Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-07
CEMENT MIXER
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work was held up. 1t was agreed that
the company should bid for furnishing
the new mixer as well as other com
panies and that if another company
got the bid the city was to pay rental
for this machine. If this company got
the bid then the amount of rent was tC
go on the purchase price.
superintendent Salary.
Considerable discussion arose over
the bill presented to the city by Sup
erintendent Rogers of the street i'm
provement department for word done
He has had no salary paid him this
summer and he put in bill for the
days he worked on the street improve
ments at the rate of $3.50 a month
Councilman Elliott moved that he be
paid for days worked at the above rate
and Councilman Jones seconded the mo
ton.
Councilman Ward said he thought il
was understood that Rogers was sim
ply transferred from the engineers of
flee to the street work for the sum
mer, instead of giving him separate
job. He said the council could not af-
ford to pay him $3.50 a month when
his regular salary was $115 month.
Councilman Jones replied that he was
absolutely certain the council could n
get man to do the work for less than
$3.50.
Councilman Wilson stated that Rogers
was assistant engineer at $115 month
and that he was simply taken out OF
that office and given other work to
do, and that Rogers knew what he was
getting.
Gives Engineers Dig.
It was stated that the city engin-
eer declared that he had secured a a'suc
cessor for Rogers permanently, and that
Rogers was not to come back into the
office. Councilman McClelland took fire
at this statement and declared he un-
derstood Rogers was to go out only tenn
porarily and that it did not make much
difference whether the city engineer
said Rogers was out permanently or not.
He said there was months during til
year when neither did much work.
Councilman Rigdon moved to amend
Councilman Elliott's motion to make it
read $125 a month. This would give
Rogers an increase of $40 month over
his present salary.
The council got itself into hole for
few moments when the time for the
increase to go into effect was stated,
and Councilman Rigdon supposed 1t
would go into effect from the time
Rogers started on the street work,
which was in April This would bring
the back salary to be paid up to over
$500. Councilman Elliott said that suit
ed him all right and would suit Rogers,
inasmuch as Rogers only worked part
of the months at the $3.50 rate and 1t
would mean he would get over $500 in
stead of about $3.50 as he had asked
for.
Rebate Ia Refused.
When this situation was seen, Coun-
Gilman Rigdon insisted that his motion
read that Rogers receive $125 a month
for the time he was actually engaged
But when it was found that Rogers
was asking at the rate of So day.
Rigdon withdrew his amendment and
Elliott's motion carried.
The communication of City Attorney
Macy relative to the sewer refund
claim of Ross E. Moores, in which he
advised that the claim be rejected, was
accepted He said there was nothing to
compel payment of improvements un-
less the cost of improvement is assessed
against the property by the city and en-
tered in the docket of city liens after
1898 There were no records of liens
kept before 1898, he says, and the law