Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-11-22

ent city charter, or drafting a new
one
This, of course will have to come
through the drafting of a bill for sub
mission to the coming session of the
Legislature which meets in January
and the point was driven home
strongly that no time can be lost
owing to the many issues involved.
that must he delved into thoroughly
and some of which will call for deli
cate handling.
Mayor Made Chairman
The joint committee organized BY
naming Mayor Levy as permanent
chairman, and Frank r. Smith, city
clerk, as permanent clerk to record
the proceedings and deliberations that
are 10 follow. Eight of the ten mem
bers of the Charter Commission were
on hand for the meeting Those were
Frank w. Stronger, former Mayor
James r. Strange, Major Hugh r
Riley, William l.. Marcy, Dr. Walton
II. Hopkins. l.. Dorsey Gassayaw, 7
Roland NJ Brown, Joseph NJ. Arm
strong. The absentees were States
Attorney Nicholas H. Green, and
Clayton Brewer.
Discussions We're Widespread
Nearly every member of the join
bodies participated in the discussions
at one time or another. and course
OF action was finally laid downs
through the fact that chairman Levy
was empowered to name committee
of from ; to members, 10 handle
the different matters for inquiry, anG
thereby facilitate the drafting of the
proposed BILL for the changes in, or
proposing a new charter. The pre-
liminary discussions led up to Mayor
Levy making two suggestions which
he regarded as Of primary importance
These. he said, are whether the city
should adopt commission fern o
government; or secondly, reducing The
membership of the Council from two
to one alderman from each ward.
This latter move would make the
Council consist of a Mayor. counselor
and four aldermen. or total OF 8, as
compared to 10 as at present.
Referring to the question of the old
charter and whether or not new one
should be drawn, a number of those at
tending the meeting participated in the
discussions and there was genera
agreement that there were many
things that could be changed. Coun-
selor Rullman was among those who
took the floor in this regard. and in his
remarks he referred particularly as re-
CARDS the bad features pertaining to
election regulations Major Hugh r
Riley, addressing the meeting, at this
point referred TO the fact that he was
quite familiar with the charter, since
he was the City Counselor and re-
codifed the book, and said that now
that this move had been launched, l.
should be pushed to the very limit. In
this connection he referred TO former
movements of the sort at which ques
tions had been referred to committees
of two and three members, and that III
each instances they amounted tC
naught. He referred to the short time
thta now remains, and that everything
should be handled carefully, yet as ex
peditiously as possible.
L. Dorsey Gassaway advanced the
suggestion that various matters to b.
touched upon should be placed in the
hands of a general committee, and af
ter that body had conducted thorough
;nnuirv fhan ranort hacly tn tha m air
body. This brought forth a good deal
of discussion, but ii was finally agreed
that the subject matters could best be
handled. by separate committees o.
small membership.
Joseph N. Armstrong, one of the
members of the Charter Commission
head of the League of Government