The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-24
NEW CHARTER
IS READY FOR
SUBMISSION
Board Is Ready To Discuss
Proposed System Of City
Government.
MASS MEETING
CALLED TONIGHT
Members Express Their
Opinions of Instrument
To Be Voted Upon.

Pensacola's proposed new city char
ter is now completed and will be sub
mitted to the citizens at mass meet
ing to be held at the city hall tonight
at 7:30 o'clock, at which time all citi-
zens are invited to be present and dis
cuss it and offer suggestions.
This will be the last meeting Of this
kind before the proposed charter is
submitted to the voters for adoption
or rejection, and the members of the
board are DESTROYS of large and rep
.resentative attendance.
The members of the board, as a
whole, seem to be satisfied with the
charter they have drafted, after sew
eral weeks of hard work and a num-
Der of meetings and conferences.
Thirteen Of the fifteen members OF
the charter board we're interviewed
BY The Journal Wednesday, and ali of
Them expressed themselves as plasga-
ed with the new charter and are, APP
parently, in favor Of its adoption.
Two of the members, Max I Bear and
S. F. FuIghum, were out Of the city.
Following are the expressions Of
the board which drafted ard adopted
the proposed charter:
P. K. Yonge, chairman of the board,
expressed the following opinion:
"The charter board has gone into
the subject of city charters carefully,
and with, believe, a thorough appre-
citation of Pensacola's special needs
and conditions. If the charter that ia
now presented is adopted by the peo-
pie l am confident that it will give US
strong and efficient city govern
ment.. l think it is a much better
form of government than the city
/ has ever had and I hope it will be
adopted"
! w. L. Meyer, who has taken a great
deal of interest in the work assigned
to the charter board, said:
''I believe, and / think all of the
members of the charter board be-
lieve, that we have drawn up good
charter and one which is suitable to
conditions here. If it is adopted, am
satisfied it viii be a success. The
most criticism have heard about it is
the fact that the mayor is not to be
elected directly by the people. Our
+ charter gives them a chance to elect
| fourteen good men, from whom the
mayor and the president Of the coun-
I - - aIn-,,. TTL,o Fr,-,,, - swo-v1,.v,
ment provided for is nothing like as
expensive as the present system,
which, I think, is entirely too
expensive for city the size Of Pen
sacola. / believe the board has been
/ fair to everybody, especially the pres
emit commissioners, as it is provided
/ that all of them viii be retained in
the employ of the city at their present
salaries until their terms Of Office ex-
expire if the charter is adopted"
DR.. Louis de NJ. Blocker, who is
among the hardest workers on the
board said:
''The board has done the best pos
sible by the people, and now, of course
It is up to them to decide whether or
not they want to adopt the charter
we have prepared. If adopted, /
think, we viii get as good system Of
government as Is possible under the
existing circumstances"
C. ]. Levy, who was one Of the COM
nittee Of five appointed to draft a
charter, said:
eve devoted considerable time TO
the preparation of the charter and if
speaks for itself"
/ J. Fl. Christie:
81 believe that the adoption Of this
charter by the citizens Of Pensacola
will mean an economical govern
ment and an Improvement on our
present charter. 1t has been the en-
deavor Of the charter board to take
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