Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-02
TEACHERS MAKE
/ STRONG APPEAL
\ To LEGISLATURE
Committee of Educators In
sists That County Superin-
tendentS Should Be Paid as
Much as Treasures,

Santa Fo.l Feb. 1.-The same sal
aries Tor county school supernten-
dents as for county treasurers. Is the
slogan of the New Mexico Teachers
association as expressed today TO the
Legislators through It's executive com
mittee which met this afternoon and
which was authorized by more than
LOCO teachers assembled at Alhu-
querque last November 10 take that
action. Every section of the state is
represented In this demand
To the salary should be added an
adequate allowance for travelling ex-
penses If the superintendent is TO
exercise the needfu supervision. II
is several hundred miles for instance.
from Soccrro TO Mogolon In the
same county. ana even IL the county
superintendent's salary were 81, 600 "A
year he could not afford, at his own
)expcnse. to make many trips 10 the
i distant schools in his Jurisdiction
The people receive bigger return
from the salary paid county school
superintendents than from any other
\ public expenditure, declare the edu
ntt want the impression to go abroad
thtt Il deems the office OF county
sci pool superintendent less important
thaN that OF deputy sheriff
ENery legislator is 10 he informed
of tlAe sentiment of the teachers
throu ehout the state before a vote Is
taken Aon the salary bill
Majority for Tax Fiji.
The 4irsl brush over the matter OF
taxation came M today In the house
II demJinstratcd that not only is the
two-thi bids republican majority solid
but thi y number of democrats ar,
inclined to side with it when 1t comes
to soiflng the taxation problem
Bot D. Majority Leader Mann ant
MnoFiU Leader Swan agreed thai
''taYation is not a political but bust
nesf question" even though they Ill,
difffr as to the methods in minor de-
tailE Judge Mann on the final show
do/n had not only his party with hin
ont the majority report upon amend
ed bsenate bin No. 8. but also mum
ber1 of democrats expressed them
selVfs in favor of il. and so did So
cialsst Tharp, who received a rOunt
of Applause as he voted to table tn,
minority report made by Mr. Swan
TheNNote to table that report Vas 3
to y and several Of those twelve, IL
explaining their votes said that the,
really Favored the majority report bu
did ND care To table the minority re
port before it was written. The ma
49,
out dissenting vote
Amended senate bin No. con
tin ues IN operation for 1915 the val
uations placed on railroads. etc, b.
THE state board of equalization las
year. The majority report of tn
house committee on taxation. signe,
BY eight Of the nine members, pre-
scented a substitute for the amende,
SENATE bill, making no materia
change. however, in its purport. Mr.
Hewitt, democrat, voted with the ma
j6rity
MIR Swan presented minority re
port signed only by HIMSELF whicl
provided that all of the valuations o
1914. including the blanket raises oil
real estate and other property b.
made the valuation for 1915 spir
tied debate ensued over a motion L
substitute the minority report for tina
of the majority. which degeneratel
into a parliamentary wrangle durinl
which as many as six different mo
tions were pending at once. TIL
knot was finally cut by a motion b.
Mr.. Fleming to table the minorit.
report, and this motion was carried
During the course of the debat
Mr.. Mann suggested that Mr. Swal
was merely trying to mix polltica
medicine, and insisted that before tn
session Is over tax commission will
ample power to equalize assessment
will Dc created lie then explaine
IN ful st.ie status in which the amend
nent 10 the constitution adopted las
fall left the tax matters
This people by their vote havt
commended that the Injustice perpe
tfated BY the board of equalization
shall be wiped out" he said. and thi
emergency measure merely enable
the assessors to proceed with the 1911
assessment and to place on the assess
ment tolls railroad and other prop
erty which they are otherwise not au
thorized to assess.
AR. swan in reply asked what is L