The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-22
NO MORE MEN AT CITY GATE Registration at Union Station is Abolished. DISCUSSED BY ALDERMEN Montgomery Will Depend on
 State Quarantine. Mr. Sullivan Wanted to Inspect Local Trains and Warned Council as
 to Open Doors--aIeets Again Tonight.

There will be no more registration of incoming passengers at the union railway station. The City Council at its meeting last night abolished that quarantine system.
 Nothing was put in it's place. The city will rely upon the State quarantine for protection for the present at least. The Council will have another meeting tonight and no doubt quarantine will be the popular subject for discussion as 1t has been for the past month, but 1t is regarded as improbable that any city quarantine will be put on.
 Incidentally, the resolution of Alder man Ryan, providing for a city deten- tion camp came up, but the Council wanted no detention camp and the res- olution was slaughtered.
 Two reports were sent in on the quar- antine question. The first of these. the majority report from the special quar- antine committee. was signed by Alder men Jackson and Lobman. This report was upon the resolution of Alderman Sullivan, which provided that the pres ent registration system should be aboi- lshed and a rigid quarantine should be put on all the trains entering the city.
 The majority report did not accept all the Sullivan resolution. It took the part which abolished the registra- tion system. but 1t refused to declare for @ train quarantine. This report was the one adopted by the Council.
 Gunter Not Satisfied.
 A minority report was sent in by AL derman Gunter. Alderman Gunter was not satisfied that the registration sys- tenn was a failure. He thought 1t was good enough as far as 1t went He thought that as far as 1t went 1t was about as good as any system of quar- antine, although 1t did not go far enough. Alderman Gunter wanted 1t made unlawful for any person. except train employees. to get of train any, where in the city except at the ,assen- ger station. He favored, too, the plGc- ing of the entire quarantine system in the hands of one man who should be held responsible for 1t. He was oppos- ed to the proposition of leaving the city without any quarantine.
 Alderman Sullivan said he had no criticism to make of the men who had done the quarantine work at the depot They had done their work as well as they could under the circumstances. It was the system, not the men who were at fault. He had, from the first, op- posed the system and he still opposed it. He therefore favored the majority report so far as 1t went. but he stood for a rigid quarantine of the trains.
 Strauss SOundA Warning.
 "I want to say, with a full under standing of my words" said Alderman Strauss. T will say that if the city of Montgomery should have the misfor- tune to get another case of fever, this Council would be partly to blame, and would have nothing to say if the people put the blame on the Council. We are facing the worst month of the year, September. understand that 1t will cost $50 day to keep up city quarantine and I have heard that there has been some objection to the quaran- tine on account of the cost of the quarantine. Let us say 1t will cost ss,000 to maintain a quarantine during the month of September. If the city government Is not able to pay that much, tell you that the citizens of Montgomery will raise that money for an efficient quarantine. I for one will contribute $50 for that purpose"
 Alderman Jackson said he had signed the original report of the committee, but he had been disappointed because the executive department had failed to properly carry out the wishes of the committee.
 Mir. Jackson said he was greatly dIs- appointed in the quarantine as main