The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-09-24
VIII Be Taken Up BY Commits
sion Monday Evening. and the
Plan is to Submit it to
Public In November
NON-PARTISAN ELECTIONS
IN LIST OF REFORMS
Initiative, Referendum and Re-
call Provided For-City OFF,
elals' Terms Four Years

Xne revision committees draft Ol
the new charter 10 practically com
plsts. It VIII be submitted to the
commission next Monday evening.
Few changes are exrA ed, and It II
probable that the commission will ad'
5ouru early In October, after ting q
date In November for q special eisc-
tiou. at which the charter viii bG
adopted or rejected.
The most important changes pro
posed are az follows:
The city IL divided into n wards
instead Of Is, the Seventeenth ward
being split into three parts and the
Eighteenth into two.
Election districts are not permitte1
to have over 500 electors. II q dis
trict grows to have moro than that
figure. Its boundaries must be
changed.
City elections are changed from fall
10 spring. The nrst election is to be
held In April, 1918. and present city
ohlcers are to hold ovAr until their
Successors, chosen in April, are ipaug.
urated. The first Monday In April II
election day. City officers are to hold
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There will be no city primary. al
the charter provides for the non-par
eisan ballot, with the preferential
nots. Nominations are to be by pett
bon. Five hundred signatures are re-
auirod to nominate candidate for
nayos; 200 for other city oficss;
Loo for every ward candidate.
| The names Of oil candidates are ia
% printed on the election ballot with.
but pasH designation. Spaces are "a
bo lelsx 80 that the elector may vote
Tor hiS Arst choice and his second
!6holcA. In another column he may
mark Q preference for any or al Of
the other names ON the list, or. II q
man u . candidate who 10 inaocepta'
BILE under any circumstances. he may
leave the column blank opposite his
name. The system sounds compli-
GATED, but In reality It II very simple.
The charter provides that when the
polls close. ct o'clock In the even
ing. those waiting In line outside the
booth may vote, and directs that .
police onloor see that NO others join
the lima
If any porson receive more than
one-haN the ballots cast, ~ the nrst
choice Of the electors. he u to bs de-
olared elected. II no one receives
half, the second-choice votes are TO be
added, and the man receiving the
highost number Of both flrst and sec
cnd-cholce votes n declared elected,
r his total II . majority. But II.
still. no one has o majority Of the
votes cast, the other choices marked
are % b counted and added to their
totals, and the candidate with the
highest vote II then declared elected.
This, also. sounds complicated. but
Il 10 not 90 dincult a. Il appears.
The terms Of city ofloerS are TO BE-
I'm On the flrst Tuesday In May. foi-
lowing their election. and are for four
years, except those Of the recorders
court Judges. which are for six years.
On petition Of 26 per cent Of the
electors who voted for mayor, an Of
.acer n subject to . recall election.
Salaries are to BE- - follows: Nay
G.. 81, 900; city clerk and city treas
uror, 5000; aldermen. e2,600; cor
poratiou counsel. $500: each railway
commissioner. $4,000; commissioner
OF pubic works $500: park commits
sioner, police commissioners. superin
tendsnt Of the House Of Correction
and health ofIicer, $4,000.
The common council 10 TO consist
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