The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
CITY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE MEETS May be Minority Report To-
 morrow Night MUST PAY POLL TAXES None Can Vote In the City Primary Who Have Not Poll Tax Re-
 ceipts, Though Reg
 lstered.
MUST PAY POLL TAXES

The city democratic executive commit tee will! meet tomorrow night In the coun- cil chamber at the city hall, the object or the meeting being to provide for the mu- nicipal election in Birmingham, to adopt such resolutions as 1t seems advisable 10 the committeeman and to transact any other business that may properly come before it.
 The executive committee met last Mon day night, but took no further action than to adopt a resolution that the names of the candidates for chief of police go on the ticket in addition to the candidates for mayor, aldermen and police comms- sioners, and to appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions to be presented tomorrow night at the reconvening of the committee. p.D
 The subcommittee met Friday night at the city hall and agreed to five resolu- tions which provide for the holding Of a ..imary on the second of March the | placing of the names of candidates for chief of police on the ticket. recommenda- tlons to abolish the police commission, indorsing municipal ownership of water works and indorsing the movement for Greater Birmingham.
 The meeting of the subcommittee was in striking contrast to the stormy scenes that characterized the executive commt- lee at it's meeting Monday night That meeting was war between two factions from the beginning to the closing of the session.
 Minority Report. Whether a factional fight will be made at the meeting tomorrow night is largely matter of conjecture. It Is possible that a minority report will be made on the question as to the placing of candidates names on the ticket, several on the com mittee favoring having the names of candidates for captain and lieutenant of police also put on the ticket. If a minor ity report Is submitted 1t may mean that another stormy session will follow. If on the other hand no minority report is made 1t is possible that everything will run more smoothly during the committee meeting than before.
 One of the controversies about which there has been so much talk has been set tied, that is the matter of placing the names of candidates for chief of police on the ticket It is probable a fight may come up on the resolution recommending the abolishment of the police commis- sion.
 Must Pay Poll Tax.
 To vote In the primary and city elec- tion, and in fact any election during the year 1903, a voter Is required to have settled his poll tax bill by the first of February. He may be armed with a registration certificate. but unless he has paid his poll tax he will be barred from voting at the polls. At present only about coo people In Birmingham have paid their poll tax. Last year about 3OOD paid the tax
 The probable number of votes that will be boiled at the primary can be gauged by the number who have paid their poll tax at the court house. It is expected that after the meeting of the committee tomorrow night the campaign in city politics will open up in earnest. All are waiting for the action of the committee, and then the candidates will begin the real work of the days intervening before the date for the primary.