El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
MACEDONIAN CRY
Of CITIES HEARD
BY LEGISLATORS
ND IS PROMISED
Plan for Financing Is
Evolved for Relief
Of Councilmen


The Macedonian cry Of the cities, ii
which the voice OF Albnquerque Ii
most Macedonian Of all, Is to be heard
by the fourth state legislature IL TN
members of the two houses can bt
got to agree to the plan which hai
been outlined and which Is TO be form
ulated IN d bill before many days. All
buquerque has been bemOaning for 4
long time her inatiiity to make boil
ends meet on her income and ever
went 10 far a few weeks ago as to
talk about applying for a divorce from
the rest OF Bernaiillo county. When
this died a natural death, ii still left
things In a parlpus state, ACCORDING
to the city manager, and subsequently
q meeting of the heads OF the munici
palities OF the state was held al which
the PROSTATE condition OF city finances
was the battle cry and when It was
decided that relief should be demand
ed Of this session Of statesmen and
that Mayor Davies Of Santa re should
be chief propeller OF influence on the
law givers.
Now as a result Of numerous can.
cuses Of an informal nature, Judge
Barnes and other headers have solved
the problem, at least they have solved
how far they are willing to 60 and it
is a fair presumption that this bill is
to be a case OF take 1t or leave ii for
the aforesaid cities.
In passing it may be remarked that
out OF this Legislature there ought to
come some jugglers or figures and H.
nance which would make old Adam
Smith stand on end. Between proVid-
ing for a lot Of new things, breaking
all records in education and road
building, raising the funds and lower
ing the tax rate (which Is the CON
fident prediction Of H. O. Bursuml on
the one hand, wrestling with a budget
and getting a fatal halfNelson on it
and then turning around and taking
the same number of gross dollars III
der a new system and making them
buy a good deal more for cities than
they did under the old system. is a
feat in arithmetic which Mr.. ,Kitchin's
ways and means committee might well
study.
In a nutshell the bill potentially is
TO permit cities to levy a tax Of five
instead Of three mills as at present, Is
to do away with the s per cent collec-
tioh tax and is to provide that so per
cent of all road funds collected from
municipalities shall be devoted strictly
to municipal expenditure. Then hay-
ing guillotined the collection tax, a
separate tax il. to be levied, appearing
on its own responsibility on the bud
get, to take care Of the salary OF coun-
ty OFFICIALS. This win not, it il esti-
mated, do all that the cities want to-
ward solving the high cost of a towns
living but it viii go a long ways and
quite as far as ought to be asked.
To start Something.
Two measures were introduced In
the house yesterday which win start
something. Liewallyn, the Major of
peace and not war, has a bill which
provides that hereafter the delinquent
tax list must be published in q paper.
The printers have been pinihg for this
reform, both because they want the
pbana noles and court house doors are
rendered unsightIy ana anyhow that
method don,t publish ANYTHING. 1t is
tba FIRST Of a series Of s%tiffening
-wbalahonas that ara n he inserted in
tha n-rb,ishars h~usiness "a make il
shanaly INA attractive Il men of large
vjawe On nuhlic au~estiona WIN feel
mai nav have ! rieht 10 i've while
MISUNDERSTANDING on,ninn
TSa other biIl Il that creating 4
blohwav from FaFmington ID Albu.
a,errss II u ] wall 1noSon fact That
San nan county sometiines wonders
WHETHER ma helongs "a Colorado 81 10
Nav Mexico wav off 10 y6nder and
u,itb NJ wav ~ oetfinr anywhere to-.
n,aat he,. fellow connfies Nav sneak
- sadiuo ana an imnnsino eronn Of
snonsors M 70 build 4 road BY
s,h,ah san n,anitaa can coma "a New
Ma~;co without having % enter for
assn territory and to levy 4 special
10 ~ ono Mil Far he coming three
vaars ~ dafrav nc cost Of construct.
;n~ az .bsehwav the bIii has four
,sae,.ars ~ III hack, ma With the
sresEsr l. uasd ~ IL honefni Of com.
mamd,ng I maioritv HAVING already
Lao i;st ~ votes nlesaad "a II.
nthar t-ransacfiona n Inc house late
r,.sday s~tsrnonn wefe AZ follows:
qha committee Oh education report