The Washington times., 1923-02-16
ORDINANCESFOR
ALEXANDRIA
URGED
Judge Duyall Tells City coun-
ell How to Avoid Giving
Up Fines to State.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. 16.-An
addition of seventeen ordinances to
the Alexandria city code was recon.
naended last night by Judge F. G..
Duvall before the regular meeting
of the city council.
Judge DuvaIl said unless the
ordinances were passed the city
would be forced to turn over to the
State several thousand dollars in
fines collected each year.
Last year $13,021.99 was paid
into the city Golfers from fines col
lected under State laws, which
under the existing law, must be re-
paid to the State.
As none OF this money has been
turned into the State Treasury,
Judge Duvall was yesterday in
structed by Secretary of Com
monwealth. B o. James to make a
monthly accounting to the State,
with a. check to cover all fines col
lected by the city.
If the ordinances are passed,
Judge Duvall pointed out, the fines
will be collected under City regula-
ton and not under State laws.
The ordinances recommended for
immediate passage cover the fol-
lowing: Carrying of concealed
weapons; street solicitations for inl-
moral purposes; minors in pool
rooms; SANDER and libel; adultery:
cruelty to animals; casting dead
animals in public streets; injury TO
property, personal and real; swear
ing In public places; drunkenness
in !. streets; disorderly conduct on
railway trains, or street cars;
gambling; slot machines; operating
automobile while drunk; regulation
Of junk dealers; petty larceny and
assault and battery.
Any arrests made for any of the
above offenses must, at the present
| time, be tried under State laws, the
revenue from which must go to the
State, and to which, according to
Judge Duvall, the State is not justly
entitled, as the city bears the cost
of court administration.
A committee of three, named by
the council to draft the ordinances,
consisted of the following: w. M.
Rich, city manager; H. Noel Garner,
| city attorney, and Judge Duval1. The
committee was instructed by Mayor
Smoot to draft the proposed laws at
once, and he promised action on
them by the council at the next
meeting.
The appointment of w. III. Swee-
ney, former superintendent of
| schools, as assistant auditor at a
salary of $4,000 per annum, was
approved at last nights session Of
the council.
Recommendations for civic i'm
provements, fostered by the Alexare
dria Kiwanis Club, were made yes
terday at the clubs weekly luncheon.
The report by Chairman Chester
A. Gwinn, Of Group No. a, recon-
mended the following: The appoint
u1ent of a committee to cooperate
with a committee of the chamber OF
commerce to carry out program
| for the betterment of the city;"sec-
ond, that the club lend its moral sup
port to. school activities; third, that
/ trees be planted on Arbor Day at
the approach to Ivy Hill Cemetery;
fourth, that the White Way be ex-
tended to Union Station on King
street; fifth, that a grandstand
should be erected for band concerts.
M. B. Harlow, representing Car
| roll HlGFC6, CHAIRMAN VI dIlOIuSL
| booster group of the Kiwanis, made
a report recommending that the club
should cooperate more fully in the
| charity work of the city.
The publicity and convention bu-
reau of the chamOer of commerce
will meet tonight at o'clock. Mon,
day, at $3.50 the trade exhibit COM
| mittee will meet.
! Announcement was made today
that all of the exhibit space in the
March 1915 style show exhibition
has been sold.
One Of the largest allotments in
the exhibit has gone to the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company
of New York, which will supply
nurses for practical demonstrations
on hygiene. Dancing will be held
every evening.
The $12.0OO.000 State bond issue
will be explained Tuesday, February
90, by Charles Henry Smith, State
IIaUialafOr I'm a rne0Ch before the