Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-03-15
Completed Record Shows Con-
SeyatiSm Marked Course
Of Legislature Which ADJ
journed Saturday.
TAX COMMISSION ACT
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE
New System Of Bank Exami1-
alton and Regulation Is
tabIiShed and Seven Months
School Term Provided.

tse1ctAL DISPATCH 70 sosstpo JOURNAL
Santa Fc, March lt The average
citizen iu New Mexico Will not cxpcri-
ence any change in his daily routine
because OF the laws enacted by the
state legislature which has lust adj
journed 1t is due TO the ptoverbial
conservatism of New Mexico espe-
cially of Us Spanish -AmpriCans. that
such measures as that for am uhcri-
tance tax, for prohibition for the
Clark tax commission, the Australian
ballot equal suffrage, initiative. re-
call, compelling officials to give an of
their time to their official duties and
other almost as radical propositions
failed. Among the most regrettable
of these failures Is no doubt the char
ity bin, advocated by the federated
Women's clubs ana the library bill
which would have enabled commuui-
ties to make special levies for the
support of libraries
The taxpayer who has been honest
In the past, will i'm the future find his
tax bill slightly reduced. Under the
Bursum tax commission measure and
the Clark law limiting the taxes and
expenditures of counties and munici-
palites there is somo relief for the
conscientious citizen who made COM
plctc assessment returns in the past
and paid his taxes promptly Take
the man with "a $4,000 property in the
city of Santa Fc In the past he paid
/ something like $40 annually as his
share toward the support of state,
county city ana school government
Under the Bursum and CLARK Bills
his annual tax will not exceed S4S
surely some relief However, that
means that others uho escaped tholr
Just share Of taxation in the past must
be compelled to pay IL i'm the future
and therefore, the tax commission has
been given ample powers and finan-
eial means to make a thorough search
for such property and to place it upon
the tax rolls. The mine tax law viii
add something to the revenues of the
state and So viii the laws providing
for the taxation of transient herds
and the measure providing for the
publication of delinquent tax lists.
1t Is a pity that the clause providing
for stricter collection of taxes by
counties like Sandoyal, which have
been VIGOROUSLY delinquent was
stricken out Of the Bursum tax COM
mission bill
Salaries.
The passage of the salary bin had
become a necessity and would have
temporarily embarrassed more than
one county treasury had it not been
for placing on the statute books a
measure authorizing the issue OF Ger
tifieates Of Indebtedness TO pay back
salaries In but few instances are the
salaries that are provided eXorbltant
and in no case viii the burden DE felt
directly by any taxpayer, for salary
fund Is created by retaining s per
cent of all taxes collected ana all OF
the fees out of which to pay the sal
aries. The fight over the bill. there
fore, was more on account of theo-
retic principle than over any practical
difference that existed between the
maximum ana minimum demands
The cheerful taxpayer would have
found that his tax bill would have
been Just the same If the minimum
salary proposition had been enacted.
New Banking System.
Important, too, was the passage Of
n new bank act but it will have little
immediate effect upon any man S
bank account. II is merely hoped
that it win prevent the frequent re
currence of such C1lamitics as that or
the failure of the First state bank at
Las Cruces That the right to ap
point the bank examiner was finally
left in the governor will inspire con
lidcnCe ;hdt the era Of political bank
ing in New Mexico has finally closed.
For the Common GccZCr.
OF much consequence. ana that TO
the common gee2er, is the codfica-
3 t... T. 1E.as fl g.