The age-herald., 1899-09-13
NOTHING WAS SAID
 ABOUT DETECTIVES Police Commission Had a Quiet
 Meeting, CHIEF TO PLAN HIS RAIDS This Done to Make Favorit:sm Impossi- ble-Board Will Not Meddle
 
CHIEF TO PLAN HIS RAIDS

The expected sensational meeting of the police commission last night did not ma terlalize. The commissioners with placid countenances sat and worked tedously through the regular order of business as if the board of mayor and aldermen and two detectives had never existed. Not a word of censure was uttered.
 Contrary to custom the board of police commissioners were given no official notice of the election of two new detectives and neither their aid nor recognition was re- qucsted Many of the commissioners had gone to the meeting fully prepared to eX press themselves on the election of two detectives by the board of aldermen, but as the aldermen had seen fit to ignore them they did likewise unto the council.
 All through the meeting it was expected that some one would mention the subject but no communica tion from the board of aldermen was received and a stranger would never have known that bitterness and discord existed between the two gov e.nuig bodies.
 In Favor of the Courts
 Just what action will now be taken by the commission in regard to the detectives is purely a matter of conjecture. Some or them are in favor of taking the matter to the courts right away and fighting the all leged uslirpation of their rights to the last while others are d little more con- servative. The commissioners as a whole think that their body has been imposed upon. but as yet have decided on no deiln- ite action.
 The first business taken up after Chair- man Chiles had called the meeting to or der was the reading of Chief of Ponce Austins report. It was as follows: To amount of fines and fee collected .$l SOL Il Iraraasa o,,er Aupust lS9S .... ,26S SC Amount stolen property recovered. S4o.oo Amount of nay roll for August ..... 2,575.4 .42 Number arrested for burglary and
 grand larceny ...'....'..' oH Bound over to the grand jury....... II Number runs made by patrol wagon. lS Number calls answered by morning
 mounted man ...' .... 10 Number calls answered by evening mounted man ...... .s.......'.'.. 7@ Number parties arrested wanted Tn other places .......... '''.'..'''.. Mir. Bridges Indignant MT. Bridges was recognized by the chair and said:
 Y I have been told on the streets that there are number of gambling hells in this town which can't be touched, ana that members of this board are bought by these concerns; and 1 now oller resolution that the chief be instructed to plan his raids and not to supHlil aHeih to living soul.
 | On the vote only few voices were heard | and MT. Bridges said that division should | he | ave while the chairman voted no MT. Chiles said that he did not vote "no' | and another vote was called. All voted
 "aye'' | MT. Stratford told an experience ne hau | had with a gentleman who said there Were | houses running open of which any one l ought to know.
 | .I asked him who they were, and he re- | nlied that he was not spy or an inform | CT"
 Entitled to an Increase 1 Nr Stratford then called attention to the | fact that a man on the force was entitled | to S7O a month after they had served two | wears He said that Messrs. Veitch ant | Whaley,' he thought, were entitled to thu
 pay.
 
 MT. Stratford said that there were som'
 men who had been serving continually an(
 were not receiving as much pay as few | who had not done so.
 MT Bridges said he thought the plan verl
 unjust.
 Mir. Chiles explained the matter by say l ing that men Who had two years eXperl | ence were paid the $O whether haVln | served constantly or not; that the old boar | in it's rulings had left out the word "con
 secutively."
 MT Bridges then moved to amend b. | making it years consecutively from dat l of election"
 l MT. Stratford said this would tear tn | whole thing to pieces. The books and sala | ries would have to be rearranged. | MT. Bridges replied: "I don't care if
 does tear the whole thing up. want jus | tice."
 Desk Seargeant Rowlett was called o l and made the following explanation:
 "A man who has served over two year
 is known as a t'nird-year man and draw | $70, and a man who has served over on I year and under two draws $65. first | year man gets $6O All supernumeraries $2 per day (s6O rate) and all of course pail
 for overtime put in.
 | D Mir Stafford offered as substitute thu I motion that a committee be appointed tt | investigate the matter and make out lis
 of the various salaries drawn and the tim' the men were elected. There was no sec | ond to this, and it was lost. I MT. Bridges offered a resolution that MT Il l.