Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-02
COUNCIL FAVORS
USE OF V|ADUCT
Ordinance Suspending Car Ser
vice on Broad Street Hills
Is Adopted.
BODY REFUSES TO RECOMMIT
Jefferson Ward Delegation Splits,
and Final Vote Stands
18 to Q.
BODY REFUSES TO REC0MMIT

| Over the protest Of the solid Jefrer-
the measure be rccommitted for amend
inents. the Common Council last night,
! by n vote Of is to 2, passed the ordi-
nance allowing the Virginia Railway
and Power Company to suspend Its
street car service on the East Broad
street hills, and divert the lines ut
! present using these tracks over other
/ routes
! The five Jefferson Ward members
/ voted solidly for the motion to recon-
/ init. and were supported In this motion
| by Counc!lmen Pitcher, Haddon and
! Seaton. of Clay Ward. When the mo-
| ton to recommit was lost, by vote of
IL to s, the ordinance was placed on
its passage. On the final vote the JEFF.
ferson Ward delegation split, Council
men Rogers. Powers and Lumsden
| voting with the majority. and Council
men Sullivan and Welsh forming the
lonesome minority that voted against
| the ordinance
OVERFLOW CROWD
WATCHES PROCEEDINGS
| An overflow crowd. that besieged
| the Council chamber and the corridors.
witnessed the proceedings. The meas
ure. which was before the body with
a favorable report from the Street
committee. which had approved it by
Il vote Of to ., was reported early in
| the evening.
Councilman Rogers reported TO the
| Council the unanimous desire OF the
Jefferson Ward delegation that the or
dinance be recommitted. in order that
amendments might be incorporated to
meet some OF the Objections of street
venienced by the contemplated re-
! routing. and offered n motion to that
erect. The sentiment on Church Hill
with regard to the measure, he said
was divided. a recornmittal he said
| would cause only short DELAY. and
| might result in n better adjustment OF
the situation than is provided in the
ordinance.
WANTED DEFINITE DATE
I FOR TERMINATION OF PERMIT
/ Councilman Lumsden. of Jefferson
! Ward. thought it would be Wise To-
amend the ordinance so as to provide
| definite time limit, at the expiration
! OF which the original routing should
be restored. The ordinance before the
body. he said. In providing no time
! limit, would encourage a prolong.tion
or the temporary rerouting He
thought that 1t would be wise thing
! TO recommit the ordinance.
Councilman Pollock opposed recon-
initial on the ground that the matter
had been fully threshed out before the
| street Committee where ample onpor-
tunity. he said, had been given to the
Jefferson Ward members to offer such
amendments as they desired He was
/ opposed. he said. to delaying necessary
! ieeislation, more particularly in this
case, since the changes proposed under
the ordinance were distinctly tcmpor-
airy, and subject to revocation bv tho
| Council at any time. Much tho same
reasons were assigned by Councilman
English, who made IL short speech on
posing rccomnittal
| IIADDON APPEALS I.ou
COuNCII.MANIC COURTESY
Here Councilman IT. Gray IIaddon, OF
| Clay Ward. took the floor with an an
peal to the Council to grant the re-
| committal If for no other reason than
| out of courtesy to tho jefferson Ward
| delegation. 1t was seldom. he pointed
| out, that all the members OF n ward
join in :, request OF this kind. TO re-
| fuse such Il request when made by- the
| ward that is most materially affected,
he thought, would be a rcgrcttablc vto-
|
! Mr.. Haddon saw no good reason for
| rushing the measure through While
he admitted that the East Broad street
| tracks were In bad condition, he could
| not bring himself to believe, he said
| that delay Of thirty days would en-
courage disaster that has been spared
| the Broad Street hills for many years
| by watchful and benevolent Proyi-
| dencc.
| The Jefferson Ward delegation asks
| for the recommiftal of this ordinance,
| which affects that ward materiaIly,"
| he said, and. as Il matter of common
| courtesy to them, I shall vote TO send
| 1T back to the committee. / want TO
! treat It's request with tho same con.
| sideration that / would expect, should
my ward ever make Il request OF this
| kind"
| UNFAIR TO RI"rARD
NECESSARY LEGISLATION
! Mr. 1laddon spoke with n good deal
OF heat, and the gallery responded to
| the sentiment with n round of applause.
| President Peters raped loudly upon
the new mahogany table. and Sergeant
alarms Ruskell called for order In
/ the Council chamber" IT was the
| single demonstration Of the evening.
| Councilman Pollock replied sharply
| to Mr. Haddon's plea for Il recommittal
| on the ground OF courtesy. 1t was un-
| fair to invoke the amenities he said,
| to rctard necessary legislation. Tho
courtesy plea" he warned, was only
a cloak to hide the real object behind
| it--namely. the defeat of the ordinance
by repeated delays.
Mr.. Pollock reminded the members
| that the ordinance had been before tho
Council for a full month. and that tho
| members Of the Jefferson Ward delcea-
| tion had had ample opportunity to
| offer their amendments in the Street
| Committee.
POLLOCK AND HADDON
IN SHARP COLLOQUY
eff they have not In that time given
| careful study to this matter, they have
| not performed their full duty as rep