Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-02-10
WITH WILD SCRAMBLE
HOUSE WADES into THE
COUNTY SALARIES BILL
MEMBERS START CONSIDERATION OF IMPORTANT MEASURE IN COMMITTEE
OF WHOLE But IF MORNING SESSION INDICATES anything CHANGES
OF IMPORTANCE WILL Be few AND FAR BETWEEN
PROBATE JUDGES APPEAR TO Be
OBJECTS Of PITY FOR EVERY One

, the county commissioner salary in
counties of the first class and the sal
airy proposed for probate judge, that
carried the amendment against the
Chaves line up.
Speaker Baca moved to amend
counties of the second class so as to
give probate judges $500 instead of
$500 as proposed in the bill. The
amendment carried
A proposed amendment by Mr..
| Smith, of Luna, to pay county treas
urers in second class counties $4,000
year instead of $3250 was defeated
o, motion of Mr.. Chaves. A similar
amendment by Mr.. Smith concerning
assessors likewise was voted down.
Mr.. Burg tried to raise the pay of
the same officials from $3250 to $4,000
year, but the amendment was tabled
on motion of Mr.. Catron.
After some argument, the salaries
of county commissioners in counties
OF the third class were placed at $500
instead of $400, and allowed to remain
there tentatively on amendments Of
fered by both Mr.. Manzanares and Mr..
Clancy.
An effort to raise the pay of treas
urers in the same class from $25O0 to
$4,000 a year, sent to the clerks desk
as an amendment without any name
attached, was defeated.
Mr.. Carter then moved to reduce the
salary of treasurer in that class from
$25OO to $2250, but the amend
ment was defeated.
He moved the same amendment to
the county ticket in that class, but
this amendment was likewise tabled
1t was Bias Sanchez who finally Sc
cured the amendment to the bill Civ
ing county commissioners in the third
class, $500 a year instead of $400. Mr..
Sanchez moved to reconsider that
clause in the bill and was ruled out of
order. A spirited debate took place
in which Mr. Catron and Mr.. Blanch-
cId clased on points OF order. Speak
er Baca said the final word by exhort-
iIg fair play and square deal for all
riembers of the house, with the result
that the clause was reconsidered on
motion of Mr.. Catron and the change
iii amounts finally made.
Mr.. Padilla tried to have the salary
o. county clerks in counties OF the
third class fixed at $1,000 instead OF
$250O, but was defeated on motion of
Mr.. Chaves. Mr.. Vargas experienced
an economical streak at that point and
moved to reduce the pay of assessors
in counties of the fourth class from
$4,000 year to $1,000 year. He met
with defeat. Other efforts to change
the assessors salary in this class
failed, indicating that the house ma
jCrity was back of the bill as drawn.
Mr. Chaves then declared, as it
seemed to be the intention of the
members to INCREASE the pay Of all
pl obate judges and county commits
sioners that he would move to amend
the fourth class section and pay coun-
ty commissioners $400 instead of
$500. The amendment was adopted.
Mr.. Sanchez said that if the coun-
ty commissioners received $400 then
the probate judge in the same coun-
ties, ought to get the same pay and
moved an amendment to that effect
which raised the probate judge from
$500 to $400 a year.
Mr.. Cordova moved to amend the
assessors clause in fifth class cOun- !
ties to raise the pay from $1,000 to
$1,000 a year but his amendment was
voted down. Mr. de Baca then moved
to change the pay of treasurer in
OF the fifth class from $1250
a year to $500 year. Mr.. Chaves
asserted that the committee of which
he was chairman had asked the fifth
Jwn figures and he charged that he
Fad received the list just as it had
Dc en- inserted in the bill. Mr.. de
Baca and Mr.. Chaves both protested
hat they had written $500 for the
,heriff in those counties instead of
$1,000 and that they had advocated
$500 for the county school superin- I
endents.
Finally the house gave the assessor
1920 a year, the sheriff $1,000 a year
I'D the school superintendent $1,000
year and these figures were tenta-
lively placed in the bill
The committee then arose and re-
orted progress and the house took
ecess until this afternoon at 2:3O
clock. Ia
That portion of the bill agreed upon ]
1 committee of the whole. now stands t
s follows:
'e 1t Enacted by the Legislature of s
the State of New Mexico: e
Section 1. The several counties in /
ne state are hereby classified as fol-
,ws:
Those having in the year 1912 an t
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