The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-09
He Can Pick His Own
Subject if He Comes
Here to Speak.
POLLOCK OFFERS
AMBITIOUS PLAN
Commonwealth Asked to Join
City in Erecting Big Court
Building on Ford's Hotel Site.
Special Committee on Char
ter Changes Gets No
Thanks for Work.

An invitation to Governor Woodrow
Wilson, OF New Jersey. to address the
Council ond citizens of Richmond. and
an invitation to the state OF Virginia
TO Join with the city In theerection
OF great court building for the state
and city courts. the state Supreme
Court anu the state Law Library. ON
the site Of Fords Hotel, were among
the matters given favorable attention
BY the Common Council last night
Chairman Ii Il. poiiaru. ~, OF the
Finance committee. offered tns reso-
luton IN regard 10 Governor wilson.
sugSestinE mat ne be invited TO MAXI
pupuc ADDRESS III INC Gity .Auui-
forum on tho SUBJECT OF municipal
government. y, the suggestion oil
air. Pollock, the subject Mas omitted,
and the rcscluuon unanimously uuvpt-
cd inviting tue distinguished cunut-
tate Tor tnc presidency 10 uudress
the cay Council anu citiZons OF Iiicn-
mond on some topic OF ms own seIec-
lion on the earliest date winch VIII
suit his engagements.
rlun GrsHt court building.
Sir. Poiiock was author OF the reso-
luton III regard to IL new courthouse
mona members OF the General Aaecm-
bly,. ana nud been informed that the
state buildings are now sreatIy
crowded, lie thought IL an oupor
tunity Tor state ana city 10 unite IN
thc erection ut Srcnt public hlruo-
turc winch viii give ample room for
the state Supreme Court. with oinves
tyr !ia Judges ana Tor tho Attorney
General OF Nirglnia, quarters tor the
state Law Library, stated 10 he u NEST
yaiuuOic COLLECTION OF books urId in
daily use by the lcaoinB attorneys OF
!ticnmond. and for the CITY courts. now
In more or ican crowded -tfttArtera in
the city Hall.
The resolution, which was unani-
inuuSly ADOPTED. does not Commit the
city 10 any expenditure, but directs
the Council Committee on Grounds
sud Buildings to take up with the
proper committee: % the General AS
sembly the question of the joint cree
lion by the city und state Of court
building and auditorium. covering the
whole block bounded ny Broad, Capt.
iul. Eleventh Jnd Twelfth streets, now
belonging TO the city. providing IN
addition to spacious auditorium
suitable for all public occasions. quar-
tcrs for al OF the city courts, as well
as for the state Supreme Court and
the Law Library.
II was suggested ibst even II favor
able action wcrc not secured at this
line, this Legislature might appoint an
hd interim COMMITTEE. to work with
the city authorities during the nest
TWO years in securing detailed plans
and estimates for the erection OF such
building along the most modern and
Up-to-d date lines, the contracts not 10
De awarded un,il approved both by tho
CITY Council and by the Legislature Of
1919
Get No Thunks.
Some laughter was occas!cned in tho
chamber by the refusal of thu Council
10 suspend Its rules In order to place
on its passage a resolution thanking
the members OF the special committee
which prepared the report embodyins
the recently adopted changes in the
form OF city government Mr. Blake
was the author OF the resolution, which
expressed tho thanks OF the City Coun-
ell TO Messrs Pollock. Lynch and Readc,
OF tho Common Council; Don Leavy
and Rennolds. Of the Board of Alder
men, and Messrs. Rountree, Morris and
Meredith, the citizen members, for the
''painstaking. prompt and faithful at
tention TO the matter committed Il
them," and for the carefully prepared
and intelligent report submitted bs
them and adopted by the City Council
President Peters notified the members
that II required two-thirds, or twenty
seven votes, to suspend the rules and
only twenty-five hands were raised.
The three Council membcrs OF the spe-
cial committee did not vote. and it
was observed that the opposition was
solidly among those who oppressed the
four ward and Administrative Board
plan of government. and who have no,
yet become reconciled to q plan which
will in effect leg!slate many of them
out o, ofcs. The paper was referred
to tho Committee on Ordinance. Char.
ter and Reform
A Bc1ated Permit
From the Board of Aldermen came
an ordnance granting permission To
the Virginia Railway and Power Com
pany to erect an electric sign: an an
preparation of S333.50 to Miss Florence
kellam for injuries from having been
run over by FIRE engine horses. ana an
appropriation of 1850 for grading dam
ages on North Eleventh street ali of
which Were concurrcd in.
The Committee on Streets recon-
mended that the pay of the watch,ncp
on the Free Bridge lie placed at 50 Nor
day each, which was adopted. The
Assessor of Damages was instructed
to appraisc damages by reason Of
grading Park Avenue from the uoulc.
ward to Sheppard street; the alley bo-
tween Twenty second, Twenty third, @
and X Streets, and Cary street from
Lombardy to Carter Street An orJin
ancc was adopted changing the name
of buchanan Street, South Richmond.
TO Barry Street. Sewers were ordered
laid in Twcnty-third street from II
Street TO the corporation line; IN <
street from Twentieth to Twenty third.
and In N Street from twentieth to
Twen'tythird, to cost si.6OS.I2; and a
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