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Show ABOUT SALARIES. Evory legislature tho salary quos-tiou quos-tiou in somo form bobs up. It is only natural that it should, ns tho aort of men that form a groat por-tiouof por-tiouof tho lawmaking body nro mon who aro oxpootiug thnt aftor seeing what thoy aro capablo of doing, thoir constituents aro likely to want them again iu somo public capacity. Now wo do not wish to bo understood as referring to all but there aro evidently a number that tako this viow of tho matter, and lii such cases it is be oxpoctcd that tho maUer of compensation will cut n vory qon-sldorablo qon-sldorablo llgure, ns in tho minds' of tho majority of pooplo tho monoy part 1b IT. Tho salary question is represented iu tho prosont legslntn.ro, in part at; least, by tho bill of Sonator Lawr-oucoof Lawr-oucoof Salt Lnko, This legislator has introduced a bill, tho principal prin-cipal objoct of which npponrs to bo tho fixing of tho Bnlarlos of ooun-ollmon ooun-ollmon in cities fotho ilrstnnd second class. Under tho present law tho compensation of thoso otlioinls is fixed by ordinnnco, but tho senator ovi-doutly ovi-doutly thinks thnt tho oity should not bo trusted with this powor, and thoroforo suggests thnt horonfter tho councllmon iu cities of tho first clnss shall rccolvo 1,500 por annum, nm? iu oitlos of tho second class, thoy shall bo paid SI, 200 oaoh por yonr. Tho gontloman does not havo auy thing to do with cities of tho third class ho is willing to loavo it to thorn as far aa tho compensation of thoir councllmon is concorned. Wo do not know how this price for councllmon compares with tho prosont prlco for councllmon in cities of tho first clnss, of which thoro is but ono in tho stnto, but in oitios of tho socond clnss tho bill Booms to bo liko-ly liko-ly to produco qui to n revolution if it should bocomo Inw. Tho Logan Journal says that it would hnvo tho olToot of increasing thoir oxponsos botwoon a third nnd n half to hnvo to pny thoir councllmon twolvo hundred hun-dred dollars onoh por annum, nnd that thoy find it qulto n job to rniso a hundrod dollars onoh for tho ton cuoncllors thnt thoy now hnvo. An-othor An-othor romnrk thnt tho Journal makes iOfcthls connootion is oxaotly to our mind, nnd applies just na woll to othor olllcos ns to thnt of councilman. 'Pooplo onn boo a atrong inoontivo for corruption iu tho election of such olfloors, ' ' that is ns wo understand under-stand it, in tho paymont of such salaries for ollicors of that description. descrip-tion. It may bo sot down as a fnct thnt whonovor tho compensation of an oflloo is suoh as to mnko tho position posi-tion n vory dosiroblo ono from n fl-nnnclnl fl-nnnclnl standpoint it is a tomptntion to candidates to roBort to corrupt mothods to obtain it if it is uot to bo gotton without. |