The Portland daily press., 1900-04-24

dollars for captains Of companies, as the
firemsn In the old Portland distFiet are
paid with the exception OF hose eleven
which II was deoidsd should be paid
ninety dollars, ninsty-nve dollars and one
hundred and I've dollars year.
The conferences committee met and
agreed 10 report unanimously In favor OF
the passlgs Of the salary bill a. it was
originally amended By the aldermen.
This gave one hundred and twenty dol
lars, one hundred and twenty-five dollars
hand one hundred and thirty live dollars
to the firsmen OF old Portland, ninety
dollars, ninety-flys dollars and one hun
dred and fiVe dollars to the Dssring fire.
men, and TO the members OF hose six, and
fifty dollars. fifty-fivs dollars and sixty
five dollars to the members Of hose eleven
In DeerIng.
The report OF the committee when pre-
sented to the aldermen last night was 40
cepted and the salary bill thus amended
was passed By tsst board. When 1t
reached the common council 1t was found
that the Desiring members and some
others wore not satisfied with the com.
mittee's report and were not ready to
pass the bill In concurrence. In the first
place Mr. Cobb Of ward nins made .
strong plea for the members OF hose
sisvsn. He could sSs no resson why they
should be excluded from this raise Of
salary. They are Obliged to cover terri
tory two miles square and to answer all
alarms In their district. Last year they
hooked up to their hose wagon eighteen
times.
Mr.. Cobb's statements and sIgum ents
brought Mr.. Roberts t. his feet In pro-
test. He said that the COMMITTEES on fire
department., the comm ittse ON salaries.
the oom mittss on estimates. the commit
tee Of conference and the board Of alder
men had agreed on the proposition thas
to reiss the salary of the Deerlng mem
bers of the department. just double In one
year was doing we'll by them. "Ovsr ten
Thousand dollars In salaries has been
voted this year." sai1>Adr. Robsrts. ''In-
cIeases have been demanded from the
lowest department. to the highest. 10
increase more salaries will mean an In
crease OF the tax rate or borro owing from
the sinking fund. 1t IL about Il no tha &
this salary grab was stopped.
Mr.FarnhAm sald that he should object
to wardp eight and nine being discrimi-
mated against in the manner proposed In
this bill, He thought that the Dsering
men should be paid ist as much as are
the members of hose six who don't
answer as many alarms Mir. Gri1iin
moved that tho council adhere to 1t
former action and ask for q new commit
tee tf conference.
Mr. Roberts again took the door and
said that the duties OF the Dssring fire
men were no difiarens now than they
were last year nor would they be any
hai der this year than they were LAST.
Yet they will hAvs their pay inst doubled
at the rate proposed In this order. He
thought there was limit to what the
people Of Portland would stand and
Furthermore he said that MIR. Phinney.
ons CT the members from Desring. had
admitted to him that the salary proposed
for the Deering men was fair.
Mr. Pninney-I did say that to raise
from fifty dollars to ninety dollars In one
rear for the Desring irsmsn was fair,
but that 10 is not just that they should be
paid ninaty dollars year when the
members OF hose six are paid one hun
dred and twenty dollars year. especially
when hose six doesn's Go nearly as much
work as do the Desring men,
Mr. Fox said he hoped they wouldn't
have another cor ,rsnoe COMMITTEES on
this matter. Ihs Dsering people should
b.. ...tsNad 18th u,hak ehav had xaraivad
MIR. GrifIin-I believe the Deering fire.
men should receive as much as the mem
bers # hoss elk and no more The Deer
ing men do more work than hose six and
should bs paid accordingly.
Mr.. Shaw said he didn't sse why the
pay OF the members Of hose six should be
GUS down because the Deering men didn't
get as much. They had received a good
increase and should be content with it.
MIR. Roberts said that the Dserins peo.
pie ought to be satisfied. They had made
enough troable already. They hal come
In here and knocked ward seven out an
of four hundred and
twenty dollars for the purchase OF land
for an engine house, and had voted them
selves eight houndred dollara for an en-
gine house and now they wanted to ont
down the Portland hrsmsn because their
nremen didn't get as much.
Mr. barnham took exceptions to this
statements. He said thAt he wouldn't cit
and be accused of taking away ward
proposed engine house arpropria-
tlon because II be remembered correctly
IL was a ward seven man VINO knocked
that out. He made q strong argument
for the increase for the Deering frsmen
to the came amount hose six receives.
Tbs common council, as stated by tie
uresldent. could only vote to concur or
nOn-oonour on this matter. An informal
vote was asked for however, and resulted
in the proposition Of the Dtering mem
heIs being defeated by . vote of thirteen
to twelve. Tas vots was as follows:
Yes-Grit1in, Monroe, Sloman, True,
Hunt Woodsids, Fiokett. johnson. VIII