Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-04
HOW THEY RETRENCH
Vas The Cou1CIImlllc Salary Re.
dlCtIO1 a Grand Stand Play?
SEEMS so WIN SOME MEMBERS.
Vote 10 Cut Down Their Pay, Forget
That They Have Done so aud
Draw the Full Amount

Mapialpal retrsuohment like many
other tuings In this mundane sphere,
Ia not what II seems. At the fret
meeting Of the city fathers In the
month Of February there was a great
Il Jurlsh OF arms aud display Of con.
ttmplutei economy. Heads OF depart.
ments were abolished, clerks were
dispensed with and a motion carried
ny m almost unanimous vote iof the
members II the Council 10 reduce their
own salarlss % yer cent Tue filcial
record shove this 10 have uUeu the
c1uue q pft cetuf,:
Motion by Councilman Calllstor: 81
move tlai the ra.ariu. " ho Dity rdun-
Olim0n ecu -u uUr cont. Seconded by
Councilman l,umney aud carr,ud On tho
following roll caI vote.
AyUs-Cuuucilmon Allen, Buckle, Cal
lister, Dale, ueihl, Elliott, Hayward, 10
ifuugu, Morris, MulyOy, kUmuey,
Stewart and Wi.Cnmb-iJ
Nays Councilman O'Meafa aud
Newell.
Have the ptovi'ions OF this aollon
been complied VIM Only In part aud
only by part OF tue Council. Some
m mbefs seem TO have voted Tor tenn
pUfsrj ,iect-tU curry favor with tho
public, Others have inuicsted their
eatuestntss anu honesty by acting in
IivIdually precisely AZ they pledged
thomteivrs collectively, Iwu-Ptosi.
dent Newell and Councilman
] O'Muafa, have At least been consistent.
I they opp sod reduction when II was
I met mIOicd Hnd oppose " now by
u. O.. D
| 10 which they claim they are entitled.
| me REGULAR srlAty Ola councilman IL
| 1880 Per moHth. 10 acc fdAnco with
| The action on reduction, Auditor swan
made out the pay roll TOT 3 8, except Ia
the case VI NtWoll ana O'MeafA who
refused ~ aceUpt the cut. They were
put uown Tor 1880 aad each signed
| 20. tnat AN uni.
Coflniu Of tie councilnen whose
names Auditor swan declined 10 give,
I tut whose Identity, ne Laugh hgly
] SAID, was well known, objected 20 New
I eli and O'Alcafa drawing more COM
/ pcusatiou tnau themselves ami 30 de-
/ manued that they DO allowed the extra
[ - tef cent. Auc examination OF n sup.
Elemental ray roll for February, with
] 81 5O laced ~ the credit Of each mem.
ter was male bys NEws msn today.
IL ui,clotos the TACT tnat the follow In <
utev tho twenty per cent which
the Taxpayers had been led 10
believe would be allowed 10 re-
main IN the treasury TO be
u.s. Il for other purposes: John Allen,
Christopher Diebl, William NJ Elliott,
Henry J. Hayward, T.. NJ. LeProhon.
Tue membsri who DID not w % are:
George Buckle. r.. II. Callislsr, W.
II. Dale, II. =. Morris, 81 h. Mulysy
and George liomuey, ~,
IHg MARCH PAY ROLL.
For the m nth u March there
was Ino supple mental pay roll and
owl y 10 the demands Of members,
sAys Auditor swan, he put each mans
inc Gown fr tue full tmount,
ti..lJ. THIS compelled upoumen
VINO only wish 10 ~ draw g35 to,isn
Tor Toe fGrmsf sum. Two eOuucilmvu,
Callistet aud Morris, howeyer,prompt-
I ~ returned the twenty per mt, de-
POSTING II with Treasurer May. Those
who drew Aud kept th0 $3.50 are
| Newell, Dlohl, O'MeaTs, Wise mt,
Hayward, stewart aud Elliott. Those
wuO have drawn nothing Tor March
stall, A. set, are, BucEle, Dale, Rom
nuy, A lien, Mulyey aud Ls Pfon1n,
the last nHmed being absent from tho
city. Mulvey has drawn nothing at
all lot services up 10 date.