St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-29
BY THE LEGISLATURE A BILL
For the Immediate Payment
OF Salaries by Issuing
Certificates.
THIS PLAN WAS DECIDED ON
At a Meeting Of the Assoeia-
ton Yesterday--The Dan
O'Connop Memorial.

Necessity is the mother of inven-
ton, and the police of st. Paul, being
reduced to the necessity of putting a
stop to City Comptroller McCardy's
unfair and partisan discrimination
against them in the matter of pay
ing them their salaries, have de-
vised bill, which, if it passes the
legislature, will drive the comp
troller up tree.
The proposed bill, which has been
drafted by the legislative commit
tee of the st. Paul Police Mutual
Aid association, was read at meet
ing Of the association held yester-
day afternoon at Arion hall. In sub
stance it provides for the payment
of the salaries of all city employees
in cities Of 10000 population and
over when such salaries are due,
whether there is a deficiency in a
fund or not. In order to accomplish
this the bill empowers the city
council of such a city, by three
fourths vote, to issue certificates of
Indebtedness to the amount of the
deficiency in the fund, and thereby
raise at once the money necessary to
pay the salaries of that department.
The certificates of Indebtedness are
to bear not more than 6 per cent in
terest, and are to mature in fifteen
months from the date Of issue. By
that time the delinquent taxes will
have been paid in.
Thus, in case of a deficiency in
any department fund caused by the
non-payment of taxes when due,
the city employees will receive their
obliged to wait fifteen months until
the delinquent taxes come in. This
scheme will also prevent the comp
troller Of a city from diverting
those delinquent tax collections to
the sinking fund or any other fund,
the expense Of unpaid city employees.
The employees will have already re-
ceived their money, and the amount
received from the delinquent tax
collections must be applied to the re-
demption of the certificates Of in
debtedness. The bill limits the
amount of deficiency for which GER
tificates may be issued in any city to
$4,000.
Applying such law to the city of
st. Paul, it will be seen that it
would result in obtaining for the po-
lice their pay for last November,
none CT which they have as yet re-
ceived, and likewise the SO per cent
of their salaries for November, 1893,
for which the city is in arrears.
After the reading of the proposed
bill yesterday, the association ap-
proved it's form, and instructed. the
committee to see that it was intro
duced into the legislature as soon as
possible.
In accordance with instructions,
the committee appointed to draft
appropriate resolutions upon the
death of Detective Dan J. O'Connor
submitted the following, which were
adopted:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Divine Prov
iuellce 10 remove from our midst
Daniel ]. O'Connor, who, during his
associations with US, has endeared
himself to Us by his many good quail
ties of heart and mind, be it
Resolved, That in his death the asso-
citation loses a member who was at all
times honest and faithful to his duty
as an officer, and beloved by his fellow
members of the police department.
Resolved: That during his long resi-
dence in the city, his life has been ex-
emplary for honesty and maniiness.
Resolved, That the Police Mutual
Aid Association tenders to the family
of the deceased in their dark hour of
trial, its sincere coincidence, recognize
ing that from them has departed a low
ing son and brother, whose genial dis
position and warm heart made him a
true friend, and whose hand was ever
outstretched to his fellow man,
Resolved: That this association
cause an engrossed copy Of these reso-
lutions to be sent to the family of the
deceased, and that they be spread upon
the records in testimony of his sterling
integrity.