The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-04
MANY REASONS TO
VETO SALARY ACT

NGto SALANt AC
Santa Fe, Feb. 26 The message
conveying the executive disapprovaI
OF the salary measure sets forth in
some detail criticisms by the COVER
nor OF the bills provisions. II is as
follows:
Santa Fe, N. NJ, February 26,
1916. TO the House of Represen-
tatives, Second State Legislature.
Santa Fe, New Mexico:
Gentlemen: return to YOU
without my approval, Amended
House Bill No. l29, entitled An Act
Relating to County Officers with
my objections to the same.
j regret exceedingly the neces-
sity that impels me to take this ac-
tion, but to sign this bill would, |
feel, violate the trust which | hold
for the people of New Mexico. To
permit II to become law without
my approval would imply a lack of
courage to meet the emergency.
thus stultifying myself, at least in
my own consciousness, If not in the
eyes of the people. In the classifi-
cation of counties, two counties of
the first class have about $22, 900, 900
worth of property each; while one
other has less than SIS, 100000. Be-
tween first and second class coun-
ties there Is difference in valuation
OF $5, $50. 900; between second and
third class counties difference Of
VI, 5000; and between third and
fourth class counties 81, ,750, 900. The
difference in salaries, including dep
uties. between first and second class
counties is about 25 per cent; be-
tween second and third class coun-
ties 33 l-3 to 50 per cent, and be-
tween third and fourth class coun-
ties an average of about 35 per cent.
The difference between valuation
in second and fourth class counties
IL S., 100000. The salaries for Sec
ond class counties are on an average
over so per cent higher than in
fourth class counties. The salaries
in the higher class of counties are
not only too high in themselves, but
much higher for the services to be
performed than in the lower class Of
couaties.
The work in any county treasur-
er's Office in the state can be done
for $1,000 or less. Should the treas
urer have 81, 1000 for supervision that
in some cases at least, does not sup
ervise? The assessor is not neces-
sarily actually employed much more
than six months in the year. Two
good meh who know how to do the
work, can do il in six or seven |
months.
mo county clerk earns more than
$500 and deputy hire can be pro-
vided according to the fees earned |
in the Office, so that the allowance
for deputies may increase as the
fees increase. The provision for
clerk hire is not just to some of the
counties and is noticeably unfair
when method is adaptable that
may be just alike to all
mo provision is made for travel
ing expenses for superintendents Of
schools. | consider this is as neces-
sary as for sheriffs. The better the
work done in our schools the less
need there will be for officers to pre-
vent violations of the law. The
county surveyors would probably
have to shift for themselves without
pay.
In one county the pay for an Of
fetal is fixed apparently according
to someone's idea of the work to be
done, since he is provided with only
$3.50.
THE average for ministers of the
gospel throughout the United States,
! understand to be about 1868 per
annum. The average for school
teachers in the state of New Mexico
is $43s. .0l; the average for city super
intendents of schools is, believe.
something less than $1,000.
THE compensation provided for
the county clerk for work done in
the district court is, in my opinion,
excessive in third class counties.
"The provision in Section 8 for re-
payment Of moneys already received
by county officers in excess of what