| Show MAYOR NA URGES OBOES REFORM 1 In NI Must lo ho Curtailed or 01 Tuxes Tait A I Feb F b In a 1 message to 10 tho the city council coun 11 last evening Mayor Brower a 11 number of recommendations Lions for tor retrenchment In city citO attain affairs For tho the purpose of o considering these recommendations tho ho counsel will with the thu mayor on Wednesday TIM Tuia Th finance committee Joined j with May Iny Mayor or Brewer In to the conclusion that either cither r the tho taxes would have hae to bo be Increased or tho the expenses of or the city lessened le Among mon other things the tho th mayor called tho the councils attention to tho thu fact tact that tho the revenue of 0 tho the various departments department since 1900 outside ot of direct taxes ho hM has decreased and amI expends have Increased by b about lOU per por cent Ho lie submitted showing that It costs half again DS ns much to collect tho the revenue of 0 the tho ho hot police Ii t department aa IU the revenue Itself amounts to This too In III spite of ot tho thu fact that the tho revenues aro are increasing each succeeding year lie Ho said that list the tho expenses of o the 1110 department had Increased 2 Z per cent cont Ho He took up all tho the d showing where they Inck hL proportion to revenue He II 1 and ad 4 n a serious I mutter matter and it wa wn Iw council to Increase the thc taxes o 0 cr the tho ex ox expenses In es lie Ho that the de IC departments l b bo cut down In ProPortion to t their revenue a hd absolute necessities Ho lIe Illustrated with tho the police depart depal bent n nt saying that he ho did not under understand stand why It should cost moro inure to 10 run ran It now than during tho the cutoff period He lie submitted to show that Og Ogden 0 den ran rim behind from tram 1900 to 1906 and during the years 1906 and und 1907 It tan ran behind Ho suggested also that soda soon water fountains selling Belling liquor should be ho charged the same Iame license Ue nse as ns saloon saloonkeepers saloonkeepers keepers and that cigar stores running card games gaines should be charged the tho samo same ns as gambling halls Ho He recommended the appointment of ot a lb special auditor to the tho accounts Ind devise devine means menns to simplify matters so that It Itcan ItcAn itcan can bo he seen at ut a ii 1 glance whether r or oi not the tho city Is on a paying basis Ho lIo also ulso urged a revision of o the tile ordinances ordinances nances und and that the ordinances include only such laws as are being enforced Ills other recommendations l Included regular meeting nights for the tho stand standIng standIng Ing lug committees and that city warrants bo ho paid In order and toil according to their number His Ills message closed with an nn appeal to the tha council to cooperate with him him In putting patting the tho city on a paying basis The Tho resignation of or Joseph H JI T Snyder Snyder der tiel city Jailer was accepted and when it came camo to naming his successor tho council divided on political lines Hag Hagbert hagbert bert bort Anderson Democrat and und R B B n Palho Patho Republican 1 w were ro named for tor the tho position each receiving his vote ote The matter of o placing a n man In the thc po position position temporarily was left to 10 the tho chief of ot police The Tho Jailers salary was made 55 a u month the tho price allowed for tor each ach meal fed ted tho ho prisoners was waa re JC reduced from rom 12 cents to 10 cents Tho The chief of or police recommended that the tho rooms at the city Jail heretofore used by tile tho Jailer for 01 Hying apartments bo be turned Into a fl L detention hospital re cc requiring requiring quiring the Jailer to live elsewhere This went to the police committee C Mayor reappointed X Y I F Lewis ns liS a member of ot tile the pork park p uk com coin commission commission mission for tor four tour years to succeed him himself himself self and the appointment was con 1011 confirmed firmed Councilman Thomas ns as acting mayor vetoed the tho proposition adopted at tho he last lust session providing for tor or the tho payment by the city of o tho the expense for tor building a I wing dam along Ogden river for tor tho the reason Unit that thore thure was not enough city property affected to war warrant warrant rant the thiO expense Tho The veto was wa voted down The sanitary committee reported 54 new cases ca es of or contagion making a ato to total tal of or 74 now In quarantine Pay lay rolls amounting to were allowed |
