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Show COALVILLE'S ECONOMIES. We commend the action of the City Council of Coalville on the salary question ques-tion to the thoughtful, consideration of all who are Interested in or have to do with tho question of salaries for public officials. The schedule fixed by that body at Its session on Tuesday was one dollar a year for the Mayor, and the samo for members of the Council; the Justice of the Peace Is to get ten dollars dol-lars Instead of the hundred heretofore, the Treasurer fifty dollars a year, the Marshal thirty dollars a month, and the Recorder eight dollars a month. This is a sign of the reaction which Is due against the prevailing high salaries sal-aries In municipal offices. It Is indicative of a tendency which Is significant, of the popular feeling that moat municipal officials receivo far more In their public salaries than they could possibly earn In any private employ or occupation. It Is, of course, conceded that Coalville Coal-ville went too far In the scaling down But even thus, the work actually to be done, and the quality of service must be considered. Probably Coalville knows better than any outsider can Judge, what the services of Its officials have been worth. Certain It Is tbnr wa have In official station In this city, men whose official presence Is dear even at the Coalville rate; men who are costly nuisances even at no salary at all. Probably the Clly Council of Salt Lake will presently fix the schedule of salaries for thenext ensuing term of city officials. We trust that In doing so It will have the heart to go to the root of the matter, and Inquire what this city Is really getting of expert and valuable service, for the large salaries It pays. If it will do so, and apply the same rule ns to remuneration which the like indifferent and bungling service would be paid by private business, there would be a shaking up sure enough. |