The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
BASEBALL ACT NOT REPORTED Council Not Ready to Con-
 slider It. IT MIGHT BE HLEGAE ROemer Told Sullivan He Was
 Prepared for It. Mass of Routine Business Engaged the Attention of City Fathers of Montgomery at Adjourned.
 Meeting.

NNNcA py <AtucA hioh S' SoAiNaii oy iC- quest" did not come up during last nights meeting for final passage. It went over until the next regular or special meting of the Council.
 The friends of this ordinance and its enemies. too, were agreed on the proposi- ton that the ordinance could not under the charter be legally passed last night. The ordinance was introduced during the short meeting of the Council Monday night. The meeting Monday night ad- 3ourned until last night 1t being under stood that last nights meeting was only an adjourned meeting from Monday night. that is legally the two assemblings of the Council made only one meeting.
 TIre City Charter provides that every ordinance must be considered at at least two meetings of the Council. Alderman Sullivan said before the Council convened last night:
 q will not call up the Sunday baseball ordinance as I doubt that 1t could be legally passed tonight Tonight's meet ing Is an adjourned meeting from Monday night and under the charter the ordi- nance could not be passed. The ordi- nance will, however. be called up at the next meeting of the Council. ta.
 Tt is we'll enough that you reached that decision" said Alderman Roemer who was standing near. flor I intended to raise that point of order against the ordinance"
 Those at the Meeting.
 The aldermen present at the meeting were. President Mcintyre, Aldermen Sul- livan, Roemer, Kohn, Forbes. Lobman, Teague, Jackson. Coins, Griffith, Ryan. Strauss and Ruth.
 A communication was read from the Mayor calling the Councils attention to the destruction of the negro ward of the pest house by fire several nights ago. The Mayor stated that there was insurance to the amount of 5000 on the building and $400 on the furnishings. He sug- gested that the Council appoint com mittee to take charge of the matter. The message was laid upon the table to be taken up later in the meeting. A letter from Chairman E. J. Meyer of the Finance Committee of the City Board of Education, and City Superin- tendent c. L. Floyd, submitting list of additional apparatus needed for the city schools. was read The addition al apparatus, 1t was estimated. would cost between $750 and $500. The com munication was referred to the Schools Committee.
 The Finance Committee reported ad versely upon the petition of Grouby & Company. asking to be excused from the payment of portion of a license for the keeping of a meat market. The committees report was adopted.
 The same. committee, through Chair man Kohn, made a report partially fa- vorable and partially unfavorable upon the petition of City Treasurer R. s. Williams asking that the Council pay the premium on his official bond taken out in a guaranty company. The report Ro,r taI fAr v following the passage of the ordinance directing all city officials to be bonded in guaranty committee. The report re- commended that for that year. the sum of $150 be paid, but for the year pre- ceding the committee recommended that no appropriation be made. The com mittee's report was adopted.
 The Streets Committee, through Chairman Roemer, reported favorably petition to have the sidewalks of Clayton street paved from Five Points to Holt street under the Baby Bond act. The report of the committee was adop- ted, and the petition was referred to the Judiciary Committee with instruc- tions to draw up an ordinance carry Ing into effect the committees report.
 Chairman Griffiths of the Lights Committee, reported unfavorably upon a petition to have a light placed on North Perry street near the railroad track. The report of the committee was adopted
 At this juncture Alderman Sullivan moved that the courtesies of the floor be extended to former Aldermen Dave Lowe and Paul Roeder. This courtesy was voted Messrs. Roeder and Lowe. Chairman Gunter of the Schools Committee, offered a resolution ac- cepting the bid of the Peck Hammond Company for supplying the heating ap- paratus of the Heron Street School building, under certain conditions. The bid of this company. MT. Gunter re- ported. was the lowest submitted, but there were certain hitches In the bid which were to be removed. The reso- lution of MT. Gunter, provided that the bid should be accepted if the company should have a representative in the city to settle these matters with the Mayor. The resolution was adopted by the Council,
 Protection of Cemetery.
 Alderman Kohn presented a resolu- tion reciting the fact that when the City Council of Montgomery on Decem- Der 15, 1859. granted a franchise to what Is now known as the Central of Georgia Railroad, 1t was with the pro- viso that the road should protect the clty DurylnB ground by fences or in any other way necessary. The resolu- tion stated that some protection was due the city's cemetery from the rail- road, and 1t instructed the Mayor to confer with the officials of the rail- road to ascertain if some further pro- tection might not be given the ceme- tery by the railroad. The resolution was adopted.
 Another resolution by Alderman | Kohn requested the Mayor to consider | the advisability of having the down town district sprinkled by the water carts. The Council adopted the resolu- tlon.
 Alderman Kohn introduced a resolu- tion directing the Councils attention to | the importance of extending and | bridging Clay Street at the railroad tracks and authorizing the Mayor tc confer with the County Board of Rev enue and the railroad officials with a view of securing their assistance. The resolution was referred to the Street Committee.
 | Alderman Strauss moved that tho matter of adjusting the fire loss caused | by the destruction of the negro ward of the city's pest house be referred tc
 a joint committee composed of the Committees on Public Works and Ju. dietary. The resolution was adopted 1 Alderman Strauss also presented z |