The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-08

objections of Acting Mayor Mcintyre who vetoed the original ordinance. It provides that a single hack should charge a fare of a5 cents from any place to any other place within the icity up to 10 o'clock at night. It pro- vides further that . double horse hack lshall be authorized to charge 50 cents to any place in the city for ono per- son, but for two persons 26 cents each may be charged. The ordinance provides that these rates may be dou- bled after 10 o'clock at night. It Is further provided that a patron of the hack may agree with the hackman to use the hack per hour at any price up Ito S1.
 Alderman Strauss objected to this J provision of the ordinance. The trans fer company would have to bear an un- necessary hardship, especially in the cases when hacks were hired by the hour. he said.
 MT. Holloway defended his ordin- Iance, briefly on the floor. The fea- ture to which MT. Strauss objected. Mir. Holloway said. was put in at the sug- gestion of a man who was thoroughly familiar with funerals. He submitted, too, that the present hack rate, With out law was S1 an hour.
 Alderman Sullivan pronounced the ordinance a hardship upon an aged and respected citizen of Montgomery. He declared without mentioning any names that this man had spent his entire life in Montgomery and had in Ivested all the money he had ever made. outside of the large invest ment he Is paying each year into the lcity treasury, for his hacks, perhaps a larger license than any other man. Alderman Strauss declared that there was no occasion for any ordinance of that character.
 
 monopoly he has never abused that privilege" said MT. Strauss.
 But he has abused It," declared Alderman Lobman, rising, to his feet. He has abused 1t. No other mans hack can come into the union depot. without his permission. At night when the trains come in 1t Is almost im- possible to get a hack. Why, sir. I have had to get in a hack with mem- bers of my family and ride with a prostitute. I have, sir. come into the depot at night and had to ride about with members of my family to house of prostitution to let prostitute out who was riding with us. Why, I came in last night from New York and would have had to walk home for lack of a hack if it had not been for the kind ness of a friend"
 Mir. Strauss said that the criticism was directed towards the wrong man. If the monopoly at the depot was wrong the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was more to blame than the transfer company. Upon Mir. Strauss's s motion the ordinance was referred back to the Finance Committee.
 The Jackson ordinance revokfng the franchise for a street railway on Mad- ison Avenue, unless the grantees of the petition, Massey Wilson and his asso- ciates, would keep their agreement to | Con fnn inc m nit cf of the Madison Avenue extension em- bankment, was taken up
 MT. Gunter thought the gentlemen interested should be given more time to keep their agreement. MT. Jackson said that they had been given ample time. but he agreed to a postponement with the understanding that a vote should be had on the ordi- nance at the next regular meeting.
 The report of the Chief of Police up- on the number of arrests made under the vagrancy laws of the city was next taken up as unfinished business. In moving that it be filed for record All dermen Jackson declared that the re- port showed that there had been thirty convictions out of thirty five arrests.
 Tt proves my contention" declared Mir Jackson, that the laws on the books are sufficient. and all that is needed is a Chief of Police who will en- force them or a Mayor who will make the Chief enforce them"
 -,- school Improvements.
 The School Committee presented a re- port endorsing the proposal of the City School Board to build a Central HiPh School for both boys and girls; to tear down the Chiffon College building, 10 use the Present Girls High School as n grammar school and to cease making repairs on the Sayre Street School. It l was explained that these school exten- l nnuld ha | ways, by the sale of bonds already au | thorized. by providing for a new issue of bonds. or by increasing the tax rate The committee recommended that $50, 900 worth of the bonds now authorized be Vsed for that purpose.
 Chairman Gunter explained that most of the recommendations contained in the report had already been carried in- to effect The adoption of the report simply carried them all into effect The report was adopted.
 Mir. Gunter, from the Judiciary Com mittee, asked that part of the report of that Committee upon the Teague or dinances in reference to the whiskey traffic be recalled and put before the Council. He did this, he explained, SO that the Teague ordinance in reference | to changing the method of licensing sa looms might be placed before the Coun oil.
 The ordinance in question provided that the moral character of every ap plicant for a saloon license should be investigated by the Police Committee of the Council. Before the license should be issued the Police Committe must first recommend its issuance to l the Council. An effort was made to have the ordinance acted upon at once but upon the request of Alderman | Teague the ordinance went over until the next meeting of the Council. | Under the head of new business. AL l derman Holloway introduced a resolu-