El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-03

Santa Fe y. NJ. March Concur
renee by the house in the senate dis
trict attorneys salary bill is expected
today. The senate passed the measure
Saturday. the house having passed it
several days ago but the senate added
some minor amendments in which the
house must concur
Governor Mcdonald Saturday vetoed
house substitute for house joint res
OlutiOn 9, the counsel fees resolution,
on the ground that it was not proper
TO allow the attorneys for the defend
ants in last years alleged bribery in
veSuSaUOn any more than was allowed
TO the state 5 attorneys, which was 5000.
This amount was last year allowed the
attorneys for each side.
The senate acted upon eighteen
measures Saturday, passing fifteen OF
them, tabling two and deferring one
The house was not in session
The district attorney bill was q spe-
cial order and was taken up as soon as
the routine had been got out OF the
way.
bill passed by the house was considered
instead of the one introduced in the
senate. The differences are slight. It
was announced by senator Barth that
he had introduced a district attorney
bill. which had been placed on the pres
idents table TO be taken up with the
committee bill, and he asked that his
bill be considered with the other. Mr..
been carried and moved that the Barth
bill be not considered with the house
bill This was carried
Two Amendments
Two committee amendments were
adopted. One of them allows the dis
trict attorneys only actual travelling
expenses in place Of lodging, railroad
fare. etc, when away from their home
county. and the other authorizes the
employment of interpreters and experts
under the direction Of the district court.
Mr.. Barth proposed an amendment to
the first district salary provision 50
that the attorney would receive $500
and his assistant $1,000 This was
tabled So was a similar amendment for
the second district offered by the same
senator. Mr.. Rarth said that he thought
it well to provide definitely Tor the
salary of an assistant, when needed,
otherwise some selfish attorney might
not employ an assistant, but would at
tempt to do all the work himself, TO
the detriment Of the public interest.
Senator Holt said that a plan similar
to this had been discussed, both at TINS
and at the preceding session, but thal
1t had been rejected
moved its passage Mr. Evans made an
unsuccessful attempt to amend the pro
vision for the fifth district Mr. Barth
F. ATTEMPTED to have the salaries OF all
! the districts except the Sixth, made
1900 a year He said he believed that
they were all worth that much money.
! His amendment was tabled
Offer Substitute
Mr. Barth offered as a substitute for
| the district attorney bill under con-
| sideratiOn a. measure which emDodled
| his idea in regard to the division OF
salary Mr. Holt held that the author
! was out of order because the senate
had already rejected senate bill ia.
| The discussion ended with a motion by
Mr.. Holt to table the measure. This
Mr., Mccoy then spoke against the
bill saving that il was unreasonable
and should be vetoed He ADDED tnaI m
believed that the governor would veto
it He said IL gave the district attorney
the same salary that was accorded a
district judge or the attorney general
Mr. CHAMPION said the salaries were
not too high: that the men performing
the work of the district attorney nad 10
be trained men and that good salaries
were necessary to get them
ar Rartb entered the debate with
the declara ton that the salaries were
NOT TOO high but that their Distribution
; ,4-as unfair and unusual MI Marry
y-as oDDOsed TO the bill, not because the
salaries were too high, ouu because II
was wrong in principle.
r-avatiOn matters are now the most
important under consideration IN lLie
senate, and as soon as the mouse SO
through with the salary Idn8LS, VIZ w .
s7Irne first place there as Wei SaluI-
6av there were introduced by senator
SuIzer two measures Of great lmpOI-
+ance These were drafted by the al
fornev general in accordance win the
racommendatiOns the state Doaru OF
eCI11a7ization contained in its report pub
Iished last week one Oh these meas
go extends and brOadens the scope
of the board so that IL may enter any
Comfy and increase or decrease Valua-
! lions after they have been fixed by
~ assessor. or so that Its speclal
o--a,+s5 snDOinted unEder this act, may
1SSe5s+ the assessor in making up ms
- rolls. Thi bill is IN line with the
desire of the state board TO secure
( f71lI valuation assessment on all proper
/ ~ that directly under the assessors as
I'm as that undner its own supervision
rTbe other bill is along slightly ar
r,--7r lines but IS allied TO the IirsJ
one 1t provides that the levy ShaH De
-. af+er the assessment rolls nave all
baen turned in 20 their respective
bos-ds This is so that an excessive
a,o,1T7t may not be levied Under the
I s5e1lf system the levies are based
-, The valuation Of the preceding
- and should the assessment Jon
3 SS6o[5 anv great increase, would pro
49, more money than IS needed Sucn
Case arose IN ColfaX county last
, This measure also provides that IN
I - - 75roperty returns the owner
/ - Io3 fix the valuation OF ms own
/ Droner-z. but shall merely sehu IN a
/ III If his holdings. The assessor VIII