The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-03
MONTGOMERY ALDERMEN
 HAD A BUSY SESSION

ordinance be adopted. The first vote was | taken on the adoption of the minority l report. This was defeated, ayes 1, nays To- | Alderman Mcintyre offered an amend ment to the ordinance that 1t should be declared void if at this time the Mont- gomery Street Railway Company had con solidated or was under a contract to con- solidate with any other street car com pany operating in Montgomery. The amendment was lost, only four Aldermen voting for it.
 Gunter Wants Restrictions.
 Alderman Gunter submitted an amend ment declaring that the ordinance should not be operative unless the company re- moved its cross-over in front of Nach- man and Mertiefs store on the Avenue. He said in offering the amendment that the purpose for which the cross-over was built was best served by the additional curve and that it was no longer neces- sary.
 The amendment was lost. three alder men only voting for 1t.
 The ordinance was adopted, ayes Il, nays 3.
 The Council had not with the adoption of the ordinance finished with its street car business. The ordinance, pending in the Council for the past two meetings, which grants the Montgomery Street Railway the right to build an additional track on Bainbridge Street came up. It authorizes the company to build a con meeting track from its north track on Dexter Avenue to its tracks on Wash ington Street.
 To Make Company Pave.
 The majority of the Committee which reported the ordinance attached a condi- ton to the granting of the ordinance, that the company should pave that block of Bainbridge Street with yitri1ed brick This condition was the subject of much discussion. The Council favored the or dinance some Aldermen insisting on the condition. while others thought that the city should not make such demand.
 Alderman Roeder was opposed to the amendment which embodied the condi- ton. It was unheard of, he said, to make the Street Car Company pave a whole street.
 Alderman Gunter declared that the new track on Bainbridge Street would be of great benefit to the people of Montgom- cry and of Highland Park. There was at all times. he said. a congestion of street car traffic at the Capitol, with its attendant delay.
 Alderman Hudson was of the opinion that the condition should be insisted upon. Bainbridge Street, he said, was one of the most popular thoroughfares for farmers in the city. It was used by farming wagons perhaps more than any other street. A great quantity of water, he said. came down Bainbridge Street which washed badly. The street should be paved although he did not think that the com pany should bear all the expense
 Supported by Kohn and Fleming. Tn, committees report was supported cn the floor by Messrs. Kohn and Flem- ing They argued the necessity of pay- ing the street, pointing out that the com pany had already received a valuable franchise at the meeting without ex- pense. The company had received many | franchises, it was contended, which were perhaps perpetual and thed had cost the company nothing. It was argued that | the comparatively small expense for paw | ing the street should be paid by the com pany.
 The amendment was killed, ten Alder men voting to lay it upon the table. The | Council in this refused to exact the paw ing of the whole street.
 The ordinance was then adopted-ayes, g; nays. 5.
 Yelverton Packing House.
 The joint committee on Sanitation and | franchises divided in making a report on | the petition of H. l.. and R. H. Yelver- ton for permission to establish a slaugh- ter and packing house on the river bluft near Bell Street.
 The minority report was signed by Al | derman Kohn. In this he objected 10 the proposition. The majority report waf signed by the other msmbe rs of the com. mittee. but three of them, Aldermen Hud- | son, Roeder and Hartley asked that their rames be taken from the majority report | They explained that they had signed fl | without knowing that many of the citi. zens of that section of the city objected to the location of the plant | Alderman Gunter again protested against the l ropostion to build the plant It was, he said. bound to become a nuis | ance and bound to decrease the value oi l property in that part of Montgomery He pointed out that majority of the house. holders near the proposed site had signed a petition protesting against the slaughter | house.
 The Council voted to recommit the mat. ter to the joint committee with instruc. | tions to confer with the Messrs Yelver. | ton
 At Alderman Rushtons suggestion tho committee was authorized to report or some other site If one could be found ! without complaint or protest.