Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-12-15
Board Refuses by Unanimous
Vote to Concur in Resolution
from Lower Branch.
Two MEMBERS FAVOR
FINES FOR ABSENTEES
Resolution ApproprLatin9 Additional
. Money to Pay for Mule Purchased
for City by President D. s. Jones
je Lost On Tie Vote-ko Arc Lights
for East End Section.

BY the rnanimcus vote of lis eight
members. the board Of aide rmen last
might refused to concur in the resolu-
ton adopted by the common council
last week declaring II 10 be the se nSe
II the city council of Newport News
that councilmen should receive Fay
for their services as such and te
fined when absent without good ex-
cusss and urging the State legislature
e so amnd the State constitution that
this city may pay yearly salary TO
dts solons.
The resolution was defeated before
the board met and the discussion of
II was brief and 10 the point. Alder
man Kellum and President +. w. Rob
inson favored a fine for members alb
senting themselves from meetings
without good cause. but they, like the
other membecs, did not care TO vote
themselves salaries. Alderman West
and others spoke briefly against the
resoiltion and when the vote was
taken the eight members voted sclidly
against Il.
+ Brief, Bur Busy Session.
Although In session only a little
more than an hour. the board of a.
dermen cleared the calendar OF ali
matters pending Ali matters which
came up from the lower. branch ex-
cept the resolution advocating the
salaries for the councilman and an
other resolution appropriating an ad-
ditional $77 to finish paying for the
mule which President Jones. of the
common council. recently bought for
the city. were concurred in. The ad-
d.ticnal appropriation for the mule
was lost on a tie vote, to 4, the vote
being recorded as follows: Ayes
Holt, helms. West and Robinson,
four; nays-Kellum. Petzold, Longan
and Weston. four
The board concurred in the follow
ing resolutions from the lower
branch:
A resolution awarding the contract
for $500 tons of crushed stone to Al
sop & Pierce On their bid Of s1.25 per
ton or 2,2UO pounds.
A resolution appropriating 5000 IN
addition to the original appropriation
for the purchase of two new horses
for the new aerial fire truck.
A resolution instructing the city
auditor to have the new city aims
house insured for three-fourths OF ITS
value and to place the insurance with
the firm Of Womble & Bryant.
Addition to Fire House.
A resolution directing the commit
tee on fire department and water 10
advertise Cor bid. on the addition TO
tbs, East End fire house in which 10
house the old fire truck. which Is to
be used by the East End company.
Upon the request OF the members
from the Second ward. the board .e-
fused to concur in the action of the
lower branch in authorizing the plac-
ing OF street arch lights at Wickham
avenue and Twenty -seventh street
and Jefferson avenue and Thirty-first
street, but concurrsd in that section
OF the resolution authorizing the piac-
ing OF arc lights at West avenue and
Twenty-eeventh street and West ave
nue. and Thirty-foufth street.
The board concurred in the resolu-
ticn requiring the city treasury 10
furnish the city with bend for s2v,-
600. the city sergeant 10 give bond in
the sum OF $4,000. the commissioner
Of revenue to give $4,000 bond and TIE
constable to give a $1,000 bono. The
resolution asking the mayor 70 IN
etruct the Southern Bell Telephone 4
Telegraph Company to repair its teie-
phone wires wherever necessary al
the earliest possible moment also was
concurred in.