Show SALARY ACT ATTACKED interested officials say it is defective CALL OMISSIONS NI FATAL tiala r wn ground tor for question its validity Is its failure to specify the tenn for which maximum salaries may be 10 allowed by tile the county Commiss commissioners loners claim that it hal more ritiro than n condemned armor plate even figure Fiffi iio on oil getting I 1 four times the pay intended I 1 what Is believed to be a serious no it rot riot fatal omission has haa been discovered in the art act recently passed lay by the 1 1 ture fixing the llie sal salaices ailes 14 7 cers of coal county otil r 1 cers ind and commonly coiled called the salary bill the lon refe referred ired to iq 1 the fair ure of the legislature to allx any ally period of 0 time for which the maximum amounts provided for in ili tile the bill eliell apply and acta acelio 0 opponents of oc the bill chiefly county officials claim there la Is absolutely nothing in the bill to enill rato cato the length of time for or chich tho the amounts fixed by the Legis legislature legislate latu aa the maximum ot of the salaries al arles flail apply from all that the bill contains conta insi the they claim it Is impossible to determine whether het ber these maximum nial mum rates apply to the salaries salar leB for a month or a quarter or six elx months or a ecar of tor for the term sections I 1 and 2 of the bill tor for a fixed annual salary of state of alcer but in all of the remol remolding ning pro wom llon of the act which are applicable to the question of sa sala latles ilca of county officers it IS 1 contended there Is 13 nothing I 1 to indicate whether the salaries are to be annual or other vise section 3 of the bill that lof 0 o the purpose of regulating the campen fallon of the county ollices the coun ties alc tlc ot of the state are daos claIR Siad I 1 inc to their I 1 1 then hen follows tile the 0 fl sr I 1 into fifteen clapacs clas THE sur SUPPOSED rOSED DEFECT I 1 section 4 provides ldes that the salaries tf it the off officers leers of 0 all the Lount counties les in the state shall hall be fixed by boards of 0 county commissioners Commission evs ak hh h in thirty days after the act takes lakes effect cl at not to exceed certain maximum amounts therein stated except that in the cases ot of the assessor county attorney and treasurer the amounts stated are ar definitely fixed as and for the salaries of cl such officers but these critics say nothing in ili section 4 shed any light on the question of 0 the length of time tor for which the amounts stated staled shall apply section 4 contains a provision that until the day of 0 june 1897 a T ht h it time tho the office of 0 county collector I 1 la abolished 11 shed and the duties thereof th creot lire re to be diri discharged charged by the trea treasurer aler the salaries of 0 Collect orli anil nd Tra treasurers Treasur ers are definitely fixed at amount mounts therein stated such salaries to continue only to tn june lot this provision they argue would seem to indicate that the amount fixed for tile the various collectors and treasurers treasur ers by the bill Is the compensation in full of such off office leeis s from the ath day ot of january 16 to tile the day ot of june 1537 or in other words the amount fixed for tho the treasurer of 0 salt lake county to wit 1500 1600 Is to be the compensation of 0 that o officer acer lor for a s year and a halt half OTHER ALLEGED weaknesses nessel section 5 of 0 tho the bill 1111 requires require that the th B board ard of 0 county oi loners at lea ethree months prior to tile the 01 election c 0 county officers in ISM and biennially enni ally thereafter shall fix and determine the salaries of 0 county anict rs for whom maximum salaries lire are fixed tor for the two years next succeeding by the provisions of 0 this section so they say may it Is not clear bu but t that the maximum amounts stated slated in fix the other sections of 0 the bill shall apply to the whole term tor for which abich the officer Is elected viz all two years slid and that the duard buard ot of county cannot it allx the salary of 0 such ouch county officer 91 at an amount exceeding tile the maximum heuie as stated in tile the bill for or the period of 0 two years or in other words that in L year the board of 0 county count aurist co tp rill abitan i ers of 0 this county in fixing the sal salaries arles of 0 the officers to be rickee iz br ber for the frici af the maximum salary for the ahola term must not exceed the amount stated in tile the bill for example the who Is to serve for two IBO beare beginning january 1 3 1897 2897 shall not be allowed to receive move more than 1809 1909 for his services performed on behalf of the county as assessor in the years and 1898 and in III tile the sime same way ay that the th next sheriff of salt sall lake county shall not receive more than for or his two years work ON FAT SALARIES section 9 of tho the hill bill pro provides ides that the salaries of 0 the county officers must murt ile be raid quarterly out ot of the fund of the county upon the order of 0 the board ot of county coninis blonera but that one halt half of 0 the salary of the As abdor county attorney and treasurer shall hall be borne by the state slate and paid as provided by law tile the or provisions of 0 this section sitt lon it Is further nl al lebed would seem to indicate that the maximum rates rate fixed ty by the bill apply to baeli quarter and that in ili fixing lilt salaries the board of county commissioner slon tars can provide a compensation compensate on which will not exceed the maximum rites provided in the bill for tach each if thin construction Is correct r then the three county officers i iz it the county attorney an ami 11 the treasurer tile the amounts of 0 whose salaries are arc definitely will get in this county 1900 and rsm t SW goeb re each quarter fiu arter if I 1 thel their con to Is right this would give a R to the county treasurer and county attorney of 0 a icar section 10 20 of the art act recites a that the sal salaries arlos therein provi provider doll for county ulcers officers shall iliadi tc be full fur for delices of 0 every kind and description debirl atlon rendered by ill the officers named therein but it 11 Is in said again there Is an absolute failure to specify the length ot of alm tor for which the services are to be rendered section 12 1 provides that the salaries of 6 c county u y officers shall take effect effort and b feln n a of 0 the ath day ot of january but thy section it as well as the rest rent of t the bill la IN silent me a to the limit of oc the time ot of the ral salaries arles provided tor for A well known attorney who nho Is inter eted ted tit in the fate ot of the bill said yes yee berde yit it hemn x ems almost incomprehensible that bet a legislative apt body composed compo sedas it wa was supposed the last was max 0 ot men of 0 ability and brains brain could t a measure in which such euch a glaring daring Cami omission salon would be b found it if as an it la Is feared this detect defect and it seems that it detect defect certainly exlus ls is fatal to the bin bill vry very serious s will tollow vv the ri uton will then come coma tip dp as s to whether the officers who aho havo have been nan collac tew fees for their somines sen ices will not be entitled to keep hoep the fers fees they collected in the absence of a law providing for their compensation in some other manner it if the act in question tion Is a sample of the class ot of wark that has been accomplished by the bat last then it would appear that th people of n this state plate would havn have btty very aery much benetI benefited ted it if the th first alon JI ton of f tho th suite legislature Icella turc hal bad one nine dle die on aie crit day aday of ef lt alt kcf rl n |