Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-04
L|QUOR-DEALERS' TAX
Common Council Reduces the
License 10 Fifty Dollars
ACCESSIBILITY OF GRADAT|ON'
III. CasEls Makes aStronS But UnaYall-
Ing Plea for Classification.
coDrFIcATIoN OF STREET LAWS.
A special Meeting VIII BE Called TO
Consider the Chapter Recommends
cd-street improvements - Large
Volume of business Goes over.

The Common Council adopted an ordi-
nance last night fixing the retail liquor
dealers license at $50. The matter came
up on a petition from the Retail Liquor
Dealers Protective Association pro'e''-
ing against the increase OF the license '"~
20 500. imposed by the Finance Coinii''
tee. The petition had strong HoI"i
backing in the presence OF idiBe oe'e
CATION from the association and only ten
ont NJ tvcnfv-nve members voted Tor
substitltc offered by Mr.. James Caskie'
providlpa for classification of the bar
kecpcrs as required by law, grading the
taxes from SIS TO $780,
The Council convened at o'clock and
adjourned at midnight. At that time not
more than third of the business had
been transacted. only the Street Com
inlttco's report which was a very lengthy
one. had been disposed of, and the liquor
dealers license question was introduced
under a suspension OF rules. The reports
Of other committees and considerable
amount Of new business will be intro
duced at special session Of the Council,
90 DC held next Monday.
Inc AOllOhlHS lltllbtlN Mflt present.
Messrs. Bloomberg Camp. Cottrell. Cur
It's. FERGUSON CARRIER Gibson Grimes.
Gunst HARRISON Heeke Hobson. Nc
Carthy. Mills. Miner. Peters, Pollock,
shea. Teefey, Wallcrsteln West, Whalen,
Winston. Woody. and Caskie.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The following resolutions from the
Committee on Streets, providing for i'm
fff frntr
s2.S03.f6 TO pave roadbed Of First street.
Main to Marshall; $5,59S.iO TO pave road
bed of Louisiana street, from Fourth to
Fifth: SIS for tagging on west side of
Laurel. crossing China street; 800 for
tagging on the corner of Randolph and
Peasants streets and the corner Of Jessa-
mine and Peasants streets; sl3j6O to
make street inlet on the corner of Pleas
ants and Randolph streets $3.50 10 pave
sidewalk on the east side OF twenty
eighth street between Clay and Leigh;
$50 10 pave east side Hopkins street,
Nicholson street TO alley. $30S 10 pave
west side of Eighteenth street. between
Broad and Grace: $3.50 20 pave the west
side Of Linden street between Main and
Cary: $40 10 pave sidewalk on the south
side OF Nicholson street, Hopkins to
Fifth. $500 TO pave the south side OF
Nicholson street. Fourth TO Fifth; $40
o. pave the south side of Nicholson street,
M MIIldfINbulH avenue 10 i1DIkiiH Hfffttt
So 90 pave sidewalk on the north side of
Main street from Eighteenth 10 Nine
t,outh. 1886 TO pave sidewalk on the west
side Of Twenty-seVenth street between
Nain and y streets. $3.50 TO pave Sidewalk
east side Of Harvey street, Main TO Tay-
Dor. 500 10 pave west side OF Hopkins
street Nicholson to Denny; $z52 TO pave
sldcwalk on west side OF Reservoir street
from Taylor 10 Chaffin; $3.50 TO pave
r0adbed of Eighth street, Broad 10 Mar
shall and reset granite curb on both
fIdes 8U.20 to reset curb and lay gutter
west side of Fourth street, clay TO Leigh;
secs 10 reset curb and lay gutter on east
side Of Third street. Clay TO Leigh; $1,000 |
go pave roadbed on Broad street between |
Twenty-seventh and Tweniy-eighth-
An ordinance granting the chesapeake |
and Ohio Railway Company PERMISSION |
20 construct a spur track on Potter and |
Mil streets was adopted
a similar ordinance. granting permls-
sion 20 the Richmond. FrederlcksDuFg |
and Potomac 10 construct a spur track |
from Harrison street 10 the Home BreWe- |
~. was also adopted.
The Council adopted the ordinance |
passed by the Streets Committee extend |
ing the time granted the Virginia Electric |
Railway and Development Company i'm
which that company IS required TO begin
work.
The consideration Of the chapter on
streets i'm the newly-codihed ordinances of
the city was postponed by resolution until
next Monday night, when a special meet
ing will be held
PETITION FROM LIQUOR DEALERS.
The following petition was presented by
2 large delegation of liquor dealers. rep
resenting the Liquor Dealers Prote hive
Association:
"The Liquor Dealers Protective Asso-
ciatiOn representing The Ii luOr interest Of
this city. most earnestly protest against
any increase Of the :etlil liqIpr dealers
license tax, and respectfully Petition your
honorable body 20 ann1l the acti)l of the
committee on Finance. which has iE-
creased the license tax from $50 o 500 for
the coming year.
Dull times small profits. together With
ihe burden OF the war tax on all wines.
ana 81 on every barrel OF beer which
talls wholly on the retail dealers, are q
l,w or the reasons assigned for our pcti-
ton which we anxiously hope viii meet
Win YOUR favorable consideration"
Very respectfully,
TIE LIQUOR DEALERS PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION.
~ Y. Redford. Secretary.
ORDINANCE FIXING THE TAX.
Mi s l.. BlOOmberg presented the re-
-, and with IL the following ordinance:
,t4Aai all retail liquor license taxes for
u, year 1889 shall be- so each"
or. Bloomberg made a brief statement
IN support of the ordinance and was
i'"et by President Caskie. who left
chair TO offer the following subsu-
olyod %. That II IS The sense Of this
that the Committee on Finance
sN'iId classify the retail liquOr-dealers
B. i,fards their license taxes as directed
' me ordinance relating thereto: %
AZ all petitions of retail liquOr-dealers
'A tonight asking for a reduction of
." licenses be referred 10 said commit
with directions 10 classify said retail
i.'i-dealers as required by law, not (
increase though any such license tax
.,doy liked by the committee.
"IhONG PLEA FOR GRADUATION.
ar Caskie made a strong plea for gra- {
,"h 'i the tax He cOntcnded that II !
'T d violation Of the ordinance TO put |
.r, tne lquor-dealers I'm the same class.
Co.. you desire 20 do justice" he said.
,i1u must classify them. and the result ,
rl.p, u, that we shall never get the first ,,
M. "aI rooms 10 pay more than so
., matter Of classification. he thought,
49, ~ be managed as easily in the case q
b. ,t 'nt hquOr-dealers as I'm the case of the !
,,"soiH insurance firms, and others.
,.NANCE COMMITTEES POSITION. 4
FL Nallerstein. sub-chairman of the
a. ''tii'e Committee. made statement
ed -, 'ndl ~ that body which was intend
OF 49, ~ ulsabuse the minds OF the dealers
ac,n" iaea that the committee had been 1
A. -. h'h Dy any motives of prefudfcn II