Albuquerque Evening Herald

SELLERS RETURNS FROM SANTA FE DELIGHTED

Mayor of Albuquerque Enthusiastic Because of Splendid Fellowship Apparent Among Legislators.

"Delighted," declared Col. D.K.B. Sellers, mayor of Albuquerque, on his return today from Santa Fe, where he attended the sessions of the New Mexico Municipal league, attended the New Mexico Press association banquet last night, at which he was one of the principal speakers, had hobnobbed with the members of the legislature during spare hours.

"I never saw such good fellowship exist among the members of any legislature as exists among members of both houses in Santa Fe," said the mayor today.

"The atmosphere is clouded down with this spirit of good fellowship and as a result every visitor in Santa Fe is at once impressed with the desire of the legislators to accomplish valuable work during the session."

Mayor Sellers is of the opinion that the Municipal league has started off with the right foot forward and will be enabled to do things of real value for the cities and towns of the state, with the assistance and co-operation of the legislators. The league has outlined measures which it is desired to have enacted into law. The measures, when properly drawn, will be submitted to the judiciary committee of the league and later to the legislative committee, which consists of Colonel Sellers and E.P. Davies.

Among the bills which the league hopes to have passed by the legislature are the following:

1. A bill providing for street and sidewalk improvements.

2. A bill providing for the collection of occupation tax in municipalities by municipal officials.

3. A bill for the relief of the county poor.

4. A bill providing for commission form of government.

5. A bill providing for the collection of road tax, containing a clause requiring that the monies collected as road tax in municipalities be expended within the municipal limits for improvement of roads and streets.

6. A bill providing for the appointment by the mayor in cities of police judges, regardless of whether or not such appointees are justices of the peace.

7. A bill providing for the obtaining of rights of way for pipe lines.

8. A bill which will provide for the retention in office of a certain number of town trustees, abolishing the old system of having an entirely new board each election.

9. A bill providing for the reimbursement of municipalities and towns of monies diverted at the last legislature from insurance funds.

More than 200 members of the state legislature, of the municipal league, the boosters and press association were present at the chamber of commerce banquet at the Palace hotel last night. Among the principal speakers were Judge J.A. Richardson of Roswell, Senator Isaac Barth, Senator C.J. Laughlin, Lieutenant Governor de Baca, Mayor Sellers, Mayor Atkinson of Roswell, ex-Governor Prince and others.