The age-herald., 1899-06-22
Ciy Council In a Liberal Hu-
 nor Last Night THEY WILL GET $1,OOO EACH Sum of S2,O0O Was Appropri-
 ated for the Schools, MR. GAMelLL WAS DISCUSSED City Fathers Want Him to Be a Special Police Officer Acting Mayor Ram bow Made Some Sanitary Recommendations
MIR. GAMsILL WAS DISCUSSED

After a fight of several weeks among the councilmen of the board of aldermen, Tom l Baine, assistant city auditor and H. D. l Wood, assistant city treasurer, last night l had their salaries raised from $72O to s100o l per year.
 This question has been of especial inter- l est, because it has been charged that both l Mr. Baine and MT. Wood were supporters of MT. Smith in the mayoralty race, and l that now the Smith men, who are in the majority on the board, are increasing salar-
 ies to pay political debts. On the other | hand the friends of these assistants claim | that two better men than MT. Baine and | Mir. Wood could not be obtained, and that
 they ought, at least, be paid a living sal l ary.
 | The question was brought up as follows: l Chairman Kerr, in behalf of the finance committed recommended that the resolu l tion increasing the salaries of the two of 1 ficers mentioned, be disallowed Alderman l Heidt, a member of that committee, sub | mitted minority report that the resolu- | ton should not be turned down, but should l be allowed. Alderman Moore, who original l ly introduced the resolution, seconded the
 minority report, and the debate was on. l
 ton of his committee, said that the most
 competent help for the two positions could
 be obtained for $6O per month, and that this could be continued for some months long
 er at least. He did not deny that Mir l Wood and MT. Baine were good men, but said that with all of the extra appropria- 1 tions which had already been made and
 which were yet to be made, for sanitary | for 1 tery, for repairs on the school buildings and
 for other expenses, that the city ought to
 save in every way possible especially as l there was no increase in revenue in sight | as yet.
 1 Alderman Ward in his maiden effort in l the city council, expressed himself as op- l posed to all useless expenditure of money l until the city was freed from debt. He 1 said that the board was almost liable for 1 impeachment for some of the appropria- | tions they had made. He also referred to the storm that was gathering to oppose 1 the present license schedule when the time l came for making out a new one at the l beginning of the year. Rather than in- l crease their salaries, he thought that the l positions of assistants should be abolished l entirely.
 l Alderman Heidt, in support of his mi nority report, said that the increase called l for only s2SO extra expense between now and next January, when new officers are l to be elected.
 The vote on the adoption of the minority l report was then taken and it resulted as l follows:
 | Ayes-Alderman Rainbow, Lynaugh, l Wheeler, Mcknight, Meghan, Moore, | Williams, McAnally, Pearce, Heidt, Gray
 and Daly.
 l Nayes-Aldermen Ward, Kerr, Altman Graham and Jones. Alderman Harrington
 did not vote.
 Fight Over Mercy Home The finance committee seemed to be un- | usually economical last night, at least the
 board thought so, for they turned down"
 the committee, so to speak, in one or two
 other ways. MT. Kerr reported adversely a | resolution to increase the city's appropria- tion to the Mercy home from $25 to $50 a
 month. Nevertheless, Alderman Meighan
 moved that the increase of appropriation l be made.
 Alderman Jones said that the same objec- l tions held against this increase of appro- l priation as in the case of MT. Baine and 1
 the money to pay it with. He said further l that if one such charitable institution was | endowed" St. Vincent's hospital the Hill l man hospital the Creche and other such | institutions would have to be given appro- l priations. Aldermen Ward Kerr and Alt
 man made speeches along the same line. Alderman Jones again begged not to lay l this additional burden on the city and 1 moved that instead each member of the
 board be assessed $1.50 per month to make up the amount needed for the home He l was promptly decided out of order 1 Alderman Altman then moved to table the
 Meighan motion, which was lost by vote
 of 10 to 8. The Meighan motion was then | passed by similar vote, and the Mercy | Home got its increase.
 S2,OOO for the Schools The Gray resolution offered at the last | meeting of the board and calling for an l was also taken out of the hands of the
 finance committee and passed by the board | by an unanimous vote. MT. Kerr reported | that the committee had not had time to act | on this resolution, and asked for more time l MT. Gray said that he was especially anx- 1 ious to have the matter settled last night | for the reason that the money was needed at once, and that the board of education l had already overdrawn its account some | $1, 400 in paying teachers salaries, etc On | his motion, the resolution was taken out of 1 the hands of the committee and passed. Alderman Jones then aughingly moved | that all that was left of the finance com mittees report be adopted T44is was done