The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-05
SUNDAY LID IS RIVETTED Teague Ordinance Passed
 by Council. NO LIQUOR TO BE SOLD Clubs, However, are Excluded
 from New Law. Aldermen Were Almost Evenly Divided on Measure Which Acting
 Mayor Mcintyre Once ve-
 toed--sulivan's Pros ss@
 posed Law.
he lid is on in Montgomery.

down the lid and soldered the edges. passed the famous Teague ordinance by an overwhelming vote. Only one change was made in it from the way Mayor Teague drew it up and had it by Acting Mayor c. P. Mcintyre. This change is that the new Sunday closing law shall not apply to clubs. It will which finally passed the Council was the one built on the Teague ordinance, but drawn up by Alderman A. P. Ty- son, so that clubs would be excluded
 There wasn't any sort of fight on in the Council at all except as to whether the ordinance should or should the Conncil was squareiy divided, eight on one side and eight on the other. On the motion to table the substitute, which was finally adopted. the vote was:
 Nays-Gunter. Lobman. Ruth. Foster. Strauss, Sullivan, Tait and A. l.. Tyson. In other words they voted that the pro- visions of the laws should not apply to clubs. Their opponents were Aldermen Cox, Coins, Griffith, Holloway. Jones, Roemer, Ryan and J. C.. Tyson. Three times the vote was taken and three times was the result the same. Eight Aldermen wanted the original ordinance passed and eight Aldermen wanted the substitute passed.
 Mir. Ryan Broke the Tie.
 Alderman Ryan finally took pity on the thirsty clubmen and his vote gave them liberal Sunday.
 Alderman Sullivan declared that he was not going to have any half way measures about God fearing city. he said. Montgomery should be a shut feet 1t. He proposed to stop street cars from running on Sunday hacks from being operated and banana stands from being kept open as well as news stands and And fha effect of all this he introduced later in the meeting an ordinance which was referred to the Judiciary Committee
 The original Teague ordinance and the substitute ordinance came before the Council with a double report from the Judiciary Committee. Alderman ported the original ordinance while Messrs. Gunter and A. F. Tyson offered the majority report favoring the sub-
 The debate on % the important % mt ordi. laT. nance was short. Its possibilities had been largely exhausted in previous de- bates. As floor manager for the origi- dressed the Council.
 The ordinance he presented was the original ordinance which had passed fp saloon men and he was confident saioonkeepers of Montgomery favored oossS s% wSh ha weg nesp exab sa0Gn in the ordinance was if you close one saloon close all saloons. and he did not thpk adfas that in bs even hs the n sao9n sb o9 dermen had to ask themselves was sim ply. Is 1t right to sell whiskey on Sun day, The saloons of Montgomery in Atlanta, with similar laws and they had been closed in Birmingham. Alderman, Foster was not en- thusiastic about the ordinance.
 we have plenty of laws on the sunday s .S s said MT MT. 'F Foster. This has as been proven in the past month. It is tion of the enforcement of the laws"
 Sullivan Is Retrospective.
 In opposing both the ordinance and the substitute, Alderman Sullivan campaign of last spring.
 The saloon men of Montgomery al- most unanimously supported a certain candidate for Mayor" he said. Why. knocked down women. children and cripples to get to the polls to vote for him. I believe two or three did vote loon man voted for the iamented Forbes. Everybody else in the busi- ness was working for and hurrahing for the other man: ! hope they VII sI years, with all due respect"
 He then went into discussion Of the ordinance which he proposed to in- troduce.
 Alderman straus did not think the plan proposed was the best way to get at the evil Tn his opinion, there was sufficient law on the books to keep the saloons closed. They had been closed for the past four Sundays in Mont gomery. One man, he said, had ridden out in West End and said, T want you to keep your place closed tomorrow" and on tomorrow, which was Sunday, every saloon was closed as tight as wax. The same man went to Bogue- homme, said the same thing. and next day the saloons were closed as tight
 eve don't need any more laws" said MT. Strauss. Let that same good angel ride around every Saturday to all the saloons of Montgomery;"
 Alderman Jones was heartily in fa- vor of the original ordinance.
 "The clubs of Montgomery" said Mir. Jones, have no more legal right to dish out booze on Sunday than the sa' loons."
 The vote was taken and the ordi- nance was adopted
 The principal feature of the ordl. nance adopted and which makes lt such a radical law in Montgomery, is that 1t divorces saloons and Testau- rants. In fact, 1t makes 1t unlawful for any business to be operated in con. nection with saloon.
 Moreover, 1t makes it unlawful for any one except the proprietor or It provides. too. that the keeper of every saloon shall on Sunday remove all curtains, blinds or screens, so that every part of his place can be seen from the street.
 saloon law ever operated in Montgom- Cry.