Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-03
MAYOR JONES And SALARIES.
THE EXECUTIVE REVIEWS THE
QUESTION OF CITY REVENUES.
Declares Tint Rctrenchment In Neccs.
| sRry in Order To Administer the
City's Affairs safely-Figurcs
and RcnsOns Given.

Mayor Jones Saturday talked freely re-
sardins the policy of his administration and
declared in unmistakable terms that he
would not permit the business Of the city
to be carried on on any speculative and un-
business-lke basis. Said he:
THE fundamental and foremost PROPOSE
tion on which ! began my administration
three months ago was that the city
WAS business corporations; that
| its affairs should be conducted along
business-lke lines, and that the inter-
ests of all the people demanded that their
affairs be administered faithfully. econom-
| ically, honestly and in II thoroughly busi-
ness manner. l believe that the city should
| be conducted just as a man conducts his
own business, taking into consideration the
probable revenue on conservative pasls
| and governing expenditures thereby.
"A municipal corporation is corpora
| tion. Every conservative man will care
| fully compute his revenue or income. not
, on u liberal but on conservative eStl-
mate. II his business, conducted on safe
and conservative basis. yields him 100000.
| but by nguring iHs income on Il speculative
theory II might yield him $4,000. the care
ful business man governs his expenditures
on what he knows he will have to spend
and not on any visionary anu speculative
basis.
| amount, he is in financial straits Ut the
end OF the year. lie must either make an
assignment or he must borrow on his cred
| II. In this respect the business man is
/ better OF than the city, which has no other
resource than its annual revenue. Its debt
making power is exhausted and 1t cannot
turn to one department for assistance in
helping out a depleted department.. II has
no collateral on which II can realize. This
| is the position ! took at the beginning of
my administration, and 4 is the position
shall maintain, for 1t Is the only safe one.
'All the which DDSi-
! tive we shall have during the current year
| is sIG2,5 and according TO law the finance
that amour, among the several depart
ments, the apportonment being based on
ras Sy sw OF ne BTyoWs sy RepuSl.an
and Messrs. Lynch and Peniersast, Dem
ocrats, were the lower house members of
| Brown and Morrison We're the upper house
| members, all Republicans, there being no
ar TSe iaw proviaes % that the heads p of the sew.
their thi Need needs for the Sar. The estlma,es
They aggregated something more than
s 81 ony Mi's SsFthS essmassa had
carefully deliberated for several days. For
Instance. the park board suffered sub
works was cut $4,000 and all departments
we're cut. The police and Are experiments
had to stand their share Chief Hale, Of
Committee con and said his department was
| willing to stand Its share of the cut. A
! department was not reduced In numbers.
After all these steps We're taken the ap-
hs poce the
several departments have to date over
| drawn their allowance $500. All the de-
partments have acquiesced in the apportlon-
ment, but the police department. The po-
| lice bills for May were allowed. on "a basis
| OF $4,000 per year. instead Of the appor-
tionment OF ,lio.oOo, The auditing commit
tee notified the police board that bills OF
the basis OF the apportionment and this
communication was based on the opinion
Of the city counselor to the effect that all