The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-15
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STRIKES: | ! (. sNAG i d
Matter abled and sGso9ilncil : e-- g
rested. ..ta Ask ST or ThreeS and
.'s Five Y ear $B ids.
SOME H01' cR0S SS-FIRlNGE
;Messrs. ! abney and sl:l 3 lair i Lol'sclkss
H Horns ii at errificS Struggle. D.
Mr.. Turpin Gets in.

After debating the proposition to estab b
Slisl1 an electric light plant b by the city
Tor, more 8th an three hours last night. tho
Joint Committees on Finance and Ellec-
$tricity adopted mo ton offered + by Mr..
Pollard, by a vote Of 10 to s, laying the
whole matter on the table and king
tho Council = to call for bids for lighting
tho city#by electricity for three or five Y,
years. from July I. 1907. \ 58s3 Z: 5,.8
There i were three propositions under
Eadvisement. One was the report of tho
subcommittee! favoring commercial
plant. at about s4oo, 900 y another, q sub
Sstitute, by Mr.. Minor. for municipal
plant only. to cost about sl95, ,@9 and and
tho substitute for the whole, offered by
Mr., Pollard, which was dopted. 55
8 Mr.. Dabney championed the cause OF
tho commercial plant in very able able
manner and his chief adversary was Mr.,
Blair, who really did not want any plant
at all, because he thought the time TOT
this move had not arrived. .i3fi ;5 S3
superntendent Boiling, OF the Water
Works and City Attorney Pollard were
present, and were asked some q les ions,
and Engineer Trafford was on hand,
armed with his reports.
AZ Warm Session.
f8 It was a Cross firing session from start
Is finish, the first brush coming between
sMessrs. Blair and Turpin. " n
Tha latter declared, Il in answer to Mr..
Blair.s suggestion that poll tics would
enter into the matter. that It was the
corporations that had corrupted the poll
tics OF the city,$and he had seen the very
I scoundrels In tho City Hall who had
done the work, s III s45 f .S,
u Nr. Turpin thought the proposed cleo
trio plant was as Important as the High
School, and far more 50 han tlle I lC dock- ~
He wouldn't take the dock as a gift.
9 Mr.. Blair referred to aWyers as para--
sites on the body polite. and then ne
said his partner had seen q letter from
Snenker Cannon, IN which he said he
vo,,ld defeat any further appropriations
for tha Richmond harbor unless the dock
was kept open, III
Old Antagonists.
n another connection. Messrs. Blair
and Dabney became involved IN g warm
colloauy, and at one time IT looked as
IL it might develop into something Of g
sensation, !, ;8s Sl IL a
ffiiYOu must pTOVe tLHoSps eos"toti.Stss'SS, "
81 shall deny them. said sMr, Da ataF1ey.
Mr.. Bla!r:5''I have been IN many Il ghts
with my friend. ana have whipped him
every time ,,i 36,
A NJ. Dabney: "And the city Is now nov
suffering as a. result. .Gs b,
M. Blair: well. the people can say
about that
MI. Dabney; "You give the people g
chance to pass upon y, and they WI
say,
Mr.. David Meade White made strcng
speech Cor tl.e report OF the subeommls'
teo. and he was followed by MT. Dabney.
who easily made the nrgunlentatlYe Q
speech OF the evening. u 81.
Save Money to People.
( Ie went over the reports OF Mr.. Traf-
gfora at some length and undertook 70
show that the proposed plant had now now
conle come to be "a public necessity. He5point-
edo I'd out what had been done along this
line in other cities, and declared y thai, ], II
adopted the scheme would save the
merchants Of the city some $4,000 per
year. 4. 81 IA y y.
pending, and the chief argument had
always been that of Mr. Blaiy-that nthls
81 not the time.