The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-10
ALDERMEN ADOPT ALL ESTIMATES
 - Final Session of lne Board Passes Them After
 a Stormy
 Fight.
COMPROMISE COMES
 IN SALARY CONTEST
New Clerk in Whitaker's Office at $S40 g Year Just Gets by With Eight to Six
 Vote.

s"o evenings anens Tn lighting over the estimates submitted bv the board of finance. the board of alder men last night peacefully wound up an eventful career of two yeanas hv passing all the salary increases pr6- ylded by those estimates ana Anpro3- ing the entire estimates exaettv as sent in from tAs inanciers. The event was not achieved without nnth debate in which practically Sysfy member present was on the floor f6- peatedly and some of the salary ratsSr were so firmly contested that they 9ot by early with small margins.
 Arguments beaan with the opening of the session and 1t looked for time as if the meeting would fail to ac- complish the work before 1t. sAbout one solid hour was occupied in debat ing the method which should be used in attacking the estimates still to oon.e up and especially the salaries which were the bone of contention. The house was nearly evenly divided upon this matter one section favoring tho cutting out of all salaries and ths other the acceptance of all the im- .creases as whole. For tine 1t looked as if there might be a general cutting out of all the increases, but the motion to that effect was not forthcoming and finally the matters were taken up separately.
 The salary increase for Chief Fan cher was received with unanimous ap- 'proval, but over this matter and that of City Engineer Kelly there arose an other fight. A section of the board with Senator Homan, a leading exponent of the argument wanted these increases taken out of the esti- mates entirely and treated as sepa- rate resolutions inEsmuoh as they had been brought up originally not in the estimates but in the board which had favored them This was defeated, however, and they were allowsd f0 stay in the estimates
 When the salary of Clerk Donovan sof tlae civil service commission came up there was strong opposition to 1t and the matter required hard fight before it went through 4 motion was made to set 1t at $500. which Is the salary now, but an amendment was put before the beard to bring 1t back to $70O, as provided for in tho estimates. This was fiHally carried with several votes to the good.
 The general disposition to oppose alA increase began to be dissipated ag socn as one increase had been granted All most all of the members favored cer- tain increase and bitterly opposed Oth- CTS and 1t soon became a MAttpr cx coInpRsmise. One had to ba aispweA tO secure others so that after thb flgst few had gone by it becstke the rule lo accept the rsst Several of the spea&.- ers insisted that it was not faaR to aa- low some increases and net the othSFs So that it is lil1ely that nanE vOteH were cast for increase where the ygtar would not have veted yea except tp Esecuse some other increase he thought was due.
 One of the hottest fights of tho ges- sion was over the nsw olesass in sbe town clerks office and In tbe effl6a ek Registrar Carr. The oppUsition to the new man in Whitalser's office was cHya- tered in the amount of salary tU Dc paid. The kiek came that 1t 5eas us> 1 fair to create now clerRRhAp in tiaau l office at $40 which waa in the esti~
 mates while the other clerks who Aad beeh there for years only feeetso4 $7eh A motion was accordingly made to cak down the pay to $72o. Again the amendment method was used and tfe original salary brought kefoHN board for a vote on it's acceptance. Hera tho closest light of the night developed, the $s4e salary of the estimates bSlng ae- ceptea only by q vote of : to
 In the n,ettAr of tue now clerk Con Registrar cArr the fight was not wagsd so dangerously, hut there were several nay vofss when the matter was put to
 the test. None of the votes were ta- ken by roil call but rising votes were called for to settle the question.
 On the matter of the increases salary of Chief Fancher while the board re- fused to take it up as separate mat ter apart from tho esstusates 1t did take a vote later in which # was agreed to
 sent a note to the board of finance ad-
 vocating again the salary of $SIoOO
 which was approved before the board
 of aldermen and which the f1panciers
 cut down to s2,750, This matter waa
 adopted with ufanlmity.
 The last part of the session was g matter of clear sailing The estimates la1l4aA--A---.-----~---