Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-22
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
CONTROVERSY BETWEEN COMMITS
SIONER BRYANT AND THE MAYOR.
A Large Number of Weddings Last
NiEht-COmihE Meeting Of Ep-
worth League Union.
Evening Star Bureau.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va, November %, 1900.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
board of police commissioners last night
the amendment to the rules offered at the
previous meeting by Commissioner Bryant
was unanimously passed. Only three men,
bers were present-CommisSio Bryant,
Price and Miller. The resolution in effect
requires the mayor to transmit his orders
TO the chief of police and the latter to in
struct the policemen. The text of the resp
luton has already been given in The Star.
Commissioner Bryant, after the meeting,
gave out the following for publications:
The statement made by Mayor Simpson
TO correspondent of a Washington morn
Ing paper recently is not correct He knows
that he has not. the authority to remove
police officer The only authority he has is
suspension for misconduct and that only
until thu first meeting Of the board OF
ponce commissioners thereafter to take
consider 1t misconduct for officer to
7 obey an order from this board. This is
the only board that elects him to his post
and the only tribunal that has the autho"-
lty TO remove him. AS far as Mr.. Simp-
son S styling any rule made by this board
py constitutional majority as an unwar
ran. 41,l impertinence is concerned we indig-
| nantly resent it. There is no member of
this board that is not his equal socially, Of
nc;aliy and otherwise"
mayor simpson was afterward seen by a
reporter for The Star in regard to Mr..
Bryants statement He said that the law
covering the adoption of any measure by
the board of police commissioners required
| AZ ieast the concurrence Of three members.
me board last night he said, had two
eligible members and one whose eligibility
mas been denied by Incorporation court
But aside from2that fact the mayor re-
peated what he had before stated, that an
order from the police commissioners to
| MIN as mayor ofithe city would be an 'un-
warranted impertnence," He said, fur
thermore, that the introduction by Com
missioner Bryant of the proposition that a
commissioner was the equal socially of the
mayor was not q matter for discussion, 'as
IN this democratic land1 where every we'll
behaved citizen Is, the equal of his fellow,
no one nut toady or parasite would hold
He further said he understood Commits
s.tner Bryant had stated that any COM
missioner was the equal intellectually of
| the mayor. This" said the mayor, was
not at all pertinent, but as we grow older
we become more charitable and at prob
acie sacr1nce OF a part of nay sincere be-
Her VIII concede that the commissioner is
iEteilecfuaily the mayors equal and pay
MIN no nigh compliment in making this
concession"
Continuing he said: There is one propo-
sltion. however, that he makes that is
tangible. though incorrect, and that is that
ne IS ohcialiy the equal of the mayor of
this city" In sarcastic vein the mayor re-
ferred to the powers conferred upon city's
cmef executive by the state constitution
| and the charter of the city in comparison
with the authority of board of police
commissioners. Mayor Simpson concluded
by quoting statutes to support his conten-
ton.
WeddinEs.
The marriage of Miss Rebecca Ramsay.
daughter of Mr.. G. William Ramsay, and
Mr.. Robert NJ Reese of Baltimore took