The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-10-21

inc Board, and l certified to the fact
lcertihed to extra services on two or
!hree occasions when there were shows
IN the city and when extra services
them. ~
The police rules requires policemen
to go on duty at y o'clock T. NJ. and
ana remain to 8 A. NJ. each day from
ihe LIST of April to the LIST of Novem-
Der. vi course policemen who have
specified hours to perform duty are as
Justly and honestly entitled to extra
pay for extra hours of service as a
MECHANIC or laborer who is employed
TO work 10 hours day at certain
sum, is entitled to extra pay for all
additional hours over 10 that he may
work. and no one but mean. con-
temptable creature would falsify and
misrepresentation matters for the pur-
pose OF making little political CAPT
tai.
SO lar as my conduct is concerned
IN certifying to accounts of officers.
where it is my duty to do so, am
wiling that every citizen should
know the facts in every case. If
have IN any instance, through mistake
or oversight, certified to any account
tor the services of any officer, by
which the city paid any sum of money
the person receiving it was not enti-
tied to, | hold myself in readiness to
refund it, il the person in whose favor
the sum was made refuses to do so.
But this creature Davis, is endeavor-
ing by every species of falsehood and
Misrepresentation to bring odium up
on Democrats who have connection
with the city government. The animus
OF this fellow will be apparent
when the fact is stated that if he had
looked at the police payroll previous
to May last, he could have seen where
former Chiefs of police-one of whom
he has lately been holding up as a
model-had certified not only to ex-
ira services for patrolmen, but for ex.
ira services for himself, and drew ex-
ira pay on his own certificate. I do
not say he was not entitled to extra
pay, but only mention it to show the
dishonesty and inconsistency of
Davis. JAMES ELDER
AS voluminous card-writer. His
Honor Mayor Elder has, in explain
ing his economically etrenching grab
OF 500, clearly demonstrated his abil-
ity to his fellow citizens. The above
is further demonstration of his forte
in this line, and in explanation and
defense of "extra-pay for Policemen"
in reply to charge made by us of his
having approved and certified to the
correctness of their pay-rolls. Not
withstanding he loses his temper and
calls us hard names; yet the reader
will notice that he acknowledges the
correctness of our charges, and enters
upon defense of his course, by plead
ing the custom as practiccd by his
predecessors, and AYERS that police
men ARE as justly and honestly emit
tied to extra pay for extra hours Of
service as mechanic or laborer." &c.
10 show the fallacy of His Honor's
position on extra-pay for extra hours.
we submit the following section of the
rules and regulations for the police
force, adopted in 1869, and now in
operation: tl
SEC. 2. Each and every member
of the Police Force shall devote his
whole time and attention to the Der
Torrance of his official duty, and he
is expressly prohibited from following
any other calling, or being EMPLOYED
in any other business. Although Ger
tain hours are allotted to them for the
performance of ordinary duty. yet at
all times they must be prepared to act
Immediately on notice that their ser
vices are required" ,..
His Honor also AYERS that ''Pre-
vious to May last the Mayor was NOT
required to certify to the Police pay
roll" In this he misstates. through
Ignorance Of course, the position OF
himself and also his predecessors, for
just one year prior to the time he
mentions, he and Mayors Poe and
Bennett, did the same thing he is
now doing--not certifying" to the
pay-rolls as he asserts; but APPROX.
ING them, as the following section Of
the salary ordinance shows:
SEC. Z. The Chief of Police shall
receive sixty-fve dollars (65) pei
month, and each patrolman sixty dol
lars (6U per month, to be paid month
" upon the certificate Of the Chief O
Police. approved by the Mayor. y
Ordinance fixing salaries for 1874-5
The assumption of His Honor tina
he but followed the custom of hi
predecessors, amounts to nothing. TIL,
question still remains to be answered
by him, does Sec. 2 of the Rules ant
Sec. Z OF salary Ordinance, authoriz
the Mayor to approve extra pay roll
Tor policemen and are they legally en-
titled to receive such extra pay in ad
dition to their stipulated salaries pc
month?
The point we made in our issue O
the 9TH, was that if Mayor Elder con
sidered that extra pay for extra hour
was so wrong for the Chief, for dom
precisely the same kind of extra wor
the balance of the force had perform
ed, and that forced him { Elder to sa
that Chief Atkinson would eithe
have to nav the monev hack into tn
treasury or lie (Elder) must DO i
then the Mayor is also in duty boun
either to pay back into the Treasur
the ''extras" allowed the petrolmer
or use his influence to do it, like h
did with the Chief.
| His Honor sustained us in thi
point. from the fact that he told tn
Chief tn nav hack the extras While