"One chief difference is that in the case of a board, sometimes called a Commission, the salary is higher.

You see the salary of an alderman or councillor in most cities is generally not more than fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars.

The salary of a member of a board or commission is at least ten thousand.

That gives you at once a very different class of men.

As long as you only pay fifteen hundred you get your council filled up with men who will do any kind of crooked work for fifteen hundred dollars; as soon as you pay ten thousand you get men with larger ideas." "I see," said Mr.Newberry.
"If you have a fifteen hundred dollar man," Mr.Fyshe went on, "you can bribe him at any time with a fifty-dollar bill.