Show PUBLIC OFFICIALS MAY MA Y STRIKE UNLESS PA PAY Y IS INCREASED SED County Commissioners to Demand Higher Salaries Following Expose of Their Th ir Slipshod Methods Many Other Changes Political Pot Hunt Hun Hunters Huners Hunters ers on a Rocky Road to Affluence e EC f I The recent ejections elections and ad the tho coming c Into office of new officials of county and state coupled d with the generosity of the Amer American AmerIcan ican loan party city etty elt administration toward a afew afew few of Its als hat hae ha drawn attention to the rewards reward in la Salary klary of those who serve the tile publIc There has been little blame for the city administration when ij it Increased the sala salaries rise riM of the city ety ett and others re ro recently costly Ti Tile The county administration also to its Us salary list and in increase increase crease creale some seine of the salaries of executive officers Tho Pho county however Is not so 50 fortunate in this respect as is 18 the city administration tion lion The city can increase the pay of its servants at will by the mere passing passin of an ordinance The TM county salaries arc are fixed fI I by the legislature and can only be altered by that body The county com corn commissioners commissioners missioners will therefore ask for permission permission sion alan to make some changes at the present session of the legislature The salaries of officers of state county and city were fixed many man years ago and while some are quite large larg enough the work of others has increased with the growth of the community until the thc pay for forthe forthe forthe the work werk seems pitifully inadequate to the workers The county has a number of things to have hae fixed by b the commissioners in this line It has been shown that the com corn commissioners missioners had no legal right to appoint a Ii pauper clerk and pay pa him a month The law provided that one of the commis commissioners should be designated to handle the th pauper work and that he should re receive receive cehe for doing such work tho the sum of 00 OO a year ear For many years however that wo has never been drawn but a pauper clerk has been appointed and has regu regularly regularly regularly drawn his pa pay The legislature will willbe willbe be asked to legalize this position and to also provide for clerical assistance should such be necessary Commissioners Ask Increase The commissioners will also ask that their thIr own salaries be increased to a year Ear They now receive 1500 a year ear There Is 15 also an allowance of 1300 for traveling expenses but John C Mackay is the only one who has drawn this The commissioners claim calm that during the last few years the work of the office has in increased Ini creased i to such an extent that to prop perform the duties to which they the were elected It is necessary for them to nyc give all their time Their request for more inUre salary follows closely on an expose of Jr slipshod methods in conducting their office if flee They also want an increased salary salao for tor forthe or orthe the county assessor This is one instance where an Increase Je is almost necessary If the county COURty wants the work of this office performed In a creditable cr manner The present county count surveyor J 1 B Swenson Is Js a civil engineer and the du duties duties duties ties of the position are such that it re requires reQuires quires the services of an engineer en The Alary is but a year and the allow allowances allowancES ances for assistance are so small that he cannot annet secure competent men to help him He HI in is II allowed 43 a day for Jor a draughtsman and 23 a day for other help as it may be required He lie says that thal be Cannot annot get men m n fit nt to do the th work money mone Salt Lake take has recently rt Increased the salary of Dr U t 1 C Kelsey Keisey city engineer to 1000 a S year The legislature Will be asked to fix the salary alar of the surveyor at a year ear The rhe he county attorney now receives OO 00 I a ear and aRd his bL two tro assistants 1 l and 1113 a month The bill to be presented will give the tho attorney who wM is one of the most important im important officers In the county a ayta year yta the amount at present paid the sheriff This will enable his deputies to tore receive re hE more as the law allows allos a deputy to receive of the pay lay of ot his chief County Auditors Salary The county auditor and assessor now receive a year each It is proposed to give tho the auditor 2000 at least As s is the case with the city the auditors of office office o olice fice lice has lias become one of oC the most import important Important ant This will enable the deputies here hereto hereto to receive more the chief deputy now only re ving K 5 a month whereas two of City Cit Auditor Rudolph deputies receive more C B Stevens chief deputy and andS S I 1 Godman deputy deput license assessor re receiving receiving fl and lon I a month respective respectively ly I Rudolph Alff lff however receives only Isoo a year but the work Is entirely entire done by b his deputies as is the work of the city elty treasurer tre surer who gets 1800 The chief deputy in the city treasurers office has been raised ral to 1910 1 a year y r which is the salary alary of ot the chief deputy in the office of the county treasurer It is not proposed to touch any an of the th salaries The