New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-16
ings and equipping it. 22.5U each

A"SS o"o Squ'PPhe IL pSS'0VS CoSi
year
Insane asylum, $6s,00O.
Reform school, maintenance, $1?,
600; light plant. $500; furniture fol
rev building, $1,000
Miners hospital at Ration, main
tenance, $500,
Printing the state blue book, 81 ,2OD
Super intendent Of public inst, uc
tion. salary, 5000; salary of assist
ant, $1,000; salary and travelling ex
penses of idustrial director. 81 6OO
salary of chief clerk, $500; TO,
contingent expenses of industrial di
rector, $4,000; two stenographers
$2,l00; travelling expenses of assis
tant superintendent available dur
ing this year $500; assistants te
state board, grading examination
papers $1,000; for per diem and mile
age of state board. $1,000
National guard-Sa'ary of adjutan,
general, $2,400: expenses incident to
camp maneuvers, 5000: armory in.
surance for the fifth fiscal year,
$l.800; for the sixth fiscal year, ST..
200; for repairs to Albuquerque. La:
Cruces and Silver City armories to
be expended under the direction oi
the respective boards. $1,000 each.
Deficiency of battery A expenses
$66l10
Travelling Auditor. salary, 5000
two assistants. $500 each; steog-
rapher, $1,000; travelling expenses
$4,500
Inspector of mines, salary, $1,000
and a like amount for printing and
expenses.
State engineer, salary, 5000; chief
clerk, 1900; stenograDher, $4,000
contingent expenses, $2.S00
Supreme court, contingent expen-
ses. bailiffs, etc. $4,s00: for printing
volumes "a and Is of the New Mex
'co reports. 81 800.
Superintendent of insurance, salary
as provided by law. This has been
over 'ooked before.
State Tax Commission, a total of
$4,000. The appropriation is avail
able for this year.
Bank examiner. salary. 5000; dep
uty's salary. $500; contingent ex-
penses, 5000.
$4,000 is set aside for the next
legislature.
The chief clerks of the legislature
will work ten davs after adjourn
ment to clean up the business. A to-
tai of $4,000 is appropriated to
cover this expense.
To reimburse Charles r. Lambert
for expenses incurred in arresting
Felix Sanchez, $24l0O
State library. sa'arv 5000; furni-
-ure and insurance. $500
Land commissioner. to pay the
United States land office for fees in
''dent to selecting state lands, ST.
100.
Deficiency in the office of the state
auditor. $2.400.
Deficiency board of exposition
$2,080.
The Road Bill commented on at
enoth and printed in full in last
vect's issue of the Record is one
# the notable achievements of the
session. Good results are assured
rom centralized system OF admi-
carried on in a plan so
veil balanced, and by men Of such
,apacity as the new state road
BOARD and the state engineer James
\. French who continues in that
position and a'so as the Highway
Engineer, provided for in the new
,ilI Intensive development of
.oads is the crying need of New
dexico.
The press comment throughout
he state is we'll reflected in a rather
air summary from the Morning
ournal. which of all papers was the
most frequent to carp, and sco'd and
'oint finger of scorn at the makers
# the law.
Except the New Mexican, which
howed a hopelessly biased view
oint at all times and in the face
f the best work that was being done,
he Journal has been most consist
ent'y unfair to the men and their
motives. Hence it is peculiarly re-
reshing TO read:
Why is a lobbyist?
Decide for yourself after reading
few of the many instances in the
agis 'ative session just past in which
he lobby saved practically all of the
leritorious measures that would
ave fallen by the wayside other.
rise. Understand, the lobby includ-
d such august persons, AS his Ex-
the Governor of the State
f New Mexico. his earnest and
wife. the Republican
nae,0-1at.- t1N Ia
linisters of the gospel. Prohibi.
onists. Suffragists, corporation rep
esentatives and here and there sin
ter influences which are men,
oned only with bated breath
or fear that they are with
| hearing ready to use their
uffed Tub on any opponent.
child Welfare Bill.
Take the instance of the merito-
Gus measure, House Bill 2S8, Civ.
lg the district court jurisdiction
yer neglected and dependent child
m. 1t was drafted by Charles
pringer; who put more zeal and
ork into its passage than any
her bill, but somehow, some sin
ter influence was holding it up i,
I'd chloroforming it at every step.
nearly went to sleep altogether
the House Committee, it fingered
long while in Senate Committee
I'd had to be pulled out by main
'rce in the closing hours of the
,ssion. Yet. when it came to
zen vote, not a single voice was
corded against it and neglected
I'd dependent children will in the
ture have the protection and as
stance of the district court in paw
g the way for brighter and use
1 future for them. But had it not
-en for Charles Springer lobbing
earnestly for the bill it
ould have died from the start.