Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-22
SAYS The MEAN
POLITICIANS
PUT UP JOB
MR., BEAVEN DECLINES
TO "MEEKlY SUBMIT
In Demand on County Com
misSioners Ex-treasurer Tells
Why the People No Longer
Come Before the Mazuma.

and Wood. yesterday submitted to the
county commissioners of Bernalillo
county a formal demand for the four
per cent commission ON county col
lections which he appropriated and
placed in bank upon his retirement
from office the first of the year. two
per cent only being the remuneration
allowed the treasurer by the legisla-
tive act of March 8. 1907.
1t is hardly necessary to repeat that
the reduction of the salaries of the
treasurer and assessor provided for in
this bill was openly advocated by Mr..
Beaver, who declared in a published
letter hat he believed the treasurer's
salary far too large, and while it
'would affect him personally he be-
lieved THE people came first" That
the people have been relegated to a
secondary position is evident from the
present action of Mr.. Beaver. In his
formal demand, filed with the pro-
bate clerk yesterday, the e~x-treasurer
declares hat the reduction of his
salary, which he wanted, was the
work of certain mean and scheming
politicians, who handed him a large
package. In this connection it will
be remembered that nearly every
prominent taxpayer in the county
signed the memorial to the legislature
asking for a bill reducing the cXorbi-
tant and disproportionate salaries of
these county officials, and that q large
delegation of citizens went up to Santa
Fe to make their wishes in the mat
ter known personally to the legisla-
tors. 1t is also hardly necessary to re-
call that Mr.. Beaven was elected to
his office on a lower salary plat
form.
The following is a copy of the de-
mand made by Mr.. Beaver for the
money he withheld some days ago:
the Board of County Commission
ers, County OF Bernalillo and Ter
ritory of New Mexico:
The undersigned, John $. Beaver,
respectfully reports:
That he was duly elected treasurer
and eX-officio collector of the county
Of Bcrnalillo and territory of New
Mexico, in the general election held
therein November, 1906, duly quail
fed and entered upon the discharge of
his duties as such treasurer and collcc-
and duly served and acted in that
,apacity and performed the duties
thereof. for a term commencing on
January LIST. 1870 and ending Deem |
Der LIST. 1908. That during the en-
ire pcriod of said term. this claimant
collected of the levied as
upon the inhabitants OF the said
for All purposes during said
the sum of ~S43l4g6.74. That
Turing the same period. this claimant
collected from license fccs and other.
sources for the collection of which nv
aw. he is entitled to charge and re-
a commission in his capacitv as
the sum Of S6455O01. THAT
It the time when this claimant was
,lected TO said office and when he as
the duties thereof. the lawful
ees of the collector and treasurer.
by the statutes of the Ter
itory of New Mexico for the colIcc.
of these moneys. was the sum oi
our (4) per cent upon the amount
0 collected and received. and CON
at that sum until the 18th dav
# March. 1907. and up to that date
here had been collected and received |
This claimant. of MONEYS upon
ihich he was entitled to charge and
ollect a fee of four ner cent as aforo-
aid the SIM or s1O Nasal and bis
commission thereon. computed M thnt
ate. amount to the sum of s437 IA
This claimant further shows that
the last mentioned date the act
f the legislature of the TERRITORY Of
lew Mexico known as chanter az of
ne laws of 1907 was onnroved nv tho
and in ana nv tho forms of
'hich. a new rate OF ompensation for
Dllectors ana assessors in each conn
Z. a~pplicable 70 all counties in mo
.rritorv. TO take effect on tho IL, da,. I
: January. 1908. was adopted bv said
.rritorial Legislature Tha, when
lis act was introduced in tho terri- '
rial Legislature n uras general In q
s terms and annlicabIe alike 10 oach |
I'd every assessor ana treasurer In +,
le Territory in nroonrtion 10 tho
mounts of taxation in their several
and this claimant declined ~ )
)pose its massage in that form and a
.prcsscd his apnroval of If G
That i'm order ia nunish tbis claim .,
ae he veril, bolinves fo,. adya-
a general reduction in saIa- q
Pc and for refusing 10 onnoso ,ho t
as originally introduced certain p