county clerk receives re 40 a year and the two chief deputies lU a month each e ck the county count treas irons treasurer u sm a year vear the sheriff 1000 the recorder 1000 O the county physician 1809 and Ills his assistant 1200 and these thee salaries will be left as they the are The salaries of oC minor officials In tn the county count offices office are not big enough to be tempting certainly not enough to cause such uch a scramble ramble as occurred Just before the first of the year The court deputies receive only K Ii a month which is about the salary salao in most moat of the offices for a clerk The custodian on the county side S Sa 15 of the tiie city elty and county nty building gets month and the superintendent of the a county Infirmary receive a month with a salary Alary of Ito 10 tO a month mont for his wife other little perquisites as matron and a few ites lus S which make it one of the Jobs In the gift of the county count City Is More Liberal The salaries paid by b the city elt are not high but some of them are on a more liberal scale cale le than in the county count The mayor receives 2100 Li a year and Is given givena a private secretary s tRO at 1400 The city at attorney attorney attorney torney gets a year 3 ear his flint first assistant and second assistant The best paid however of all the city officials are the city cit engineer and the chief of or police I who under th the recent increases I reas are now receiving receding re a year The chief of the fire department U is paid Mid 2100 a year ear and the assistant chief 1448 1449 The city recorder city elt treasurer and auditor receive 1800 It year ear each In the 1300 class are tb the building Inspector the deputy treasurer and auditor with the superintendent of waterworks and aAd the building inspector Jake T RaleIgh comes in here with his two tO salaries as street su an supervisor and water master The chief ehle deputy of the latter hatter is now BOW to tp re receive receive 1300 which is te the salary paid the health commissioner nfl the land and water commissioner the clerk ot of the board of at o public works the food inspector The Th ThI plumbing Inspector Inspect gets SUSO which Is the I salary paid the thi deputy deput recorder The assistant health commissioner one I of Cr the hardest working officials in the city inS s employ receives re Pi Th a month And both these le are re professional men The as assistant has l s had IS l smallpox cases caS under his charge chare during durin the tM past receive an al aJ allowance allowance year ear ar He lie does d not Dot even eon and buggy though lowance iowan e for a horse such suh an allowance Is given 11 the tho humane officer who also receives 75 T j a year but butis butIs butis is not expected tx apparently to fo o do o any ani work The city sexton ton who has d dOne ne creditable work in fl improving the th appearance of the only enl receives a year tar and the inspector Ins r of or oils sand and meas mias measures miasI etc ate is given T ii a month tho I urea ures The Tho Tit superintendent of waterworks has ha the tho biggest bj cst department deportment under his charge of or any an of the city officials It is one to which he must give gle the most careful per personal personal perSOnal supervision Yet he lie only receives 1400 1100 a year The members of the tho city council receive so JO a month each and there arc are those who think some of them are arc overpaid ov at that rate The chairman of the board of pub public public lic lie works receives soo a year ear and the other oth other other er members of the board SOO each cach Salaries Paid by State I The state of Is not especially gen generous generous generous erous with Its officers The governor la Is paid a salary salar of 1000 and his private sec see secretary secretary 1500 a year The secretary of state receives and his deputy 1500 the auditor gets 2000 and his deputy 1 the treasurer 1500 and allowances for clerical assistance which ho does not have to employ the tho attorney general 2000 and deputy SI the state engineer state chemist 1000 dairy dalo and food commissioner ir WO and a big allowance for contingent expenses bank examiner 1500 SOO and traveling expenses coal loal mine Inspector 2000 and traveling expenses The state superintendent of education an office held today by b a man who stands high in educational circles all over the country receives only 2400 a year car The Salt Lake board of ot education Is far more liberal with the man at the head of the city schools the superintendent receiving DOO a year Even the clerk of the board of ot education of Salt Lake receives more than the man at the th head of state schools s his salary being 2000 S oo The Till clerk In the theoffice theoffice office of the state superintendent of ot schools receives the princely salary salar of wo per annum The four members 6 r the state board of land commissioners receive 1200 each and liberal office allowances The secre secretary secretary tary of or the board Is given 1800 a year Tho The clerk of the supreme court receives 2100 a year ear and the reporter of the courts decisions 1600 The adjutant general gets ets 1500 and his assistant on the th staff 00 It Is not easy after looking over the sal salaries salaries salaries aries of public officers to see sec much In the theany way any wa of a fortune in working for the thc peo pee people pIe |