The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-27
ALDERMEN PASS
 SALARY RAISES

0iA6iAAE Aihh9AN
 Continued from First Page.) gan, both of the latter two of the finance board; David E. Fitzgerald, chairman of the democratic town committee, and former Aldermen J. Edmund Miller.
 There was also present E. L. War den in his official capacity of general secretary for the Associated Civic So- cieties.
 The report of the committee was in three paragraphs, the aldermen con- sidering each paragraph or recom- mendation separately.
 The first business taken up was the report of the special committee. AL dermen Townshend, Davis, Russell, Devine and Mulvey, which recom- mended that the salary of the chief of the fire department be increased from s2,500 to S3,000 per annum.
 Alderman Townshend said he want ed to hear from everybody. It was a subject of paramount importance to eNerypOuy, ne ueclareu.
 T wish everybody would speak his mind freely"
 They did
 This" began Alderman Franklin l.. Homan, Ifs very important mat ter, as the chairman of the committee has said-frst, because it affects the salary of the chief of the fire depart ment, and, secondly, because it may have something to do with the raising of our tax rate, New Haven pays less salaries to it's public officials than any other city in the state. On the other hand, our tax rate is soaring. We cannot expect, though, to get compe- tent public servants unless we pay them. Neither can we give satisfac- tion to our citizens If the tax rate is a burden upon them.
 "The burden on New Haven citizens is already great enough.
 T hope to see the day when Yale college will contribute some of the money necessary to the maintenance of fire department, a street depart nlent, a police department, and other departments of the city. While we have no authority to make her pay these taxes, yet we can appeal to her as an institution that stands for civic | pride. It is becoming a hardship for | New Haven to pay so much taxes. The corporation property does not pay the taxes it ought to pay. It.is a fact that some of this property is paying far less than 1t ought to pay. While do not 1 want to throw mud at the university it is an institution of which, we should all feel proud-New Haven is suffering for the necessary money to properly improve herself, Even at present New Haven ts spending more money than she can properly lay claim to, and still her officers are underpaid.
 'I believe that New Haven has one of the best fire departments in the country. believe that the chief Is as efficient and as competent a man as can be found. am in favor of an in- crease in his salary. I believe that the firemen should have an increase. I be- lleve that they should be paid fully as
 much as the policemen of the city. Bu
 because the firemen cannot get an in-
 crease is no reason why the chic should not have an increase. If thu N chief gets it, no doubt the firemen vii
 get 1t in time. Our public servant! should be properly paid" "We have heard a great deal about Yale college for the last five or ter years" said Alderman Loos, land al one way. Yale ought to be taxed. w
 are waiting for them to come and vol untarily pay taxes"
 : President Johnson intimated that tht aldermen should not dilate on subjects extraneous to the question in hand. This is matter of taxation" sait : Alderman Loos, ''and 1t concerns tn taxpayers. It is strange that nobod. at the last legislature thought O bringing up this taxation. That would 7 be about the only way to have Yal , taxed.
 T think that the people in city hal
 have got cinch. I believe that tn ] fremen are underpaid It cannot b possible to raise the salaries in tn entire department this year."
 He advocated Chief Fancher's raise U saying:
 The additional $500 to be give
 him Is to retain a good man. and 1t 1 . only drop in the bucket" !. Alderman Homan offered motto 6 for the raise.
 t Alderman Maxwell wanted an ay 3 and nay vote.
 d Alderman Mulvey arose to say: o There was no man on this boar e more opposed to the raise of salarie 'r than I was. I have changed my DC t Esition The refusal cr the board t y grant this increase will be to hel r, along certain things that have trans
 pired during the week. Certain thing
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