The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-03-30

sbalshaEa powas 10 remove all ssfy sofncers,
M tisfebyi srbids the Asgislasre Assthorss
ma any oshsr officer tod II. ~ $50. s
ssssseyentkH II gavsto these commissscneras
Bower toseject a collector Of city sfAxes' 2
commissioner Of streets, aeaerk ofeachmar-
-ket, a superintendent OF Water'Wofks, 9 CITY
engineer, a. city ,attorney, aud police. Jus.
tice Now; suppose that were done In hieh-
mond; WING would -dnre to- claim such Q
power for the Legislatures @ { -:
Eighthly. IT grows worse and worse. II
quoe to these commissioners potper to fz the
pay Of all the city officers elected By The
people! except such as the hustings judge
elected by the Legislature itself is authorized
to fix! The Constitution makes the Mayor
an independent officer. This charter gave
to body appointed by an appointee of the
Legislature the power to fix the Mayors
salary. s
Ninthly. But it grows worse and worse.
Read this section:
Section rchapter 81. The hastings or CORDOBA
ton court for the city OF Petersburg shall have
o,oer to ren,oue from Office 1H officers
act for gross nese cs
removal to be deemed q uacation Of the office.
You think, no doubt, reader, that that Ian
guage cannot possibly be used as to the city
officers elected by the people; that the bill
certainly never intended to deprive the
Mayor Of his power to remove the city off,
GERS, nor to make him removable by city
officer but you are mistaken. Here Is 'ne
rest of the same section
Where such vacancy occurs the came shall be
filled by The Judge Of the said court ufs't he ne@t
general election.
That shows you that it is the officers elect
ed by the people whom this hastings Judge
chosen by the Legislature itself was to dis
place! Now, let US see who these officers
are that the Judge was thus empowered TO
relnove:
/. The Mayor, there Mr.. KELLEY
2. The City Treasurer, (here MIR. GREEN
uow.)
8. The Commissioner of the Revenue, (here
Mr. MUNFoRD.)
4. Clerk of the Hastings Court, (here Mr.
JIsKINs.)
s. Commonwealth Attorney, (here Mr.
WIsB.)
6. City Sergeant, (here Mr.. MooRE9
7. Justices of the Peace. I'VE cannot give
nil their names in Richmond
Voters of Richmond, wouldn't you like
for that game to be played upon your Re-
member, too, that the Mayor has power to
remove the various city officers, and imagine
what happy family Petersburg would have
been under the new charter. 49,. -
Again The new charter provided that not
more than one-third of the expense of lay
ing out and grading streets, &C., should be
paid out of the public treasury. An adni-
rable provision to stop, the growth of the
city. ..afs3 .-- ..- a.'-
Once more: We have already named the
officers removable. by the Hastings Court
and the Mayor. There was another set of
them removable by the Board of Municipal
Commissioners and the Mayor. These are
Collector of City Taxes, Commissioner Of
Streets, Clerks of Markets. Superintendent
of the Water-W Works, City Engineer, and
City Attorney. In Richmond these offices
are held By mr.. REGNAuLT, Mr.. DAVIS, Colo
mel CuTsaf1 Nj. P Asg, and others: u.
But wearsSsk on Il Z
be defended. The pRfss = e now
for tie frst5 tfrnp What Sort OF 1bfAait was
that Governor KEhPER ffranpied into the
dust. ,." q, -. -.
P. S.-Since the foregoing was put into
type we have received the appeal Of satur-
day, which satisfactorily accounts for the
appearance in its columns on Friday Of the
discourteous remarks to which we alluded
in our article. We make this acknowledge
ment with pleasure. We will add that the
Appeaps article Of Saturday Is much
souuder argument than Mr. HuNpLEY's, and
will receive attention from us in due time.
We are so pressed for room now that " hen
we pen an editorial we never know whether
il will be published the next day or week
afterwards.