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The Aldermen Receive No Pay

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
January
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

THE ALDERMEN RECEIVE NO PAY

The aldermen have not yet received their pay for sitting on the election and registration boards and special boards of review. It is a thorn in their flesh, too. They declined to pass a resolution by Ald. Hamilton Monday evening fixing their compensation at $14 each, by a vote of 4 yeas and 8 nays. They played even by refusing to pass a bill of $8 from Mayor Copeland and of $22.95 from Dr. Hinsdale for postage, envelopes and printing. They kicked, but finally passed a bill of $50 from the city attorney for revising the ordinances, on the ground that he did not see that they got their pay. One alderman tersely put it: "We are here to pay other people, not to pay ourselves the money we have earned."