The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-10
TEACHERS FIGHT
. HARD IN COUNCIL
Elementary Staff Claims Victory
in Matter OF Increased
Salaries.
NOW UP TO THE ALDERMEN
Contest in Board to Put in Bud
get Money for Roscneath
Road.

Elementary teachers of the public
schools are jub!lant. They claim now
to have the votes in the Board of
Aldermen, which meets Tuesday night.
70 insure concurrence in the action of
the lower branch, securing for the 22S
white elementary women teachers the
entire $4,000 set apart in the new
budget for increasing tho pay of all
the teachers, leaving 235 teachers with
no increase whatever While u num-
. Der OF efforts will be made to amend
the budget In the upper branch, 1t is
now predicted that IL will go through
az IL came from the Common Council.
An effort may be made 10 have the
item of $4,000 for acquisition OF prop
erty to Widen Rosencath Road. which
was stricken out IN the Council re-
placed. but it is believed that 1t Will
not be success{ul. The same effort
that was made in the Council to nave
the street appropriation so amended as
10 allow smooth paving from street
FUNDS VIII be offered, the old contcn-
tion O. members OF the Street Com
mittee that the ward delegations on
that committee should be allowed to
order smooth paving as they desire
without consent of tho Council, having
gained strength. Members from the
outlying sections protest that If
adopted the amendment will result in
Wild scramble for few blocks of
smooth paving scattered naphazard
about the city. and practically nothing
Will be spent on curling. grading and
improving streets, which are now all
most impossible
Council Meets To-Morrow Night
The Common Council VIII meet to-
morrow night in adjourned session
with all of its regular docket before
il. the entire meeting last aIonda s.
night having been given to a discus
SIGN OF the budget. Plans for operat-
ms the municipal electric plant Will
PRESENT a topic of some discuss! ion.
there being wide divergence Of views
on the subject.
Councilman Cease Will make an effort
10 secure approval under suspension Of
the rules of an amendment to the re-
I Gently adopted precinct plan, giving
new Madison Ward seven Instead OF six
precincts, with four instead of three
north OF the river. He claims that the
present lines are unfairly drawn, and
do not give the voters In certain sec
tions sufficient opportunity TO express
themselves at the polls. Unless adont-
ed under suspension OF the rules, the
paper would be too late to affect the
spring primary, the poll books for
which are now being prepared
One Eye on Primary.
with an eye to that primary, in
which all twenty members cf the new
Common Council are - be selected,
eEd in which in the nature OF things
at least half OF the present members
must lose thAir seats. even without al
lowing for any new blood that may
VIM II is q foregone conclusion that
. favorable action will be- taken on all
salary increases that come from the
Committee on Finance. The long list
recently reported by the Committee on
Ordinance, Charter and Reform must
yet go to the Committee on Finance,
and at least one member of the Ordin-
ance Committe has expressed the hope
that the papers will not come back TO
the Council for final vote until af-
ter the primary. when & more judicial
view can be taken OF such matters.
Business transacted b. the Council
Tomorrow night cannot be acted on
by the Aldermen Tuesday night. SO that
after concurring in the budget il is
probable that the Aldermen will adj
tourn to some night later in the week.