The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-12
MANY CHANGES IN THE COUNCIL;
NEW FACES UPON ITS COMMITTEES
Mr. Bloomberg Will Be Elected President OF the Counc
and MI. Turpin of the Board-New Scheme
of Committees Proposed.

full justice and at the same time allow
ing himself some spare timo for social
and family engagements.
The committees of the next Council.
with the number of members for each. to
be proposed upon the organization OF that
body, will be as follows The committees,
OF course, are joint, and where there are
odd memberships the extra men will be
from the lower, or larger, branch:
LIST OF COMMITTEES.
Finance-Eleven members.
Streets, Shockoe Creek-Fourteen men,
berS.
Relief of Poor-Eleven members.
Light-Eleven members.
Cemeteries, st. Johns Burying-Ground-
Eleven members.
Health-Eleven members.
Water-Eleven members.
Electricity, Fire Alarm and Police Tele-
graph, Fire Department-Eleven mem
berS.
Schools, Elections, Police-Nino mem
bcrs.
Claims and Salaries. Accounts and
PrintinG-Nine members.
Ordinances, Retrenchment and Reform,
Charter Changes-E1even members
First Market, Second Market, Third
| Market-Nine members.
Grounds and BuilQingS-EleVen members.
Improvement Of James River-Seventeen
members.
Board Of Public Interests-Elcven mem.
| bcrs.
This list of committees reduces the
| present number of twenty-six to fifteen.
| The James River improvement Commit
tee has seven members from the Cham
| ber of Commerce. and the Board of Pub
| lie Interests has in its membership hVe
citizens
OLD MEMBERS CONTROL.
The election did not change the control
/ Of the Council from old to new members,
although there will be sixteen new q lil-
| cilmen and seven new Aldermen. Three
| OF the latter, however. are members OF
| the present Common Council, who have
been elevated to the Board.
The four members of the present Coun-
Gil who were defeated were good men,
| and have accomplished much good FOR
! their respective constituencies. They are
members of important committees, Mr.
/ Gibson being chairman of the Grounds
and Buildings Committee and a member
| of the Streets Committee. He is also q
| member of the James River Bridge Com
/ mission, and on the Retrenchment ant
Reform and Third Market Committees
/ Mr. Camp is on the Finance Committee
School, Elections. Ordinances and Shockoe
| Creek Committees. Mr.. Wallerstein or
the Finance Light Elections, and the
special committee on corporate eNten
/ sion AS a member of the Light Com
1nittee Mr.. Wallerstein has always con
tended for a gas rate of so cents he
has also taken an active interest in the
move ment to extend the corporate linn
| its. Mr. Wiltshire is a new nembre
| He was chosen to fill the vacancy occa
stoned by the death of Mr.. Woody, OF
! Marshall Ward. and was on the Commit.
tees ON Fire Department and Shockoe
Creek.
EFFECT UPON COMMITTEES.
1 Three Of the most important of the
Il Council committees are Street, Finance
+ and Grounds and Buildings. They arc
4 considerably affected by the changes In
cident TO this election. While appointed
by the presiding officer every two years
the members. if reelected, are usual.
4 continued on the committee.
+ The Street Committee now consists o.
Allen, sBahen, Burton. Whittet, King ant
Mosby from the Board. and Pollock, Glib
4 son, Curtis, Peters, Mills and Glenn. D
1.-The Aldermen the first four were .hold
q overs,' and were not affected by thi.
Il election. King and Mosby were defeated
4 OF the six Councilmen on the committee
five were reelected. Mr.. Gibson was de
s feated.
}, The retirement Of NIessrs Gibson, Kin:
and Mosby from the Street Committee i
a distinct advantage to the Traction Com
. pany and disadvantage to the Passenge
and Power Company. as in the many bat
q ties before this committee these gentle
}. men have usually lined up with those vot
the former. Major Allen will probabl
: continue as chairman of this committees
!, The Finance Committee is now compose
4 of Messrs. Gordon. Wood. Allen and Drew
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