The morning call., 1894-10-23

and supplementary appropriations, allowances
and payments in addition TO those now author
ICED by law.
Sec 2. The engineers, members fremen,
employees and other help to be appointed as
provided in section j of this act shall be ap.
pointed governed and controlled in The same
manner ana by the same laws as their fellow
engineers, members, fremen, employees and
other help whose employment Is now author
lied by law, are appointed. governed and con-
troiled. The engines, wagons, machinery, inn
plements extinguishers and other apparatus,
the purchase and repair OF Which are author
lied by section l of this act, shall be pur-
Chased and repaired in like manner aud under
the same regulations as like articles. the pur-
chase and repair of which is now authorized by
law, are now purchased aud repaired.
Sec. 3. The term "CiIy Council' as used in this
act is hereby declared to Include any body or
board which, under law, is The legislative de-
partment of any Incorporated town or city, or
of any city and county
Sec. 4 This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
That bill was referred at once to the
committee on city, city and county and
Town governments, where the wrange
ever iG commenced. Senator Fay was its
chief opponent He protested against its
passage as an infamy-inyeighe against
its author and its sponsor as Infamous.
He pointed out that it would give the boss
Of the Political party in power potenti-
ality irreiragible. 1t put no limit on the
authority of a Board of Supervisors. which
might and generally was The tool of an uD-
scrupulous boss. Under the provisions of
such an act the whole city and county
could be given membership in the Fire
Department, the defenceless taxpayer
being compelled to dlsgorge to pay for it
all. The boss in power could remain in
power until he chose to abdicate 10 favor
of as nefarious a successor, and his myr-
midons in the Fire Department would see
to it that none but passive tools or per-
nicious adberents of the boss passed their
bills.
And it placed no limit either on the sala-
ries to be paid. There was not a word
said in the proposed bill about decreasing
any salaries. Not a word. 1t distinctly
recites: And may increase the salaries
and ompensations Of the officers, men,
bers, employees and other help now author
lied by law, whose salaries and compensa-
ton, as now fixed, may be deemed made
Quate."
just fll up the department with lot of
thugs and crooks and decayed prize
fighters. alb lib.. pay them fancy salaries
galore and take them up to the polls and
vote 'em for me and Buck, see. ST.. George
and the Stables forever! Mahoney and
Rainey! Sam and Jerry, the twin souls
Stoke up the dragon. Let him belch forth
suIphurous flames. Charge the bill to old
81. Taxpayer.
How the impeccable Mahoney legged for
that bill for his beloved Sam. Aye, even
to the neglect of poor, half-wit.ed Dick
Jessup, who only got half-rations of cigar
cites during the fearful struggle for
purity. although Mahoney, by an over
sight common TO great souls, charged up
the regular allowance in that $40, 900 bill.
And the result? Purity trium mphed-Ma-
honey's fight for purity, and Sam won out
The bill passed the Senate, despite the
heroic struggles Of Cassius Fay. 1t went
through with a whoop and passed down to
the house. Down after il went Caius
Cassius and formed him an alliance with
Marcus Antonius Julius Kahn. They
fought shy of the city's patricians, with
whom Mahoney's spirit mingled through
| the usual medium and cultivated the ple-
beians Of the cOw.cOunties.
The bill of Caesar Rainey, pushed by
Tie NlIIiDS uauuS Oh tU6 sanity J6Try,
took the usual course easily enough for a
time, but one day they brought it out for
passage, and then-tragic spectacle --Caius
Cassius Fay and Marcus Antonius Julius
Kahn and the co-conspirators did it to
death ct the feet of the statue of Pompeius
Gould.
The friendship cemented by the strug-
giles of that memorable month of January
Sam has been the friend of Jerry Mahoney,
the alter ego of Rainey. No matter under
which king either Bezonian served. no
matter what the conflicting interests of
their masters, these two devoted souls con-
trived to WORK together in the most beau
tiful harmony. The friend of Jerry was
the care of Sam; the interest of Rainey
was the never-ending delight of Mahoney.
Two souls with but single thought
Two hearts that beat as
1t has lasted until this day without a
jar, and once again the good citizens of
San Francisco are able to witness the
charming spectacle of one twin soul work
ing for another twin souI-Sam for Jerry,
Rainey for Mahoney. And all the thugs
and thieves and decayed prlzefghters Sam
would have foisted on the public had that
beautiful bill passed, and some he has
foisIed anyhow, are out coloniZing and
working for Mahoney the impeccable.
Jerry the pure. for the ex-private detec-
tive, who was so anxious to get through
the bill that would have fixed them for
life. Maybe they think Sam and Jerry
will get a similar bill through this time.
VIII they? Well, not if the good people,
who are not purists with pull, have any
thing to do with it, and it looks as though
they would have.