Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-15
AS TO COMMISSIONS.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN DOES NOT
CONCUR WITH THE COUNCIL.
OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED FRANCHISES
Mr.. Bahen Raises Laugh, hut Finds
Sigh beneath It-Mr. McCuIloch
bitterly Scores the Tramp Ordi-
nance-A Protracted Session.

ter amendments, which provide that n
Fire Commissioners shall be eligible 70
reelection, and opposed the abolition o
the Board OF Public Interest. They un
dertook the consideration Of the tire,
ordinances granting franchises to supply
eiectric-light and power in the city, but
there was very strong opposition to the
measures. and the matter was eventually
compromised by deferring final action &c
a special meeting to be held next Fri.
day night. In this connection Mr.. Alex
ander McCulloch, the well-known labor
leader, was given the privilege of the
floor, and in the course of his remarks
he made vigorous attack on the tramp
ordinance formed by the Young Mems
Business Association.
Tho dignity of the Board was decided
| ly upset by a somewhat humorous, IL VIC
lent, attack Of Mr.. James Bahen, upon
the ordinance providing for a department
of STRENGTHENING. The member of Jack
son Ward, who Is nothing IL not original,
| poured out the walls OF his wrath, some
what highly spiced with ridicule and In
vective, upon a provision that the men
to be employed in this department should
wear white duck suits and badges, The
tables were soon turned, however. and
Mr.. Bahen was not proof against the
criticism which was heaped upon him.
He apologized and retracted, and the
suggestion that he should be called to
the bar Of the house and reprimanded
was passed unnoticed.
FULL ATTENDANCE OF MEMBERS.
When the President called the Board TO
order there were present Messrs. Turpin,
Allen Brock Bahen, Burton, Carter,
CutchIus, Hardwicke, King. Lawder,
Moore, Noble, Smith, Snead, vaughan,
and Zimmerman.
A resolution from the Finance Commit
tee, recommending that the petition OF
several real-estate dealers, praying that
the Collector of Taxes should be au-
thorized TO receive part OF the taxes Que
for property on the west side OF ran
dolph street, be denied, was laid upon the
table.
The Board concurred in the ordinance
relating to the demonstration Of fire.
walls in the building now being erected
at the corner OF Main and Seventh streets.
The report of the Committee on Claims
and Salaries, recommending that the
claim Of John T. Lyons for damages to
his property, on south First street, caused
by the bursting of a sewer, should be
paid was adopted. The claim OF X. L.
Brown for damages to his property was
denied, and the claim of Robert w. Nell
son, for personal injuries through falling
into an open trench, was allowed.
The Board refused to order the payment
OF wages to the five men employed by
the Health Department-who were recent |
ly discharged and subsequently rein- |
stated-for all the time that they were |
suspended, as recommended by the Health |
Committee President Turpin called at |
tention to the fact that the resolution of |
the committee was embodied in the re-
port, and he asked that in future COM
mittees would not do this, as where an
was implied even though
1t might be for less than 500, 1t required
a two-thirds vote to adopt IL in that |
form.
THE TRAMP ORDINANCES.
The Committee on Ordinances reported
that they had duly considered the two
|
Brock and the other by the Young Mems
Business Association-dealing with the
tramp question.
The resolution adopted by the commit
tee in the afternoon-''That the commit
Zee deems II inexpedient for reasons APP
parent to adopt either OF the accompany
ng ordinances at this time, and request
hat your body recommit these ordinances
'or further consideration"-was concurred
H. after il had been amended, on motion
If Mr.. Allen, with instructions to the COM
nittee to report to that branch Of the
Council which met first after they had
July considered the matter.
The clerk read a recommendation from
he Joint committee OF conference zap
pointed to confer as to the ordinance
ldopted by the Council and not concurred
n by the Board, providing for the in
LECTION Of penalties on delinquent tax
ayers that the Board should recede
rom their position. After the paper had
een read II was found TO be unsigned, j
nd the suggestion that the Sergeant-at- {
arms should go to the chairman OF the S
ommittee to procure his signature met !
With the emphatic disapproval OF the
resident, and the resolution was passed
y. 4
CHANGE OF OFFICE HOURS. q
An ordinance providing that the Water s
nd Gas-Works Offices should be open be- s
ween the hours of s and 5 instead of y S
nd G. as heretofore, was adopted. O
BY vote of 10 to the ordinance pro- b
iding for the reduction OF the City-Hall s
lnitor force was passed over the veto OF 4
ne Mayor. I,
The Board concuried In resolutions or :,
he Street Committee, adopted by the n
ouncil granting permits and providing Z,
,r the grading and paving OF alleys and a
reefs and the construction OF sewers :
The appropriation of $500, the estimated
IS of Contractor Weinbrun, who was .
reverted for some weeks from paving =
lie road-bed OF Seventh street between .
lay and Leigh streets, according to the :,
rms of his contract, was passed. =,
The Board concurred In the action or ;,
10 Council granting to the Southern rail- !,
ay rights to construct a spur track on | a
ock street. a
The ordinance granting to Mrs. Atkin- G,
IN, OF the Lexington Hotel, permission g
construct an ornamental awning across II
70 sidewalk from the entrance TO her I,
,use, was opposed by Messrs. thinner n
ann, Hardwicke, and Noble. and advo- ii
ted by Mr.. Allen. II was finally con- In
Irred in by vote OF II 10 5.
THE ELECTRIC FRANCHISES. N
The serenity of the proceedings was y
st disturbed when the ordinances grant 7.
8 franchises to the Southern -
ectric Company. the Home Electric n,
,mpany, and the Electric Company, OIL y
altlmore city, vert reached. When the :;
st ordinance had been read, Mr. Tur- =,