The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-18

close when Robertson called UP the or
dinances raising the salaries of certain
officials in the police and fire depart
ments.
Firemen Came First.
Chief Devine,s end of the service
came first. Robertson moved by way
of amendment to the ordinance that
the, salary of the assistant chief be
fixed at $1,000 per year instead of 1,10o
captains 81, ITO instead eff 81 GOO, lieuten-
ants s1.050 instead of 1860 and firenen
SIS for the first six months, $50 for the
second six months and $1,000 per year
thereafter.
Callister thought it wouldn't be fair
to raise the salaries of everybody ex-
cept Chief Devine. He therefore moved
that the pay Of that official be fixed at
$40 per month instead of SIPS. The
amendment was Incorporated into Rob-
ertsoRs motion and the entire batch
went into the ordinance without oppo-
sitioIl The measure was then adopted
on it's third and final reading.
The police department came next. AS
originally fixed this ordinance only
amended the old one SO as to create
the office of detective at $1,000 per year
and raised the salaries of policemen
after one year of service to $1,000 per
year. The first dash out of the box
Callister moved that the chiefs pay be
increased from $125 to $3.50 per month.
Raise Along the Line.
Then Robertson proposed to give the
duty, or patrol sergeants, $1,000 per
year, the mounted policemen 81 1850. the
desk sergeants 81 200 and the assist
ant jailor 81 900 Howe suggested that
the bicycle policeman ought to- have
81, $50 also and Callister laughngly said
os1Ixr Ohipntinr, To tha raise Law N
the fact that the present bicycle po-
,heeman is a Democrat. Nevertheless
the amendment was inserted with the
others.
AT this point Patrick became alarmed
and moved an adjournment, but his
fellow members were so interested. in
their work that his motion wasn't even
put. Callister came forward with a
suggestion that the inatron wasn't get
ting as much as she deserved. He pro-
posed to increase her salary from s240
to S275 per year Wallace caught the
fever next and moved to fix the mat
ron's salary at $500 per year. The
amendment was accepted and the or
dinance passed.
The increase in the pay of the higher
officials becomes effective as soon as
Mayor Clark approves the ordinances.
1t is effective then in most of the other
cases also, for a majority of the men
in both departments have been there
more than a year. The scale is the
same one that was in effect a number
of years ago.
Debate On overdrafts.
tThere was a right sharp debate ear
Iier i'm the evening over a ccmmunica-
ton submitted by Auditor Douglas
Swan relative to the overdrafts made
by various departments on their allow
ances According to the auditors fig
ures The waterworks was overdrawn
S1.267.95, the streets. and irrigation
$726.6S Liberty park S1S2.75, cemetery
s2S2.92 joint building S19466.
This included all payrolls to date and
Mr.. Swan wrote that he had refused
to audit the overdraft accounts. A
number of explanations were at once in
order. Chairman Allen of the water
works committee stated that the appar-
ent cverdraft there was an error on the
part OF the auditor.
That department had done a Let Of
extra work for ether departments as
we'll as work that had been ordered
by the council, but for which no special
appropriation had been made. AS a
matter of fact the waterworks commit
tee had $4,000 to its credit.
Corroborated By Diehl.
Mr.. Diehl, who is a member of the
committee, corFoborated the chairman.
He said he knew of the extra work
that had been done and that the de-
partment had a big balance out of its
general allowance left.
Chairman Siddoway of the committee
on control of the joint building, said
chat no man could be more economical
than he had been, but that his allow
ance was too small If 1t was intended
that had been made. Siddoway Of
fered Ito retrench by turning the steam
off of the city's side Of the building if
the council thought it necessary
Chairman Weller of the cemetery
committee laid his overdraft to the
amount Of extra work that had been
necessary there. He thought the end of
the year would show that the cemetery
had been self sustaining.
In connection with the report of the
auditor was a, report from the finance
! committee. 1t recommended that com
n1ftteess suggesting that work be done
furnish estimates Of the cost OF the
work and ask for special appropriations
to cover it. 1t was stated that the AL
lowances for running expenses of de-
partments were not intended to cover
extra work ordered by the council. 1t
was also recommended that the reso-
luilcIa OIL sept. RI, E1iSkfuCEINS the GG-
ditor not to audit accounts when they
showed an oyerdraft, be reconsidered.
Resolution Rescinded.
Fernssrem offered an amendment pro-
viding that the word 'reseindesf'' be
substituted for "reconsfdered. Buckle
seconded the amendment and 1t was
| inserted. CaIlister thought it was a
farce to make allowances tot the de-
nartments anyway. He said they were
almost invariably overdrawn and de-
Ec1ared that unauthorized work twas fire.
quently done.
| As an instance of this he cited tho
employment Of experts TO go over The
books of the city engineer, which he
said was without warrant or author
Fifty from the council. He thought
| though. that in the main the trouble
Hay with the council rather than witt
heads of departments. because the for
lmer. was continually ordering specia
work done without making extra ap-
preparations therefor.
| The upshot of the debate was that tht
auditor was instructed to audit the
i oyerdraft DayrollS and the report of tfls