Show THE REVISED SALARY LIST The revision of the salary list for the municipal officers does not show very marked changes from the present salaries sal-aries The salaries proposed in the redraft of the schedule by those who revised the ordinances would have been too high compared with the like services ser-vices in other lines of employment The hours of employment are short in the city offices and the work is light there Is no reason whatever to pay excessive salaries especially where there Is no heavy responsibility and where the work is routine chiefly But as we have hitherto suggested the pay of the Councilmen has always been too low It is too Jow as proposed in the action tis the amount stands With the Council rests the whole fate of the city it has control of the purse strings it controls the executive branch of the city government dIctatIng dIctat-Ing the appointments on pain of refusal to confirm them the Mayor can do nothing unless the Council gives him leave It also decides on the legal ques tions that come before it determining what it will or will not do about lawsuits law-suits and when a situation becomes annoying to It an ordinance Is passed to relieve the pressure The City Attorney torney is a mere creature of the Council Coun-cil and at time a despised creature at that To say that men who have such weeping power and responsibility as thIs and of course the experience training and ability to use the same wisely and well are fairly paid when I hey get fifty or sixty dollars a month I Is absurd the pay should be made two hundred dollars a month and their ser vices would be cheap at that As for the Mayor he Is well paid at the present salary without any raise ut ill much less the raise of a thousand dollars which is proposed And we fire quite sure that if a Republican had been elected to the office no raise would have been so much as proposed The work of the Mayor is not Worth the money he would get at SJnOO a year Under a system where the Mayor had some real power and authority it would be proper to pay the Mayor a good salary but under the present conditions con-dItions since the office doesnt amount to anything there Is no reason why it should have pay that belongs only to a ullfledged officer The other salaries do not vary much from the present amounts and no particular fault will be found with them But the fact that the great dispenser for all the great controller and ruler of allthe City Council bemeans itself by paying Its members niggardly and ridiculously small salaries for the power and re sponsibilit they possess strikes a Jar ing note in the schedule as passed I |