The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-21
MAJOR ALLEN ON
HIS C0MNITTE TEE
Retrenchnent and Re
form Body a Farce.
NO MORE MEETINGS.
Anxiety as to Source of Funds Asked
to Increase Wages.
OLD REPORT IS RETURNED.
Council Ask ed 10 Adopt it After Max
ing Few Changes That Are Not
Niaterial-Workins Majority
Could Not Be Secured
20 Pass Sewer
Measures.
OLD REPORT IS RETURNED.

When the Council Committee on Re-
trcnchment and Reform tad acted on the
last Of the measures before it last night,
Major otway 5. Allen, its chairman,
characterized that body as a. farce
This was the second time Major Allen
had used this term in referring to this
committee. Several years ago, when the
members would do nothing. he and sew
eral other members resigned from the
Retrencament and Reform Committee,
and he then said the same thing abolt the
committee.
The remark last night was brought out
during a colloquy as to where the money
was to come from to provide for the gem
eral increase in salaries and wages recon-
mended by the committee
The three members Of the Finance Com
mittee present, Messrs. Allen. Gordon, ana
Drewry, resisted most of the advances.
but the Opposition oistnumbered them
and the vote OF most CT the ordia lnccs
and resolutions providing advances in sal
aries and wages was four yeas to three
nays
1t was agreed among the members in
formally that III lle future they would
Use every effort to have measures pro-
vidinS increases in salaries or wages acted
upon in the bodies in which they originate
and not sent to that commlutee.
DETAILS OF THE MEETING.
The Committee on Retrenchmert and
Reform met at $50 o'clock last night TO
consider d number OF papers dealing with
the salaries and wages OF city officers ana
employees, and with reductions OF working
hours on Saturdays in certain departments
OF the city Government. With but slight
changes in a few instances the committee
returned to the Council its former report
which made sweeping recommendations as
20 salaries and TaSeS.
Chairman AIen, and Messrs Donahue,
Glenn GIBSON, DreWry, j. ". Allen .lnd
Gordon were i'll attendance.
Clerk Mcdowell read the batch Of ordi-
nances :ecommitted 10 the conmlttee 10y
the Common Council. The first was an
ordinance increasing the pay of the police
justice from 81, $40 to $50 per snIlum.
An ordinance regulating The detective
service and increasing the pay OF re Qc-
tectives of the city, providing that the
chief of police shall designate one police
officer to act as chief of detectives, the
chief of detectives to ceceiye the pay Of
a captain OF p5tice, and the detectives 10
receive the same compensation allowed
police Sergeants. Mr.. Glenn made Il bTlet
speech in which he said that the three
men affected by this ordinance, Messrs.
Tomlinson Gibson and Wren, were EN-
Gent and faithful public servants, and
,,.ere anIjr1aJ - the sight increase sug-
ges1ed He declared that these officers
would have been promoted long ago Il they
had not been placed on this special duty.
The The committee again recommended the
measure 10 the Council for adoption
Chairman Allen yoieu asait.5t ~ ~ - of III.
,Harbor Master from S-G' d tal 2,ooGa5 ~
month was, after some deoate. .t1a, at!le'tuEo
so as to fix the compensation OF thlS OH
Ger at $50 year. ., 80
the body after eonsderaPe pi'e nTonSs nTonostion
commended me feJee'tUt' ~ ne assistant su-
70 increase me ~ ~, varer-vorlzs. and
PellillsItaeiie p7 u the ordinance relating
So" !Is.''G,,I ~ .he superintendent OF the
~ lLie &C., a"'s-s ~ ia fix it at $1,SG9 per
p",,p 1'1,,, - vas decided 10 recommend
aIo~,, in the water Office be paid
r,vc,r%Er9R'S PAY RAISED
.a+,,rned the following
! ne Io'l'il4i i+l, its approval
resolutions with lt9 'pl, ,,,,ssanaers of the
Incr asins the pay ol 80 40 - 20 20 nar
water department from $'0 - '-'0'
increasing the con1ps"I,s5ar gT departmenr U 10
pipe-iayegs of the "''S-
s2,oe a day. -. nav Of the City Engineer
Increasing the pay "
from $t,000 to 5000 yeaI. ex.+ .aoo,,a
Restoring the pay OF usaars alls vs. +o he
and third assistant e,sit,r' nSor 10 their re-
.,iiNt;"' 80 tt'-'' :; ''-t ,Coe
lnersasins 453 th s1l1lS lrom sl.2eo to $3.50 per
annum ,,,ard tha 70
N'' s''ehh 'itos az amended. the changes
port as whole; 1,nnsrr as nr,.s l. 1sol except in
% sahe eiiee' simulate that the measures
spsn srs ffecIfva aaeeS as on and after passage
AN Ef,flCiH>-> % 49,, .,,o
The ordinance s15f5on insffa5le clerk s IN % the en-
,;,'oa... oai.o Frnm $l.Un 10 EI,-pJ a year