The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-27
ELECTRIC PLANT
MATTER |! / RUPA!g 6! \
Common Council Resolves to
Bring II from the Finance ! nam
sis8 Committee. j#4al
BARELY 8 h. A QUORUM N PRESENT / 4; {: Y
New Ordinance Laid on the Table
and6Will Be Considered
Later.

III The Common Council In called session
last night adopted a resolution offered
by Mr. q. r. White, Of Madison Ward,
to discharge the Committee on Finance
from further consdcrati ton OF the ord'-
nance providing for the establishment N t
and the euuipagc of d municipal electric 'l's
light plant, and at tho same time voted
unanimously to receive an ordinance the
effect OF which will be the sumo as that
Intended BY tho original, which sleeps
in a pigeon holo III the committees
lin introd licirg ~ ordinance, or, ra Their,
sreintroduclng that which has for some
time been before tho Finance Committee,
Mr.. White moved that 1T be laid or. the
table until the neg. regular meeting
when It should be considered. The law
requires that proposed municipal act
lay on: the table for one meeting, and M
It was tor keep within the bounds Of the
bylaws and the stattte that the mo tion
was made to- have the matter deferred q
until n the next meeting. I$8l ii 834 4
Meets Next Month.
III The Common Council will meet IN.
regular session OH the first Monday
In August, and the ordinance otfered by
Mr. White will be taken up and Y con-
sidered. IT willgrequlre twcnty-four votes
to pass its8&rhere were only eighteen
nlenlbers-just d encouragement at the
called meeting last night, and Tor
time = t looked as though there would be.
no meeting Opponents Of the ordinance
provi ding $for&the municipal electric lig ut.
plant tried@hard to defeat the ooJect OIL
the called meeting, and came near sue
ceeding for It was almost 8 clock when le n
the eighteen members assembled, and the
roll was called. 4, " ts VA
The Finance Committee, the Light Com
mittee. the Water Committee, and Com
mittee2 on Electricity did not meet Tor
the lack of quorums.
The White Ordinance.
The title Of the ordinance which was
offered last might and which had pre-
viously been before the Council, reads
IAN ordinance for the establishment
and equipage R OF an electric highland
power plant at the old pump-house, to
generate electricity for power and light,
and the extension of pumping power and
facilities ~ at the new pump house, and
authorizing sass bond issue to raise the.
money to do the necessary work 58and
purchase the necessary equipment In con-
nection Stflerewith.''s.s ll.,l ~
y Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars q
worth of bondssS..are to be Issued Under
the act, and these Shall be placed to5thea
credit Of an 3ae,ccsotint called the Electric
Plant Construction and Equi pment.'
Ninety Thousand dollars Of this amount
shall be placed to the credit Of an ac--$
count called the ablishment and In-t
stallnient Of Elect rical chinery at New New
Pump House.''X.5.s S ~ fi III nv ;iS
The Committee on Electricity IS em-s
powered to employ some person to pre-
pare the necessary plans and specihca-
lions and to supervise the ecu lpage fthe
plant. i IN ss v:
which did not last for more than ten.
minutes, were: FMessrs. w. T. Atkinson,
C..;P. Davis, Joht +. Don I4eavy,5 81 II 1.
Ferguson, r. H CARRIER, Fl 5. o. Gates,
Il. IF. Green; Julius Al. H obson, JohnSJ.
Lynch. RobertEe Masl,rier Morgan r.
Il. Richardson Jacob Unllauf, David
Meade White. c.. H. Wiltshire, and. Pres
ident r. l.. Peters.