Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-29 | Page 2 | Asks Confirmation of Appointments

ASKS C0NFIRMIT1 ' OF IPPOJTMENTS Charles F. Barret, supervisor of waterworks; wa-terworks; yesterday A"ed with the city recorder for transmission this morning to the city commission a list of 111 appointments. ap-pointments. In which he asks the administration admin-istration to concur. The appointments all of which are for the waterworks department, de-partment, include ninety-eight laborers, who win draw $?. :'5 a day: two men with teams, at $4 50 a day; six miners, at ?3 a day; one majion, at $1 a dav; one carpenter, car-penter, at $3,60 a day; one tank man, at $6E a month, one foreman, at $1 a day, and one tlmberman, at $3 60 a dav-. The most of the men are to be used In the work of laying watermaina although several sev-eral are for the work in Big Cottonwood canyon, where a site Is being cleared for the construction of a reservoir dam. The action of the supervisor Is the direct di-rect result of a resolution passed about a week ago by th" commission, which requires re-quires every department io submit for confirmation all appointments. The resolution reso-lution was drawn as the result of an opinion given the commission by the city auditor that he would honor no pay roll warrante, the reclnlents of which had not been confirmed hy the commission. Heretofore the waterworks and street departments have been In the habit of making minor appointments Without getting get-ting the confirmation of the commission, but the auditors refusal to honor the warrants makes it compulsory that 'OS appointments he all i-onflrmoi. r'lty Auditor Au-ditor W. II. Shearman holds that his :i -Hon Is Justified bv the commission form of government law, as ;iny other construction con-struction would make It possible for the departments to hire any number of mn without any check upon the pay roll