The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-04-05
LIQUOR LICENSES
REMAIN THE SAME.
The Council Turns Down the CON-
mlttee on Finance.
TIE WATER METER ORDINANCE.
As Reported by the Joint Committees
on Water and Finauce-Welsbach
lamps to &c Introduced in the
Lighting Of the Streets.
TIE WATER METER ORDINANCE

Tie Common ColNci heto Us monthly
meeting las. evening and was IT. session
for about i've hours. The business dts
! posed OF was chiefly OF a routine chaTac-
ter. embracing appropriations for street
improvements. etc. The ordinance pro-
wang for a bookkee2er fer the Engi-
neer Department wen. 20 The Finance
Committee. under the rules.
Some discussion was INDUCED in when
the petition OF the retail liquor dealers
came UP. who asked that their license tax
be not increased 10 500 a year. as recon-
| merded By the Finance Committee, but
remain the same as last year, $50. The
Council finally. by a vote OF IS TO ., voted
doWn the proposition OF the Finance Com
m!ttee.
The water meter ordinance as recon-
menGed By the joint committee on finance
and water. was adopted. which fixes a
minimum water rate and a scale OF water
meter rates.
The Council also adopted 4 resolution
providing for the introduction OF a limit
ed number OF Welbach lamps for the
lighting Of streets.
The following members answered 20 the
r~oll-call, when the session % the Council
was opened by President Caskie shortly
after Z o'clock: Messrs. Blanks. Bloom
berg, Griggs. Ebel. Foster. CARRIER, Gunst,
HARRISON, Horace a. Hawkins. Hobson,
Miller, Mosby, Noble, Pollock. Rourtree,
Ryan. Tanner. Wailerstein, Whalen, Will
liams, W!tte, Woody and President Cas-
ke.
a communication was received from
Mayor Taylor accompanied by the an
nual reports from the various depart
ments of the city government. The Mayor
sets forth that so far as he could judge,
tho city institutions. etc. were being well
conducted. and were in a thriving condi-
ton. The reports were ordered TO be
printed.
Upon the recommendation Of the Com
mittee on Streets. a resolution was adopt
ed appropriating the sum OF s7.40O for the
paving with vitrifed brick the roadbed
Of Broad street between Tenth and Elev-
enth streets.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
The following resolutions recommended
by the Committee on Streets were also
adopted: Appropriating 1885,. for paving
with granite spalls. the road bed OF the
south side Of Broad street between Bel
videre and Laurel street: appr0priating
S,226.30 to pave with granite spalls the
road bed OF Fourteenth street from Cary
to Mayo's bridge; appropriating 1851 for
laying a granite curbing on the north side
of o street between Twenty-sixth and
TWenty-seventh, appropriating 1903 TO
construct a granite gutter on the north
side OF Marshall street between Thirty
second and T%hirty-thlrd streets. appropri-
ating S4s4.5O FOR laying granite curbing
and granite gutter on the east side OF
Thirtieth street between Clay and Leigh:
appropriating $3.50 for laying a granite
curbing and paving with granite a gutter
on the east side OF Thirtieth street be-
tween Leigh and NJ: appropriatlng $3.50
for paving with granolithlc the sidewalk
on the west side Of Twelfth street be-
tween Main and Bank; 5000 to construct
q eve on Walnut street between Grove
avenue and Hanover street; $50 to turf
three lnlets OF the corz<r Of Grove avenue
and Lombard street; sl45 TO construct an
inlet al the southwest corner OF Main and
Fourteenth street: $3.50 to construct inlets
on the south and northeast corners OF
Broad and Fourteenth streets; {29O.9s TO
construct a sewer on Broad and Thirty
second streets.
It this juncture Mr.. o. A. Hawkins en-
tered the chamber.
Resolutions were also adopted upon the
recommendation OF the Committee on
streets. authorizing that body 10 hear al
legations for the construction OF sewers
and opening alleys In various sections OF
the city.
Applications from the Southern Bell
Telephone Company for the erection Of
additional telephones poles were received
and filed on motion OF Mr.. Wallersteln,
but the vote was afterwards reconsidered
and on motion OF Mr.. Wallerstein, the
City Clerk was Instructed to return the
applications to the company without any
comment.
The ordinance providing for a book
keeper for the Engineers Department at
a salary OF $1,000 per year was next taken
up. The adoption OF the measure was re-
commended by the Committee on Streets.
The ordinance was referred TO the Com
mittee on Finance under the rules.
The Committee on Light, through Mr..
Wallerstein, presented a resolution trans
ferring tile aggregate sum OF $3.50 from
various accounts Of the department for
the securing of Weisbach burners 10 be
placed on street lamps in various portions
OF the city. The resolution went to the
committee on Finance under the rules.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
On motion OF Mr.. Pollock the rules were
then suspended In order 10 consider the
petition presented by the liquor dealers
OF this city, which was then read by the
city Clerk. 1t asks that the license tax
Tor retail liquor dealers remain the same
as last year, so. instead OF being raised
to 500, as decided on by the Committee
OF Finance.
Mr.. Ebel then offered a resolution pro-
viding that the license tax of retail LIQUOR
dealers remain so a year.
Mr.. Bloomberg then offered as a sub
stitute an ordinance providing that the
license tax OF all retail liquor dealers be
fixed az $50 for the year 1895 and repeating
all ordinances and parts OF ordinances in
conflict Herewith.
After some little discussion Mr.. Ebel
withdrew his resolution and Mr.. Bloom
berg's ordinance came up for discussion.
Mr.. Rountree stated 1t was not the OBJ
iect OF the Finance Committee TO distress
any one. The license tax for liquor deal
ers was not an unjust one. In other
cities IN this State the license tax for re-
tail liquor dealers ranged from $50 TO
$500. He could not see any justice in
overriding the action Of the Finance Com
mittee.
Mir. Bloomberg could not see why the
liquor dealers should all be put In one
class. they should be taxed according 20
the amount OF business they did. He did
not think it was proper to double the tax
at this time.
Mr.. HARRISON also defended the action
OF the Committee on Finance and stated
that a majority OF the complainants who
appeared before the committee last year
were OF the opinion that there should be
q uniform license tax. The committee
decided that a uniform tax OF so would
he TOO low ard II Was therefCrs fixed NJ