The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-23
Commissioner Bakers Objection to Rushing Through Such Radical
 Proposals Overru|ed
Plan If Adopted, Would Mean Great Additional Ex-
 pense Upon the Tax Payers It's Now Up to the Democratic Common Council to Say What Shall Be
 Done.

I rule, order or regulation of the board his judgment, may serve to identify such person charged with criIne;- and he shalr preserve all such photo prints, and other data, in suitable tabulated and indexed form, and shall perform all other services or dutie es in connection with said work as may be from time to tune required of him by the board of police commissioners. Rank of Sergeant.
 The officer detailed from time to time to the Identification system shall Mhiie the ne The boarS of lice commissioners may change the person so detailed at their discretion. The clerk of the police board shall Said two sergeants shall be in addition to the nine sergeants provided for tn the first paragraph hereof.
 nanoes inconsistent 1t herewith. are hereby repealed. An Ordinance Relative to Salaries in
 Police Department
 Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Bridgeport:
 That section of an ordinance rela- tive to salaries in the police depart ment. adopted oetober 7, 1907, ed May 22, 1911, be and hereby is amended to read az follows:
 Section Two. ta1 On and after Aprn A l. 1913 the salaries Of the the mem aesa be as follows: Superintendent at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; captains at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annurn; Heutenants at the rate of fourteen hundred dollars per annum; ser- geants at the rate of thirteen hum dred dollars per annun; clerk of the police department at the rate of tIir- teen hundred dollars per annum; doormen at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum; patrolmen, Grade tA'' per day, three dollars twenty-five cents: patrolmen Grade "B'' per day. three dollars; 2atroImen Grade t.C'' per day, two dollars seventy-f1ve cents.
 (b) Up to April 1, 1913, special off, cers employed as patrolmen shall be paid at the rate of two dollars seventy men, for each arrest, one dollar.
 (c) The police matron shall be paid al the rate of one dollar fifty cents per
 (d) The salaries of civilians. as cha uffeurs, and drivers shall be h8 cd by the board of police commissioners, but in no case TO exceed at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum and quarters.
 (e) All ordinances or parts of ordi- nances inconsistent herewith are here by repealed
 An Ordinance Concerning Carrying
 Concealed Weapons.
 Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Bridgeport:
 Section 270 of an ordinance entitled .aThe Ordinances of the City of Bridge port,'' is hereby amended to read as follows:
 No person shall carry any steel or brass knuckleS or any slung-shot, or weapon of similar character, or any weapon concealed on his person. Bu. nothing in this section shall apply to regular members If the police depart ment of the city. or to ahy duly acting sheriff. deputy sheriff or constable, or any special police officer of the city
 The superintendent of police may, for good and sufficient reasons, issue permit to such persons as she may deem proper to carry any such weap- on, upon such person paying license fee of $5.00- Such license shall be for one year only, and may be revoked by the superintendent of police during said year at his d. scretion.
 The board of police commissioners shall provide suitable license books. with the licenses numbered consecu- lively. and in duplicate. so that a copy of each license issued, 7 with the amount received. may be filed with the policA shall. on the first and fifteenth of each month, turn over to the city treasurer the amount collected by him for such licenses, and shall turn over to the auditor at said times the duplf cate licenses so issued.
 Upon the completion of the reading
  port be accepted and referred to the Common Council for adoption. Corn- missioner Bristol seconded the motion. A vote was called for when Comm1S- sioner Baker rising said:
 sI want to go upon record as op- posing this action. There is- probably port and there is considerable that Is revolutionary-it is radical at least and I. should call it revoiutionary Upon the short notice which has been given me to look over these matters I cannot but ask to be recorded as opposing it. You will appreciate there are are great many things enpodied DOC ,elana m careful attention and scrutiny. and my practice in actual business has uni fornaly been against acting upon any important matters in haste and with out careful investigation. This cofn- mlttee was appointed to look Into po- lice matters and employ an expert, which they did faithfully, and that re- port was submitted upon the 18th day Of August T. I do not know ,: at what that appointed to put in these reconernen- dationS. They were not presented to this board until the night of Noven- Der Is and I, for one, should certainly lptionary changes of this kind without first considering them and possibly insulting with my regular attorney ea, therefore take my stand accordingly in perfect honesty and frankness, ba5- ing my refusal to approve this report at this time upon my customary prac- tfce in business of first considering with care any radical change
 Commissioner Hill: we have had ample time to carefully study this re- port since it was presented by the committee and should be ready to vote 1f1telligec tly on all it contains. MT. President I call for the ques- tion.'
 Commissioner Baker: ''In this re- port there are great many features that are odd, but claim I have had but from the 1 5fh of this month to