Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-04
CITY COUNCIL ELECTS
OFFICERS CHOSEN At
CAUCUS LAST WEEK
No Sanitary Inspectors Office
Created With Vote s to 6
Against 1t

The city council last night passed
from the old to the new without a
hitch and the new session was only
enlivened by an effort to reduce the
police force from six men to four men.
All of the dozen applicants who were
after the Job as sanitary inspector were
present as well as large body Of theft
supporters but the bone of contention
was removed by painless extraction and
there will be no sanitary inspector this
year except one of the police officers
who will be detailed to this job.
When the question Of the final pass
age of the ordinance creating the of
flee of sanitary inspector came up
Councilman Huddleson moved that the
ordinance be indefinitely postponed
and the motion carried to g. Huddle-
son created Another discussion when
he moved to reduce the police force
from six to four neil. Councilman
Ward stated that the police worked -
hour shifts and that it was inhuman to
ask them to increase this shift by de-
creasing the force. Councilman Unruh
considered a decrease to be poor econ
omy and Councilman Elliott declared
that the suburban districts had no po-
police protection now except on call
and that even this would be removed by
reducing he force. The final vote
stood with Councilman Huddleson and
Wilson in favor Of a reduction and the
others against it. Wilson then moved
/ hnA ba In civ
to five men and this was lost by a vote
of to 4.
The schedule of appointive officers
ran off according to schedule. B. W.
Macy resigned and G.. C. Millet was
elected in his place and Macy was elect
ed city attorney. Harry Hutton was
chosen fire chief and Mrs. Myra Shank
police matron and the remainder Of the
officers were voted upon as a body and
all of the firemen ana police officers re-
main as on the payroll of last year.
Mayor White announced the follow
ing committee appointments;
Ways and means-Hoover, Wilson,
McClelland.
Public buildings-Millett, Huddleson,
Patterson.
Fire and water-Wilson, Ward, Ell
lott.
Printing-Jones, Elliott, Wilson.
Ordinances - Unruh, Hoover, Ward.
Sewers-IIuddleson, sIillett, Unruh.
Bridges-Cook, Millett, Huddleson.
Parks-Wallace, Jones, Hoover.
Account and current eXpenses-Mills
| McClelland, Roberts.
Plumbing Ward, Millett.
Health and police-Ward, Unruh, Nc
Clelland.
Revision of minutes Patterson,
Roberts, Mills.
Streets-Cook, Elliott, Mills.
Licenses-McClellan Unruh, Cook.
Lights-Elliott, Patterson, Wallace.
Rules-Jones, Wallace, Unruh.
Band-Park committee.
Before the 1915 council adjourned
sine die it was voted that the city should
take up $6,709.G7 in Improvement bonds
for which bids had been advertised and
all of the bids were declared to be re-
jected. The city will purchase these
bonds from the sinking fund which at
present draws only two per cent interest
in the banks and by purchasing the
bonds tle funds will draw five per cent
interest.
The bids were opened for the print
ing of the city ordinances, the bids were
as follows: Capital Journal Printing
company, 9S cents per page; Commercial
Printing company, 81 cents per page; /;
Statesman, $l.6S per page; G. C. l.. Sny
der, $l.32 per page; Beaver State Print.
ers, $l.25 per page, and Messenger, 81
cents per page.
The street department was instructed
to haul wood to needy families under
the direction of the social service cen