The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-20
SALARY RAISE
CAUSES DEBATE
Council SidetrackS Ordinance to
Increase City Pay.
INTRODUCED BY FERASTR0M
MATTER WILL BE DISCUSSED
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

For about an hour last evening the
council debated the propriety of rail
rOading' through an amended salary
raising ordinance which had been in
trOduced by Councilman Fernstrom
afterwards amended by himself and
Councilman Eardley. The discussion
engendered such hard feeling for the
time that il was finally agreed to lay
the whole matter over, including the
ordinance and amendments. until next
Wednesday night. when the council will
sit as a committee of the whole and
discuss the entire subject of increases
of salaries
In accordance with an adopted re-
port, Councilman Fernstrom introduced
an ordinance increasing salaries as fol-
lows:
Two Amendments Proposed.
Superintendent of waterworks. to
$500 per annum; street supervisor,
$500; superintendent of parks, $780,
After the ordinance had been placed
on third reading and final passage. I'M
der a suspension OF the rules. Council
man FernstrOm amended il to include
the following city officers: City engi-
neer, to $500 per annum; city sexton,
1850: license inspector, 81 $50. Then
Councilman Eardiey further amended
1t so that the salary of the assistant
city prosecutor be raised to S1,020 per
year.
President CottrelI took the floor and
openly charged Councilman Fernstrom
with attempting to railroad" an Ordi-
nance through which raises the salaries
of officials against protests made in the
finance committee. He said such an
action was unfair. and advised that
the amended salaries first be referred
to the proper committee before an
attempt was made to force them
through the council. If the council ex-
Ponds all its surplus money this early
I'm the year raising the salaries of Of
ficials.. he did not see what could be
done this summer when street employees
will ask for an increase in proportion
10 the additional cost of living.
Matter Goes Over Until Wednesday.
The motion of Councilman Vigus that
the whole matter go over for week
was not seconded, and Councilman
Fernstrom accused the president Of
paying favorites by endorsing an in
crease of pay for the officers affected
by the ordinance and opposing those
mentioned in the two amendments.
Then the president and Councilman
Tuddenham said they were not opposed
TO raising salaries, but wanted to see
increases equaliZed throughout every
city department.
Councilman Daveler took Councilman
FernStrom to task for attempting rail-
reading when he has the reputation
of always insisting that everything be
sent to a committee before it is passed
by the council.
After the majority of the other men,
berS of the council had expressed them
selves as opposed to the methods en-
plOyed by Councilman Fernstrom to
get the amended ordinance through on
snap judgment, Councilman Fern
strOm's motion that the whole matter
be laid over until Wednesday night
when il could be discussed at length
and some plan of action formulated for
increasing salaries of city employees, /
was carried
Wants Deputy Auditor Revived.
In a communication City Auditor
a. S. Reiser asked the council ito re-
store and re-create the Office of deputy
city auditor, which was abolished by
the retTenchment ordinance of Feb. f.
1896, passed on account of the hard
times prevailing at that time" He says
that all offices abolished on that date
have since been restored excepting that
one, and that a deputy is needed be-
cause the business of his office has in