The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-20
CITY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
 CALLS PRIMARY FOR MARCH 2
Continued from Fifth Paae)

as 1t stood, and then a motion was made to adopt the report as far as the first section was concerned. This motion was carried by vote of 15 to ?, Committee man Altman stating that he would pre- fer not to vote on the question.
 The first vote to amend the first sec- tion was as follows:
 Ayes-Horan, Turner, O'Neill Dryer, Antwine, McCloud, Altman McAllister, White, Longshore, Shropshire and Hare. Noes-Newton, Moore, Abernathy, Whe- Ian, Gregg and Burkhalter.
 In the motion to reconsider the above amendment was almost unanimous. It was not counted.
 A vote was then made that the commit tee adopt the first section of the sub- committees report, and the members voted as follows
 Aye-Horan, Turner, o'Neill. Antwine, Newton, Moore, Abernathy, Whean, Gregg, Burkhalter, McAlllster, White, Longshore. Shropshire and OHare.
 Noes-Dryer and McCloud. Altman did not vote.
 To Abolish Commission.
 The committee also voted on the re- mainder of the report, adopting 1t as 1t stood. The only other fight was on the second section, which is as follows:
 Whereas, the law creating the board of police commission of Birmingham has been given a fair test by all the citizens therein. and
 Whereas. it is the sense of this com mittee that it has been proved inadequate and inopperative in many and material respects, in that the department of police is placed under two heads, namely. the board of police commissioners and the board of mayor and aldermen, thereby placing the responsibility and liability upon neither of the aforesaid boards. and which has brought about constant fric- tion between them, the result being that the citizens of the city of Birmingham have not had the proper police protec- ton, the direct result of the division of the above authorities; therefore be 1t
 Resolved, That 1t is the sense of the democratic executive committee that the law creating said board of police com missioners be repealed and that the police department of this city be placed under the complete control of the members of the board of mayor and aldermen; and further that the members of the legis- lature from this county be requested to use their influence in having the afore- said law repealed.
 Be it further resolved, That the ques- ton as to whether said board of police commissioners be abolished and placed under the control of the board of mayor and aldermen be submitted to the people at our next democratic primary" The Discussion. In this connection MT. Burkhalter stated that he did not think the people cared about voting on the abolishing of the police commission, and said that he did not think it was necessary to put the question before the people. John w. O'Neill stated that he thought | the people were greatly interested and that he had heard a number of business men state that they were not satisfied | with the police commission and that 1t | and the board of aldermen were constant | ly at outs and that this was injurious He offered a substitute that the people | be allowed to vote on the question of | abolishing the police commission. MT. Abernathy explained that the re- port of the committee provided for this and he thought the amendment was use- less. The substitute received only eight votes. with eleven against 1t. Those who voted against the motion stated that they did so because the report of the committee provided for the people voting on the question. It was stated by those opposed to the report that they did not think the committee had a rigt to pass on the police commission and to censure 1t as severely as the report did.
 The vote on the substitute was:
 Ayes-O Neill, Dryer. McCloud. Newton. Moore, Gregg and Burkhalter-eight
 Noes-Horan. Turner, Antwine. Aber- nathy, Whelan, Altman. McAllster, White Longshore, Shropshire and O'Hare eleven.
 The previous question was called after