The age-herald., 1898-02-03
WATER COMPANY
 WAS SUMMONED To Show Cause Why the Investigation
 Should Not Proceed. SPECIAL GAS COMMITTEE Has Granted Further Time on Request
 Of Chairman Moore. LIQUOR LICENSE WAS REDUCED Alderman Altman Replied to Park Commis- sioner's Statement He Had Con-
 sented For City to Use Its
 Judgment AbontParks.

committee was given further time to re- port at the request of Chairman Moore, and it was resolved on Alderlnlln Dren- nens motion, that the Birmingham Wa terworks company be summoned to appear before the water Investigating committee on Friday at o'clock, and show cause why the Investigations against that com pany should not proceed. The other busi- ness of the board was routine.
 The board was called to order by Mayor Evans and the following aldermen were present: Lynagh, Wheeler, Rainbow, Kerr. Moore, Drennen, Altman, Graham, Ham, iltcn, Gray, Parker, Harrington and Hemtschel
 Lanes Communication
 A communication from A. O. Lane, chair man of the police commission, was read, asking that a special committee of the board be appointed to confer with the commission as to what steps could pe taken for the enlargement and betterment of the police force.
 Mayor Evans and Aldermen Gray, Pearce and Parker were the committee selected.
 The mayor announced the following standing committees of the board which are to hold good until the end of the pres ent administration. May, 1899.
 Finance and Accounts-Aldernnen Gray, Kerr, Graham. Pearce and Parker
 Juddciary-Aldermen Altman, Kerr Dren- nen, Pearce and Gray.
 Cemetery-Aldermen Meighan, Harring- ton, Rainbow Mcknight and Drennen.
 Street-G Graham, Moore, Medghan, Hents- chel, Wheeler and Parker.
 Fire Department and Water Service Lynagh, Ashford, Drennen, Pearce and Harrington.
 Miscellaneous-Moore, Hamilton, Neigh an, Wheeler and Hentschel.
 Markets-Rambow, Kerr, Hamilton, Alt man, Ashford, Meighan.
 Lights-Drennen Hamilton. Altman, Kerr, Moore and Williams.
 Street Railroads-McKnight, Moore, Par ker, Harrington and Williams. Police and Sanitation-Pearce, Gray, Ly- nagh, Meighan and Parker. Parks--Wiliams. Moore, Kerr, Graham, Altman and Hentschel.
 Reports of several of the city officials were read and filed. The mayor stated that his annual report in printed form would be distributed to the members of the board shortly.
 The miscellaneous committee, through Chairman Moore, recommended that the retail furniture license be reduced from $50 to $25, as 1t has been in previous years; that the Southern Toilet Supply company be granted a $15 license; that the Tennes- see Packing company be granted $75 license. provided it was paid before the next meeting of the board, and that the license charged the Birmingham Compress company in 1897 for running a store house be remitted. All of these were concurred in by the board.
 The Wholesale Liquor License The committee further recommended that the license for wholesale dealers in vinous and spitituous liquors exclusively, where the same are sold in not less than quart measures or bottles, shall be $4O0. The wholesale liquor people had their repre- sentatives there, but they accepted the above recommendation very gracefully, and the much discussed liquor license for 1898 is now settled.
 l'ne committee also recommended the following ordinance.
 "Be It Ordained by the Mayor and Alder men of Birmingham, That subdivision 11S of section 1 of the annual license schedule be annulled so as to read as follows: Re- tail dealers in malt liquors, $250 and any spitituous or vinous liquors given away forfeits license.'"
 The street railroad committee announced that 1t will meet this morning at o'clock to discuss and take action on the matter of the repairs of the Twenty-second street bri Ige of the Highland Avenue and Belt railway, and on the Behren Park line of the Birmingham Railway and Electric com pany. The committee will also investigate at that time the tearing up of section of the Powderly dummy line by this company.
 The ordinance providing for the payment of the sanitary sewer on the South High lands beginning at Highland avenue and Ash stree, ans extending to Sycamore street, was passed. The cost of this sewer is to be assessed against the property hold CTS that are benefited. The property own- CTS will be given from one to ten years in which to pay this.
 Altman Replies to Enslen
 Alderman Altman made the following privileged statement which was entered upon tn, nute.':
 II IS CldllnSu bJ V. ISISiCH that III my remarks in reference to the park commis- sion a few weeks ago, did him an injus- tice. I wish to state that l certainly did not intend to do so. My remarks were en- tirely impersonal. Indeed, did not know MT. Enslen was on that commission when the remarks were made. I simply said that the committee on parks and the park commission had not done .feir duty, and that it was time and money thrown away to have the pa ks managed as they had been. If there was any injustice in this, 1t cons isted in my failure to say as much as ought to hay, cen said. charged no wrong doing to anyone, but only failure to do what ought to have been done.
 1T understood that this failure was main- l.rl lra.nlr .,f. rixLI