The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-20
SALARY RAISES
WERE REJECTED
Ordinance Committee Kills Many
and Pruncs Down Not Few
\ Others.
ECONOMY GROUP IN EVIDENCE
ECONOMY GROUP IN EVIDENCE
Numerous Ordinances Passcc
Upon by Committee at scs-
sion Last Night.

The Council Committee on Ordin-
ances. Charter and Reform sat until
11:3O o'clock last night considering n
number OF ordinances teferrcd to it
by the Council. and acting thereon.
Much time was consumed In hearing
advocates of increases, either for
themselves or for others. 1t Is a
standing Jest among the committeeman
,, that some of the heads OF departments
invariably recommend every Increase
asked for by an employee or their de-
partments
Alderman w. n. Adams appeared to
advocate an increase in the pay of
the Clerk to the Committee on Print
ing and Claims from $40 per annum
to $500. He declared that this em-
ploye by his technical knowledge
saved the city money annually. Later
on the committee recommended for
adoption the ordinance making the
increase.
Action of Committee.
The committee. or at least majority
thereof. have their knives out. and
went at the various ordinances raising
salaries. though in several cases the
increases asked were granted, and in
others the demands were scaled. The
following Is summary OF the action
taken in most cases. without going
into tho discussion thereon at all:
An amendment to tho ordinance Great
ing the Board OF Health and creating the
positions OF medical Inspector, registrar
OF vital statistics, stenographer and as
sistant plumbing inspector was taken up
The order provides for an assistant
plumbing inspector Mt a salary Of $1,000
per year. the other employees being pro
viied for in Il pending ordinance This
was referred back to the Board Of Health.
1t was moved that the City Attorney
be instructed to draw an ordinance per
hitting one Council committe to senJ
an ordinance or resolution 70 another
committee for report and information,
instead OF having to do this through the
Council. Adopted.
An ordinance increasing the pay OF
laborers in the cemeteries from sl.75 per
day to $500 was taken up An adverse
report on the ordinance was recommended.
An ordinance providing for custodian
for the Cary street Auditorium at $50
per month was taken up. The ordnance
was recommended to the Council for re-
lection
An ordnance increasing the pay OF
lamp,ghters took the same course. !.
An ordnance providing for salary
increase for the assistant foreman and
weighmaster at the Gas Worhs from
s270 to s2S5 per diem was recommended
to the Council.
An ordinance to fix the salary OF the
bookkeeper at the Lower Gas Works at
81 $50 per year. an Increase OF $3.50, was
recommended to the Council for adoption.
An ordnance authorizing the Conf
mfttee on Street Cleaning to utilize
the prisoners in the city jail for clean
ing the bed OF Shockoe Creek and an
mot Exceeding $3.50 for
guarding said prisoners. was recon-
for adoption by the Board, the
Common Council having already
pa ssed 1t.
Ordinance proposing to increase the
salary Of the clerks of the market
was unfavorably recommended. but one
an Increase in the pay of
the laborers in the market from s1l6
to SO was amended to make the per
diem s1.s5.
Ordinance to increase the salary of
the keeper of ST. Johns Cemetery was
reported.
Adverse Report.
Ordinance to increase the salary of
the clerk to the Police Court was adj
versely reported.
Ordinance to increase the pay of tho
metre readers In the gas department
shared the same fate
Ordinance increasing the pay of tho
inspector of the gas department was
likewise disposed Of.
Ordinance providing AN additional |
clerk in the gas Inspectors Office was
recommended for rejection.
Four petitions from tho Board OF
Health, asking for Increases for the
chemist. plumbing Inspector, fumga tor
md food lnsp ector. were taken up.
The committee recommended an In
,rease OF $40 per month for the fumi-
fnr In hat If ha the eel