Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-03
BURSJJM AS LEADER ALLOWED
TO HELP SWELL THE LIST
Names and Supposed Duties of Men Who
Get the Pay~~Upon Present Basis Pay
roll for Session Will Exceed $4,000

/ continue the graft, and who have
stepped aside and refused to name
employees. But the others still in the
majority and still under the guidance
of the old machine system, have
promptly filled the vacancies.
The original house cacus agreement
was for forty-eight employees. This
agreement has been broken because
of the demands of the machine, or the
remnant of it, that their hangers-on
be cared for. BY organizing the house
and having a majority of the votes in
the republican caucus, the machine
has been able to perpetuate the sys-
tenn and the machine is responsible
for the violation of the caucus agree
ment; for there is Mr.. Bursum with
his six employees, and the vacancies
not filled by members, filled by the
machine to overlooking, so that 1t Is
now necessary to still further swell
the payroll in order to obtain capa-
BILE workmen and women to do the
work of the house.
The house payroll, as 1t now stands
Should it so stand through the session
| will amount to more than $4,000, as
the tables below will show.
In the council the original caucus
agreement was for twenty-six en-
ployes. This agreement has been
maintained This is two employees for
each member and two in addition. OF
these twenty-six employees probably
sixteen are necessary and capable and
efficient people who are doing the
work for which they are paid. But es-
timating the average pay of these
twenty-six employees of the council
at 81 per day which is low, and it is
shown that the council payroll for
Z I. 4.-k.. .
and that the payroll for the two
/ houses on the present basis will ex-
ceed $4,000 for the session.
How are these extra employees to be
| paid? 1t remains to be seen.
1t is a safe statement to make that
If they knew how a majority of the
members of both houses would reduce
this list to one composed only of caps
able and necessary employees. But the
mem bers do not know how. The em-
ployes have come down, they have
been placed on the payroll through
the dominance of the machine. and
they refuse to go home.
There is only one way to break up
this graft and that is to break up the
system which fosters and sustains it..
| There is sentiment enough in both
houses to do this very thing. today.
but the resolution is not yet at hand.
So that 1t may be clear in the minds
! of the people Just who are the extra
employees of the legislature. for what
they are employed, how much they
are paid, and how capable they are
| of doing the work to which they are
supposedly assigned-and how neces-
sary, there Is given below list of the
extra employees of the house, the as
signment, and rate of pay per day, to-
! gether with some interesting calcu-
lations and totals. The names of all
extra employees of the house are given,
| save the six allowed to Mr.. Bursum.
These six names have thus far been
carefully kept out of sight and will
not become public until the first pay
roll is passed, when 1t Is likely that
the extra employe question will come
| in for considerable earnest attention,
in and out of the assembly. Following
is the house list
Henry s. Allison, committee
clerk i..s....s....... 4.OO
tSamuel Relns, committee clerk 400
pCrecencio Padilla, copying
clerk ............,.... 4.OO
FBenjamin L. Lujan. copying
| clerk ...,..,,-....... 4,UU
EVenceslado Roybal, door
Keeper .,...,,.......... 400
KJuan ]. Romero, assistant
doorkeeper confinement. 400
kAleJandro Mares, committee
clerk ,.................. 400
tFrancisco Sanchez. committee
clerk .................... 400
fMrs. Il. Dixon. stenographer. 500
IDavid Baca, assistant sergeant
| at arms ............t 400
ICipriano Vigil assistant door
/ httDtI fsVV
kSantiago Martinez, dookeeper 400
~. d. Martinez, messenger ...! 200
kAntonio Valdez messenger. 200
W. V. Gallegos, assistant SER
geant at arms .'......,..... 4.OO
kFredico Baca, committee clerk 400
ri. L. Chaves, translator. ..... ZOO
,YH. l.. Ortiz. interpreter. ... zoo
PBartolo Bustos, committee
clerk ........,........,. 400
m. f. Sena, interpreter ...... zoo
"a. Padilla, assistant door
keeper ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 400
VI. Mirabal. committee clerk. 400
Thomas Werner, committee
clerk ........ ..s....,....-. 900
Fred Fisher, committee clerk 400
Pablo ]. Trujillo. assistant SER
geant at arms ............. 400
ID. j. Garlic, doorkeeper ..... 400
Martin Kelly. committee clerk 400
francisco Apodaca, assistant
sergeant at arms ...... 400
fJose Gonzales, translator ... zoo
wv. ]. Warden, assistant door
4 keeper .......... 4Ot
"a. ID. Young, stenOgrapher. SOC
4 August Koch. committee clerk 400
P1famOn Chavez. messenger -. zoe
tPedro p. Sanchez. doorkeeper 400
kCiellio Valverde, messenger. zoo
Idlam0n Herrera, committee
clefk ..t...'..ss...s SUI