The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-08
MAY CLOSE OUR DOORS|
CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER sTRIN-
 GENT QUARANTINE.
Special Meeting of Aldermen to be Held at Noon Today-City Fathers
 Express Various a' Opinions.

Shall Montgomery go 1t alone with a quarantine against infected points, separate and distinct from the State quarantine?
 A special meeting of the Council will
 be held today at noon to answer this
 question. At this meeting the Acting
 Mayor, the City Physician and a repre-
 sentative of the State Board of Health
 are expected to be present.
 It was proposed in last nights meet ing of the Council to establish a rigid
 quarantine for the city of Montgomery
 any man like Minnihett from slipping
 into the city. This quarantine was to
 be an additional safeguard to that in
 sured by the State quarantine.
 The question came before the Coun-
 cil in two forms. One was in a reso- Iution introduced by Alderman Lobman which directed the Mayor to name ten representative citizens of Montgomery who may have had experience in such matters, as a committee which should consider existing conditions and which should put on rigid quarantine | against infected points if 1t was deemed advisable
 A second resolution was introduced | by Alderman Strauss directing the Act ing Mayor to put on an immediate quar- antine on behalf of the city of Mont- | gomery against all places infected with | yellow fever. There was some informal discussion of the merits of the two res- olutions. Alderman Strauss thought his was the better because 1t provided | for an immediate quarantine. a4 Alderman Lobman said that he had
 no special feeling of pride in his res- olution.
 T only want to show to the outside
 world" declared Alderman Lobman
 that Montgomery is fully alive to her duty. I want to show that we propose to use every possible means of keeping | yellow fever out of the city. And what | is to be done ought to be done at once If am assured of having immediate action taken In this matter will with draw my resolution.
 Alderman Lobman incidentally criti- cised some of the quarantine officers drunk every time his train reached the city and that there were perhaps one or two of them that did not have the confidence of the people.
 Alderman Sullivan told him that the man who had come in drunk had been removed from office.
 Alderman Sullivan. speaking fur ther, said that he had no desire to criticise the State quarantine, but he | recalled three instances as published
 in the press of the city, showing that three persons had avoided the officers and had come into the city from New Orleans. He spoke of his own expert
 ence as a quarantine officer and de-
 clared that as a general rule certifi-
 cates of health were not worth the paper they were written upon. Alderman Jackson asked if the Act ing Mayor did not have the authority
 to put on a city quarantine without reference to the Council Alderman
 Jackson insisted that under the law the Acting Mayor had that right. He said.
 too. that the Council was making a
 mistake in meddling with things of
 which it knew nothing.
 Alderman Holloway thought the
 bringing of the whole matter before the Council was unfortunate. He was opposed to both resolutions.
 Alderman Teague did not think that the emergency was strenuous enough to demand any immediate action He suggested that if the Council felt that 1t should take some action a meeting might be held at noon today, but he did not see any reason for undue haste and sudden energy.
 The question was passed upon when the Council voted to have the special meeting at 12 o'clock today.