Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-22
RAFAEL GARCIA
IS NEXT IN LINE
TO GET THE AXE
More in Sorrow Than In Anger
Republican Leaders Decide
That They Simply Must
Have Modesto Ortiz.
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| ESPECIAL pisrsrcH 10 MOANING iou~nsll
Santa Fe. Jan. 2i.---The members
of the house committee on privileges
and elections heaved n sigh of relief
Btonight as they concluded the hear
Ing of the contest of Modesto G. Or
tiz against Rafael Garcia, representa-
I tive from Bernalillo county.
If the majority report can be writ
! ten IN time for the caucus to pass
I upon ii, 1t will be submitted to the
house tomorrow morning.
The testimony offered by the con-
| testant is much the same as was
! brought in the hearing in Albuquer-
que. Mr. Garcia has entered a sweep
| ing denial. However, this has availed
| him nothing.
Salary B;il Strikes snag.
Work on the salary bill Is meeting
with many difficulties. Conditions in
no Two counties seem to be exactly
alike. and no two demands agree with
each other. The situation is much
complicated by advances to county Of
ficials already made. some of the Of
fieials having been removed from Of
flee or otherwise having vacated their
positions. The retention of fees in
some cases and their dissipation in
others will make the final account
ing most difficult
Failure TO enact a salary law has
cost the taxpayers dearly declared
| one member OF the committee on fl
nance today.
Senate bin No. 8, by Senator Clark.
Is meeting with favorable considera-
ton in the committee on finance. II
is an attempt to reach for taxation in
tangible property that now escapes
All bonds, certificates OF indebted
ness IN any form, all shares of stock
bearing interest or earning dividends
are To be assessed at full cash value
and taxed one-fourth OF one per cent
for state purposes, but are to be ex-
empt from all other taxation. Re-
turns of such property are TO be made
under oath each year direct to the
1 tax commission. This list is to be
considered confidential and the tax
shall be payable each year In May.
illustration cited.
1t is figured that there are at least
100000 of that kind of intangi-
BILE property owned in New Mexico,
and a tax of one-fourth of one per
cent would yield $4,000 annually
Take the case of man with St0,-
GOO in certificate of deposit in an
FL Paso bank bearing per cent, as
many do. He has an income there
from of $500 year, but pays no taxes
at all at present. Under the proposed
law he would have to pay s25 a year
Then take his neighbor who has In
vested $4,000 in a residence which
yields him net income Of $500 a
year. lie is taxed up to SEVEN per
Z n..R \. s...l
$233.s3 annually, or nine times as
much as the neighbor who has his
money out in III Paso. The proposed
tax could not therefore be considered
unfair. declare the advocates of the
ILL.
An act prescribing the liability OF
an employer to make compensation
for injuries received in the coErst of
employment, establishing IN elective
schedule OF compensation hereunder,
is the title of an .mportan. and in
teresting measure introduced today
by Senator Walton. 1t provides for
'the the payment of compensation for
injury to employees sustained in the
course of their work, except where
such injuries are incurred through
Willful negligence, intoNication or are
self-inflieted. The burden of proof is
placed ON the defendant employer
The schedule of compensation is quite
novel, For temporary disability fifty
per cent of the wages not to exceed
SIS nor to be less than IS week are
to he paid the injured employe, for
not to exceed 500 weeks
Schedule of Compensation.
For a total disability the compensa-
ton shall run for 400 weeks. For the
loss of a thumb, 60 weeks; an index
finger, 30 weeks; second finger, 80
weeks; third finger, 20 weeks; fourth
finger, ] . weeks; great toe, 30 weeks;
other toes, 10 weeks; the entire hand,
so weeks; the entire foot, 25 weeks;
an arm. 200 weeks: a leg. us weeks:
an eye, 100 weeks: loss of both hands
or feet or legs or eyes TO be deemed
total disability. In case OF death from
injury, If six dependents are left, sixty
per cent of the wages shall be dis
tributed among them; If five depend
ents, fifty-fiye per cent; il four, fifty
per cent, three, forty-five per cent;
two. forty per cent, and one, thirty
five per cent, such dependents to in
clude husband, wife, parents, grand
parents. children, step-chldren,
grandchildren, brothers and sisters
No compensation shall be paid the
first two weeks after injury, but dur
ing that time the employer Is TO fur
nish medicines and medical and hos
pital treatments
Senate bill No. 81, by Senator ALL |
dredge, provides for special county
elections to be called upon the petition
of fifty freeholders; and If the major
ity of voters cast their ballots in favor
of DISCRIMINATING prairie dogs, then
every holder of land must within one
year exterminate all prairie dogs on
his premises. II he willfully neglects
TO do this he becomes liable in dam
ages to every contiguous property
owner to the amount OF $3.50 for each
month that he Is delinquent in his
duty of DISCRIMINATING the prairie
dogs.
Representative Fleming is at work
on two measures, one to amend the
school laws in comprehensive manner,
and the other preparing a new medi-
cal code which is to be more string
ent than the present one and to give
greater powers to the state board of
medical examiners and boards of
health.
EUGENE MARRIAGE