The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-19
.MONEY|D[E WHEN
STREETS need D IT
Parliamentary Tangle Delays
Expenditure Of $4,000 in
Annexed Territory.
HAS LONG BEEN AVAILABLE
Common Council Concurs With.
Board in Giving Inspector
Beck Another Deputy.

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After cohcurring in the ordinance
providing for an additional deputy in
the Office Of the Building Inspector.
the Common Council last night involv-
ed itself In a parliamentary tangle.
which City Clerk Ben Il. August ad-
mtts that he is frankly unable to
clear, and on which President r. Lee
Peters proposes to consult the city
Attorney before giving a final ruling.
Mr.. Mills moved that the COMMITTEES
on Apportionment of Funds In the An.
nexed Territory be discharged from,
further consideration OF report which
mas been twice recommended and
twice recommitted The paper as re-
commended apportioned the sum Of $4,-
600 from the bond Issue for the an
nexed territory to Improvement Of
streets In Fairmount, and like
amount to the Improvement of Broad
Street Road west OF the Boulevard
Mr. Mills sought and secured the
separation OF the items. in face of the
opposition Of Mr.. Davis. Of Clay Ward
who undertook to force through nm.
amendment transferring the Broad
Street item to the curbing of Main
| Street, between Allen Avenue and Rob-
inson street, claiming that there was
not a house on Broad Street Road. ana
| that Main Street was closely built up.
Fails on Final Vote.
Il, Mr.. Batkins. OF Lee. defended the
Broad Street item. claiming that the
road which connects the city with the
county was almast impossible. and
that Clay Ward had had this year
$4,000 for streets, which 1t could have
spent on Main Street. and which was
expended elsewhere. The Mills motion
for separation was adopted and the
item for Paramount was agreed to.
The Davis motion to substitute Main
Street for Broad Street failed by a
vote of 10 to 10. and the vote recur-
red on the recommendation of the COM
4 mittee for Broad Street Road. which
failed OF two-thirds vote, the vote
!! standing-ayes. %: noes. 4. The
4 chair's original ruling was that the
second part of the resolution relating
4 to Broad Street Road had been re-
4 Jected. but Clerk Augustus minutes do
not show that the measure originally
separated was ever adopted as a whole.
and the opinion prevails that the
whole matter was lost. thus leaving
idle in bank for an indefinite rrrod
money provided for improvements by
!, a bond issue made in 1907 and which
is not vet wholly expended.
! The Council concurred In the reso-
: luton of the Board of Aldermen. In
!, structing the Committee on Improve
ment OF James River to advertise for
$ bids for concrete wharf on James
K River. Mr.. Hirschherg thought bids
: should not be called for where
: appropriated even to build a pile
: wharf. but Chairman Pollard, of tho
Finance Committee, explained that 1t
!. was evident that there must be IN
;. additional appropriation, and that thr
y Finance Committee was in favor OF
! permanent construction. provided the
!. cost was not kprohibittve.
s Ry resolution a leave of absence OF
thirty days was granted to Police
= Justice John j. Crutchfeld, with pay
: Magistrate Wilbur ]. GrigEs being des-
3 ignated to sit in his absence.
r Deeper WntcrNnys.
o special message from Mayor Rich
= ardson called attention to the meet
fnp of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
70 convention. to be held in Providence
= r. L., August 81 and September !. 2
n and Informed the Council that no har
d appointed five delegates from the mu-
k lnicipality. Mr.. Mills offered resolu.
j ton carrying out the suggestion Q,
o the Mayor. and appropriating $500 roi
d the expenses OF the delegates, ana tn l
IT membership fee Of the city in the as
q social ton. which was adopted unde,
suspension OF the rules.
Mr.. Ratkins offered a resolution al
recting the Committee on Grounds anS
Buildings to lease for term OF lV'
wears, at s4SO per year, certain room:
il on the west side Of Eighth Street, be
tween Broad and Marshall Streets. a!
n a laboratory for the City Chemist. Oh
: lection being raised to hasty action
! the paper was referred to the Finance
: Committee.
d Mr.. Pollard offered resolution Q
t thanks to President Peters, Clerk Az Az
n gust. Sergeant-at-Arms RusKe4l t any
G Doorkeeper Bahen, which Mr.. Mill
J; amended to include Vice-President Pol
lard himself but as 1t was stated tina
$ another meeting will be held befor'
Z the final adjournment for the purpos
= of reading the minutes, the paper wen ven
! over. K II 81
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