The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-17

For that reason he would vote that
the mayer, provided he gave his
entire time to the interests of the
city, would receive a salary of ST.
500. At this point in his discus
sion, MI. Waters did not fail to
give the present administration a
rich brown roast, in that they have
too many straw bosses drawing
large salaries.
The vote to place the salary OF
the mayor at $500 when put to a
vote was lost, and it was finally
decided to recommend that the sal
airy of the chief executive of the
city be placed at $500 per year.
The question of salaries and
duties of councilmen, was deferred
until such time as City Attorney
Gilmore receives an opinion from
the attorney general as to the le-
gality or constitutionality OF voting
for six alderman at large in this
city.
The question of official year Of
the city had been decided upon at a
previous meeting, that section
of the recommendations was passed
over.
Take Jobs Out OF Politics
F. ]. Mahowald does not believe
in the saying that Ito the victor
belongs the spoils," the idea Of
succeeding mayor when he Is
elected Cleaning house, does not set
we'll with the member from the
second ward. He would take the
fire department and police depart
Nf
Mr.. Mahowald said that 1t was
too often the case that good men
were let out office, for merely poll
tical reasons, when they were
much more fitted to serve the city
in an efficient manner than the
ores put in their places. He said
that If a polio eman even as much
as dares to open his mouth during
a political campaign, AGAINST the
newly elected candidates, he is
lItched out.
Mr.. H lmmett said that he agreed
with Mahowald. E, V. Walters,
said that what might he termed the
civil service system for police does
not work 10 the best advantage. MFR.
Waters said that there was one
occasion while he was mayor that a
place in this city was robbed during
the winter, when there were plenty
of snow on the ground. He was
called up at his home at 4 A. NJ.
and went out to investigate, and
could not even find the tracks Of
the officer on that beat in the alley.
He did, however, find him later
toasting bis toes in the depot, and
he tied the can" to him. Mr.. Wat !
tiers said that he would certainly
hate to be forced by civil service to
tofy the nnliHQ
force. He believes that an officer
should hit the hall all of the time
or get out, but If good men are on
the force, he believed in retaining
them.
A. G. Roemer and G. w. Eich-
staedt believed that the mayor OF a
city should have backbone enough
to retain good men in office, re-
CARELESS OF pressure brought to
bear by politicians to clean the
slate Some firing has to be done
at times" said Mr.. Eichstaedt, "or
we would die while sleeping, and
the newspapers. would have no SEN
sations to write about"
No definite action was taken last
night, but the matter may. be taken
up at some future meeting. II
workable plan can be worked out.
Salary of City Assessor
F. ]. Mahowald brought up the
matter of the salaries and duties of
the city assessor. He did not want
it understood that he was criticiz-
ing the present city assessor, but
he would like to see that official
hired at a good living salary for
the twelve months of the year. He
would have the assessor make an
actual real estate canvass Of the
city, so that all taxable property
might be listed, and dealt with fair
". E. V. Waters, G. w Eichstaedt
also believed that the assessor
should be on the job the year
round.
Henry Zimmerman said that he
thought that better results could be
obtained if a stranger were hired as
city assessor. A committee consist
ing of F. ]. Mahowald, G. w. Eich-
staedt and Henry Zimmerman
were appointed as committee to
look into the matter of the salary
and duties of city assessor.
No further business coming be-
fore the commission and adjourn
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