The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-08
ORDINANCE
 IS REPEALED Tax of County Script Buy
 CTS Killed. PRIVILEGE WAS ABUSED
Action Was Recommended by the Grand Jury.
Ordinance Repeating License Was Unanimously Adopted by the City Council at Meeting Last Night.
 Business Was an Evil.

By unanimous vote the Montgomery City Council last night repealed the ordi- nance fixing a lice nse for Ipersons engag- ed in buying and selling witness End jury certificates and other paper sometimes de- scribed as County script. Heretofore the license for this business has been $l5O a year and the purpose of repeating the ordinance altogether is to as far as pos sible break up the practice of dealing In these certificates or to permit any per sons who desire to do so to buy or sell them.
 Several weeks ago the County grand jury recommended that the City Council of Montgomery reduce the license in the hope that competition of business would stop the practice. Soon after this recommendation an ordinance was fram- ed reducing the license from $150 to $oO and this ordinance was presented to the Council last night for its passage.
 Alderman Rushton, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. said he had ap- proved of the ordipance when It was framed but cince that time he had re- ceived information of the abuse of the privilege of buying and selling County certificates and he therefore sent up an amendment fixing the license at $lO a year. instead of $50 as provided by the but one man was engaged in the business and that he was interfering with the ad- ministration of justice at the County court house. This he declared was bad state of affairs and the city should not he a party to it.. Roth Judges of the City Court, he said. were anxious that the license be reduced so as to affect the practice as far as possible.
 Alderman Gunter said he heartily sec orded the amendment of Aid srman Rush. ton and Alderman Anderson said 1t seem ed to him that it would he still better to repeal the ordinance altogether.
 Alderman Rushton then declared that in his opinion the suggestion of Alderman Anderson was good one. He withdrew his amendment and was preparing ar when Alderman Fleming called Alder. man Kohn to the Presidents desk and went upon the fioor
 Alderman Fleming said he was opposed to repeating the ordinance unless 1t was made effective October 1. If 1t was re- pealed at once the city, he said would have to repay two persons already II censed part of the $50 they had paid into the city treasury and this. he said, look ed to him like short-sighted business poi icy. He said he would vote for the repeal if 1t was made effective October l and Alderman Rushton said he would accept the amendment
 Alderman Gunter took issue with Alder man Fleming. He said if the business was an evil the city should get rid of it at once: if 1t was not an evil the city should not get rid of it at all. He though 1t was a great evil and he moved tc strike out the Fleming amendment mak- ing the repeal effective October l.
 The motion of Alderman Gunter was lost by the following vote.
 Ayes-Messrs Anderson. Gunter, Hay good. Hudson. May. Roeder-6
 Nays-Messrs. Fleming. Cheney. Far ley. Hartley, Kohn. Mcintyre. RIlshton. Toole-S.
 The ordinance repeating the license or dinance was t.,er unanimously adopts l. It goes into effect October l.