Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-03
FUNDS FOR THE YEAR
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORTS THE
BUDGET AND II IS ADOPTED.
Tho Council Vote. Down the % Wages to
Sewer Thanksgiving streetto
he Opened.

The regular April meeting OF the Com
mon Council was held last night. IL was
probably the most important session OF
that body In a year. Mayor Eiiysoh pre-
scented his annual message, dealing WIN
the affairs Of the city and making such
recommendations rs he deemed proper
and the annual budget came up from
the Committee on Finance. Those In at
tendance were Messrs. Boykin, CarneaI'
Carter. Curtis, Davis, Epps. Ferriter'
CARRIER Gibson, Griffin. Grimes, Grooms'
Landerkin, Jackson. King, Manu. NC
Dowei. Murphy. Noble. Page, seay'
Smith. Stratton. Thomas, Trower'
Vaughan. and W. L. and Royal WHITE
and President Glover.
Immediately after the roll-call the an
nual message OF the Mayor was present.
Cd 1t was received and filed.
PAY OF SEWER HANDS.
a resolution appropriating 2lOo for the
construction OF sewer in Clay street
from Twenty-fifth to Twenty-eighth came
up from the Committee on Streets. Here
Mr.. Carter offered an amendment pro-
vidlng that the pay OF the laborers en-
gagged In the excavation OF these sewer
trenches he. as provided by the JOINT
resolution approved October II. 1891, 81
per day. He said the committee had no
right to pay hands employed in digging
the sewers less than 81 a day nor to give
the work out by contract unless that
sum was paid TO the laborers
Messrs. Boykin and Glover opposed the
amendment. while Messrs. Epps and No
BILE favored H. The amendment was event
ually voted down, the result being as
follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Carter, Curtis, Davis,
Epps, CARRIER Gaines, Grooms, Murphy,
Noble, Seay, and Trower-ll.
Noes--Aiessrs Boykin. Carneal, Ferri-
ter Gibson, Griffin. Landerkin. Jackson.
King. Mann. Mcdowell. Page. Smith,
S;rattoh. Thomas. Vaughan, W. l.. and
Royal White. and President Gover-lS.
The original resolution from the Com
mittee on Streets was adopted.
THE UNWILLING IN MAY.
At this juncture Mr. Boykin secured a
suspension OF the rules. and offered long
preamble and resolution providing for the
appointment OF Joint committee OF -FOUR
from the Common Council and three from
the Board of Aldermen 10 act with n SINH
lar committee from the Private Soldiers
and Sailors Association In making
arrangements for the unveiling of the
Libby Hill monument, and appropriating
1900 for the purpose Of completing the
monument Mr.. W. l.. White said that
this donation had been considered by a
committee, and had been unanimously ap-
proved by that body The resolution was
adopted without dissenting voice.
STREET MATTERS.
From the Street Committee came the re-
solution appropriating $500 from. the FUND
for paving alleys for owners for the pur-
pose of grading and gravelling the alley
between Graham and Hancock. and Broad
and Marshall streets. Adopted.
The Street Committee recommended the
rejection OF the resolution requiring the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
TO place watchmen at its Marshall and
Brown-street crossings great many
members of the Council seemed to think
they knew more about the situation at
these points than the Committee on
Streets did, and voted for the resolution
over the recommendation of the commit
tee adopting the measure.
There was n great deal of discussion
over the proposition to confne the pur-
chase of stone for the city curbing from
quarTes located within nine miles of
Richmond the cost not to exceed 81 per
foot The Street Committee urged that
wanted to know what the Council was
coming to, and suggested that a barbed-
wire fence should be placed entirely
around the city at distance of five miles.
The resolution was lost on a tie vote.
THE ANNUAL BUDGET.
The annual budget came up from the
Finance Committee. 1t was In the regular
form of an ordinance cancelling the APP
propriations for 1893 and making new ap-
propriations for 1894. Accompanying il
was statement of the receipts for
1S93-1S9i and an estimate of the receipts
for 1S9l-1S95. This statement showed that
in 1893 the total receipts were 81 POI. 1914
The estimated receipts for that year were
$l372.3 For this year II is, estimated
that they will be 81 .33S.Si5. OF this sum
IT is thought that $4,000 will be paid in
taxes, $4,000 in water-rents, $4,000 in
gas-dues. &c.
The ordinance making the new appropri-
atoms cancels all the standing funds eX-
cept the following: Such as apply to
poor of the city, s.. i66 90; city School
Board construction, s2,277.Os: revision Of
city ordinances. 81, $50; culverts, $9.449. u !;
armory Stuart Horse Guards. etc, 5000;
Improvement Of Shockoe creek. 1920. II !;
paving sidewalks. $SG6.05; paving alleys
for owners. AS7l.0l: opening streets.
81, SO; opening Lee District, SH,6p So
making total of s57,sS7.97