The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-29

the same to be available oc- tober 1. 1907.
 MT. Frederick asked for yea and nay vote on the amendment. The vote resulted: Yeas, Lewis, Herz, Town shend, Nesbit and Farrell-5; nays, Mayor studley, Controller Rowe, To- gan and Frederick-5.
 When the vote was announced MT. Herz and the controller got into dis pute on the former attitude regarding the time for increasing the firemen's' pay, Mir. Rowe considering MT. Herz's position inconsistent and asking him why he had favored July as the date and then voted against october 1. MT. Eerz replied that he favored the early date if he thought that the city treas ury could afford the expenditure, but now had decided that to make the in- creases before January would result in running the city too close.
 On the amended resolution a yea and nay vote was called for by Controller Rowe. The mayor did not announce any decision on the viva voce vote talk en on this. While he was making clear to the members the exact meaning of the vote Messrs. Lewis and Nesbit went out. When the time for the vote came Mr. Herz went after them. He came back and announced that they would not return to the room, declaring they were through voting on the matter. Here MT. Frederick moved to adjourn and the meeting was over, leaving the amended resolution on the table.
 Mayor Studley showed that the var ious departments under the plan to be- gin Oct. would require total of $28,- 6S4 Controller Rowe stated that the figures as now made up came within the radius of possibility. He amour ced that there was a sum of $15 ,O00 that had been received in payment of an award from a law suit on the equip ment of the new high school and that there was between 5000 and $6,O0O re- sulting from an excess on the actual grand list over that expected when the estimates were made up. The rest he thought could be obtained from the contingent fund without crippling any department.
 When asked by MT. Lewis if this would not leave the contingent fund practically without anything the con troller replied that he would not say that but thought there would be some money left.
 MT. Lewis favored paying the teach- CTS from Sept. 10, but the other de- partments thought they should not be given increases untif Jan. 1. He sup ported his distinction on the ground that these dates represented the begin ming of the fiscal year for the various departments. He said he would favor making all the increases date from Jan, rather than commencing any of the others before that date. He stated thai his objection was based on the ground that 1t would cripple the treasury of the city too much.
 Mayor Studley and Controller Rowe were anxious that all the increases should date as early as possible. In- asmuch as the amended resolution lpostponing the firemen's increases un- til Jan. was not formally passed as amended, the matter Is still in abey- Iance,
 When Controller Rowe called for the yea and nay vote on the amended re- solution MT. Lewis remarked that il struck him that the publicity of re- cording another yea and nay vote was sought for political purposes. MT. Rowe denied this claiming that the mattet1 was public business and deserved the widest publicity At the beginning of the meeting MT. Herz moved for execu- tive session for the entire discussion but the rest of the board seemed will 1 ing to discuss the matter before the representatives of the newspapers and the motion was not seconded.
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