The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-04
MO CONFERENCE
| OVER BOND ISSUE
President Peters Rules That
Action OF Aldermen Killed
Ordinance.
PLANS TO SPLIT JACKPOT
Pollock Denies Madison Ward Is
on Inside OF Million Dollar
Deal.

So Under ruling of President 4 Lee
Peters. OF the Common Council the
Sproposed bond issue ordinance is dead.
rs million dollar jack pot" amendment
5and all. The Board OF Aldermen hav-
5anS rejected the original ordinance. Mr.
y Peters holds that the whole PROPOSE
zion mas been killed. and is now a pro-
= per subject of conference between the
/ Two branches. and he will rule accord :
aanSly when the request OF the Board
s}of Aldermen for n conference com
y mtttee reaches the lower branch.
Under this ruling tue Finance Com
&mittee will have 10 prepare ana re-
commend a new ordinance carrying AN
Issue of bonds to finance the new MAYO
( Bridge and acquisition of its site, pur-
chascs of the Ford Hotel block: gas,
water and sewers for South Richmond.
and the retirement OF Manchester >
per cent bonds.
Z Whether the Finance Committee Will
then see fit to include the new ordi-
nance any item for street paving re-
mains to be seen. but various members
have indicated that they do not favor
Issuing thirty-four year bonds in pay
ment for street paving which at best
can last but fifteen or twenty years.
No Ground for Conference.
The point on which President Peters
rules was raised before the meeting
of the Council last night by Chairman
II. r. Pollard. Jr.. OF the Committee
on Finance. and Mr. Peters at once
agreed Gilbert *. Pollock. the only
lawyer member of TIE Council and
other members on both sides of the
bond issue question, agreed that the
point was well taken.
The lower branch adopted last month
on Recommendation of the Finance
of Sl,i00.000 in Improvement bonds FOR
certain specified purposes. all OF which
had already been agreed upon and
ordered by tile Council or were Cuaran-
teed in the annexation agreement the
Board of Aldermen adopted Mr. CHinst's
amendment adding 81 100000 for grad.
Ing and paving streets" but the action
was later declared void by the City
Attorney, the Board having practically
appropriated sl.O0O,0GO on the night
the proposition was introduced, with
out consideration. and without refer
ence to any standing committee. as re-
CURED by the rules.
Proposition Is Dead.
The Board met again and endcavorcd
TO rectify its error. but failed by one
vote TO again adopt the Gunst amend
nicnt, members OF the Finance Com
mittee protesting against saddling the
city with so heavy debt The amend :
ment having failed. the Board still
having majority favoring Il street
bond issue, refused to concur in the
ordinance as Il came from the Council
and asked for committee OF confer
ence, ii being the expressed purpose
TO have such committee report a
compromise giving some lesser amount
say S50o,ooo-for smooth paving.
Mr. Pollard rests his contention on
Rule 40 of the Council. which provides
that when an ordinance has been
passed by one branch and is amended
in the other and the amendment is
not concurred in by the branch in
which 1t originated, a committee OF
conference may be asked This is no,
the case. the Board having rejected
outright the ordinance as il came from
the Council, and, according TO the
Tuiing of President Peters. the paper
is therefore dead
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