The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-12-04
Are our Couaty Supervisors Salary
Grabbersi

Our County ,srd of Supervisors Just
! before hnai adjournment voted themselves
ten dollars each for extra committee work
during the session Just closed. Having en-
tire CO nfjencs in the personal integrity o.
each aud every member Of the County
this resolution Was passed under u mi.ap-
prehensicu Of the laws IF the great State OF
| Wisconsin yet, ~ each member drew the
extra ten dalars without the faintest sbad-
ow Of law, the transaction must be denomi
mated salsry-grabbing ia . mid. subiuei
| form.
| Taylor's devised Statutes of the Stat. Of
| Wisconsin in Chapter Is. Sec. &C, says +:
"Ths compensation for each member of the
. County Board OF Superb sors shall be s.
per day for osch AID every CAY, not exceed
ing fifteen days in any one year, together
with six cents per mile travel, for each mile
travelled in coming and returning, beyond
SIX miles from the place Of meeting" The
above section plainly limits them to $50
sni mileage so far as pay from the count.
is concerned. The cou,ties Of Fond du
Lac, Calumet. and Columbi,, under =
special law passed By our State Legislature,
c,1 protracr the sessions Of their County
Boards TO twenty-five days, with . compen
eaton Ct three dollars pei day and, if
this county requires the came time, there
is rs good reason Why i; should not have
the same special legj.la ton that other soun-
! tie, enjoy.
During the spring and fall sessions Just
! closed, our Coar:J Board have hesn 10 sss
sion some eighteen or nineteen days
Whether they might have seeomp shed The
same labor in fifteen days 10 not our present
missIoR to decide and while We admit
shat they are justly Untitled to all the pay
they have received for their services, it NAV
be asked Of Us to suxgess the proper mode
Of getting pay for their extra tine, over
! .nd soove ths fifteen days to which they
are Bm,tss BY Chapter Is. Sec. &c. We
sns~er By referring them TO Chapter Is,
Sec. 1874 Of the same Revised Statutes -,
which says that each chairman supervisor
shall be entitled to 81 sonpenn ton for
zach day Sctully and necessarily devoted
By hiu, ~ the service Of bis toSa, ia the
discharge CT snY of the duties of his of6ee
required ST h:ra by law. All must conc-Js
that under this provision the towns must
pay for eli time over fifteen days during
which THAR chairnen serve 10 the capacity
.f County Supervisors.
Ultimately. it win not make very much dif-
ference 10 the tsx psyAss in this case ahss!. 81
the towns or the county "a, the extra ten
dollars /; but, a . publisher a Reform
newspaper. in the interests OF q healt by
Reform party in = county whose elsctors
! bon LAD reform TO tie tuns Of 1900 majority
~ the isss sisc.ioa. ws feel justified 10 sound-
lag the alarm at the slightest shnnias to.
ward past Ra heal grievances. Our desire
for reform i tiu'1a pure, snt " Are fully
pursusdsd that We hai ras5e< b door
keeper in a house II r1form Gsos to d,CsIl
an the pdlaes e. radical acieSsdAess.
We have bus jus rscoesesd from tbs
eabiii..atins effects of rsssaDesuA ffsn cus
Li;y Board Of Aljernsn, brought ous BY
our eonmsnsS on thu Fire department !;
vet lsre We are 81 see ac.in, vita the
County Board to hs.s frog, ssthss s.cs.
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