The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-03
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Ramsey County Delegation Consid-
ers County COmmissioners' Salaries.
Only eight of the members of the Ramsey
county delegation attended session OF the
delegation at the capitol last evening Mr..
Thauwald acted as chairman, and Mr. Hen
messy as secretary. Others present were
Messrs. McNamee, Schurman, Dunn, Fulton,
krayenbuhl and Jackson.
county commissioners Powers and GRAY
were present to speak in favor of a bill which
Senator McGill has in his pocket raising the
salaries of the county comm ISIS oners from s3(O
TO 1890 per year.
Mr.. Powers called attention to the salaries
PAID county commissioners in Hennepin and
Of LOUIS counties. In Hennepin the COM
an IN received s., 200, or would as soon
as the Dill now introduced went through and
IN ST Louis county $40 per year was paid.
Under the present law Ramsey county Maid
only S25 per month. This was not enough
to allow commissioner to give the county
business the attention it deserved If things
were not allowed to slide along 600 could
De made out OF the railroad companies, who
Paio no attention to the railroad crossings
All the commissioners asked was reasonable
sum for their services
representative Fulton favored raise in
salaries for the commissioners 1t was a husj
ness proposition and the county was having
ltS commissioners lower salaries than anv
other county of a like size in the state.
. senator McNamee opposed the proposed
aadse. Inc commissioners were now getting
$2co more a year than the aldermen and for
the actual working days put in were Maid
at 1ne rate OF Sc per day. The commissioners
each month. The mayor as chairman of the
county board, had informed the delegation
tHat the county roads were in first-class
shape e'"''
He suggested that if the present commits
sloners d1d not want to serve for $500 per wear
they could resign. The delegation had already
a half on the taxpayers, and now tho inten-
tion was to increase this more by raising the
s sal n OF 81 the commissioners. There was
fa"I s Ume OF the commissioners elected last
lail put mat knew the salary was only 5000
anu ne had been Informed by a Republican
mat there was an awful scramble in the CON
sioner 90 ooniills-
he was ready and willing to do something
10 Ighten the burdens of the taxpayers hV
nettauchg salaries instead of raising them The
$4,000 per year for purely clerical work
which should be performed for zoo ner
year Inc city attorney, who was obliged to
know something in order to fill his position
was paid less salary than either the city cIerk
OF treasurer The same old cry had been
raised ase by the county commissioners that thew
ties aHs Pa na as f mTch as other
put put tney did not get any better aldermen in
Ina that city than in st. Paul. In fact. some Of
Mr. H HennesH, aldermen were in Saltwater
iha a the ramsey county grand iurv mieht
nave overlooked something 'Ni niienl
cent ~, n,c Ma said there was no demand ex
eepe by the commissioners to have the sal
aaieS raised and all his constituents were
against the measure. "eie
Mr: Thauwald said he had found no tax
payers who favored the raise. Mr. Pow seN
oonlended~ that the roads were not in eonS
contrary. ni"yor 10 the
~, MI. Fulton agreed with Mr.. Powers az To
the Tt condition of the county roads. 90 ~
ton nhe Trs not beng majority of the delega-
;um present no action was taken, and an ad-
a sUar9nn was taken until next Thursday