The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
FRANCHISES FOR CAR LINES
 DISCUSSED BY ALDERMEN

osition in saying that 1t would have the
 street paved from side to side with gravel except between the tracks which should be paved with vitriAed brick. Gunter Says Improve Service. Alderman Gunter favored granting the I franchise asked for. That 1t was needed, he said, was apparent to all He would vote for the ordinance, ne said, because | he had promised some of the new citizens of Montgomery thai. he would support the proposition to improve the street car ser | vice at Bainbridge Street. Cars frequently get blocked there. he said, and passen- gers going to the depot missed their trains.
 Aldtrman May moved 10 lay the report of the majority on the table. The report | was tabled by the close vote of to 6. The ordinance then came up on It's final | passage.
 Alderman Kohn offered an amendment
 providing that the company should pave
 the block on Bainbridge Street with wit rified brick.
 Appeals for Better Street. He said that the only difference between the Committee and the company was as to the paving of the street. The Com mittee wanted to have the company put down vitrified brick while the company | only wanted to replace the gravel with which the street is now paved. The Com
 mittee. he said. was willing to grant the franchise but it wanted the condition of the street improved.
 Bainbridge Street. Alderman Kohn said.
 was in bad condition due to the poo, | care the Street Railway Company took of it's tracks. The streets. he said. was greatly washed as large quantities oi , water poured down the street in rainy | weather. Alderman Rocder declared that the proposition to make the company pave a whole street for a franchise was novel | and unheard of. The Committee. he said had no right to try to strike trade with the company The Committee, he de- clared. had gone beyond its powers in this proposition.
 Aldermen Gunter and Hartley support. ed the ordinance without the amendment. They contended that the proposed inn provement was needed. and the franchise should be granted not so much for the | benefit of the street car company as for
 the benefit of the people of Montgomery. Resents Roeder's Remarks. Alderman Kohn resented the statement | of Alderman Roeder that the committee had exceeded its power and had made an
 unfair proposition to the street car com pany. The Alderman, he said, had put words into the mouths of members Of the committee which they had not used. 1 The committee had not promised the com pany a franchise, but had simply tried | to get the company to pave the street in the best possible way. This had been done again and again by committees of | the Council,
 President Fleming took the floor to ex- plain the committees report. and to an- | swer the statements of Alderman Reo- ! der.
 "The Alderman from Ward g." said | President Fleming. says that he does not care whether the Montgomery Street Railway Company gets the ordinance or | not, but he's working mighty hard fol
 the company. If he wants to lobby foI i the company, why doesn't he do 1t cut.
 side the Council chamber and not or | the fioor?'
 A motion to table the Kohn amendment
 v as lost by vote of ayes and nays.
 McIntyre's Point of Order.
 Alderman McIntyle thereupon made thj
 point that the Council was about tC l give the Street Railway Company fran
 chise that 1t did not want. He though l the clrCum 1 stances, go over until the next regular
 meeting of the Council, and his motior
 to that effect was adopted. | The report of the Street Committee lay. ing out the joint track on lower Com | inefce Street to be used by the Mont.
 gomcry Traction Company and the Mont. l gomery Street Railway come up under the head of unfinished business. Tn,
 report provided that the joint track should
 circle the underpass. the cars going down | on the east side and returning on the
 west side of the underpass. Alderman Mcintyre asked that consid-
 eration, of tho ordinance be held up until l he could offer a resolution. Mir. McIn. tye's resolution provided that before the franchise could be had the Montgomery Street Railway should agree to run the cars of its Cloverdale line to the depot. The resolution and the report were re- | committed to the Committee on Streets. To Extend Gar Lines. Alderman Hartley introduced two res olutions granting two franchises to the
 Montgomery Street Railway. One grants
 tho company the right to extend it's Jack
 son Street line to Hutchinson Street. a continuation of South Street, and the oth-
 CT grants the company the right to ex- tend its line on Hall Street from Douglas
 Street along Hall Street to the city linn it's.
 Alderman Kohn presented resolution
 instructing the City Attorney to prepare
 and have introduced at once in the Leg
 islature a bill authorizing the city of
 Montgomery to work~its cenvicts within
 a radius of ten miles of Montgomery in-
 stead of within two miles radius as at
 present. The resolution was adopted un-
 der a suspension of the rules.
 President Fleming announced that he
 would appoint on the special Entertain
 ment Committee to assist in entertaining
 the railroad engineers who are to meet
 here Tn May. Aldermen Hartley. Kohn
 and Anderson.
 The Council adjourned to meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon to consider the re- port of the Fire Committee on the pur- chase of d new hose wagon.