7 PRECE GROWS FACETIOUS F Would Raise Pay of City Laborers to Provide for Increased Cost of Groceries Councilman J H Pre ec of ot the second ward introduced a resolution in the council last evening providing for 11 ne In Increase increase Increase crease Qt f pay of ot the Jay day laborers cm m by the city from 2 22 to rA a aday aday alay day lay The rhe resolution reads as follows oll ws Whereas winter is coming on ai the necessaries of ot life lIte such as groceries and provisions and meats being so 50 high anc and coal oal costs from to 7 a ton and the owners of houses raising on rent all the time Ume Therefore be it resolved that the laborers working for the city have wages raised from s to iX 20 a liy 11 Councilman Black moved moed that this rhe rho rhetorical rhetorIcal gem be referred to the finance committee I want this to go to the finance com committee declared is in the grocery business himself and I see he has named groceries as aa first among the necessaries of life that have gone bone up UI in price I want him to appear the committee and explain WilY way this ise lse sc has occurred Lots pass this now said Barnes Barne and please The has never passed any of ot his resolutions yet et and I think we ought to do something for him before fore he goes out of ot office A vote ote was taken and all but Council Councilmen men Barnes Holley and voted to refer Barnes and are grocers and Holley is le s a commission man manIn manIn manIn In the course of hU hla remarks on the subject Councilman Fernstrom n took to oc occasion 0 casion to say that he would be for or the measure If It It were not for tor the fact fat that the American party had been heen so extravagant with the funds that now it would be b impossible le to do anything for fur forthe forthe the laborers It is the fault of the tho American party that we cannot piss this resolution res said Fernstrom