The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-02-17
The tIGHT-HOUR DAY
ORDINANCE THAT AFFECTS
CITY TREASURER.
officials Salary Raised to 800
Month and Bonds Placed
at S25, 900.

Members Of the city council are Of the
opinion that eight hours should cousti.
tute days work. Last evening al
the meeting Of the city guardians or
dinances Increasing the salaries Of the
city treasurer and surveyor were pre-.
sented, and the eighth spirit mani
Tested ltself strongly when the meas
ures were brought up for discussion
Both bills were passed under suspen-
sion OF the rules.
The ordinance affecting the treasurer
Is certainly a wonderful Improvement
on the present method OF doing busi-
ness. II gives that official salary OF
s55, placer his bonds at s2E. 900 and re-
quires that, whenever the treasurer
shall have 1880 on hand, be shall call
In warrants sufficient 10 reduce the
amount TO $500. On special funds war.
rants shall be called in whenever there
Is 800 available TO pay them. The
treasurer is required TO make quarterly
statements to the council OF detailed
character, and he Is prohibited from
acting as warrant buyer or agent for
any person in the purchase. Of city
script.
AS originally presented by Mr..
NOrdstrom, the ordinance Enade no
change in the salary. which has been
$50. Mr. Burns thought the treasurer
should have at least s55. but Mr.. Nord-
strom did not share this belief. He said
he had been looking over the accounts
OF the treasurer and found that he had
some $4,000 on hand for full year. In
terest on that sum at percent. he ex-
planned, amounted to $500, which he re-
garded as a consideration OF some i'm
portance. He stated that the treasur-
er had $4,000 on hand January /. and
that the only call for warrants affected
$4,000 in warrants, whereas fully $4,000
worth of paper should have been called
in. He expressed the opinion that the
affairs Of the city did not justify con-
trlbutions of this sort to banking or
other institutions. The ordinance fin
ally went through with the $55 salary,
although Messrs. Kaboth and Robin
son favored 500 Mr.. Nordstrom voted
in the negative on final passage.
The ordinance fixing the compensa-
tion of the surveyor and his assistants
also went through under suspension.
Mr.. Nordstrom offered the bill. which
specified 10 hours as days work. OBJ
lection was made by Messrs. Wright
and Burns and eight hours was substi-
tuted. At present the surveyor re-
ceives 81 daily and his assistants 81. so
Under the terms Of the new bill, the
surveyor will receive IS and his assist
ants 50. The surveyor is required to
attend all meetings of the council, to
furnish the auditor with plat of all
street grades, and 20 keep record Of
all base grade monuments.
A remonstrance from property own
ers interested on Eighteenth street was
presented against construction of the
drain there. The remonst-
rance was filed. and the improvement
will be made Notwithstanding it.
The proposal of the county court look
ing 10 Improvement Of Fifteenth street
and Jerome avenue was referred to the
street committee for report,
The late board of assessors recon-
mended that the sum Of $3.50 be re-
turned to John Stephenson, who had
been enormously assessed. The mat
ter was referred to the ways and means
committee and City Attorney Smith.
Ordinances were presented and pas
sed under suspension of the rules to
alter the grade of Cedar street, to es-
tablish the grade of Birch between Fiji
ty-first and Fifty-second, and to es--
tablish the grade Of Fifty-first from
Cedar to Birch Resolutions for the
of Cedar street and con-
Meeting alleyway between Forty-fifth
and Fifty-first and of Fifty-first from
Cedar to Birch and Birch from Fifty
first to Fifty-second were adopted.
Other ordinances were passed as fol-
laws: Appropriating $7s2, 20 for w. A.
Goodin for the improvement of Frank
lin avenue and Fourth street in West
Astoria; appropriating sS67.SO for Mr..
Goodln for the same Improvement; APP
s2S9S for c. G, Pslmberg
for the Bond street improvement
Claims were allowed as follows,
News, $3.50; j. N. Griffin,
s13, ,25; Sherman Transfer Co., 81; Mrs.
w. H. Wood $S; Astorian. 81. 20; Eclip-
Sc Hardware Co., $3.50; H. McLaugh-
Ian, IS; Mrs. H. II. Scheel. 1926; John
Brandtman, $50 so; o. Peterson. Sc;
Johnson Bros, sS,45; Astoria Wood
yard Co.. slO5O; Scholfield & Hanke,
$50. 60; William Hubbard, $67 so; H Ma
than, $i2; Eagle Drug Co., s26.45; As
toria Box Co., $64; J. c. Clinton s9.75;
Fisher Bros, sci so; Budget, $SS. .s5; S. |
II. wnlett, S5.S5; A. G. Spexarth, $1.25;
A. V. Allen, sS9,S2; o. Gramms, si1.25;
Astoria Electric Co., S.1o,
The claim of E. r. Sutton. s4S for 12 |
days attendance upon a smallpox pa
tient, was not allowed.