The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-07
Lower Branch Decides
on Date to Consider
Ordinance.
SETBACK
FOR CLEANUP LAW
"Spotless Town" Measure Goes
to Finance Committee Over
Umlauf's Protest, and Gas
Offer Is Referred to Pub
lie Properties and
Utilities.

After "eathering the squalls and
storms Of twenty-five committee meet
ings. the annexation ordinance sailed
sateiy INTO the Common Council port
iast night. and the Special Committee
on Annexation. which had been work
ing at Its appointed task since Febru-
AIRY .. uttered a sigh Of relief Its on
trance was accomplished without nm
due ceremony. but IL stirred up n new
lhsurrection within five minutes after
1t made port
President Peters, acting under tho
!uies. ordered the measure laid on the
table. Councilman Unlauf moved that
special meeting OF the Common
Council be set for October 81 TO take
action on the ordinance Co"ncilnan n
NILS thought that the Councilnen did
not need three weeks to make up their
rn.aus mn on an ordnance which has al
ready oeen thoroughly aired. and moved
as substitute that the special meet
ing be fixed for October 16.
Iherc followed a sharp interchange
or remarks between Councilmen I'm
laut and Mills, in which the later
charged a renewal OF dilatory tactics,
10 which the former entered heated
denial II ended by the adoption Of
the uinlauf motion, and the Common
Council viii therefore meet on Octo-
Der - to pass upon the mcmentous
question of annexation
VIII Inspect Lines.
In presenting the annexation ordj
nance, Subchairman Umlauf, of the An
heNation Committee reviewed the com
mittce's seven months labor Mt the big
task. OF the $500 appropriated for the
committees expenses. he reported 1855
remains still unspent
In the course of the debate on fixing
the Gate for the special meeting Of
the Common Council. Councilmen Had
don and Fuller said that the map and
ordinance unaided by "a personal in
spection f-the annexation lines, would
not be sufficient to enable the Coun-
ciinen 10 vote intelligently upon the
annexation question.
Councilman Mills met the issue by
withdrawing his substitute 10 Council
man Cmlaufs motion setting the date
OF the special meeting fer October 81.
and onering new joint resolution di-
rectirR that so much of the surplus
remaining from the appropriation to
the Annexation Committee rs is neces-
sary. be expended upon a tour of the
proposed new boundaries to be taken
by both branches of the Council joint
iy, some time before October ~ The
resolution carried unanimously
Clean-up Inv Rccommittcd.
Councilman Umlauf's "spotless town
ordinance. buffeted from Council to
committee and from committee to
Council. received another setback last
night. II had been reported from the
Finance Committee with amendments
requiring householders to provide only
one instead of two metal garbage re-
ceptacles, and making other minor
changes.
Councilman Fuller produced letter
from the Superintendent of the Street
Cleaning Department. stating that If
The ordinance became law ii would ne
cessitate new equipment in his depart
ment that would entail new annual
fixed charge OF $26095 year IL this
vas the case, said Mr.. Fuller he want
nance Committee. Councilman Rat
cliHe took the same view, and Coun-
Gilman Mills held the same opinion.
reference to the Finance Committee
was strenuously opposed by Council
man Umlaut patron of the ordinances
and by Councilmcn Haddon ana senton
ing-President Mills called for a
vote on Councilman Fuller's motion to
refer to the Finance Committee, and
the motion was carried. IL to g. The
members voted as follows:
Ayes-Atkinson, Butler, Fuller, Jones.
Lumsden, Mills. Pollard. Pollock, Rat
cliffe, Rogers and Vonderlehr.
Noes-Haddon, Moore, Scaton, Um-
lauf, Welsh and Peters
Commits Gns Offer.
me Council received the offer Of the
Southern Gas and Electric Corpora
tion. of Baltimore. to lease the Gas
Works at s1+0.000 year for a period
of thirty years and President Peters
ordered it sent to the Committee on
Fublic Buildings, Properties and Utili-
ties.
Supporting the Finance Committees s
recommendation, the Council passed
Councilman Rogers's ordinance, plac-
ing a tax of $50 a week upon palmists.
fortune-tellers and clairvoyants. The
measure exempts these persons when
performing in regularly licensed the
atre. y clause eXcmpts performances
in the interest of charity.
The Council passed Councilman
Moore's ordinance regulating the light
in motion picture theatres. Under it's
terms City Electrician Thompson is
clothed with authority to regulate the
lighting in theatres of this character
to comply with the provision that the
houses shall maintain sufficient light
to enable every person to see within
his or her line of vision what every
ether person in the theatre is doing
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