The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
NO SALARIES FOR
CITY EMPLOYEES.
Fault Of Board of Public
Works Causes Holding Up
Of Warrants for August

Salaries of zee or more city employees
urder the Board OF Public Works.
amounting in all to about $4,000 are
being held up in the County Auditor g
ofice, and payment may be postponed
for some time on account of a protest
filed yesterday by the Civil Service
Commission. which objects to the pay
ment of the salary roll for August un-
til it has been given a chance to ex-
anime into the legality of appoint
n7ents made during that month by the
board. In addition to the protest
against the payment of the SAL
aries of the employees it was
stated at the Auditors office that
the commission also fied a protest
the members of the Board of Public
Works for the month of August. but
that this was of no effect. as the war;
rants had been issued prior to it's re-
ceipt by Auditor S. w. Horton.
The trouble arose over the alleged
negligence Of the Board of Public
Works in falling to notify the Civil
Service Commission of appointments
Immediately upon their ratification by
the board, as is required by the char
ter. During August the Board of Pub
lie Works made about geo temporary
appointments of non-civil service en-
ployes in the different branches Of city
work, but failed to send any notice of
these appointments TO the Civil Service
Commission until September 1.
No meeting OF the commission has
been held since the receipt of the list
OF appointments, and there has conse-
qdentiy been no chance to examine
into the legality Of the different up-
peintments. 1t Is known, however.
that at least three or four OF the ap-
pointmsrts were illegally made, anl
the commission objects to the payment
of any OF the salaries untii after the
list has been thoroughly carivassed.
which cannot now be done Until the
meeting Of the commission next week.
1t is on these grounds that the PRO-
test against the issuance OF variants
for the new appointees was yesterday
made to Auditor Horton. The notice
was received shortly before noon and
no decision was reached as to the
method to be pursued by the Auditor s
ONCE, Auditor Horton stated that he
did not wish to keep the men waiting
for their money and that payment
would probably be made Tuesday, bit
that he would FIRST investigate the
matter thoroughly and that no such
delinquencies would be tolerated in the
future.
In addition to the general protest
Auditor Horton stated that the Civil
Service Commission served protest
with him against the payment of the
salaries of Frank Maestretti, Thomas
Eagan and Edward Aigeltinger of the
Board of Public Works for the month
of August on the ground that they
had been negligent in their duties III
not fling the list of appointments with
the Civil Service Commission as re-
quired by law. Warrants for these
three had been issued before the arr
rival of the protest, but Auditor Hof-
ton announced that hereafter they
would be held up Until ali the legal
requirements had been complied with.
Members of the commission later do.
MED that it was the intention OF that
body to hold up the salaries of the
members OF the board, but admitted
that the other protest relating to en-
plcyes had been filed.