Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-14
CLUBS. vs., .BARROOMS.

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clubs,.or you would not make the state
ment.'
Mr.. Beck: ....I have taken several drinks
in clubs
4 Major Allen :s"only on special occasions,
sir, and thattis not a fair test
Mr.. Satterfield would vote for the ordi-
nance If he thought it would do any good.
But his observations led him to believe
that such. measures increased vice.
A number; of amendments and substi-
t,ltes were offered, but all were voted
down and recorded vote was taken on
the ordinance as reported, which was de-
feated, as follows.
Ayes-Allen Gilman. Gunst, Hall,
Minor Sheppard-7. s
,Neos:-Ad DAMS. Bahen. Beck; Burton,
sDonahoe, Gordon, Mann, Satterfield, Seay,
Washer, W.hittet Wood, Zimmerman.
Turpin-4i.
After a brief repetition of the discus
sion. on the companion ordinance to re-
move screens and other obstacles from
In front of bars during the hours when
sales were prohibited by law; this was
also defeated by a vote Of Is to 5.
The ordinance to increase the salary
of the city attorney from $3.50 to s.. 900
met with a vigorous protest from Presi-
dent Turpin, who resigned the chair to
Mr.. Minor to take the floor in opposition
to it.
City Attorneys Salary.
He said he was totally opposed to this
increase. He might be the only man
who opposed. Members of Council had
tumbled over each other to vote for it.
and the Finance Committee had tumbled
over each other to recommend it; and
yet it was purely. a case or get-it-because-
syou-can.
Aldermen-Najor# Page and MIR. Mere
dith-had held the office. but neither of
them had ever been paid this salary.
If5the Finance Committee. the watch dog
of the treasury, which proposes to hold
the appropriations down to the figures
of last year, begins at the top by In
creasirg the salary of an already highly
paid official: he did not know what to
think of it. They even talked Of raising
it 500 per nonth-one eighth Of the in
crease asked by the street cleaners.
If Mr.. Pollard resigns the Office to-mor-
row there would be plenty of sufficiently
able lawyers. who would step forward and
be glad to get the present salary.
Chairman Gordon. Of the Finance Com
mittee, was astonished at the position
taken by the honored president. When
Major Page and Mr.. Meredith served the
city it did not have a population of more
than $4,000. He contended that Mr.. Pol
lard was an able and faithful official, and
he believed in encouraging such officials
by paying them well. He hope the rules
would be suspended and the ordinance
concurred in.
The ballot resulted: ayes, 10: noes, 2,
1ya
Ignored the Finance Committee.
The ordinance to increase the compen-
sation of the employees of the Street
Cleaning Department from s1.5o to 81. rs per
day was reached, and motion was made
that the rules be suspended and the ordi-
nance passed.
Mr. Gordon hoped the motion would NOT
prevail. 49,
I think L hear somebody laugh" he
said. am not inconsistent in this. This
is new question before the Finance
Committee; the other matter had been
passed on. It involved an expenditure Of
$1,000 and should be considered by the
committee
Mr. Satterfeld said IL ever there was a
time to cast your bread upon the water
this IS It. He could not see how a man
could live decently on s.. so day.
Mr.. Marx Gunst.t9a member Of the FL
nance Committee, differed with the chair
man of the committee He thought the
rules should be suspended and the ordi-
nance passed.
The vote on suspension resulted-ayes,
Is: noes, IS.
The chair declared that the rules were
suspended. and the ballot on the enact
mentS of the ordinance was in order, and
the yeas and nays were called.
President Turpin said. in explaining his
vote for it. that if the Finance Committee
could suspend the rules to give the City
Attorney SEQ we can suspend the rules
to pay Sc men $4,000.
A Bad Precedent.
Major Allen wanted to explain his vote
against the Suspension of the rules. but
he did not want to make any such ..dema-
gogical speech as that Just made
tell you to-nightsyou are establish
ing bad precedent. You are going back
to the days Of the Reform Council which
brought the city into disrepute, and when
real estate was dead. am not making a
speech to getsyotes. or TO be elected May
or..#sY ou have got to balance your re-
ceipts and your expenditures or you will
gosto the bad -. = IS ~ &.
The. ballot on the passage OF the ordi-
nance result d-ayes, Is: noes. 5,
air.s seay Reaeated.
1mmedjatefyupo the termination Of the
reading Of the minutes Mr.. Whittet asked
that the rules ybes suspended Ii order Is
takeSup the report OF the commit ties ia
Inquire into the status Of Mr.. Fiji
ysIsea*1 Hoard Elt 1aos doe
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