sup.
ply company gang of tax dodgers will
set UP great howl that it has been
the custom in the prison administra.
, tion to pay for instance some bills
in 1904 in 1905, and some of 1905
in 1906 and SO on, but such accounts
II SO paid will be found "even up
transactions" for period of four or
five years. 1t is also being claimed by
the same outfit with much sound OF
trumpets, clanking of symbols and
columns after columns of slush in the
Albuquerque Morning Coyote that
many permanent improvements have
been made during the incumbency
Of the Office Of superintendent by Trel
ford. These claims are the merest
moonshine and are not in any way
substantiated by facts or permanent
improvements visible to the eye of the
observer. They exist only lin your
minds eye, Horatio,' but are not or
terra firma within the limits Of the
penitentiary grounds
( Neither the permanent improve
ments made nor the fact that there
are few more convicts in the prison
4 during the last few months than II
/ former times can or will excuse ths
largely increased expenditures,