St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-12

Computation shows that the reduc-
ton proposed by Ala. Brady's amend
ment is $6,250 less than that submitted
by Chief Clark to the conference COM
mittee and Endorsed by the majority
report of the special joint committee.
In support of his amendment Aid.
Brady contended that, inasmuch as the
police department had been allowed in
the tax budget the entire amount of
s1S5 900, which is the charter limit, that
the patrolmen could be paid SIS
month and the department still keep
within the appropriation and lose none
of its efficiency.
Aid Markham opposed the amend
ment, because it departed from the
schedule submitted by the chief. The
alderman argued that to reduce the
salaries of the captains and lieutenantS
so radically tended to destroy all ambi-
ton for promotion from the ranks.
The city ought to hold out encourage
ment to the patrolmen. Furthermore,
Aid. Markham regarded Aid. Brady's
total reduction as slight and made
quate.
Aid. Wolf supported Aid. Bradys
amendment He believed the police
department could easily get along on
that schedule, especially as Chief Clark
himself had declared that he could give
the city adequate police protection af-
present force, whom he considered use
less.
Aid. Hare spoke in favor of the
amendment, as he did not believe in
reducing the salary of any man re-
ceiving only $500 a year. Aid. Lin
dahl opposed it. Then the roll was
called and the amendment prevailed
by a vote 5 to g. Aid. Lindahl, Mark
ham and Montgomery, the only Re
qublicans present, voting in the mega
tive. The ordinance as amended was
then passed by the same vote, and, If
the assembly concurs, the salaries of
the police department for 1896 will be
as indicated above.
In the case of the fire department,
Aid. Brady and Kartak submitted
written minority report. The majority
report, signed by Aid Markham and
Assemblymen Arosin and Van Slyke,
recommended that the pay roll for
January, as submitted by the fire
board, be adopted. The minority re-
port recommended that no reduction
be made in the salaries Of the fire de-
partment, except in the cases of the
chief engineer and his two assistants
In the report Aid. Brady cited figures
to show that the old salaries could
be paid this year and yet the fire de-
partment would come out at the end
Of the year $4,000 ahead. Accordingly
ne moved CnaC the minority report be
substituted for the majority report.
The motion prevailed by a vote of
to 8. Aid. Lindahl, Markham and
Montgomery again casting the mega
tive votes. In explaining their votes,
Aid. Markham, as well as Aid. Ulmer,
called attention to the fact that the
fire board had exclusive control of
the salaries of the firemen.
Aid. Markham then moved the pas
sage Of the pay roll submitted by the
fire board, but Aid. Brady moved, as a
substitute, that the pay roll, accom-
panied by the minority report be re-
ferred back to the fire board, and the
motion was carried by vote of five to
three.
This matter settled, Aid. Markham
started a little breeze by offering a
resolution requesting the mayor to re-
port to the council the number and the
names OF the patrolmen and officers on
the police force who could be dispensed
with.
Aid. Brady suggested that a com
mittee be appointed to act with the
mayor, but the suggestion was not
adopted, though the resolution was
Aid. Markham said that If there were
any useless men on the police force, as
Chief Clark had asserted, he wanted
TO know their names.
The next measure was productive of con-
siderable amusement to all save Aid. Hare.
AID Lindahl introduced resolution grant,