The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-26
COUNCIL TO ELECT
MANY OFFICIALS
Joint Session in July Will Name
Department Heads for the
Last Time.
NEW BOARD ACTS IN FUTURE
Suggestion That All Elections
BE Deferred Meets With
Little Favor.

All heads of city departments and
Il large number of city officials come
up for reelection at the hands of the
present City Council at IL Joint SEES
sion to be held the first week In July
| Although the incoming Council. TO be
nominated on Tuesday, and elected on
the second Tuesday in June, Will be
but half OF the size OF the present
body. 1t docs not take Office until
! September !. and the July election is
in the hands of the present or out
: going Council. After the Administra-
| i've Board takes charge, on January
next. the City Engineer. Superintcn-
dents of the Gas. Water and Electric
! Works. Building Inspector. aud other
/ departments heads. will be elected by
I 1t. making this the last election of
I such officials at the hands OF the City
= council. The Council retains the cleo
| ton of Its own officers, such as tho
| Clerk. Sergcant-at-Arms and Clerk of
Councii committees, and also elects
.ae Nity Attorney and Police jus
! lice under the new charter. Tho CITY
Attorney appoints his own assistant
. and the Committee on Finance elects
! the Special Accountant and Special
Assessment Clerk
Urged To Defer Election.
II mas been suggested that the Coun-
! Gil at the July joint session de-
fer action on The election OF
the departments heads, merely al
| towing the present officers to
continue In Office until their sue
cessors are appointed thus tiding the
matter over so that the Administra-
I tive Board may select the heads OF IN.
| departments for the conduct of which
IL VIII be held responsible The sug.
gestion has not met with favor in
many quarters however. as MANY be-
iierc that thc recollection OF the pres
eht ofhcials for term OF two wears
IRON next July will give tho new Ad
.i'"istraivc Board experienced men al,
| 'hc mead or Its departments. and nr.-
vent any sweeping changes Or. ,on
! efal upsetting OF conditions a, IN.
mere whtm OF new aud incNperIoncrd
oihclaIs who may be elected Ia III.
! iirst Administrative BOARD
! Candidates for Rc-riccti,p.
Si-y ohtcINls who are candidates
I .or reelection at the July meeting
/ Tor period OF two years nm n5
/ whom has any announced oonosI,i
are City Clerk Ben T. August Ser,
| Scant-at-Arms George C. EuskciI
! Clerk OF Council Committees Nfr.d
II. Mcdowell. City ATTORNEY Henri p
Pollard. City Engineer Charles p
5"iiinG. Superintendent OF the cir
800 ". 'aoc!l .Supcrlntcn-
dent OF the Gas Works William ;,
Knowles. superintendent of tho w
ter Works Eugene T. Davis. sumo.
intendent of Street CLEANING IIcnrv
j: Cean. building Inspector Henri. y
necK' Clerk 10 the City Auditor w
fteid WelgAmaster T. a. Bowry.
inspector ana Gauser T. W Joseph
ram Measrrer Rudolph King, Clerk
OF the Poice Justica L g White.
Bailin 10 the Police Cour, l. r Gin,
mons. Harbor Master John i. curtis
( l'ort Wardens J. w Mancr. II. o.
C"rrie, J. j. Buchanan. Collector Of
Dc!inquent Taxes r g Walford
1itN Chemist George II Whitfeld,
i,'s'Iict PHYSICIANS J. c. Trant ]. Z.
'"p"'rH' d r. Crane. r l.. Stratton.
T.. ID, Batkins J. W. sloan and f. 7
+, Ruckcr
Crutchhcld for -Four Years.
| foilce Justice John J. Crutchtield
comes up at the same meeting for re-
election. his term being fer four vears.
me recent charter changes provide
that hereafter the C!tv TREASURED
hve members OF the Administrative
board are to lie elected ny the pcoDIc
! put that from the end Il his present
term the City Auditor SHALL he elected
~ the Council. and the Council may or
may not at it's own discretion, either
l'iV'N IL 'oIlcctcf OF t3NcS from the
end of the present term of Collector
! iinice' VINO was recently elected by th..
people. or may abolish .hc office and
I confer it's duties on the CITY Treasurer
Each branch OF the Council may an
Z point such officers ana clerks as arc
! necessary for the transaction OF IT'S
/ business for two-year terms all of
f'cers elected by the Council to be for
! Two year-tcrms except TIE Police Jus
I ticc. who is elected for four years. The
Administrative Board is given power
TO appoint all officers V hose appoint
incnt is not expressly reserved to the
city Council. or provided by popular
election, or placed in til. hands OF The
! Police, Health and Fire Boards. for
| terms of two years. ana the Admins
tratiVc Board may abolish any posi-
tion it is authorized to Gli or combine
two or more offices. Tho Administra
tive Board Is given the right to an
point such clerks and employees as are
necessary for the transaction of its
, business. and to fix their compcasa-
| ton.
No member of the Hoard of Fire
Commissioners comes up for rc-elec-
tIon this summer
Saunders to Oppose Thomas.
Tine term of one uicmbcr OF the
Board of Police Commissioners will
Emmett W. Thomas, az Clay Ward.
Clyde w. Saunders. Of Gay Ward. has
announced himself as u candidate for
Thomas, and his friends claim to have
an assured majority OF tn, membership
of the Council pledged to his election.