The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-11
resolution to the Finance Committee

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but the motion failed of adoption.
An ordinance allowing the water do
| partmcnt to record the consumption
OF water in terms of cubic feet instead
! OF gallons was adopted. The purpose
OF the ordinance Is merely to reduce
the clerical work Of the department.
An ordinance authorizing one CONF
mittce to referian ordinance or resolu-
should properly go without the for
4 ;mality of first reporting 1t to the
Council was passed.
The ordnance creating the Office of
| Assistant City Attorney at a salary OF
y1,5G0 per annum was reported by the
Committee on Ordinances, Charter and
Reform and referred to tina Finance
i Committee.
i Mayor Addresses Council.
The ordinance proposing to adopt q
mitted by Mayor Mccarthy was report
ed favorably by the Committee on Or
4 diDnncCs.
Mr.. Ferguson moved that Mayor
| Mccarthy, who was present, be invited
4 to explain the Significance Of the flag.
i Tho motion prevailed without dissent,
whereupon Mayor Mccarthy. in an ear.
nest and ut; times almost impassioned
4 address, defended the flag against the
4 .criticisms OF It.. He justified the Con-
federate cause, and declard that It was
now recognized everywhere as q just
cause at that time. He rebuked those
A who charged that the incorporation Of
4 the Confederate colors in the flag was
! reviving O dead issue. and appealed 20
the pesple OF Richmond not to break
faith with the men who d ed in defense
& of the city. The Mayor referred to the
j, scene last Monday in this city, when
/ a hundred thousand people united in
great tribute to the presid te 20 OF me
: pie OF Richmond to be true to them
: selves and their history: He depre-
!, Gated the attiture OF some who were
t t Richmond as the Confederate capital.
Mr.. White objects.
Councilman ". L. White. after re-
: viewing his service in the Confederacy
e and stating that he had loaded the
d first gun for the Howltzers at be tnel,
t to the proposition to incorporate the
o thirteen stars and the Confederate
colors in the flag. He claimed that y
e is a sacred emblem. enshrined IN me me
q that 1t was unwise and inexpedient to
s naunt 1t upon schoolhouses or walls.
j. He claimed that 1t was a dead issue,
n and that to revive It Ewould 40 no .goou.
otherwise come to this city to settle,
said Mr. White.
lit As an Issue that is dead, and why
eh0old we SGyvS said
d plant that flag. 1t is bound to be
8 preJudiciaL"
q General .. L. Phillips briefly re.
ferrea to ms own ds tba1
t service and in the cause for which ne
e fought. He vigorously took issue with
d Mr.. White.
d Mr. Lynch referred to the loyalty OF
8 his own parents and kinsmen to the
e Confederate cause. but opposed tht IN
d Incorporation of the Confederate emblem
: in the flag.
It federate nag, or mono Of it, INCORPORATED
/ in the civic flag. but preferred that the
y emblem proposed be substituted by
something else.
y Mr.. Cary made an eloquent plea FOL
e paid a glowing tribute to the Confed
.. crate soldier and to the flag no fol
lowed, declaring that much of the glor,
g OF the Stars and Stripes was due t
s. the Stars and Bars. 5
!, Portrait OF William byrd.
Mr.. Davis opposed the incorporation
Of the Confederate shield In the civil
/ flag, and mofed instead that the Con
r federate battleflag itself be substituted
/ leaving blue margin eight inche:
q wide. The Davis substitute was vote
r. down. viva voce, and the question re
10 Cured on the Lynch amendments to sub
!. stitute the portrait OF William Byrt
for the Norman shield, with Ele Con
Il
tion Of this amendment in the natuz
Of O substitute resulted as follows:
Ayes-Barber, Bliley. Cannon, Cary
Davis. Ferguson. CARRIER. Gates
gie. Philips, Pollock. =, 5. Richardson
= W. Fred: Richardson, spence. David
y White, William L. White. and William:
Noes-Dqn Levy Lynch Pollard
The n%as @ saa dseared adop,
"a ed and the ordinance as amended wa
re then adopted without objection. IN
l. result lis that the flag, as approved b
n the reverse side q picture Of Willial
b. Vsyrd Instead Of the shield, with tn
III Confederate flag and the thirteen star
ar The ordinance requiring pawnbroke1
to to make monthly reports of purchase
he was adversely reported. and the repol
OF was adopted. 4
IN The ordinance providing for janitc
,r. for the City Auditorium was adversei
~ reported by the Ordinance COMMITTEE
but was referred to the Committee Q
"a Finance.
q, A resolution rejecting the claim {
~ the Dixie Manufacturing Company tt
he $4,000 was referred to the Finance Con
on mittee.
iii a resolution renting q fine OF slt
OF lating the Umlauf law. was reterre
IN to the Finance Committees
rel St. Johns Church..
at of st. Joints Church to construct
by nre-proof parish-house and memoirs
or chapel In the churchyard of ST. ohm
ed Church came UP on recommendatic
by from the Committee on St. ] ohns Bur
nd Ing ground. The Mayor had twi
'or vetoed ordinances having tho san
i. fpurpose.
nm Mr.. III D. Richardson earnestly adv
W. GATED tho adoption of the commit
alf recommendation, and declared that II
ial only objection to tho proposition W
ire sentimental ono. The congregatit
Ice had the right to build such houses
he the inolosuro,5 and were as anxious
gu the Mayor not to inlporil tho hlstol
M structure. IS
to The Mayor was called upon to stu
he his objections to the ordinance, and d
mo so at some length and with characte
lc- istfo vigorz ana intensity. Ills stnteme
was an sampllfed and emphasized g
tod Iyntoing the original ordnance.
ply N Tho Council defeated tho propositi