The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-11-02
CHARTER COM IsSIOy WILL M
NOMINATED 5 ADsorRSED
C|T|zENa AGREED



pose of suggest z list OF names
to be submittedkto the voters as
men capable Oh drafting city
charter. was att nded by some six
ity or seventy representative citi-
zens, yet it was bot deemed adyis-
| able for that n mber to make up
| a ticket and the &matter of suggest
| ing names to bevvoted upon for a
charter commiss pn went over I'M
| til an adjourned meeting to be held
| in the district cHurt room on Fri
day night of tn week At that
ftime it is hoped hat a majority of
the voters of tho city will be pres
ent and take part in selecting the
| fifteen men who's names sill be
submitted in the iection to be held
on November II to determine
whether or not TIL city shall choose
a commission to tame neW char
ter. The Interest," al stake are OF
such vital import%nc to the devel-
opment of the ciE it was thought
advisable to try 4 id enlist the aid
of the entire citizenship, so spe-
cial committee OF five was named
to prepare an address to the peo-
pie during the ifeerim
The meeting Monday night was
called to order bk Mayor f.. B..
Prince. who was Batter named as
chairman. G. A. Nnnnell was nam
ed as secretary. Mayor Prince in a
brief word of ext anation Of the
purpose of the m(bting said The At
torney General h&h held tina. Wax
ahachie had no darter, that the
citizens thought hit advisable to
vote charter, aid that the meet
ing had been lied to suggest
names of citizensf to compose a
charter commissid He asked for
suggestion as to Procedure.
G. G. Groce explained chat in.
providing for enlargement of taxing
powers, under thafruling Of the at
torney general, it as necessary for
q city to adopt q tharter OF its own
by vote of the fpeople. He ex-
planned that III lire with this ruling
the city council bad ordered an
election, and thatkthe proper thing
for the citizens nj mass meeting to
do was to say We will adopt a
charter and namR commission TO
frame same. He Ment on to ex-
plain that when jReh a commission
makes report theRproposed charter
will be submittedfto a vote Of the
people. He urged the selection of
representative ibdy of men for
the commission
]. II. Mayhem Mas in hearty ac-
cord with Mr.. Gtoce and after a
few preliminary remarks moved
that committees be appointed to
suggest list Of Inames TO he sub
mitted to the votkrs from which to
select charter commission. The
motion was secon8led by W. g. Me-
CLAIM.
T. r. Whipnle fobjected to the
creation of such b committee on
the grounds that Che action Of the
voters assembled 3would not reflect
the sentiment of4the voters as a
whole and that Probable opposition
might arise from Fhe fact that more
had not had voice in choosing the
names TO be suggested. He propos-
ed postponemeht of this action
until some futur@ day when a great
er number of vufers could be as
sembled in MAST meeting for the
purpose of Suggesting names for
the commission-g
Y, d. Kembld suggested that due
notice had beensgiyen and expressed
doubt that DISAPPOINTMENT would
help matters. He expressed the be-
lief that thera we're enough pres
ent to reflect the sentiment Of the
town. lie su4ested, however. that
The number Iof names 10 be
suggested ba limited to fifteen
in order to aert the possibility of
a contest, WITCH would be chico
tionable to nfny ren.
Judge W. mi. Tlawel suggested
that one of Abe best ways TO har-
monte the Inherent elements would
be to post3bne ac,ioa and name a
committee 10 prepare an address TO
the voters Iof the town calling them
together i6r the purpose of select
ing a copmission 20 draft a char
ter.
A. Lasswell favored the appoint
ment of "a COMMITTEES but suggested
that such committee be not re-
quired to make report at that meet
ing.
n. l.. sullivan could see NO rea-
son WAY a committee Should not