New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-17

ton is incorporated into this ordinance ex
actly as it was before under General West
and the proposed expenses of the market
are less than Mr.. Enjoys by several hun
bred dollars, so that when the Mayor say
that the ordinance exceeds what il
deemed necessary by at least thirty thou
sand dollars, he has either made mistake
in his figures, or in the particular week il
which he wrote this veto inquiries into mat
tiers of far greater Importance left him Nc
time for proper investigation. The actua
expense of running the department, as or
| gained, will be but S3S,070. / say the &C
tual expenses, because | have four acting
assistant wharfngers who | find provided
for in the organization already existing, but
| who are not serving, and who do not pro
| pose shall serve unless some emergency OF
some extraordinary amount of business
shall make such appointments necessary
In the matter of superintendent of the fire
department, do not propose to make this
| appointment without the consent of the
| Council. If in the course of next fall, when
we come to readjudicate the contract now
existing with the Firemens Charitable As
ISOLATION, it becomes necessary to employ
an expert fireman to give us his ideas, well
we can employ this officer or we can dis
pense with him. as we please. At any rate,
the actual expenses will be fifty eight hun
dred dollars less than is shown in this ordi-
nance, leaving the real expenses for the run
NH rLa
shown. If, as the Mayor says. this amount
exceeds by thirty thousand dollars what
is deemed necessary, that would only
leave eight thousand dollars for the
whole Department of Commerce, an amount
almost less than the running expenses of
the Mayors office. As to the matter of in
spectors of markets, there are thirteen in
spectors provided for, although the Mayor
says twelve, classifying one separately
among the superintendent, but | have
given one of them an extra salary because
he has to travel about to various parts of
the city in the discharge of his duties and
have thought it proper to make this extra
compensation for car fares, etc. This paw
roll compares very favorably with that of
Mr.. Emeley. Under me tbs sixteen thousand
two hundred dollars under Mr. Emlev. Ac-
cording to one pay roll which have seen
the expenses would be at the rate of twenty
siy thousand dolla s, an excess of ten thou
sand dollars over what is contemplated in
my ordinance. The Mayor says it is un-
necessary to have these inspectors of
markets. 1t has always been the case that
there have been commissares of the markets.
There never has been a time, to NV
knowledge, and | have made many in
quiries, when there have not been commits
saries of the markets, either designated as
or inspectors, or Metropolitan
police detailed for the purpose of perform
ing the office of commissaries or inspectors.
The Mayor says that for the last three or
four months we have done without these !
inspectors, and the system has worked !
we're twenty-one police officers specially de |
tailed to act as commissaries: and when an |
officer is detailed for special service find |
hey never accomplish anything except the |
purpose for which they were detailed. In
Claiborne market there were two police
men detailed, and they did nothing except
% attend to that market. The city has to
Day these policemen, and it does not
make any difference, in my opinion.
whether the city pays them as police Off
'ers or as commissaries. could make
he expenses of my department appear less
md the expenses of the police more, but it
GEMS to me that is simply gaining little
,lory for ourselves without any advantage
Q the city. The ordinance is less bv sew
raj thousand dollars than the combined
wo departments cost under General West
nd Mr.. Finley; and as to the way the
of the wharves was conducted
nder this same system with General
Vest, he told me when he was
1 the city the other day, that
worked admirablv-uhe dual capa-
ity of collector and wharfnger worked
dmirably, and SO far as he had
ny opinion on the subject it was his idea it
ad better be continued so. This, of course,
advanced simply to show that man who
|
'as good system and worked we'll The
nal objection is that the ordinance provides
nat the Administrator shall define the du-
es of his officers. That may seem to i'm
ly great deal more than it means 1t
imply means that the Administrator of
commerce shall have the superintendent
f his own Office and his own officers. which
e would have had if this proviso had not
cen here. Some of the Administrators
ave no organization at all, but they have
Employees and define their duties. believe (
lis is the case with the Administrator of
ublic Accounts. Any such general provi-
on as that would not interfere with any
cdinance of the Council directing what the
Employees should do, and certainly was not
ltended with that view.
Mr.. Bonzano: | have inquired hereto
re what this Superintendent of the
ire Department is wanted for. What
2 could be more than peram- ,
Ilating fireman, l don't know |
mt know what in the world he would
ave to do except to visit the different {
lginehouses. S
Mr. Remick said he thought he had made S
lis sufficiently clear. He did not propose
at this officer should be appointed unless
might be deemed advisable in the course
the city's negotiation with the Firemen's $
haritable Association readjuticating the /;
attract to them Tor a series of years. The 7
Ouncil might need him; if they did not /
ey needn't have him. I