Daily Republican., 1889-01-16
''''' Of coasrns... re. SING SALARIES
NO OBJECTIONS so FAR BY
THE LEGISLATURE.
Annun, and to be Doeked sor
Non At enhance -InoreAss of
the Oisrk's salary

The bills recommended by the City
Council at Its last meeting, one OF them to
pay regular ealaries 10 the members OF
the City Council aud the other to 10
crease the salary OF the Clerk OF the
Municipal Court, have been taken TO
Dover and placed In the hands of the
members OF the Legislature to be enacted
Into laws.
30 Jar no objection has been urged
against the passage OF the bills nor is II
known that there will be. The excite
ment attending tho election OF United
States 3 nator has either detractcd pub.
lie attention from the matter or the put
lie ls perfectly satisfied that the propot ed
measures shali become laws.
The bill provioing regular salary for
Councilmep, provides that each mem Der
OF the City Council shall be paid regu
lar stated salary Of $3.50 per annum In
lieu of all allowances now made, and
uhat for each absence from Council
meetings IS shall be deducted, and 81
for every neglect 10 attend committee
meeting.
The general run OF expenses nov to
City Couucilmen has been about $3.50
a month, 81 q month being SLOWED Tor
each attendance ut Council aud 81 cents
for each attendance Mt committee meet
ing. This amount however, has been
very unsqually distributed, those who
were tna a number OF prominent com
mites getting the lions share. Some
members have drawn as much as $40 per
| month under this regulation, while
others did not draw more 81 month,
that ia Sl for each meeting of CouIcil.
The ioitunate ones who were on several
committee have drawn as high as ST.
and fnF att0n 1tu su HtN.
meetings alone. Divided into days, thia
Is more than one COMMITTEES day for
every day in the month, Including Sun
dayr. AS matter OF fact, however,
comnlttees generally met on the uight
OF the meeting OF Council, half hour
or go earlier, aud several committees
| would meet on the same night. A mem
| Der Of Council on several lat commit
tees could generally earn about IS every
Couucil meeting night. Ev at that
rate the monthly salary would only be
tl2, but the balance. TO make 1t so or
S36 per month is made by holding COM
mittee meetings between Council meet
ipgs
There can he no denying the TACT that
the committee heller OF City Council has
been pretty well MIXED and she has neyc,
refused an abundant yield of the lacteal
fluid In the shape of greenbacks and
silver Blands. The difficulty has always
been that only few memters OF the CITY
Council have been allowed TO milk this
heller and those who were becoming lean
and lank by being kept away from the
teats by those who had become tat and
strong prot' sted against this discrimina-
tior, and hence the amlcablc agreement
upon the bill referred to Which will
equAlize the salaries, and one member
Will get no mora than another unless Po.
forming special duties. Tue salary pro-
posed, ESQ per annum, will allow each
member S2O.e3h per month. twill level
down those who have been getting $50
and f35 per month and level up those
who have been getting cn'y a per
month. In this respect The bill Is com
me dable.
! The aggregate oxpensts of City Council
In salaries to lie members has been about
$4,O0O Ter annum; the expense under the
newly proposed Law will bo about tGl75,
an increase of t2I75. IN the latter
amounts are included the salary of $500
for the president of City Council, 500
additional to the chairman OF the Finance
| Committee, who is also q member OF the
Board OF Revision; $50 additional to the
president of City Council, who is also a
member OF the Board of Revision and
go additional now paid to the chairman
OF the COMMITTEES on Public Buildings.
This is about he sizs of the new bill,
and the taxpayers of Wilmington eau
think over 1t for themselves. Ifit is too
much money to be paid for tho services
OF the City Council they will prot, st
against It's passage, If 1t is not 1t will be
q low, d 10 become a law without opposi-
ton. In these times, whom everybody
wants to be paid big wages for public
duty, the allowances do not look exorbi-
| tant
TIE bill increasing the salary OF the
Clerk of the Municipal Court from $720
per anuum to $1,000 is but Justice to an
overworked official. The duties of Clerk
Of the Municipal Court, when we'll per-
formed as they have been under Mr.. Hy-
land, are onerous and responsible, and
$1,000 salary per annum is not too much.
Gardner, 7th and shipley, has the
finest oysters in the city for the holidays