The San Francisco call., 1906-06-02
MUNICH PAL.
BUDGET. IS
ADOPTED
Protests From the Heads
OF Departments Are
Unavailing.
Administrators Eager to
/ Make a Record, Says
Gallagher.
Sheriff 0'NeiI Demands
More Money but Is
Squelched.

ID The reduced budget was passed to
print unanimously yesterday by the
Board of Supervisors. Evidently there
was the intention on the part of heads
of the different departments TO protest
against the reduction in approximations
l:Only one tried to get more, Sheriff
Thomas +. O'Neil, He received a cur
Etain lecture from Supervisor Gallagher,
who acted as chairman of the board,
and the rest refrained from reciting
their supposed grievances.
This is the time to try to save, not
| to spend declared Supervisor Gala
I CHAR. He proceeded to announce that
the finance committee had thoroughly
considered the wants of all the depart
ments and announced that 1t would be
| hard to convince them that any more
| money would be needed absolutely.
| When he had concluded, heads of other
( departments apparently decided that
4 the statement meant business and re-
Trained from pleading for more.
/ O'SeiI however, persisted. He de-
clared that when the saloons were open
the County Jail would be overcrowded
and that he would need more deputies
when the business of the courts began
! to Increase. Gallagher retorted that
/ there were now smaller number of
/ prisoners in the custody of the Sheriff
than there had been on an average for
some time
WANT TO MAKE A RECORD.
| Supervisor McGushin suggested that
0'Neil might hold all his men by doing
as the Police Department and the Fire
| Department Were doing, laying off part
/ of his force for one or two months out
EOf the This the hest e0nSOla-
tion that the Sheriff received.
! In his reply 10 O'Neil Gallagher burst
l into a glowing oration on what the
1 Union Labor administration would do
to show 10 the world that they were
able to meet the situation. The hall
was packed with job holders. but when
the speech concluded there was a.
dearth of applause Only faint hand
clapping of a perfunetery sort among
the supervisors was heard.
Supervisor Gallagher said in part:
1T is hard to impress on the heads of
some of the departments that a great
calamity has befallen the city. We are
confronted not with theories, but with
conditions. The finance committee asked
the head of every Office to do his duty
and to keep expenses down to the last
dollar for the people. l have no pa
thence with people who will not realize
the conditions that face US.
With few exceptions the heads OF
| tdepartme have been coming to the
members OF the finance committee de-
claring that they need more. The needs
of each department were taken into
| consideration and the best that could
be done for it was done. The finance
committee showed its confidence I'm the
officials in putting each appropriation
in lump sum and allowing them to
exPend the money where 1t is most
needed.
SHERIFF DISCOURAGED,
The finance committee reported that
the assessment roll has been curtailed
over s2oe, 200 900, nearly forty per cent,
yet some are complaining because their
appropriations have been Gu. l want
to say that this is the time we want to
learn how to save money, net how to
| spend ii.
If the finance committee is met in
the proper spirit the work of the de-
/ partments will be able to proceed with
out much detriment TO eficiency It
will not be necessary to cut down
wages. The men may be laid off. for
a month or two to make appropriations
meet
We need competent, able, pains
taking, economical administration in all
departments, We want TO show to the
world that competent men from the
ranks of Union Labor are able to cope
with what is before us and to give a
competent, honest administration to a
great municipality
IF that budget is passed I don't
I know where the Sheriff's Office will get
fof at" declared Thomas F. ONeil,
supervisor Gallagher began to lay
before the Sheriff a few facts and fig
ures concerning his Office and he sub
sided. Supervisor Boxton briefly an
nounced that the reduction in the ap-
preparation could not be avoided and
moved that the budget be passed to
print as 1t stood, avoiding the form of
taking 1t item by item. The motion was
carried unanimously,
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