The Detroit times., 1911-01-26
COUNCIL APPROVES
NICHOLS SCHEME
Orders Election Districts Cut To 800
voters-Time Question To Be
Submitted in Spring,

Corporation Counsel Hally discover
ed Tuesday afternoon that II was not
necessary for the council either TO
submit a charter amendment 10 the
people or 20 TO the legislature 10
change the boundaries OF election dis
tricts. and a resolution covering the
plan OF City Clerk Charles A. Nichols,
to cut the districts TO 800 voters each
was passed by the council, Tuesday
night. without opposition.
The city clerk announced that
he would require the services OF
one extra assistant for a short time
TO do the work of redistricting. He
will call in the aldermen to advise
him as to their respective wards. as
they know the centers of population.
The new plan, Il is expected, will
result IN a decreased cost OF elections
and an earlier announcement OF the
results. There will be about us pre-
cincts instead OF 1875 as at present.
The new plan will go into effect in
the general election in 1912.
The council voted 10 submit two
propositions TO the people at the
spring election, one TO adopt eastern
standard time in place OF central
standard and the other for a charter
amendment TO increase the length OF
the aldermanic term TO four years,
and elect half of the number at each
biennial election, as is now the system
with school inspectors.
Aid. McCartys ordinance limiting
the length OF hatpins and requiring
n guard 10 be placed over the sharp
end OF all protruding pins, was refer
led 10 the committee on ordinances.
The report OF the committee on
liquor regulation, denying the petition
of Albert F. Meloche TO have his
property at No. 1857 Grand River-ave.
taken out OF the restricted district.
was laid on the table on motion OF
Aid. Watson, the author of the re-
stricting ordinance. Watson's object
was to let the people of the neighbor-
hood vote on the question at the
spring election. Chairman Ellis, OF
the committee on liquor regulation,
tried TO have the yeas and nays called
on the vote to table the report, but
Aid. Grindley, who was in the chair,
ruled him out of order
Park Commissioner Hurlbut sent a
communication 10 the council recon-
mending municipal operation OF all the
park privileges. and at the same time
conceding the point of advertising for
bids for the concessions if the council
saw #. The letter said in part:
| have always strenuously OPP
posed the establishment or the
conducting of any money-making
scheme on the park system and
have refused scores of such prop
ositions, and TO my mind there
now appears no reasonable objec-
ton to the operation of the privi-
leges In question by the city it
self the same as II is now operat-
ing the lighthouses and phaeton
service.
Should you. after due delibera-
ton, determine that II Is for the
best interest of the people to let
the concessions as at present,
specifications can be prepared
and approved by you before the
advertisement is inserted.
Aid. Brozo introduced resolution
calling on the public building commit
tee to cooperate with committees TO
be appointed by the Board of Com
lnerce, ID. A. ID. A. and Automobile
Manufacturers association, to prepare
plans for a new convention hall.
The council adopted resolutions
ex-senator Thomas w.
Palmer on his eighty-first birthday,
and adjourned out of respect to the
memory OF the wife of Aid. Joseph
Theisen, who died last week.