The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-18
Prohibits Selling Liquor on Sabbath. HIN SESSION UNTIL i \. M. Vote Was Close, But Faithful Stood by Mayor-Elect. Measure aa Adopted Almost Identical With Original Draxht-FIght Was
 Led by Alderman Lee
 Holloway.
IN SESSION UNTIL i \. M

Alderman and Mayer-eiect Wlihdm M- reague, won a notable victory in con- test over the Sunday closing ordinance which continued until after o'clock this morning. when the ordinance pro- hibiting the selling of liquor in Mont somery on Sunday was passed by the Montgomery City Council almost word for word and letter for letter as 1t was drawn by the Mayor-elect early in June.
 While 1t was a victory for Alderman fTeague the credit was none the less due to Alderman Lee Holloway of Ward t7 who led the fight for the ordinance ! on the floor of the Council and he was | ably seconded by Alderman Adolph | Roemer of Ward 4.
 | The ordinance. as 1t passed, Is known | as the Holloway substitute. It was presented by the Seventh Ward Alder man as a minority report from the | Judiciary Committee. the majority l members of which had returned the Teaeue ordinance after emasculating it, according to the author of the measure. l The Holloway substitute follows the | original Teague ordinance carefully ex- cept in one particular. In this 1t pro- vides that the City Council and not the Mayor shall revoke the license of'a liouor dealer who is twice convicted for selling whiskey or beer on Sunday. Up and Down Hill. Up one parliamentary hill and down another the Alderman went. wrestling with the Teague ordinance rom J o'clock last night until o'clock this morning. When the measure first came up it was discovered that the Aldermen were almost evenly divided. It was charged that friends of the ordinance lsummoned Alderman c B. Coins to the council chamber to help them Al derman Coins did not appear unfii nearly 10 o'clock and 1t so happemd that on the final show down he was friend of the Holloway substitute. | Every Alderman did his share of the speaking. It was veritable talKfest and some acrimony was indulged in' Incidentally Alderman J. J. Sullivan made some pointed allusions to the last city campaign and charged indi- Irectly that the whiskey men had been lied to support MT. Teague under the impression that he, MT. Teague. was friendly to the continued selling or
 
 On the final vote. the adoption of the Holloway substitute. the Aldermen cast their ballots this way:
 | Ayes-Forbes. Griffith. Coins. Hol- lloway, Maddox, Roemer. Ruth. Teague and Thompson-9.
 Nays-McIntyre. Gunter. Jackson Lobman, Ryan. Strauss. Sullivan.
 The ordinance does not become eHec- tive until October list.
 | The StrurUle Bcuins.
 The struggle over the Teague ordl-
 nance began when it was thought the
 Council meeting was drawing to
 close.
 Alderman Gunter moved that the
 Council take up the Sunday closing
 measure. The ayes and nays were de-
 manded and the vote resulted: | Ayes-McIntyre. Gunter. Jackson,
 Lobman, Ruth, Ryan. Strauss, Sullivan -S.
 Nays-Forbcs, Griffith, Holloway,
 Maddox. Roemer, Teague and Thomp-
 son-7.
 Thus the Council decided to consider
 the measure on its passage. @..
 Alderman Holloway, member or the
 Judiciary Committee, sent to the clerk S desk and had read his minority report
 with a substitute ordinance to ;hat one
 prepared by a majority of the commit tee, Aldermen Gunter and Jackson. The O committee was submitted to the last meeting of the Council. | The substitute ordinance sent up by | Alderman Holloway was explained m the following statement accompanying it.:
 T have givep the said ordinance | much consideration ard thought and with a few minor changes ir' some of the provisions of said ordinance, In | order to make 1t conform to the re- | uuirements of the city charter, am l heartily in favor of the ordinance and l fully believe that 1t means much to | the welfare of the citizens of Mont gomery and will materially assist the saloon keepers to observe the Sunday l law which they all seem desirous of l doing, so far as selling whiskies on | Sunday Is concerned.
 Tt is, therefore, the pleasure of the minority to report favorably upon tha | 'Teague ordinance with substitute which makes the only change of pro- viding that after person has been convicted for Sunday violation the sec- | end time, the Recorder should certify said conviction to the City Council at 1 once, and the City Council shall tak3 action on said report at its next reg ular meeting thereafter.
 Respectfully submitted. | "..: ..4..: Lee Holloway"
 Victory for Holloway.
 After the reading of the Holloway l substitute Alderman Gunter moved to l lay 1t on the table. The vote resulted | Ayes-McIntyre. Gunter, Jackson, | Looman, Ryan, Strauss, Sullivan-7. Nays-Forbes. Griffith. Holloway. Maddox, Roemer, Ruth. Teague, Thomp- | son-S.
 The motion was therefore lost, and l the question recurring to the adoption 1 of the minority report Alderman Hollo- | way addressed the Council He said 1t had appeared that every member of the Council had different view of the ordinance. He himself had given the matter much strdy. His main differ ence with the original ordinance, he said, was that the Recorder should | certify convictions to the Council in- stead of to the Mayor. This he had l done, he said, because the charter did license.
 Alderman Holloway declared it to be his belief that every saloonkeeper of | Montgomery desired to close the sa- looms on Sunday.
 l When Alderman Holloway concluded his remarks. Alderman Mcintyre moved | that the whole matter be postponed until the next meeting and addressed | the Council. He said this was a grave | matter and there was no reason why the Aldermen should act precipitately. He said he wanted time to consider the Holloway substitute carefully. In seconding the motion for post ponement, Alderman Strauss asked for the privilege of digesting the substi-