Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-14
.E[E system IN
CITY ABOLISHED
Ordinance by Mr.. .[ngledue Does
Away With Fees of Mayor
and Police
SALARIES ARE ESTABLISHED
Ordinance Receives Full Support Of
the CouncI-Stater1ent and Figures
Showing Condition in City Hall -
Salaries of Officers are Fixed =
Mayor Jones' Views.
SALARIES ARE ESTABLISHED

An ordinance, introduced by Mr..
Ingledue. of the First ward, and adopt
ed by unanimous vote of the city
council at it's regula' meeting Monday
night. does away with the fee system
in the office of mayor and among the
police. The ordinance is one that Mr..
Ingledue has been working on for some
time, and his plan was announced to
some of his friends many months ago.
The mayor is put On a straight SAL
airy of $1,000, and has no fees what
soever. The salaries of the police are
fixed at $50 per month, en- increase of
So, and they are to receive no fees
whatever for making arrests, or from
any other source. .Nhe city marshal
and deputy marshal are both placed on
salaries, and neither is to receive any
fees The ordinance not only fixes
the salaries of the mayor and police
department, but of all other city Of
ficers. In all but the mayor and po-
lice, however, the salaries remain the
same as fixed by previous ordinances.
In presenting his ordinance Mr..
Ingledue explained it's provisions as
follows:
This ordinance is reenactment of
the present one on compensation of Of
ficers, except as to sections 2, 9, 10, III
and IL, referring to the salaries of the
mayor and police officers. At present
under the existing ordinance, the may
or has no salary, hut is entitled to all
fees collected by him as police judge,
or as ex-officio ju stice of the police.
The proposed ordir ance takes away all
fees of every description from the
mayor, provides that he shall collect
the same and pay them over to the
city or county treasurer, and that in
lieu of such fees he shall have a fixed
salary of $1,000.
'In examining the dockets of the
mayor for the past four years, or
commencement of the administration
of Mayor Jones, leads to the remark
that the fee system has not been work.
ed by him to it's full limit by any
means. Two Of the years he has held
the office he has not drawn the full
limit of $1,000 from the county. 1t is
with no criticism Of Mayor Jones, nor
his methods, that this ordinance is in
troduced, but with the belief that the
fee system is wrong and that just as
good public service can be obtained
by putting all city officers on an ade
quate salary. and thus relieve such of
ficers from the common charge, some
times false but more often true. of
working the office for the fees there
are in it.
This ordinance slightly increases
the salary of police officers, and takes
all fees away from them also, and
makes them collectible by the mayor
who shall pay them over to the res
pective treasurers, the same as the
fees of the mayor.
"Under this ordinance the county
would be relieved of paying the $1,000
per year to the mayor as acting JUS
tice of the peace, and aside from that
it would be q matter of business econ
omy for the city. During the past four
years, within which the fee system was
not worked nearly to it's limit, there
was drawn from the county by the
mayor SO, 1885, not including the last
three months, ending April 1, 1905,
which will probably increase this "a
bout $3.50.
been collected in fees from cases tried
before the mayor. as police magistrate.
for violations of the ordinances, and
not including the last three months,
ending April 1, 1905, $2,5S3.25, and ST.
244.90 by police officers, this as to
police officers in addition to their SAL
airy. During the same time there was
collected in costs in state cases, or
those in which the mayor was acting
as ex-officio justice of the peace,
s353.25, and by the officers, $1sS.65.
During the same time there was
collected by the mayor some $3.50 as
fees for issuing licenses. A fair aver
age, considering the last three months
of unfinished -erm, shows Mayor
Jones has received in fees about Sits
per year. The officers during the four
years, not inclr ding the last three
months, have re ceived, s1,250 in addi-
ton to regular salaries.
During the time, if all fees had been
paid to the respective treasurers. they
would have received little over $4,000
aside from the last three months. Had
this salary orc nance been in force
the same officers would have received
additional to what the existing ordi-
nance calls for about $3.50.
"It must be remembered that Mayor
Jones and his officers have been eX-
ceptional in the matter of working the
offices for the fees in them, and have
done so less than has been the exper-
fence for years before. This ordinance
relieves all officers of the odium of the
fee system and is more just to the peo-
pie"
The Salaries.
The ordinance Provides pecifically
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