Big Cut In Salaries

Saginaw, May 8.- Mayor Mershon's various recommendations to the eouncil in the line of economie reform are already hearing practical fruit, the aldermanic body at its meeting adoptmg the report of the finance committee favoring the reduction of salaries of city officials, making a total cut of abont I $4,500. Among the salaries reduced are the following: Controller, 61.800 t o SI, 600 per year; assistant assessor, $000 to 720; janitor, watchiuan and engineer to city hall, $730 to 600 each; two superintendent of streets, SI, 200 to SI, 000 each; clerk to city officers, 800 to 600; assistant poormaster, abolished; sealers of weights and measures, no salary fixed. The salary of the city engineer comes under the province of the board of public works. but unless it is reduced 5400 it is understood that the eouncil will not confirrn it.