Show UP GO ALL CITY SALARIES A V BUDGET MAKE Commissioners Agree Til Tit ru Need Morel to Live MAYOR lAYOR iA OR THINKS TWO MILL l RAISE NEEDE ll Large Increases Faced Sid Practically All Departments Ien the tho city commission y yesterday afternoon to tako taka up t t budget for 1920 Mayor E. E A A. nock Boc r that the city revenue for t year was being figured on the b bas of an S 8 mill tax ono one mill higher t 1 j the levy In 1919 HoWe However HoWer r he ari the commission that he had prese r this figure only tentatively as he hei j that It would be to to- raise it another mill to take c cj ciri i of oi the departmental budgets and andt t place the tho nee necessary mone money in the aln Ing fund to take care of ot the city's ells ou out standing bond hond issues i i. Before the budget wa was taken up items a aen general en ral discussion was was' hel hd on tho the necessity of or Increasing th lb wages In ht practically nil all of the depar It was admitted that the now paid to elt city were no commensurate with the climbing c CM co of or commodities and all aU members o tho the board agreed reed that salary increate increase of or frOm 15 US 15 to 25 23 a month were nece ary mry There was some omo Informal di cuss Ion on the question of or the pay of ot police pollee and firemen and seemed to be the tho consensus of opinioN that the request of the mayor for for blanket increase e of or U 1 13 monthly th members of these two dc department would meet with unanimous favor faor S f Auditor Explains Explain The first department considered Tf wa vj that of ot the city auditor In his request for 1838 for or the comm year ear as against 13 for 1919 I 1 S S. McCann city auditor pave gave tw reasons reason Ho lie said that the books I hit his department are changer changed biennial and this was the tho year oar for the new one lie He also called caned attention to the tho Ck fact tha luring during nine months of ot last th th deputy auditor had been acting at the higher his salary salan but that th salar salary of or a deputy deput monthly ba banot hal not been paid p lie He said ald he lie was the pay of all aJl of or his for force c. c hut but tb tha tl there was no request for salary Ir In creaso crease ns as he was running the tho depart department ment with ith one less man who whose salar was nas so distributed One Aik k J Ls n I f 1 j The third one-third mill levy y for tor the cit eft libraries as provided by law wa ws allowed The revenue this assessment amounts to The Tho budget of ot Herman ff IH Gree commissioner of ot finance and public a al fairs asking for was as w was s that of ot II n. N. N Young city tre trea for 85 as a against f for r last year ear while Charles W W. W Law once city license department wa w. und under r his last years year's request b 1111 13 asking for This WI W wj explained by thC fact that his depart depar department epa ment purchased an automobile out t last years year's fund i |