The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-14
SCHNEIDER OFFERS
CITY PART OF PAY IT,.
County Clerk Wants All Job
Holders First to Agree to
Give Cash Too.
80 CUTS IN HIS OFFICE

81 am perfectly willing said County
Clerk William F. Schneider yesterday.
"and 20 are all the men under me, 10
turn back to the city during the coming
year 10 per cent. OF our salaries to make
up the extraordinary additional tax levy
OF 10000, 900"
II Mr.. Schneider had stopped there the
city could throw up its hat a shout
Murray" But he added:
Provided, however, that every per-
con receiving a salary from the city or
county will do the same thing"
That provided" leaves Mr.. Schneider
In full possession Of his $4,000 salary.
for there is no probability that all en-
ployees, from Mayor down to office boys
at 5000 a year. will hand back 10 per
cent. Of their pay to help the city out OF
a hoe.
Warns liz VIII Appeal.
Cuts amounting to s1I,2S0 IN the
County Clerks budget request for next
year caused him to tell the budget sub
committee at a hearing In the Municipal
Building that he would appeal TO the
Board Of Estimate. He said that he had
asked for $i2,392 less than he got for
this year and could not meet the re-
quirements OF his office with what the
budget Subcommittee purposed to give
him. The committee, however, recon.
mended that the cuts be made as sug-
gested by the bureau of standards in
accordance with the new classification
system which Mayor Mitchell says must
b. adopted.
Mr.. Schneider's son. w. +. Schneider,
Jr., will have his salary shaved from
$4,000 TO s2.5s0 a year IL the fathers
protest Is unavailing. lie is supervising
clerk In the County Clerks Office. other
reductions recommended yesterday by the
subcommittee include Auditor John A.
Wredc, from $4,000 to s2.17O: Law Clerk
Johr. A. Stapleton. from $4,000 to S2,S $50 ;
Equity Clerk Daniel J. Hegley,. from
$500 to $2,S20; two general clerks.
from $4,000 to $500; one clerk, from
$1,000 to $500 two clerks. from $4,000
TO $500, and so on. In all. the salaries
OF thirty-eight employees were reduced.
Their pay ranged from $500 to 1920.
Twenty-Five OF them get 81 500 or less.
Law Clerk Stapleton has been in the
service thirty-fve years. Mr.. Schneider
says that he Is a civil var veteran and
that under the law his salary cannot be
cut.
Hardship, Says Schneider.
"One-half OF the men whose salaries
are recommended for decrease" said
Mr.. Schneider last night. have been IN
the employ of the county from fourteen
TO thirty-fve years. II H. estimated
hat the salary budget is in the neigh
borhood OF 800. 0OO. 600. of which $685.
100000 is mandatory. 1t is a hardship
that those receiving the remaining
s35. 000. 900. whose salaries are not
mandatory, should bear the entire bur
den OF salary reduction"
In his determination to have salaries
reduced wherever possible Mayor Mitchell
may be facing the hardest fight OF his
administration. Although the axe HIS
not fallen upon anybody yet. the bare
suggestion OF the bureau OF standards
that ~So-and-so may be reduced IL caus-
ing So-and-so to let out a howl OF pain,
For example, Chief Clerk DalessandrC
OF the Board OF Coroners. for whom a
cut from $4,000 TO S2.S5O is proposed,
accused the Mayor yesterday OF break
ing a solemn campaign pledge" and
challenged hin TO cut his own salary.
"1nstead OF reducing salaries Of the
little fellows Dalessandro said, begin
with yourself"
Senator william VI. Bennett also raised
his voice against the Mayor. He said
that the city administration, in asserting
that the increase in the next bulge
would be due to the state tax, wa,
simply drawing a red herring acros:
the trail OF its own extravaganza" IL,
predicted that the 1916 budget ~increas,
would be a trifie compared with VIVA
would happen in 1917 and 1918.