Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-27
PEOPLE TO NAME
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
House Passes Bill, 49 to a., AT
ter Spirited Debate in Which
Many Join.
BILL AFFECTING BELT LINE
Measure Is introduced Aiming
to Make Clear Who Pays for
New Street Crossings.
BILL AFFECTING BELT LINE

louise bill No. 50, on tho calendar
on its second reading yesterday. pro-
vidcd merely for AN amendment 20 tho
present law 20 the end that school
trustees IL til. countie. OF the state
might lie elected hv The people--that
nnd nothing more. Eu, half the mem
bcrs or the House sax in the measure
nothing but an attempt to put the
schools in;o potiti"s. and boinba rded
the bill with sniali and big artillery
for Tic better part OF AN hour
At tn" end % the engagement the
h'ii was placed OF, 'ts passage and was
"f"ercd TO its enP'ossmcnt by vote
"i !" 70 -. the closest vote that has
developed I'm the General Assembly dur
ing the present session The 6ill goes
now 10 the Senate for concurrence
Hural school trustees arc elected ~
preSen, BY school electoral boards.
each composed of the Commemorative
attorney, the supervisor ~ schools and
81 citizen appointed by the Circuit
Court. This scheme Of election. /, was
charged by Delegate Walton. ono Of
thH potrous OF the bin under fire. is
undomocratic and doprives the COM
munlty OF Il direct voic" in the man
hg"mcnt Of the most important OF its
local affairs. Tho same position was
taken by Delegate Love. of Lum.nburg
holccatc Gordon OF Louisa and Dele
gate Turner, Of bedford.
bill Is SUBJECT
OF SHARP DEBATE;
l'elcrat. Ecalc. Of Caroline. thought
the prcscn, method OF selecting school
trustees should h. retained II tho
quality or tn" school boards is 10 lac
preserved " /; was sound prac,ic. to
elect these officers he argued thcn il
must follow ,har school teachers should
also b." chosen IT. This manner
SHARP attacks on IN. hill were made
hy Delegate I.cedy. OF Page; Delegate
Jordan Of Iulask;. DclcEatc Stant. Of
Bristol; Deicrat" I'itt. Of .Nlbemarl.:
Delegate Davis. OF Norfolk: Delegat.
Ramsey, OF Hcniy. and Delegate Reed.
OF Portsmouti
For policy clcc,-for efficiency. ap-
point is good advice" said Delegate
Reed. The school boards OF the cour-
tics arc not policy forming bodies, but
administrative bodies; therefore.
must vot" for appointing the members
OF these boards and against tho bill
which proposes 10 elect them by the
people"
Those opposing the bill were armly
OF III" belief ihat its enactment int.
law would hc followed by the election
in many cases OF inferior men 10 sup
plant valUahl. men now members. who
would absolutclE refuse to engage in
q political campaign for the SAX. Of
being elected TO the school boa rti
Specific instances OF long and construc-
tive service by mon OF high attain
mcnts wcrc cited 10 give point 20 his
contention. In every such case ii was
stated, il would ltaV" been virtually i'm
possible 80 tnLucr amy Of these men
to enter popular race.
SAYS PRESENT SYSTEM
MEANS LIFE TENURE:
Delegate Turner thought that the
plan proposed by the hill would he a
desirable change from tho present ap-
pointmcn. system. Under tho present
plan, he said, the only way TO remove
man from the school board was TO
XIII him or wait until hc dies. APP
poin;ment meaning usually that the
aDpointcc remains on the boa rd as long
as he wants to.
ON the roll CALL the members voted
as follows:
For tho hill-Dclegatcs Adams, A. s.;
Adams r. d; Baker, II. p: Baum,
Ben,tie. Rond, Ronham. Rowlcs. Brown
Ing, Thurman. cato. Clement. Coldiron,
Commns. Cook, Cornett, Cox. Edwards
Flanagan. Floyd. tii!pin. Goodwin. Cor
don, Harrison, Henley. Jctt. Love.
Lowry. II. G.: Lowry. NJ. X: Mann.
Mectze, Noland Page, Parr, Pence.
Phillips. Price. X. w; Rev. Roberts.
Russell Stcck. Stubhs Sutherland.
Swift. Turner. Walton. Williams Wit
ten and +. j. WriEht--total. 81?
Against tho bll-Delegates Baker,
W. w. Rcac. Hrrcil. Brewer. Bris-
tow, Brown. Buck, Burke. Crockett,
Davis Dodson. Epcs, Gatewood, Green,
Hall, Harris. Hobson, Iiorsley, IIundley.
Jones. Jordan, Kent Lcedy, Musgravc,
Myers, owen. ritts. Price. j. H.: Ram
sey. Reed Rolston, Shumate, Smith,
Sproul. Stant, stephenson. Taylor, TIFF
fany. Valentine. White, Wits. Wins
ton. Thomas Wright and Houston
total, a.
Delegate Murray announced that he
paired with Delegate Cousins.
Had the latter been present he would
have voted for tho bill. and Mr.. Muir
ray would have voted against it,
BILL. OFFERED AFFECTING
BEIT LINE PROBLEM
Richmond members introduced In the
House yesterday a bill which amends
the present law bearing upon the ap-
portionment OF the cost OF construct
ing street crossing across railroads.
The bill was drawn by City Attorney
Pollard. Of Richmond, and has been
referred to the Committee on Roads
and Internal Navigation.
The amendment provided by the bill
consists in striking from the present
law the provision that "the expense
shnll be borne equally by said corpora
tion and by the country. city or town
having control of such county road,
street or other highway" The law is
found In section 80. chapter 4, of the
Acts Of 1902-3-4.
Under this law. the Richmond. Fred-
cricksburg and Potomac Railroad Com
pany has served notice upon tho city
OF Richmond that 1t Will insist in the
courts on the city's bearing half the
expense incident to the extension of
the West End avonuos across the Belt