The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-22
yErOING VIGOROUSLY.
Ffvo More vetOes Ready for the Next
Meeting or the Council.

! Five more vetocs go in to the Council at
the next meeting.
9 The Mayor and the Council seem to be
hopelessly at variance, and unless sooner
determined the questions at issue will have
TO be settled by the people at the polls next
May.
These two departments OF the city gov
ernment ought TO work i'm tolerabe unison.
That they do not is the fault either Of the
Council or the Mayor. Either there is too
much loose legislating or too much loose
vetoing.
Left to them, the people will soon decide
who is right and who is wrong.
The Council passed resolution closing
Shockoe-IIill cemetery except to owners OF
sections, and providing that there shall be
no admissions except with permission from
Superintendent Bigger or member OF the
committee.
The Mayor vetoed ii, on the ground that
the Council had no legal right to close ac-
cess to the cemetery to the poorer class,
as he contends is the effect OF this resolu-
ton, and insists that the cemetery Is public
propertey, kept in order by the people !;
further, he contends that it is needed by
the people as park, and that the Councils
action is Impoiitic. The Mayor says that
the clam that this action is necessary in
order to prevent depredations on the sec
tions by parties who misbehaye themselves
does not hold good, because the very fact OF
the cemetery being closed would give
more license to such parties and remove all
restrictions on them. The fact is, lie says.
the plan proposed is a license for the. Vi
cious and burden upon the virtuous.
The Council passed resolution proyid-
ing for the payment Of the salary OF the
Judge OF the Hastings Court and that OF
Judge OF the Chancery Court from the 1st
OF last March. The Mayor ascertained
that Judge Atkins had drawn his pay to
the 1st OF April. He vetoed the resolution
for this reason and for the further reason
that the judges are now getting 5000 from
the city, while the resolution now reads
that they shall be paid S2,300-the imper-
fection OF its construction being such that
the judges, under it, might possibly draw
the 5000 as well as the $4,000
Another vetoed resolution is that giving
the Committee on the Fire Department the
right to grant building permits during the
recess OF the Council without reference to
the Council. The City Attorney and the
Mayor believe that the Council hes no
llEhl w ucNSdlC suNn poNNio w thO NVhi-
mittee.
Another resolution which comes in for
the veto is that authorizing the Committee
on James-Riyer Improvement to make ar
rangements to take the whole Council
down the river. in order that they may see
the improvements and the progress OF the
work.
1t is as follows:
Whereas it is important that the City
Council should be acquainted with the
progress made in the Improvement Of
James river, therefore be it
ReSOiUed Qhe Board Of Aldermen con-
curring), That the Committee on the James
River Improvement be. and they are here
by, respectfully requested to make suitable
arrangements for the members OF the
Council to 20 down to Dutch Gap.
The Mayor vetoes this on the ground
that the work OF improvement is in charge
OF competent engineers and an honest
committee, upon whom they can rely, and
that the councimen could not learn any
thing by going down the river. lie fur
ther thinks it is impolitic in them to be
taking trips down the river for pleasure.