Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-29
Measure Embodying Recon-
mendatiOnS Of Department
of Education Is introduced
IN Senate,
TRUST-BUSTER EVANS
AGAIN COMES TO BAT
LEGISLATURE Passes Quiet Day.
House Not Being in Session
and Senate Doing Practical
ly Nothing,

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Santa Fe. Jan. 2S.-The education
al tl. emhodying the recommended
lions of the department Of education
as io length Of school terms aud
school finances. was introduced this
afternoon in the state senate by the
committee on education. Il has the
emergency clause attached, so that its
provisions for a seven months mimi
mum term may apply this year The
state is so well fixed financially that
the seven months clause can be put
into effect without the necessity Of
levying any additional tax or making
any appropriation whatsoever.
AZ present the rural schools are
short az months to average six
months for each district. and il would
take s44, $50 TO bring il up To that
average. They are l.5il months
short of the seven months average.
and II would take Ss0.i60 To bring
them up to that minimum term. After
maintaining n five months term there
was turned over to the school building
fund of the state $60.390 the first
fiscal year and S65,1TS the second
year, while into the current school
FUND there was a surplus of SS0.6l2
the first year and Sl5,Ss6 the second
year, making available more than
$4,000.
To bring up the school terms to five
months there was used the first year
Sl3.8S4 and the second year S29,3S3.
To aid in building s5,507 was used
the first year and 1915 the second
year.
Provisions Of Din,
The first SECTION Of the oili pro-
vides for general school levy of y
mills The second section directs the
state treasurer TO credit each quarter
one-half of the current school FUND
income TO a reserve fund which shall
he used for maintaining schools for
fun period of seven months. The third
section directs that the state superin-
tendent shall apportion the current
school fund among the counties ac-
cOrding to the school census. In Sec
tion 4, il is provided that the reserve
funds shall be distributed among
school districts in which the income
from the annual special school tax
of Is mills, plus the regular appof-
tionment is insufficient to maintain
schools for seven months, the fifth
section pIDNlulHH Nhat hiN N''''
pense for seven months school shall
NOT exceed S420 for each school room,
and that for the purposes of this act
no school district shall be entitled to
more than one room for each fifty
children of school age.
Section places the power Of adj
ministerng the school fund in the
hands of school boards and Section Z
provides for an annual budget TO oe
filed with the county commissioners
on or before June l of each year
Section 8 directs the county commis-
sioners 10 levy a special school tax IN
each district to yield the amount es-
timated in the budget, not exceeding
Is mills in rural districts and not
more than 20 mills in Incorporated
municipalities. Section Q provides for
a general county school levy OF
mills.
The bill seems certain of speedy
passage, and next TO the eight sisters
under which the official taNatloh
measures have been grouped IS ny
far the most important and most iar-
reaching of the majority measures
thus far introduced
Developments Predicted,
Only the senate was in session TO-
day, and it adjourned until Monday;
The house reconvenes tomorrow, anu
important developments are predict
ed for the session.
Chairman A, p. Renehan of the f.
nance committee, has mailed to every
county letters asking for detailed in
formation as to advances made coun-
ty officials on their prospective sal
aries, and other data on which to
base a salary bill.
Senate bill No. 80, by Senator IL
field, providing for occupation taxes,
was sent back to the committee on
judiciary. Action on senate substitute
for senate bill No. II. to define ped
dlers and street vendors, fathered by
the State retaH merchants associa
tion, was postponed until Monday,