Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-31
NEW PLAN FOR
! COUNTY SALARIES
IS BROUGHT OUT
Pay According to What You've
Got, Is Idea Advanced by
Scion Who Evidently Wants
to Be Original.

Santa Fe, Jan. 30.---A new idea is
being advanced for the classification
of the counties for salary purposes, an
idea, which 1t is declared will be more
just than any thus far advanced.
That is, TO regulate the salaries of
county officials according to the I'M
come of each county. IL is pointed
out that classification in accordance
with assessment is manifestly unfair.
Bernalllo county, for instance, is
assessed four times as much as San
doval county but collects eight times
as much in taxes. Counties that col
lected more than 100000 of the 1913
duplicate are to be in the first class,
those counties being Rernalillo,
Chaves, Colfax, Dona Ana, Grant and
san Miguel, Those counties thet coll
lected between 100000 and 100000
to be in the second class, those coun-
ties being Curry, Eddy, Guadalupe.
Lincoln, Luna, Quay Santa Fe, Socor-
10, Union and Valencia. Counties
that collected between $4,000 and
100000 to be in the third class. these
being Mckinley, OterO, Roosevelt, san
Juan, Sierra, Mora and Torrance, while
those collecting less, Rio Arriba, San
doyal and Taos would go in the fourth
class.
In the first class counties the treas
urer, sheriff, county clerk and coun-
~ school superintendent are TO get one
and half per cent each of the taxes
collected for 1918, as follows Ber-
nalillo, $4,000; Chaves, $4,000; Col
fax, $4,000: Grant $4,000; Dona Ana
and San Miguel, $4,000
In the second class counties the
maximum salaries would be on the
basis of one and three-quarters per
cent of the total taxes collected for
any one year, as follows: Eddy,
$4,000; Luna, $2,7O0 Santa Fe, 3d.
SOC; Socorro and Valencia, $2,SO0;
Lincoln, $1,000; Union, $1,000; Quay,
Guadalupe and Curry $4,000.
In the third class, two per cent Of
the taxes collected would mark the
maximum salaries, as follows: Nc
Kinley and Otero, $1,000 Mora,
Roosevelt and Torrance $500: San
Juan, 81 500 Sierra, 81 100, while in
the fourth class counties, two and a
half per cent would mark the maxi
mum. sandoyal, Rio Arriba and Taos,
$1,000.
1t is asserted that there would be
no difficulty in securing competent
men to serve for such remuneration
in each county mentioned TO leave
it to the Representatives of each coun-
ty to fix the salary in their own coun-
ty arbitrarily would lead to atrocious
abuses in some counties in which the
local Option sunday Law.
Among local option measures pro-
posed is one which would give every
incorporated municipality authority
to vote on Sunday observance, wheth-
er il wants To close motion picture
shows and other Sunday amusements.
1t is doubtful whether a free text
book measure win pass al this session
although there may be a compromise
which would provide for the state
paying for the books used in the in
struction in Spanish and New Mex
leo history and civics It is possible
also that textbooks used in the higher
grades may be provided so as to give
another incentive to pupils to remain
in school, the disposition at present
being for the majority to drop ont
with the fourth grade despite the