The San Francisco call., 1903-12-02
MAH0NY CUTS THE PAY OF DEPUTIES;
LANE RULES ON RAILWAY RESOLUTION

get their Dack salaries. They were al
ready gone in October to pay salaries
to Mahony's friends that never did any
work The victims were led to believe
that the willy County Clerk would make
good the amounts of their October
salaries and waited. Now they are
wroth and say that they will bring suit
10 recover what they justly earned.
Colonel Martin Brady, one of Ma
hony's wards, is never seen around the
office and was never known to do a
days work since his appointment, yet
he has been drawing the neat sum Of
$50 every month for the last two years.
Deputy McKenna, another of the
nom working salary drawers connected
with Mahonys office, was never known
10 show up around the office, yet he al
ways gets a fat salary.
Last month Mahony raised the salary
Of Pat" Prendergast to $3.50. He for
merly got s125. The salary of Danforth
was cut the necessary $25 so that Prem
dergast might be able to make little
more easy money.
Mahony claimed that Danforth's Of
fee duties were not arduous enough to
warrant his getting his former salary
of $50, but thought that Prendergast's
work was so hard that he was entitled
to SIS more.
FRIENDS DRAW SALARIES.
Harry Hall, P. Demings and ]. Pierce
were down. on this months roll as
deputies, although their presence has
never graced the Office which now pays
them salaries which they do not earn
All of them are perfect strangers
around the City Hall. The two first
named drew 800 each for November
and the latter $50. Pierce and Hall also
drew 800 each in the month of October,
but in return gave the city no services.
The roll this month. gives to every
friend of Mahonys a full salary, many
of them in excess of what the charter
states they shall be.
William A. Deane, former County
Clerk, now a deputy under Mahony,
got no money this month. He was sick
and Mahony docked him. the full
amount of his salary. When Mahony
was a deputy under Deane's admins
tration he become i'll and his salary
was carried to his house by Deane.
The payroll this month was five days
behind time, and IT is stated that it
was. drawn up Monday afternoon by
MahOny and ]. A. McKenna in the
rear room Of a saloon at the corner
Of Hyde and McAllister' streets. At this
meeting Mahony and McKenna ar
ranged the money at the disposal of
the County Clerk office so that all of
their friends should get full salaries
whether they had done any work or
not. Many of the men whose names
appear on the November payroll II is
claimed are merely creditors of Ma
hOny whom he is trying to satisfy.
Others are political friends whom he
owes something for past services, and
the city treasury is the sufferer in each
case.
Nearly all of Mahony's friends and
alleged deputies whom he has favored
so we'll do a brokerage business with
Broker J. E. Mcdonald, who was ap-
pointed receiver in the recent row be-
tween Mahony and ]. ]. McGrath in
the beer bottling venture.
1t is also alleged that Mahony has
been guilty of hypothecating his sal
aEy from month TO month. He did not
draw his salary yesterday because
there were a dozen of these money
brokers on his trail waiting to seize
his salary.
Under the provisions of the new char
ter the County Clerk is authorized TO
appoint a register clerk at a salary of
s2400 per annum, a cashier at a salary
of $500 per annum, twelve courtroom
clerks for the Superior Court at $500
each per annum, five register clerks
with a salary of $500 per annum, ten
assistant register clerks at $500 year,
sixteen copyists at $1,000 a year and
four clerks for the Police courts at $500
per annum.
USES ALL THE MONEY.
Under this footing Mahony has at
his disposal something in the neigh
borhood of $1,000 a month. Not one cent
Of this amount has ever been left in
the city treasury. II a man was docked
for any reason the amount taken from
his salary did not remain undemanded
in the treasury. but was distributed
gratuituously among the friends and
creditors OF the County Clerk.
Forty-nine clerks are allowed the
County Clerk to assist him in his work,
yet the pay roll for November shows
that ffty-four men are entitled. accord
ing to -MahOny's schedule, TO a hand