Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-02-10
new SALARIES
MEASURE IN
SENATE
BILL BY PAGE IS SAID TO COINCIDE
WITH VIEWS HELD BY BURSUM....
GALlEGOS WOULD ABOLISH The
MOUNTED POLICE


MOUNTED POLICE
After working all day on amend
killed all amendments and the speak
CT ruled that the bill itself had failed
to pass because it carried the emer-
gency clause and did not have a two
thirds vote. The house then adjourn
cd until tomorrow.
Is Holm 0. Bursum playing a little
salary game of his own? This is the
question that is being asked as the
result of the introduction in the sen
ate late this afternoon of salary
bill by State Senator Gregory Page
of Mckinley county. This bill is
wide departure from the bill by the
finance committees. In fact it has
absolutely nothing in common with
them and from the comments made
by Mr.. Bursum at various times since
the question of county salaries came
up, the measure is said to dove tail
with his views to a large extent. Mr..
Page, however, says that the bill is
his own and that he favors it as the
only logical way to settle the county
salaries question on anything like an
equitable basis.
The new bill has classification
for each county and these various
classifications are said to be based
on four things namely: Size of coun-
ty, number of population, taxable
wealth and duties of the office. Every
salary in the new bill is lower than
the salaries in the finance committee
bill and some of them are at least
one-half the size of the other meas
ure. Bernalillo county is classified as
number one and Chaves county as
number two and thence on down the
line, each county has number and
separate set of salaries. But there
are no trimmings" in the new bill.
1t leaves most of the work for the
county commissioners to do when 1t
comes to disbursing county funds.
The county commissioners are given
wide authority whereas county Off
cials are given no latitude outside
OF the constitutional rights OF their
offices. County commissioners attend
to the feeding of prisoners, the EN-
ploying of clerk hire, the additional
use OF deputy sheriffs and numerous
other details of county work, now
portion OF the various county offices.
In fact. the new measure is a com.
plete departure from the other meas
ure and is interesting right at this
time, to show Just how widely split
the Old Guard is on any kind OF leg
islation or any cohesive legislative
program. The bill was read by title
in the senate and referred to the com.
mittee on finance at the request o;
Mr.. Page.
PUBLIC MONEYS BILL
BACK TO COMMITTEE.
There was another "back-up' in the
legislative senate this afternoon,
when Floor Leader Holt requested
that senate bill No 24-the public
moneys bill, be re-committed to the
on finance ''at the request
of it's author" It's author is John S.
Clark, state senator from San Miguel
Mr. Clark, according to MI
Holt desired the measure re-commlt-
ted "for further consideration" be-
cause there were number OF amend
ments which were suggested and 1t
might be advisable to reWrite the
bill
This is the highly interesting docu.
nent which the New Mexican ex.
1osed at the time it came up for CON
,ideration in committee of the whole |
senate and which even the Republican
majority did not unite on when some |
{ it's provisions came to light. 1t is I
he same measure that Mr.. Champion /
.mended in order, as he said, to elm
late politics from banking in New
Iexico and TO eliminate banking from
.olitics. Enough Republicans and Pro
,ressives voted with the Democrats
0 amend the bill, and it is said that
could not pass the senate with the
bjectionable features embodied in it.
.BoLlSH MOUNTED
POLICE, SAYS BILL.
Another highly interesting measure
4 the senate today was by Mr.. Gal
sgos, it being Senate bill No. 112, re-
ealing Section 8 of the Acts Of the
9Th Legislative Assembly. This is
he bill designed to abolish the state
police, a matter of legislation
yer since the little body Of frontiers |.
len were first organized. The bill
rovides that the police shall be ab.
lished and the arms turned over to
le adjutant general of the state. Ii
as referred to the committee on