The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-25

1t paid for the publication of the ordi- l nance authorizing the franchise.
 General Manager & w. bo h, Ragiaind tag in tSs Ss lobby here got busy and in few sec onds, the agreement was signed and a check was In the hands of City Clerk Alderman Gunter thought that the driveway should be increased from 26 feet to 3s feet and accordingly moved that action postponed until the next regular meeting. The motion prevail ed.
 Tho Committee on Finance reported
 favorably on the awarding of the feed and Ray. the lowest and best bidders and the report was adopted Alderman Sullivan. for the Commit ice on Fire Department reported that Ausfeld & Chapman had drawn new plans for the two suburban fire sta tions, so as the buildings could be erected within the S10.0o0 appropria- the City Treasurer advertise for bids for the work. The motion was adopt ed.
 Here the Fun Began. And then came the fun. The ordi- nance was innocent looking enough. but the racket it caused! Alderman Jackson for the joint Com | mittee on Franchises and Privileges | and Streets reported substitute ordi- nance for the original ordinancS, giv- ing the Montgomery Street Railway the power to own, construct and oper- | ate. street cars out Jefferson Davis
 Avenue. The substitute ordinance. | prohibited the street railway from | connecting this line with the Wash ington Park line but allowed the pro- posed line to cross the Washington | Park line tracks at Oak Street. The ordinance denied the right of 1 the Street Railway to issue transfers
 other. It provided that the Mont som- cry Street Railway should pay into the | City Treasury $4,580 for eating down | the grade on Jefferson Davis Avenue | near taa head of Holcombe Street and the laying of water pipes. The report was signed by the entire Committee with the exception of A. on joint committee report. it seemed | that the ordinance would go through l without much trouble but the mem- bers Of the Council. not members of | the Committee, Hooked to the Roemer standard by large majority and the Committees strength was all that saved the day:
 President Mcintyre. Aldermen Gunter, Kohn, Griffith and Maddox and during | most of the fight Alderman Strauss. The division was as even as could be without q tie up and the battle was thus prolonged
 Alderman Sullivan. on the skirmish line of the Jackson forces. started the
 ball rolling. He said that no member | of tho Council had fought the Mont gomery Stret Railway harder or more | openly than he had. but the people of Jefferson Davis Avenue wanted the street railway on their street. Yes nine-tenths of them want It. interposed Alderman Ruth, his guns for the first time sounding. Alderman Sullivan continued that the l ordinance had been hanging in the Council long enough ad that the peo- pie of that neighborhood had been IT-I -I.--- @f t1A a
 car line. He urged the adoption of the report.
 ROemer's Minority Report. This fire was answered by Alderman Rocmer. He submitted a minority re-
 port. In this report he set out that
 Davis Avenue would cut off the only approach to the city that country
 wagons from the Hayneville and Mobile
 Roads now have He further con
 tended that the Montgomery Street Railway merely wanted to use this
 as an adjunct line to Washington Park an dwould throw an immense negro
 trade on the Court Street line, line
 for the best classes of white people. The minority report. after a long parliamentary wrangle. was tabled by the same vote with the exception that Alderman Strauss voted with the ma jority.
 Alderman Maddox moved to amend by inserting a clause providing that the Street Railway should make bond in sufficient amount to insure the city | from suits for damages to property | on Jefferson Davis Avenue. Alderman Strauss said that he thought there was merit in this amend of it by the majority by pleading with | them to carefully consider it. Alderman Holloway thought that the
 amendment in that it stipulated no no | moved to lay it on the ia ble. Alderman Maddox amended his
 amendment by inserting es the amount | of bond $25.0O0. This was considered | too much by some Aldermen and a compromise was finally agreed upon by Alderman Gunter suggesting $!.5OO. The Holloway motion to table was again renewed but he found no sup I porters. save MT. Sullivan. MT. Sullivan finally got the amount | of bond down to $5.00O in the adop- tion of the amendment. The substitute, as amended. was then
 called up for passage.
 Alderman Kohn made a desperate
 and successful effort to stave this off
 by bringing up the point, made by
 Alderman Jackson, that the meeting
 was illegally called. His point was l overruled by Vice President Forbes and Alderman Kohn began an earnest and | able parliamentary plea, when Presi- dent Mcintyre called: T move we adjourn
 The motion was put and the vote | again stood 9 to in favor of the ma | jority, who wanted to stay. Vice. | President Forbes misunderstood the | vote as announced by the clerk and declared the meeting adjourned. The minority members grabbed their | hats and made break for the door | before he could make further an- nouncement. Several of the majority | members notably Alderman Jackson
 and Sullivan hurriedly arose as if to ! block the exit of the fleeting members. And the Aldermen Came Back. Let them go." yelled Alderman Jack
 son. We've got quorum "Oh, they'll come back all right" as- ! suringly observed Mir. Sullivan. | As soon as business was resumed l they did come back with protests that | the president could not recall the meet
 After further wrangling of an unim- portant nature, the ordinance was adopted.
 Alderman Gunter gave notice that he 1 would move to reconsider and asked | that his vote be changed from nay to 1 aye
 | Alderman Jackson made the point that 1t was too late to change his vote | after the vote had been announced, but | to forestall any possibilities of such a | thing being done, he moved that the | vote be reconsidcred and then moved l to table his own motion. This caused | further and more heaten wrangling. The vote stood before. but Alderman | Gunter in explaining his vote. said that the | members were blindIy serving a corporation | under the impression that they were serving | the city.
 This brought forth heated replies from | Aldermen Sullivan and Teague. | Alderman Gunter said that he did not
 wish to reflect on the honesty of either.