Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-16
TIE EXCITEMENT ALL OVER, And Some People Went Away
 Awfully Mad. THE NEW CITY OFFICERS Selected by the Mayor and Board of ermen-Other
 Business Transacted.
THE NEW CITY OFFICERS

 ton, Duncan. Enslen, Jackson, Kettig, McCarin, Gillespie, Meade, Parker, Sims and Jones.
 Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with on motion of Alderman Ward.
 Mayor vanHoose reco ommended that the salary of the city auditor and clerk be fixed at a sum not to exceed S75 month, which, on motion of Alderman Kettig, was adopted.
 He also recommended that the offices of market clerk and night watchman be con solidated, and that they be under com mand of the day warden, the salary to be S35 per month. Concurred in.
 He also recommended that the positions of porter and rodman be made one and the salary for the same be $20 per month. Concurred in.
 Alderman UIlman came In while the mayor was reading this recommendation.
 The mayor also recommended that the offices of street tax collector, poll tax col ? lector and license inspector be com Joined and the office made a salaried one, the sal ary not to exceed i75 month.
 Mir. Ullman said that he was in favor of the recommendation as whole, but did not think that one man should be clothed with he power to fix the taxable values.
 MT. Kettig said the merchants themselves
 
 assessor had nc power to change it. lie said it was a matter that came under the power of the finance committee to alter the valuations.
 MT. Gillespie said the mayor and board of aldermen could change the values, if necessary, either by lowering or raising the amount.
 The recommendation was concurred in.
 MT. Enslen offered the following resolu- tion:
 Pa if raaoIrad hy tho maUor and alder- men tf EirI ingham, Ala, That the time fixed for issuing executions for col lection of 1894 city taxes be and is hereby extended to January 15, 1895.
 MT. McCartin said that about one-third of the taxes had been paid and more than 50 per cent of the tax payers had paid. Those who had paid were among the poorer classes. Those who had not paid their taxes were better able to pay, aud as she mayor had advertised that taxes must be paid by December 15 he would oppose the resolution. He moved to lay the rescIu- ton on the table.
 Mir. Kettig offered an amendment fixing the time at January l, 1895, but MT. Ems len refused to accept it. 1t was seconded by Mir. Sims.
 Mir. Meade didn't see the necessity of passing any resolution on thas subject, AS there was . law covering it and the taxes were already delinquent.
 Mir. McCaitin said that when the hard times came on us the mayor and aldermen got together and agreed not to order exc cutions issued and the taxes were carried over until the 1st of July of the present year.
 MT. Gillespie wanted the matter left with the mayor and the finance committee.
 Mir. Elslen insisted on his resolution, and MT. Kettig withdrew his amendment. The vote resulted in 8 for and against the resolution, the mayor not voting. The following resolution was also offered by Mir. Enslen:
 Be it resolved by the mayor and aldermen of Birmingham, Ala. That it is the sense command to pay promptly the interest on its bonded debt as 1t natures.
 Mir. McCartin offered as a substitute the following:
 Be it resolved by the mayor and board of aldermen of Birmingham, That the sum of s95, 100 be and is hereby set aside and sacredly appropriated out of the reve- nues of the city of Birmingham for the purpose of meeting the interest Un the out standing bonds of said city. Said sum to be set aside in monthly installments to meet said interest as may be required.
 Be it further resolved, That for the faithful carrying out of thls arrangement, the mayor Is hereby authorized and re- purpose of procuring funds for the payment of this interest. In case ofa deficit or de- linquency in he income of the city, said notes shall be first preferred prior claim on all incomes of the city, from whatever source, which shall have preference over all the claims against the city and shall bear interest at the rate of per cent per apnum.
 Mir. UIlman moved to strike out the words ''and sacredly appropriated in the first paragraph and "faithful'' in the sec- ond, as they were superhuous.
 Mir. Enslen said that the reason he offered the resolution was that the AGE-HERALD, in it's report of Friday nights meeting or the board of education, stated that the mayor favored defaulting the interest on it's bonded debt.
 Mayor VanHoose-The AGE- HERALD did me gross injustice, aud so inform the reporter now.
 MT. Kettig said he was not opposed to the McCartin resolution, but the matter should be thoroughly considered. He didn't think an entire years income sh hould be appropriated at one meeting without mature deliberation. He didn't want the to go to the finance committee and be further considered. He moved the adop- tion of the original resolution.
 Mir. McCartin said there was nothing in the Enslen resolution; it was snare and a delusion. Interest on the bonded debt was falling due every month. He wanted the interest met as 1t fell due.
 Mir. Uilman was both sorry and glad this question had been precipitated. He was glad because, as MT. Enslen had said, it had been teleeraphed to New York that the city would default. This false impression could now be corrected. The Enslen reso- lution was not sufficient. He wanted some action taken that would convince the busi- ness world that the board would see that the interest on the debt would be met. The board cannot better convince the bus iness world tEat this interest will be met than by adopting this resolution, setting aside sufficient amount each month to meet it.
 MT. Gillespie wanted to go on record as favoring the payment of the interest as it 5alls due. He opposed going into the hinulie of fhis business at called meet pg this early. He asked why not make bis resolution cover two, four or eight
 srs as WelIas one.
 Nil, Meade offered as a substitute for the hole question the following: Resolved. That the sum of saoO0 ba md