The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-18
CHURCH WILL FIGHT
AGAINST COUNCIL GRANTING HOR-
TON LIQUOR LICENSE.
ANOTHER LIQUOR FIGHT ALSO BE-
FORE THE COUNCIL.

Aldermen Will Hear Evidence on
Question of Granting Liquor Lii
censes and the Contest Promises
to be Warm-PetitiOn of Druggists
Will Go to the Committee of the
WhOIe-PrOtest Against Park Ave-
nue. Paving Not Strong Enough to
Cause Change in PIans-Ordinnnce
VIII Probably be Passed without
Trouble.
Although the members of City Coun-
Gil will hurry through with their work
at the regular meeting tonight, so as
to be able to attend the Hussars Ba-
zaar, there are several interesting mat
ters scheduled to come up. Unless some
of these matters are postponed Coun-
Gill will be in session as long as usual.
Two fights for licenses to retail liquor
promise to make up the liveliest part
of the programme that will be fol-
lowed. K P. Horton has quite a num-
Der of persons behind him who think
that he should be granted a license
to retail liquor on Duffy and Jefferson
streets. Grace Church and it's friends
are conducting the fight against Hor-
tons application, on the ground that
the place is within a block of the
church. Both sides will fight hard and
will be given a hearing by the alder
men.
Horton Liquor License Fight.
fight is being made against the
granting of a license to Z. L. Stevens
on Wayne and Jefferson streets. For
several weeks efforts have been made
by different persons to secure a liquor
license for this place. On one occasion
member of the bar filed application
for the license. He withdrew. his APP
plication, however, when he discover
ed that he had no chance to get what
he wanted. Arguments pro and con
viii also be heard in this case.
1t is probable that the request of the
Druggists Association for the names,
ages and addresses of persons who Sc
cure medicine at the city dispensary
Will be referred back to the Committee
of the Whole. The petition from the
druggists was read at the last meet
ing of Council and was turned over to
the Committee on Public Health. That
committee has taken no action on the
petition and it has been stated will put
iN'NNtACAA
the Whole. A majority of the board
seem to be in favor of refusing to
grant the request made by the drug
gists.
Protest Against Paving
protest will be read against the
paving of Park avenue as contemplate
ed by an ordinance read for the first
time at the last meeting of Council
Despite this protest the ordinance will
be read for the second time and will
probably be passed. The protest, it is
believed, will not be sufficiently strong
to cause the members of Council to
change their minds on the subject.
There was some talk of passing an
ordinance fixing a tax on emigration
agents doing business in Savannah, but
it is not now believed that this mat
ter Will come up. The state law re-
quireS a license of $500 for each coun-
ty in which business is done, and it
had been suggested that the city put
an additional tax on these agents, and
make their business prohibitory. The
agitation grew out of the wholesale
shipment of negro domestics from Sa-
Vannah to New York. The other set
matters that will be taken up by
Council comprise the routine business.