The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-27
SOME RAISES FOR OFFICERS Salary Ordinance is Dis
 posed Of. INCREASES NOT GENERAL Patrolmen and Firemsn Both Have
 Salaries Increased. City Phy.icisa Get. $500 Year More Than Formerly and City Clerk
 and Engineer s2oo More
 Each.

before 1t by the City Council, for sev- erai weeks. was passed last night by the city lawmakers. The ordinance makes number of raises. but the raises were not so general as was ex- pected.
 The principal raises and the most numerous are in the salaries paid the members of the Police and Fire De- partments. The iremen were receiv- ing graduated salary of $50 a month and upward. The graduated system was retained but the salaries of the firemen were raised $5 a month.
 The patrolmen were formerly paid a fat scale of $65 month. The new ordinance places them on a scale Of s70 a month for the first and second year. and $75 month for the third and each succeeding year.
 The salary of the City Physician was raised from $1,200 a year to s1.50e year. The City Clerk and City Engi- neer had their salaries raised from $1 800 d year to $2,0oo a year. n
 The bookkeepers in the Waterworks Department and Assistant Engineers at the pumping station, together with several other minor officials, weret giv- en small raises. | City Veterinarian.
 |, The big fight was over the appro- I priation of $1,200 a year to pay the 1 salary of City Veterinarian. an officer provided for in an ordinance introduc- | ed by Alderman s. H. Saul, but which had not been adopted at the time the salaries ordinance was taken up l Alderman Tyson opposed this provis- | ion It was not the only item on wnlch l Alderman Tyson differed from the FL nance Committee and members of the | City Council. E He opposed all the
 H edeclared that the city was get-E 1 ting into debt deeper and deeper each 1 year by $60.000 and that the Council l proposed in the salary ordinance to in- 1 crease the city's. expenses by at least | SIP 900. He took the floor in opposition l to every raise, declaring that the com- mittee had announced itself Tor econ omy. but plainly it did not know the meaning of the word.
 The committees report was deIend- ed by Alderman Moritz. Several Of the | raises were made Utter the report was | before the Council.
 l. Alderman Thompson opposed the provision for the City Veterinarian, de- claring:
 Tt is nothing but political tob' 1 pure and simple" . | Alderman Johnson explained that sl,perhapsss the council X did not under ltstand the duties of the proposed ofli- cer. He was not to look after the city stock alone. That was only part or This duty He was to examine every public dairy to make examination or every COW from which mix was or fered for sale, As measure helping sapitarv conditions in Montgomery, he was heartily in favor of the provision. | After seeking information on the subiect. Alderman Brassell said he was convinced. of the wisdom tof creating the proposed office. It went further than the merei looking after stock. IL went into a question which vitally m tefested every citizen of Montgomery, the question of public health.
 | For a long time he believed that thorough inspection of the dairies of Montgomery would be reform Of the greatest importance. | Alderman Saul announced that he was not an applicant for the place and could not under any circumstancest take if He said he would have to resign from the Council if he should fill the place, and he would rather be Alder man than to have fifteen jobs of that kind. Would Save Lives.
 He argued for the bill as one of the most eficlent sanitary measures that had been proposed. He explained the duties of the new officer and said that he woGd earn his salary over and over l again.
 deaths from tuberculosis in Montgom- cry last year. of which five were chii- dren. He had no doubt but that these children had acquired the disease from impure milk.
 The Council passedtahe provision.
 Alderman Sullivan voted "No." Tn explaining his vote he said:
 s yrhe State has gone prohibition, and we will neeo all tho milk we can get. am opposed to raising the price of milk ,"
 There was not an Alderman missing when the meeting began, with Vice. President Ruth in the chair-a circum- stance which bore witness to the al dermanic interest in the matter of city salaries.
 The ordinance of Alderman Tait tc provide an assistant for the City Treas urer and the City Clerk was adversec by the Finance Committee. The re port was put temporarily upon the ta' ble.
 Matter of Salaries.
 4 substitute for the original salary
 ordinance was reported by Alderman
 Moritz of the Finance Committee.
 Alderman Tyson announced that ne
 refused to sign the report. The or
 dinance fixed the following salaries:
 Mayor, $2.400 Mayors secretary
 S1.200.
 At the reading of the salary item | of inc Mayors secretary, Alderman
 Tyson objected to it. because he said | that as expressed in the ordinance
 it was illegal, because the Councl
 sought to assign duties to the secre-
 tary, while the Mayor, under the char
 ter, had that power .,
 Alderman Moritz explained that Il
 was only provided that the Mayor
 secretary sh hould help the City Clerh in writing up the minutes of the Conn'
 cil. ...
 Alderman. Sullivan sustained th'
 noint of Alderman Tyson. MT Ty' sons motion to amend the ordinance was lost by tie vote.
 The reading of the ordinance wal City Clerk. $1.sOO; City Treasurer S2.OO6 City Attorney, sl,5OO; Recorder
 $1,2OO City Sexton. $l.2OO; Marke clerk. $1.2OO; City Physician. $l,5OO'
 Physician is Raised. MT. sTyson objected to the lten
 relating to the City Physician. it , gave the figures showing that the cit!
 was badly in debt. He thought $i'zo
 sufficient Many young physicians n said. who were perfectly competent
 would be glad to take the. place TO
 s1.2OO ghe place gave the phVslelai - plenty of time for his private prac
 tice. 4,.,, a,evoro.
 from Alderman Tyson. The sum n Sl. 800 was little enough Tor the phy
 sician. He knew the calls tiat Wer h made on that officer, and knew Una
 he earned 1t. c,.,, ph,.