Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-10-19
GOVERNMENT WON'T
PAY F0R PAVING
GR0UnDFEDERA[
BUILDING
Relies Upon Exemption from
Taxation to Escape Bearing
Proportion Of Cost Of City
Improvement.
UNCLE SAM PROVES
ORIGINAL TIGHT WAD

mat IN, people az the city VI A.
buuucrpur must pay for the pavement
Of That portion Of Gold avenue AMI
Fourth street Ia front Of the new
federal building. or It must remain
unpay,d, is the git u a printed ,ir-
,ular handed 10 Mayor Sellers this
morning by Postmaster Hopkins.
..nfr, lin, ago. when tho chs rpIr-
,I ufI'I,d th' paving Of GDld r'o-
uu, aud Fourth street ~" mo- or
wrote To- Curgr' sJuau ferguson Attn
th, request that the congressman
iat, th" matter up with IA, trcdsur.
apartment with view To having the
a",,rumout pas :pr 10 proportion 81
IUu paving. Since there was sum
cont money lcft ~ tho appropriation
for tho huiIding 81 the pOstoiinc ana
no acton uf congress would b" Nee
,.sary g. comply with tho request, 1t
pa- not Thought there would BE- nny
dli,ulB ~ getting the government
To- du IT, part along with the other
Iuoprry owners on the streets Ia
question.
Congfcssinan Ferguson upon re-
,"iyIug the letter hurried over to tho
treasury department, presented the
matter 10 one Of IA. minor officials
and WIS calmly turned diam. 'NOth-
Iug doing" said the deputy chief
,lrik 81 the sixteenth assistant BeCre-
iury ~ the treasury. I'VE. the gov
eminent OF these United states, never
Jus anything that We can get out Of
iu Tact. wc rather pride oursrly"A on
our ability 10 dodge our just debts and
obligations
when Sc agreed 10 build the fed.
,ral building ia Albuquerque IA" STATE
surrendered an sovereignty over thu
site. n Also surrendered all TiRht 80
lows taxes 81 assessments against the
titr or the holdings thereon aud INN
surrender also operates 10 ostop all
counties, municipalities or school dis
trI,ts from lcvying taxes or taxing
,ust 81 improvements against thy
property of the United States.
m the citizens Of Albuquerque
think a pavement IN necessary IN
front OF the federal building they
muy build II AT their own expense.
at course subject 10 our approval.
at In true that there In some money
loft uf the appropriation made bj
congress FOR thg cree tiot-Of R;D-bulld~
Ing in Albuquerque, probably enough
a. pay for th" paving necessary, but
We do not propose 10 USE II for thus
purpOg" since money rs needed 10 IN
NrstiEatc the knOwlcdg" possessed by
tho recently discovered blonde haired
Eskimus of the origin OF the boil
W'tNll'
Cnugr,asmun Ferguson was HmHL-
81 ~ WoT" also tho mayor and the
members 81 ~, city council when ih'
iud news reached them. The con.
rTos. man explained 20 tho mayor Hud
council thni there WAS "a precedent
against spending the money Of th'
government for street paving, al.
though II wiB sometimes spent i"t
md,Wnlks IN 'front.' Of federal bulld
iugH.
rho mayor suggested that some.
titnoA prrrcdcntA were shattered and
,hit congressman who was a MON
bor Of the all powerful majority IN
the h"uHo Of representatives might
g,t busy aud Hhattor Il few. Mr. Fer
russ"n could not agree 10 this. o..
though II was pointed out lo MN that
once upon - timr l"trluss d,lcEni,|
On" ". II. Andrews shattered a frn
pr",'dnntS 0ud secured }3U,Uun nal
real money IL help ont his home
town. which happened Ia b." Alpu.
uucrpuc, when the cash Was needed
Ia prevent the failure Of a public en-
t'rpriEo IN which the government had
10 interest
II n estimated that the cost a. the
cts 0f paving the street ahuuing on
the federal building viii be- In the
n'lghb0rhUod al $500. Tho city
council has not az yet decided whcth-
- The work viii be- done at munich
pal expense or whether II Will be left
undune until such time as the council
can take the matter up with the con.
g'cssman 60 be elected next month
or with one OF tho senator's.