The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-02
THE CITY MUST STAND 1T.
ALDERMEN AFRAID TO TACKLE
TIE GOAT NUISANCE.

TIE GOAT NUISANCE.
Alderman Bailey Makes a Fight for
His Ordinance, but the Council
Tables 1.-THE An-DevourinR Beast
Given Free License Under a Dead
Letter Law to Roam at VIII and Eat
Up Everything That Comes in His
Way.
The goat ordinance Of Alderman Bailey
caused considerable merrlment in the city
council and among the spectators last
night.
As soon as Clerk Rebarer finished reading
the ordinance, and Mayor HcDonough had
announced it on its passage, Alderman Bal
ley, its mover, said that be did not think
there was any necessity for explaining the
reasons which had prompted the intro
duction Of the ordinance. He believed
every member Of the council 10 be familiar
with the destructive propensities of the goat
an animal which is at all times ready to
tackle anything from green shrubbery to
an old boot, and the running Of trees and
flower gardens is sufficient evidence of its
wonderful digestive capacity and destruct-
i've ability.
A general ripple OF laughter greeted
| Alderman Bailey, which gave way TO up
roarious merriment on the reading of the
following amendment, offered by Alderman
Cam and seconded by Alderman Mcclure:
Whenever goat is caught in front of a
residences having a hitchIng post attached,
1t shall be the duty Of the party catching
said goat to at once hitch him or her TO the
said post"
RAP AT ALDERMAN BAILEY.
This amendment was offered by Alder
man Cam as a pleasant rap at the hitching
post ordnance of Alderman Bailey, adopted
few minutes before, and which he had OPP
posed.
Alderman Bailey said he had heard Alder
man Cam repeatedly swear at the goats
himself, and Alderman Carson remarked
that he did not believe Alderman Cam was
In earnest in offering such an amendment.
This brought Alderman Cam to his feet
with The remark that be was in earnest. He
could not see. he said. why goats, as well as
horses, should not be hitched TO hitchiDg
posts TO prevent them from running trees
Alderman Carson did not think there was
any necessity for pressing the ordinance at
the present time, and he was in favor of
letting it lie on the table for six months
anyhow.
CoRNERING THE GOATS ALREADY.
Already small boys, with the hope of re-
ward, he understood. had been capturing
goats and keeping them in yards waiting
until the ordinance would become a
law, when they would deliver
then at the pound for the reward. Alder
man Carson said he would rather have.an
ordinance allowing people to kill goats
wherever they found them committing
depredations on their property, the slayers,
Of course, to remove the defunct animal be
You'd the corporate limits of the city.
Alderman Bailey replied that if he under
took to kill goat he would, in all proba-
bility, be brought before the courts and
fined for carrying concealed weapons, and
in the end it might cost him about $40. The
reason he had Incorporated the section about
paying people for capturing the animals was
because he did not consider the police force
equal to the task. The alderman had been
living on Hall street for fifteen years, and
in that time he has never seen policeman
in his neighborhood, but he has seen innu,
nlerable goats.
TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
Alderman Bailey wanted it distinctly I'M
dsrstood that he is not trying to drive the
goat from the city or say that the people
shall not own SUCH animals if they want to.
What he is after 10 to keep the goats from
running at large. II any one desires to
have a goat, lot the animal be kept
In the yard, and fed on some other
| material than the city's young
trees. sto the remark of Alderman Cam in
putting goats on the same footing as horses
| iubeing hitched to posts, Alderman Bailey
! said that every one knew that horses were
not allowed to run at large through the
| streets, and the proposition in that respect
| was ridiculous.
At the conclusion Of Alderman Bailey's
| remarks Alderman Cam said he would
withdraw his amendment, provided Alder
| man MoGuire, who had seconded it, had no
| objection. The latter gave the necessary
permission. and Alderman Carson immedi-
| ately made a motion to lay the ordinance
| on the table. The motion was adopted with
but one dissenting vote, that of Alderman
Bailey.
1t was suggested by some of those in at
| tendance ON the meeting that possibly the
| aldermen were looking forward to re-
election, and did not care to antagonize the
proprietors of goats.