Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
THEY VOTED NINE ID SR
 ! 0utskirt Saloons Will Not Be Li- censed PromiScuouSIy. '
 ] THE MEETING OF THE BOARD Several Ministers Were Present Last Night and Spoke Against the Liquor Trafic-At-
 torneys for Saloon Men.


 VanHoose regarding the issuance of H. censes to saloons for 1S96 It will be re- membered by readers of the State Her. aid that the mayor urged the restriction of outskirt saloons within certain locali-t ties. The matter was referred to the po-' lice and sanitation committee, before whom the mayor and counsel for the sa- loon men appeared, the former speaking for the recommendation and the latter against it. The committee held an ex- ecutive session afterwards for the pur- pose of formulating report.
 After the meeting was called to order last night Alderman McCartin stated that the report of the majority of the committee recommended non-concur- renee in the mayors recommendation. He also stated that one of the committed desired to enter minority report indors- ing the mayors recommendation.
 Among the visitors present were:
 Dr. G. C. Kelley, First Methodist; Dr. P. T. Hale, Southsde Baptist; Dr. B. D. Gray, First Baptist; pr. S. M Hosmer, presiding elder of Birmingham district, Methodist Episcopal church, south; pr. John Barbour, South Highlands/ Presby- terian, and Capt. A. B. Johnston and Att torneys F. S. White and L. c. Dickey. were also present.
 The following resolution was offered to the board by Rev John Barbour:
 To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Af-
 dermen of the City of Birming ham
 Gentlemen: The Pastors union of this city, at a meeting this afternoon, adopted the following resolution and petition, viz:
 Resolved, That the Pastors union of this city heartily approve and indorse the efforts of the mayor to confine the sa- looms within such limits as can be proper ly policed. We are unanimously of the opionion that public safety, as well as the highest welfare of the city, financially, socially and morally, demand this req sonable restriction of the liquor traffic, and in thus expressing ourselves we be- lieve we voice the sentiments of a large majority of the order-loving citizens of our community. We, therefore, respectfully petition our worthy and honorable board of aldermen, as the guardians and trustees of these great interests, to concur in the recom- mendations of the mayor on this subject.
 D. B. GRAY, President.
 JOHN BARBOUR, Secretary.
 Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 30, 1895. pr. B. G. Kelley urged the board to adopt the mayors recommendation. He and their constituency, and the approval of the police commission and the sheriff. The loss in revenue he considered a mat ter of minor importance when compared with the injury which he deemed the sa- looms inflicted on the community. The other ministers present also spoke in favor of the recommendation. Dr. Ware read a resolution passed by the Baptist pastors conference urging the board to accept the mayors recom- mendation.
 Capt. A. B. Johnston spoke also in fa- vor of 1t. Said he in that connection: q want to call the attention of the board to one feature of this question that you probably have not thought of. It Is this: There Is a sentiment in the south that is easily aroused, and when once 1t is aroused it may do great harm. We saw this in the Hawes riot begged young men in the office to stay away from the jail that night, but some of them would not heed me. Now if you don't stop these injuries to the people you may arouse that feeling, and it may take larger police force than you have at hand to successfully resist that power If the question comes before me again. in the event that you give no relief, I don't know that I would say word. Men will not tolerate nuisances forever that terroriZe their wives and menace their homes, and they may appeal to the high CT power of their own wills and break up and burn the places if necessary. don't believe in local option or prohibi- tion and am not discussing the subject from that standpoint, because it has been
 
 prohibit. God gives man the full free road to go to hell if he deliberately de- cides to do so, and since God gives him that right, why should not man do like wise? Give him his rights and liberties but don't give him the license to injure other people, to invade my home with his eyil-to frighten our women and children with his drunkenness. Liquor impels men to violence, and the outskirt dens where the low drinking is carried on 41a cyhn hn Tn H within certain limits and properly po- liced. So if a man on the outskirts must have a drink, let him go down to First avenue if necessary"
 MT. Will Garrett, speaking as a police commissioner, said that the police force was not large enough to properly patrol the saloons as they now are, but he deemed the force sufficient to police the saloons confined within the territory em- braced in the recommendation.
 Alderman Jones submitted minority report indorsing the recommendation with an altera ton which takes in four saloons near the prescribed line.
 Attorney Frank s. White was granted the floor on behalf of his clients.
 'T have quite a hard task" said he, "this evening" just as I had the other af- ternoon. I was arrayed against the mayor then before the committee and now find before me a body of men for whom I have great love and respect-my. friends of the ministerial cloth. But. gentlemen of the board, they labor under a misapprehension. They are fighting this question as an evil, as an evil per SC. Now, if that was the issue I don't know but that I might be with you. Il would be over there with the preacrers. T
 pr. Gray-That's where you ought tol be now.
 "But, my friends" said Captain White, ''the question is whether it is right and just to allow the sale of whisky on First avenue and prohibit the sale on the out-l skirts. My friend, Capt. A. B. Johnston.l spoke of the low class that frequentsI these saloons. Why, to my idea if jus7 tice, a drunken man on First avenue, bel he dressed in a swa11ow-tail coat and al silk hat, is just as much of a beast as the drunken beast in the outskirts.
 Now. there's another question. Ten of these saloons are within a stone's throw