The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-21
CITY COUNCIL | INVITES VETS U. C V. Asked to Meet in Montgomery. STREET NAMES CHANGED Aldermen in Debate Over
 Paup:r Measure. Several Bills to Correct Alleged Abuses Ut Slaughter House Were Pre- sented-City Fathers Got
 Through Early.

number of streets, transacted much oth- CT business and adjourned before 10 o'clock.
 All of the candidates, who are mem bers of the City Council, were present with the exception of Candidate Gun ter and Candidate Lobman. A good deal of routine business was transact ed to the Council, which will make votes for the Aldermen who favor these measures.
 Candidate Mcintyre, who is acting Mayor, did not care to appear as Mayor and President of the Council at the same time, so Candidate Forbes pre- sided.
 During the meeting there was a mill itary man on the armory floor upstairs over the Council Chamber who was lpracticing on a bugle When Alder man Sullivan would make a peculiarly acrimonious statement, the bugler sounded the reveille. When Alderman Roemer, however, introduced a paving ordinance, taps" was sounded.
 Ordinarily this blowing of the bugle overhead would have ruffled the dig nitT of the Aldermen and the 'bugle would have been silenced. But. during this campaign the military vote is fig uring to a great extent and the bugler was allowed to blow himself.
 The Council was called to order at 8 o'clock, Vice-President Forbes presid- ing. The following members were present: President Mcintyre, Alder men Coins, Strauss, uRth, Jackson, Teague, Kohn, Forbes, Roemer, Grif- filth, Maddox, Ryan, Sullivan, Holloway and Thompson.
 communication from City Attorney Rushton was read calling the attention of the Council to the fact that the city has a claim in the estate of Jeremiah Murphy, and that W. A. Gunter, Jr., offered to buy this interest for $1,O0O. He recommended that the Council &C., cept the proposition. The matter was referred to the Committee on Finance.
 Excess water Bills.
 McDuh Cain, Jr., Superintendent of the City Water Works, in compliance with a resolution of the Council, re- ported that during the quarter ending consumers in Montgomery and 659 ex- cess bills. During the quarter ending December 30 there were 4,753 consumers and SIS excess bills.
 On motion of Alderman Jackson the report was turned over to the Commit tee on Water Works.
 The Finance Committee reported fa- vorably on several petitions for change of licenses. The reports were adopted.
 The Committee on Police reported re- jecting all bids on the police telephone system. The report was concurred in. The Committee on Franchises and Privileges reported favorably on Ieas- ing the Follansbee property at the foot of Commerce Street to c. Y. Bogacki for five years. on condition that he erect a frame building only on consent of the Council.
 Petitions for transfers of licenses were referred tot he Finance Committee. The petitions of the Noble, Goode, Tay- Tor Shoe Company. the Marin Gun Com pany and c. Ham to hang signs over sidewalks, were referred to the Com mittee on Streets.
 The petition of the Hale Infirmary for a Council donation was referred to the Committee on Finance. The petition of the Hartley Boiler Works. ana the CSscuh Pine Lumber Company for improvement on the road leading to their plants, was referred to the Committee on Streets. An ordinance reimbursing Patrolmap John A. Oliver for time lost on ac- count of sickness, was adopted. An ordinance approprinting $219 .75 to pay Huggar Bros. for extra work done ct the Highland Park school house and the West End school house was adopted.
 An ordinance appropriating $53. 55 to l reimburse Mrs. NJ. A. Jackson for eX- cess taxes. was adopted. An ordinance appropriatinE $79S.S0 to pay J. NJ, Olcott for slate black boards was adopted.
 On resolution of the Streets Commit tee the bridge over the Central of Georgia Railway track at the exten- sion of Madison Avenue was accepted |.
 The Maddox ordinance prohibiting the refilling of milk bottles while milk wagons are going their rounds. was adopted.
 The resolution giving names to q number of streets that bear the same name as other streets was adopted but on motion the vote was reconsidered.
 The list of changes has been already published by The Advertiser.
 Alderman Sullivan made an eloquent plea for Clisby Avenue which is in his Ward, begging that it be not changed. The street was not changed and the resolution was adopted.
 Beggars Caused Debate.
 Alderman Sullivan introduced res- olution which would prevent the ap- pearance of beggars on the streets of Montgomery except Wednesday or 8 day that could be named in a permit issued by the Mayor.
 The resolution encountered pro nounced opposition from Aldermen Strauss. Kohn and Jackson.
 Alderman Kohn believed that the beggar ordinance as 1t is now in the City Code should be allowed to stick. He expressed surprise that the Alder man from Ward 6 should seek to op- press the, poor of the city by limiting their opportunities to live.
 Alderman Sullivan replied warmly to the speeches of the pauper sympathiz- CTS, intimaung that the motives of their opposition to the substitute ordi- nance were catering to voters, all be- ing candidates. The speaker declared that he hoped he would be defeated in his candidacy if he ever stopped to depend on the paupers to be elected
 Alderman Sullivan said that the ma Jority of the good citizens of Mont gomery were with him in the purpose of the ordinance. He spoke of the lm- positions that are being practtced Dn the charity of the city.
 A resolution introduced by Alderman Strauss was passed extending the in vitation of the Council, the Conner cial Club. Camp I.as1ax, Camp Falkner. Camp Holtzclaw, the Ladies Memorial Association and the various Chapters cf the Daughters of the Confectionery to the United Confederate Veterans Assa- ciatiun to meet in this city in 1908. A Committee on Invitation was named