The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-09-12
olDh Hall Ferris Work Of Cod
lnleatlea to End Next
Week -.
llRORTANT SCHEDULE
DEMANDS GREAT CARE
Progressivss Plan Coup That
J, ~ Put Small Council Clause
4 IN Charter

the members Of the cnarter commits
eaon whom that body meets again.
y Monday evening at Z o'clock. after its
recess. City Clerk Lindsay has mall
"a he farst IA pages OF the charter
: 10 the commissioners, has read PROOF
on about so additional pages. and has
= nhcut 30 more In the hands OF the
PRINTER.
II hope to have everything ready
hut the schedule and the index" said
Commissioner Ralph Hall Ferris, who
- the task OF codifying the various
sections adopted by the commission.
ssDy next Thursday. the entire char
for oueht to be printed and In the
lands Of the commissioners.
The new charter Will be mucn
Shorter than the old one. A great
1oal Of material has been omitted.
W. have not touched the justice
oourtD, the police court. the recorder .
4 couEt or the constables. because they
~ governed by laws passed by the
y 1nN1o1a&ure, and are not under the
chnStor. We have also ommitted the
bonf1 Of Education, because We do
~ believe, under the home rule act.
tho1 e can be included under the
charter. We have included the water
bcord, however. and all the other
Ieommissions and departments of the
II have simplined the language OF
fhe charter. wherever that was posi-
An. ! have tried to get away from
I'm antiQuated legal language Of the
IN document. wherever It was feas
'kIA / have made long clauses into
n01 0entenceA The word said has
49, eliminated. Il 10 better to say
~ controller than said controlled
~ there are passages. both In the
n 1har<or and In some Of the new
Hon, whose language IL incom-
Il 0xG1b1o to me. have not touch
~ wording Of those clauses, but
M Noted them, and will call the at
&<Uk5on Of the charter commission to
Tie schedule may not be printed
Y 14 The new charter, but may be L.
c4 - = separate document 1t
m~nk ~ compiled with great care; for
{4 ~ schedule which must define
snonner In which the new charter
Into eject The new charter
mQoo terms OF once and dates of
IN: and the machinery for e.
these changes must be provid-
I4Ae schedule.
Sss believe that the commission will
\ ID IT. sessions by Sept. "a. and
9k the revised charter will be ready
4 ~ e Anal adoption by the COM
loa on about Oct. 5. / hope that
t3octlOn viii be held as soon after
!: date % possible--say Nov IL"
10 commission has but four or
wCre days to sit with pay. but II
believed that the members will
- any protest against sitting as
t - will be necessary.
- ea1d that fight will take place
- commission between the pro-
144lyeo and the conservatives on
incorporation OF the clause pro-
- tOr = council of nine members,
~ - large on . non-partisan bal
mriy In the sessions. II was
~ 70 submit the one-alderman-
\ eaeh-ward plan In the body Of
enarter. provided the nine-mem-
Npancti be submitted to the voters
alternative measure The pro-
vos probably had votes enough
\! 40 their measure Incorporated
y - charter; but a. the question
"A. y. o1S tnat threatened to wreck the
tseion, they gave way and adopt
90 ward plan. The conservatives,
peogresslves claim, disregarded
promlses, and fought the submis.
o4 TIE small council plan a. an
eenotive proposition. In retalia-
some Of the progressives are
14 talking OF throwing out the ward
a ~ entirely.
vs $500 about the matter, Mr.. Ferris
believe that We should keep
with the conservative members.
ntter what they have done. Il
y favor Of retaining the provision
- council elected by wards In
X carter, and submitting the, small
eu proposal a. an alternative. A
4! y. ~. a fAith on their pert do not
~ ~ sxcusing one on ours"