Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
|0UNC|L TO ACT FINALLY
ON GO0DE RESOLUTION
over Branch VIII Sit AS Commit
tee Tonight to Hear Ac-
cused's Lawyer.
testimony BOUND IN BOOK
councilman Have Received CompiIa-
ton OF Evidence Relating to Com
missioner Goode Introduced Be
fore Investigating Committee.

Sitting as a committee OF tho whole.
10 Common Council will tonight give
hearing to counsel for Police Com
issioner r. n. Goodo. before making
nnal effort to dispose of tho resolu-
on pending before that body which
larges Mr.. Goodo with m.sfeasance
Id, malfeasance in office. and recon-
ends that no resign from the Police
GARD.
The motion under which tho Council
III act directs the presence. also. Of
re City Attorney, the legal adviser
the committee which recently conf
eted an Investigation OF the Police
apartment Mr.. Goode was defended
fore the investigating committee by
ttQrney Hiram NJ. Smith.
EPRINTs OF EVIDENCE =
HAVE; BEEN DISTRIBUTED
Bound booklets confirming tho evil
,nce relating to Goode' that was in
oduced during the police probe have
sep In the hands of the members Of
&c Council for several days. The book
is, contain about n!ty pages OF mat
printed IN large typo and can easily
, read In little more than an hour.
ne. Council will. therefore. be fully
:qdainted with the nature OF. tho evil
;ncc against tho accused Police Conn
iss!oncr. by the time II meets to-
git.
or the several resolutions recon-
ended by the police Investigating
'mtnittce, only the one relating to
r. tGoode remains undisposed of. The
hers have either been adopted or re-
rred to appropriate committees. The
solution recommending the resignation
Mr.. Goodc was passed hy IL substan-
I1l majority in the Board OF Alder
en-, but was held up in the Common
)unc!l, which declined to concur in
passage before II had had an OPP
= 'rtun!ty OF examining for itself the
'ldence upon which Mr.. Gcode was
und guilty.
II is predicted that to-niEht's meet
g. will bring out "A sharp debate. The
cused Police Commissioner has
lends who hold that hc has been
ngled out to bear a punishment which
.opld have been visited also upon
hers. while other tneirtbers "Hsiil insist
at the Council adopt without further
lay the recommendation of the in
st!gating committee.
xPREss IMPATIENCE
At COUNCILS DELAY
In the city at large there has been
.dent, particularly in social service
fclcs, marked rest!cssncss at the
punc!Gs leisureiy procedure In the
after OF disposinE of the Investigate
s committees recommendations. In
recent letter 10 Mayor Ains!!e from
RS. w. NJ. B!ckcrs. president Of the
county Women's Christian Temper
hco Union. reference TO these alleged
latory tactics was made IN severely
itcal vein. The same criticism has
zen made By other social workers
Ptably by Rev. w. Russell Bowie u.
OF st. Paurs Episcopal Church. who
hs close observer OF the invest!gat-
6 committees proceedings.
All Indications point, TO . vote on
e resolution to-nhshu' ne the, StIsflJ
oH Council concurs In the resolu-
pm passed by the board Mr.. Goode
III be requested TO resign. Should
o body take some other action and
opt an amended resolution the meas
e would have TO so back 10 the Boa 70,
Aldermen for ConcGrrence