The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-25
HOT WORDS
 BY ALDERMEN Spicy Debate in the City
 Council. CAUSED BY A FRANCHISE But the Montgomery Street
 Railway Got It. Secures Privilege of Building Car Line on Jefferson Davis Avenue.
 Several Committees sub-
 mitted Reports.

l City Council last night granted the Montgomery Street Railway iran chise to operate car line out JeHer- The Council met at S:30 o'clock and adjourned at 11:30 o'clock. The pusi- ness transacted could have probably been transacted in twenty minutes | but, for the first time in many months, l the members engaged In parllamen- | tary wrangle and rank personallties and when this is the case the City | Council is liable to remain in session until any hour of the night or day. Few Choice Expressions. A few of the expressions used were Alderman Roemer-The Montgomery l Street Railway is catering to the negro Alderman Sullivan see Alderman Roemer trying to sell nigger merchants | paper bags two or three times week Alderman Roemer-Some of the Al l dermen don't know what they are Vot- Alderman Jackson-Let Alderman Roemer be the judge of his own lgr | norance and not Of the lgnoranee or | others. l dare any man to say that | don't know what I'm voting on. Alderman Maddox-i want the privl- lege of opportunity to look ota m this mat | Alderman Sullivan-I move that AL derman Maddox be excused from vot- ing. ho,,o,,o that some of the Aldermen in their blind ness, thinking perhaps that they are serving the interests of the Clty or Montgomery, are simply serving cor
 Alderman sullivan-If you refer to | me, call me by name. If you mean oul- livan say Sullivan, Let me know pos, itively whether you are rehectlnB on me or not.
 Alderman Teague-I just want to say this that there are some members or | this Council just as well known as Al derman Gunter and that l consider his Statement as intended as a reflection on me and will consider 1t as such. Alderman Kohn--I want to formally enter my protest against the chairman calling this meeting to order after he has declared it adjourned
 | Alderman Sullivan-I move that his | protest be tabled.
 Chairman Forbes-Let the protest be
 Pretty spicy, eh? Such was the meet | ing of the Council.
 The meeting was called to order at SEQ o'clock Vice-President Forbes presiding. All of the Aldermen were present except Mir. Coins of Ward l. OminOus Beginning.
 | The outset of the meeting was om- inous AS soon as the call was read Alderman Jackson, Chairman Of the 1 Rules Committee, said that the call | was not legal in that the matters on | which the various committees were to | report were not stipulated In the call He waived the point, however, and was | willing to proceed to business. | Alderman Sullivan wasn't. Alderman Sullivan heard something about anoth- | CT adjournment and he wouldn't stand it. He arose to make stormy objec- | tion and had prefaced his remarks by | saying, "I want to go on record" when | the air brakes were put on by Alder | man Jackson saying that he waived the point as to the illegality of the call:
 Alderman Strauss at this point had | not quite located the identity of the | two forces, so he threw out a couple i of independent shells. He said that | during the campaign 1t had been ire quently urged that the Council should cease giving away franchises. He l thought that this was to an extent gtv- ing away a franchise and suggested that 1t would probably be good idea | to start compelling corporations to pay for the value received from these gifts i of the city.
 This brought out a renewed and aug mented sound of musketry from Al derman Sullivan. He again urged the adoption of the majority report and in a fifteen minutes speech called to the minds of the Council every ordinance that has been adopted in the last few months. He dwelt on the opening of McDonough Street and of Lawrence Street. He spoke of 4he failure of the Council to let him build $7,00O fire sta- tions and he expressed desire to go down on record several times.
 This was followed by a suggestion from Alderman Maddox that he was
 not prepared to vote on the question and he moved that the matter be post poned until the next regular meeting.
 The suggestion of postponement was casus belli of fanking attack made by both Alderman Jackson and Alder man Sullivan.
 Courteous and Otherwise.
 Alderman Roemer rushed up in sup port of the Maddox column. He de- clared that the Montgomery Street Railway was catering to the negro | trade.
 Alderman Sullivan retortcd that he frequently saw Alderman hoemer try | Alderman Roemer then attempted to
 show how the placing of d track on country wagons from entering the city
 with ease In doing this he mistook the Strauss company that was rapidly
 approaching the scene of action, for
 the enemy. and sent a couple of hot
 shots toward the Second Ward alder
 man to which that alderman rephej
 zWasn't the alderman from Ward 9
 in the council when the car line was
 street as an entrance to tne city:''
 asked Alderman Roemer.
 T was not" warmly replied Alder
 man Strauss and if I had voted for
 that measure, 1 wouldn't look 70 you to
 tell me whether ! was wrong or not"
 Alderman Roemer asked Alderman
 street widths and distances fin the
 neighborhood If the proposed hne. l
 these questions that ne did not know
 T just asked these questions" said | Alderman ROemer 'to show that the aldermen don't know what they are
 Let the Alderman from Ward { judge his own ignorance" yelled AL | derman Jackson. 'I dare any man tc
 say that I don't know what I'm vot- l ing on."
 Alderman Roemer explained that he
 did not mean the words in the. sense
 accepted by Alderman Jackson. H.
 said that he had measured the widtt | of the streets at several points anC
 they were no wider than Mobile Stree
 and the Street Railway could not pos
 sibly give the promised width
 | ton for postponement and said that h'
 would like to find out how to vote. q move the Alderman be excused
 from voting," said Alderman Sullivan Voted mt Last
 The Maddox motion 10 postpone or
 motion of Alderman Sullivan was theT
 tabled by the following vote;
 | Ayes-Forbes, Holloway, Jackson
 Lobman, Ruth, Ryan, Sullivan, Teague l ThOmpson-9.
 The Committee on Streets reported 1 favorabIy on awarding the contracts l for the paving of the sidewalks, on lief ferson Street. Virginia Avenue, and lief | ferson Davis Avenue. to Byron -Suders and Company, the lowest and best bid
 ders. The report was adopted.
 The Committee on Streets also re-
 ported favorabiy on the location of the tracks of the Montgomery Traction Company out Madison Avenue. provid-
 ing that width of 26 feet on either
 side of the tracks is left for road