Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-23
MAYOR AND TWO BOARDS
Of Aldermen and Common Council, the
Latter Partly Elective.
ELECTIONS HELD IN NOVEMBER
Provisions Of the Bill as to Taxation
and Other Matters-President to
Appoint Half the Council.

Representative Keifer of Ohio is one of
those members of the House who think that
the people of the District of Columbia
should have representative government
and has introduced bill providing for the
change The measure provides that the
present government be abolished within a
year and another formed, composed Of a
mayor. board of aldermen and common
council AS the United States owns more
than one-half of the District of Columbia
real estate, according to the measure, the
taxes are placed on half and half basis
The measure says in part:
The Proposed Government.
The power of making laws shall be vest
ed In the boards of aldermen and common
council Immediately after the organization
OF the board of common council the first
business that shall! be In order will be the
making of estimates of the moneys re-
CURED to defray expenses for the ensuing
nscal year. This shall be done by a COM
Hhttee OF the common council, called the
committee on taxation, consisting of at
siding officer.
Ihese estimates, after being voted ia
Vorapiy upon in the board of common ceun-
cii, Snai1 then be transmitted to the board
or aldermen and mayor for their approval.
After these estimates shall have received
the approval of the boards of common coun-
81, aldermen and mayor of the District of
Columbia they shall then be transmitted to
the committees on the District of Columbia
OF the United States House of Representa-
yves and Senate of the United States in the
same manner the estimates prepared nv
me commissioners of the District OF CO.
iumbia are now prepared and presented
AFTER the committees of the House OF Rep
resentatives and Senate have favorably act
ed upon these estimates they shall then h.,
transmitted to the of
yves ana senate for final action.
All money raised by taxation or other
wise from the citizens of the District of
SoiumDla or appropriated by the govern
ment of the United States for the benefit
OF the District of Columbia shall remain in
the custody of the United States treasurer
Aldermen and Common Council.
The board of aldermen shall be COM
posed of eleven members elected by the
people of the District
The board of common council shall con-
sist of twenty-five members. eleven appoint
ed by the President and confirmed by the
Senate and the remaining eleven elected sby
the citizens All members will have an
equal vote Both the members of the board
OF aldermen and common council shall be
composed Of persons who shall have been
residents al least three years prior to their
election or appointment.
The members of the boards of aldermen
and common council. both those elected and
those appointed shall receive for their serv-
ices annually the sum of $500 each.
The chief executive officer of the Dis
trict of Columbia shall be known by the
title of mayor. He shall hold his Office for
a term of two years.
"An election shall be held on the second
Tuesday in November of the year in which
this act is passed, and on the same date
every second year
"In addition to the officers mention
ed. other officers and salaries are pro-
vided for follows: Secretary, $500;
health officer, $1,000; deputy health
officer, $500; commissioner of fire depart
ment, 50, 500; commissioner of police de-
partment, 81 500: commissioner of water de-
pertinent 81, 500; commissioner of charities,
$2,5O0; attorney, 50, coo; superintendent OF
public schools, $4,000, and twenty-five school
trustees, who shall have the same powers
as the present Commissioners in regard to
the schools.
"Al officers shall assume their duties on
the third Monday in December of the year
In which they are elected
Who Can Vote.
"At the election all male persons citizens
of the United States who shall have attain
ed the age of twenty-one years and who
shall have been residents of the District OF
Columbia for two years before the date of
election and who shall have been residents
of the voting precinct in which their votes
shall have been cast for at least thirty days
before the date of election shall be allowed
10 vote
I'm each of the twenty-five legislative
districts there shall be established at least
four voting places, situated at convenient
locations.
.',rhe commissioners shall. at least thirty
days before the date of this hrst election.
apnoint three reputable persons to act as
judges of election in each voting place on
the day of election.
..Thev shall have authority to pay out
of the funds of the District of Columbia,
all necessary and reasonable expenses for
tbis election. The voting shall take place
between the hours of Z an and Pm.
49, of election shall proceed to count
the votes and publicly before witnesses pro.
aaaa 70 aunounce the result of the election