The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-18
OLD GOES OUT: NEW COMES IN Transfer of City Affairs
 Tuesday. i CARR SUCCEEDS JOSEPH Mayor Has Ten Unappr0ved Ordinances Before Him. Time for Signing or Rejecting Them Laps Over Into New Admin
 istration An Interesting
 Question Involved.

Tuesday morning Thomas H. Carr will assume control ot the affairs of Mont gomery as Mayor and Edwin Boyce Jo- seph. twice Mayor of Montgomery, will retire from office
 Soon after Mayor-elect Carr sits in the comfortable executive chair at the City
 Hall he will announce appointments of subordinate city officials. It is under stood that the list has been completed. Mir. Carr has said that he would not in- innate the names of any of these officials, or perform any other act bearing on city affairs until he becomes Mayor of Mont. gomery in fact.
 The old City Council will hold it's last meeting tomorrow night. At this meet ing annual reports of all city officials will be submitted to the retiring city fath- CTS and Mayor Joseph will transmit his annual, and at the same time his fare- well message, to the Council. This mes- sage will give an accounting of his stew ardshlp and will review the work of the various departments of the city govern ment
 Late yesterday evening Mayor Joseph and his Private Secretary J. R. G. Ivey, were busy in the Mayors once.
 We have much work to doS' said the Mayor. but this desk will be clear Mon- day night. I propose to have everything cleaned up for Mir. Carr.'
 It was said at the City Hall that a mass of business had accumulated for consideration by the outgoing City Coun- ell Monday night. It is probable the ses- sion will continue until late in the night.
 The new City Council has no life until midnight Monday but the new Aldermen will gather at the City Hall tomorrow evening and will hold Democratic eau GUS. At this meeting the subordinate of- ficers who are elected by the Council will be nominated and, of course. the nomina- tions will be equivalent to an election. All members of the Council being Demo- crats there will be no dissenting voices when the nominees are confirmed. The contests, If there be any, will take place in the caucus.
 The first regular meeting Of the new Council will be held Monday night of next | week but a special meeting may be called. The new Council must confirm or reject l the appointments made by MT. Carr. Meanwhile an interesting condition has arisen at the City Hall Ten ordinances ! adopted by the City Council at its meet | ing last Monday night are on the desk or | Mayor Joseph. He has not signed them. He has ten days in which to approve or veto them. The ten days lap over into | the administration of Mayor-eleet Carr. I one of these ordinances, would Mayor i elect Carr have the authority to approve | them?
 This is a question being asked by per l sons interested in the ordinances. | Mayor Joseph says not. He says this condition arose when he went into of- | flee, and the then City Attorney, Capt. l E. A. Graham advised him that the or | dinances must go to the new Council and pass through the same course as new or | dinances.
 There are lawyers who disagree with | Captain Graham.
 | Among the ordinances on Mayor Je-
 sephs desk is a measure making flat | wate rate for the Young Men s | Christian Association, St Marga- | ret's Hospital, the City Infirmary. Hale l Infirmary and other eleemosynary institu- | tions. This ordinance had a precarious | existence before 1t was finally passed by | the Council. There is said to be grave doubt as to Mayor Joseph's attitude te- | ward 1t.