GENERAL NEWS
MUNICIPAL HONESTY IN CHICAGO. The Aldermen of Chicago are not without , a keen sense of humour. The Municipal elections of last spring returned what appeared to be a Council of considerable honesty, and the citizens felt all the more secure because the Councillors' salaries had been fixed at 3dol a sitting, and a clause in the city charter forbade them to raise their remuneration- during their term of office. But the provisions of a" city charter are the playthings of Chicago Aldermen. At a recent sitting of the Council a vote was carried with enthusiasm that each member should be provided from the city funds with a private secretary at a cost not to exceed 1600dol ayear. Itis said that one ' Alderman, turning to his neighbour when' the vote was announced, there and then appointed him his private secretary with, the maximum salary, and the neighbour promptly returned the compliment. The Mayor vetoed the vote, but on being sent back to the Council it was again carried by 4S to 16, a majority sufficient to place the Mayor and his compunctions on one side. The Chicago. Aldermen have opened out wide possibilities for needy councillors threatened with starvation by the fit of honesty which is seizing upon the American citizen. There is a smack of up-to-date morality and economics in the suggestion that a standard of comfort for aldermen should be fixed, and that the city should pay for it. No doubt the Chicago councillors will discover that a secretary wants a typewriter, and their failure to vote lOOdol for equipment must be taken as a compromise between their economic principles and the city's meanness.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Speaking on municipal slaughterhouses, in the course of a lecture at Wellington on Monday night, Dr Chappie said: — "We know very well that, tuberculosis is prevalent in New Zealand^ ajnd the report just to hand from Napier.. is positively alarming. We know that this disease is communicable to man, we know that cooking does not destroy its infectivity — we know all this, ' and we know the remedy (inspection of abattoirs by a qualified medical man), and yet we do nothing. Not only do we know the remedy, but we also know that it is ' simple, practicable and effective. All that • we want is a little energy, and the infusion . of a new enthusiasm in our local adminis- ; tration." j — — — - l
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6120, 5 March 1898, Page 6
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