Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-01
District Goyerp0en, Affairs.

District Government Affairs.
The District Commissioners to-day appoint
ga Mr.. Robert p. Dodge, of GeorgetO Sn
treasurer sasn OF the metropolitan police of tn
ID. w. HOughton and j. B. Moreland, en-.
plOyed IN the office Of the board of assessors,
nave been dismissed, for want of work to d g..
The District Commissioners have issued an
order that no wagon or other vehicle belong
Ing to vendors In the Center market, or used
In connection with sales in or about that mar
below pennsylvania avenue. in the vicinity of
the market. All market wagons must be
parked upon street. above 9th street.
THE QUESTION OF PoLICEMENs PAY.
This morning a delegation of policemen
from the several station houses waited upon
the District Commissioners to protest against
By 81 ns hf Psee e
Gessford, of the first precinct, Otticer Rhodes,
OF second precinct; Sergeant Trunnell, Of
third third Officer VSkman fourth; Officer Hare,
seventh, and Officer Woodward, of the eighth
precinct; Detective McElfresh, of the detec
tye eOrPs; Major Morgan aud others The
gersoll, A. c. Richards, Robert Christy, ex-
G0mmlsSloner Bryan. j. L. Barbour. E. f..
White, Richard Taylor, Marshal Douglass,
signed by 1870 of our citizens, among them
nearly all the leading merchants and bankers,
and representing $6o,O1O,00O worth of property,
was brought with them to present to the Dis
lrlct Commissioners. The petition requests
that the salaries of the Officers and me an 5ers
OF the metropolitan police force may remain
salaries now paid are the least that the ser
vices of good, honest and efficient men can be
secured for, and that the pay they now receive
expenses than is paid in other cities; beIiev,
ing, further, that the clause in the sundry civil
Dill authorizing the Commissioners to fix the
to the expressed wishes of large majority of
both houses of Congress, as the records of
their proceedings show. When the delega ion
arrived at the Columbia building Commits
sioner Phelps who has the matter under his
especial charge, had just left in his carriage to
attend to some official business at the Treas
TWining We're present. and after consultation
II was decided to postpone the meeting until
o'clock.
The delegation reassembled at that hour.
Ex, CommissiOner Bryan led off the discussion,
stating that abou one year ago he had occa-
sion to call upon the police to take burglar
out OF his house, That burglar is now in the
penitentiary, and he at that time promi sed the
police that if at any time he could serve them
ne would cheerfully do so. This time, he
thought, had come. He read the memorial,
and called the attention of the Commissioners
and taxpayers on the petition. He said that
during the last session of Congress he had never
heard a member, speak apprOyingly of
OF this city are in point of character and
aplilty above the average police of other cities
He spoke of their arduols duties and what
IS expected OF them at the capital of the ma
tlon. he did not think they were Overpaid,
in view of what is required of them in the way
OF uniforms and dress. Another thing was
the police are all military men, all being dis
charged from that service. He thought re-
police of this city are chosen without any
reference to their politics as in other cities,
and in view of what is required of them here,
they are not too much paid.
MIR. lDgPrSOll followed in viporOuc arou
ment against reduction, and MIR. Bryan cited
the TACT that reduction now would act as
great hardship In many cases where the police
men are paying for homes purchased by them
on the expectation that their pay would be
continued the same.
Sergeant Holinberger, in this connection,
lnstallments on their houses, and any reduc-
ton would act very I'M uriouSly.
MIR. j. L. Barbour here remarked that he
did not believe that it was the sentiment of
reduction made. Mr.. r. II. Taylor and others
concurred in this remark.
Capt Phelps stated that the case had been
very ably put to the Commissioners, and they
would give livery careful consideration before
acting upon the matter.
The delegation then retired.
A CUT OFF.
question having been recently raised by
discharged District emplOye as to the liabil-
ity of the District government for the payment
OF the salary for the full month in which the
uloCudI So Was lndue anu IneGo DelnS some
doubt in the mind of the attorney as to such
liability, the Commissioners, in order to pre-
vent any further question, have prepared a
paper which has been presented to all the en-
plOyes for signatures, in which the employee
agrees to relinquish any right they may have
Tor recovering in such cases.
COHEN'S COMPLAINT.
A communication submitted by Isaac Cohen
in person, to the District Commissioners, this
morning, reads as follows: "a meeting was
held last night in front of the City Hall,
which was one of the most orderly and quiet
ever held in the city, and not Obstructng any
thing, for the convenience of the citizens, as
the chief OF police is no doubt prepared to re-
port. The Workingmen's Relief Association
desires to hold another orderly and peaceab:e
meeting there to- night, and the undersigned
is instructed to ascertain from the honorable
Commissioners whether a permit to occupy
the porticO of the City Hall for speakers is
ton for such permit
He was informed by Captain Phelps that
Major Morgan had his Instructions in the
PREMISES