Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-19
A Slick Job to Put County
Salaries Up.
Office Holders Who Think Their
Time Precious.
A Salary Grab Steal With Pecu-
liar Sequel To 1t.
A Scheme to Fleece the Taxpayers
Right and Loft For the Benefit
Of the Tax Eaters.

entered into quiet 6cnome TO nave the
county government pill so amended az
to raise the salary of almost every Office
holder in the county, and to fix the list
OF deputies on very liberal scale with
a nice fat salary attached to each place
1t is perhaps the most barefaced at
tempt to swindle people under cover
of law ever conceived. 1t is perfect
illustration of the peculiar politica
morality that guides the average Repub
lican Office holder. The schemers pre-.
pared bill which they forwarded to
Sacramento to have it quietly worked
through by some one in direct collusion
with these tax eaters, intent on swindline
the people. Who is the Los Angeles
county legislator who is thus in league
with this gang? It would be interest
ing to know his name and full military
title. Dare he proclaim himself to
the people?
The bill provides for the following
officers, deputies and salaries: Sheriff,
10000; under sheriff, $2400; bookkeeper,
$500; assistant bookkeeper, 1880; dep
uty for each superior court, $1,000; dep
uty on foreclosure and execution and
sale, $1,000; deputy for district attor-
ney's Office, 1920; deputy for civil
work, 1920; two deputies for criminal
work, each, $1,000: deputy for transpor-
tation, 1920; jailor, $500; assistant
jailor, $1,000; second assistant jailor,
5000; third assistant jailor, 5000; mat
ron, 5000; total, $31 $50.
District attorney, $4,000; assistant dis
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OF supervisors, $1,000; deputy for civil
work, $4,000. deputy for Office, $500; /;
two deputies for superior courts, $1,000 /;
courts, 5000; stenographer, $1,000; dep
$21, 300.
Clerk, $4,000 chief clerk, $24OO; first
assistant clerk, $500; second assistant
clerks, $500; judgment docket clerks,
$1,000; index clerks, $1,000; minute
clerks, $1,000; total, $23, 800.
Auditor, $4,000 chief deputy, $500 !;
bookkeeper, $500. Total, $500.
Recorder, $4,000; chief deputy. $21OO;
two index clerks, each, $500; floor
walker and mailing clerk, 5000; chief
deputy, copying department. $1,000;
draughtsman, $500; two comparers,
each 1920. Total, Sic, 100.
Tax collector, $45OO; chief deputy,
$24OO; cashier, 1880; fifteen assistants
during November, December and Janu-
ary, per month, 500; three assistants
for balance of year, per month, 500.
And any additional help required in
this office, to be supplied at the will and
pleasure of the board of supervisors.
Total, $15,7OO.
Assessor, $4,000, and that he should be
allowed commissions on the collection
OF poll and personal property tax, and
that if said commissions on the poll and
property tax are not allowed, that he
should have larger salary; also chief
deputy at $50 per month. Total, say,
$4,000.
Treasurer, $500; two deputies, $3.50
for both. Total, $780,
School superintendent's salary, $4,000 :;
chief or visiting deputy, $500, book
keeper, $500; stenographer, 5000.
Total, $4,000.
Strange to say, the surveyor, public
administrator and coroner are satisfied
with the arrangement as it now stands.
They receive fat fees on their work. The
grand total of this list OF salaries foots
up no less q sum than $142, ,120.
The board of supervisors hearing of
this plan for wholesale robbery of the
people, took the matter up and sent to the
county representatives at Sacramento q
letter urging the amendment of the bill
SO as to fix the salaries as follows:
The county clerk should receive $1,000 I;
one chief deputy, not to exceed, per
month, 5000 one clerk Of the board of
supervisors, not to exceed $160 one
registry clerk, not to exceed SIPS; all
court clerks, not to exceed, per month,
$125; the sherifFof the county should re-
ceive, per annum, $4,000; one under
sheriff, not to exceed, per month, 5000 (;
the county recorder, $500; chief deputy,
per month, not to exceed $125; the au-
ditor should receive. per annumS $4,000; /;
one chief deputy, per month, not to ex-
coed SIPS; the district attorney should
receive $4,000; assistant, per month, not
to exceed 5000; one chief deputy, per
month, not to exceed $175; one deputy,
per month, not to exceed $l66.66; all
other deputies allowed distvict at
torney, not to exceed $685. the
county assessor should receive, per an
mum, $3600; one chief deputy, per
month, not to exceed $125; the county
treasurer should receive, per month,
$4,000; one book-keeper, per month, not
to exceed $3.50; the county tax collector
should receive $1,000; one chief deputy,
per month, not to exceed $50; the su-
perintendent of schools should receive
$4,000; one assistant, per month, not to
: exceed $125.
This list is about as the salaries at
present stand, excepting that the treas
urer's salary is raised from $500 to
$4,000. This recommendation of the
supervisors as well as the cinch bill
above, goes into the matter of deputies
in detail. At present the number and
pay of all deputies is left to the board of
supervisors. 1t may perhaps be just as
we'll to define what help should be al
lowed in the several offices. AT present
the supervisors are quite liberal enough.
For example, the district attorneys
Office has to aid the head one assistant
and five deputies, or seven men in all in
the Office. The aggregate OF the pay roll
is pretty steep. The plea is that liberal
salaries secure the services of good
men. Not always so. The immense
cost of the district attorneys Office
in the past did not prevent building the
new court house on ground Tor which
there is law suit on hand to quiet the
title. AS to this district attorneys
Office there is room for retrenchment
in it.
When Mr.. Kelly took that Office on
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