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Show POLICE KNHIMEHT WILL GET HGKE IIIGES It has become definitely certain that the city commissioners will take official cognizance of the high cost of living and rcspon to the petition of the members of the police department for an increase in salary. The petition peti-tion will be presented at the regular meeting of the commissioners tonight. "The petition has not beon formally brought to the attention of the board, but I am positive there will be no objections," ob-jections," said Mayor T. Samuel Browning. "I presume the petition will be presented pre-sented tonight," said Commissioner M. L. Jones, this morning. "I understand It w-ia fnrmflllv nronaroH voQtorrlnv and will be filed some time today. We will have to Investigate the city's budget bud-get from every anglo and ascertain if salaries generally cannot be increased. Tho cost of living is soaring far beyond be-yond the figure upon the basis of salaries originally wore fixed, i "I shall vote to increase the salaries , of tho officers of the police depart-I depart-I ment," said Commissioner Chris Fly-gare. Fly-gare. "I also shall undertaken to have the street men in tho water department de-partment raised. They are drawing $2.50 a day and seldom get in a full month. With the prices of foodstuffs at their present point, a man with a family cannot live comfortably on the wages he was drawing a year ago. If retrenchment becomes necessary, tho trimming must be done by some other method, in my opinion, than clipping salaries." nn |