The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-28
BUTTE CITY EXPENSES.
The Council FIxSs the Budget for Mex
Year-DavIe's Salary Cut.

The Council Fixes the Budget for Next
Year-Dav!e's salary Cut.
BUTTE, March z7.-The city council
held its annual discussion in regard TO
salaries for the ensuing year tonight ana
when il was all over the only reduction
that had been made was in the salary OF
the public librarian which was cut from
500 month to 5000 year. To offset
this startling retrenchment the salaries
of the police magistrate and city treasurer
were raised to conform to the new code
which goes into effect July 1. All other
salaries we're left just as they have been
heretofore. The judiciary committee, to
which the report of tile ways and means
committee was referred, reported reco m
mending that the salaries OF the following
officers be changed as follows:
Treasurer, from $500 to $1,000 per an
num- -
Police magistrate, from $3.50 to 5000
per annum.
CITY marshal. from $3.50 per annum to
Sl5J per month.
Chief OF police. from 81, 500 per annum
to Sl25 per month.
annum. oo
Librarian, from 5000 per month to $1,000
per annum, payable monthly.
Vivion made an amendment that the
following reductions in salaries De maze :
City clerk, from 81, 800 to Sl.5O) per an
uum.
Assistant city clerk, from Sl,50o to
Police magistrate, from 50 900 to 81 800.
Street commissioner, from Sl,oOO TO
| 81 800
Assistant city engineer and building in
spector, from 81 500 to $500.
| Fire marshal, from 81 800 to 81 800.
| Assistant fire marshal, from $500 to
| 81 200.
| Pascoe moved an amendment to the
| amendment that the city engineers salary
| be left at $500, the old figure. he did
no. believe that competent man could
| be secured for a smaller salary. Kelly
was opposed to giving any city empleye
more than the mayor and he believed that
| $1,000 q year was enough for the city ell
| gineer. Kuowlton said that y, 800 n year
| was little enough to pay for good city
engineer. Everybody knows" he said,
that it requires less study to be mayor
than to be a civil engineer"
II will probably not have chance to
vo,e on this matter" remarked Mayor
Dugan, .'but if had vote would favor
| Pascoe's amendments. As for the en-
gineer getting more than the mayor,
will Just say that you can get number oi
men " no would fill the Office of mayor
but you can't pick up a man on the street
every day who would make good en-
gineer. believe that $500 year is little
enough to pay the city engineer"
The mayor also opposed the reduction
in salaries proposed by Vivion. Pascoe's
amendment to the amendment was then
carried by n vote of to 2,Kelly and Vivlon
voting in the negative. and the engineer
salary will remain at $500.
Vivion's amendment was then defeated,
Cook and Vlvion alone supporting IT, and
after that the report of the judiciary
| committee was adopted as read with the
execution of the city engineers salary.
The annual appropriation bill was ther
passed under suspension of the rules. i
likes the salaries of all city employees, n
already stated, or as they have hitherto
existed, and names the funds from which
they shall be paid. IL also provides 10
the following annual appropriations: