The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-29
MIR. SULLIVAN OBJECTED
ALDERMAN OPPOSED APPR0PRIA- TION TO ENTERTAIN PRESIDENT.
City Council Failed to Pass Measure Owing te Lack of Quorum. Comes Up at the Next
 Meeting.


 Alderman James J, Sullivan, the strenuous representative of Ward in the City Council of Montgomery at a special meeting of the Council yester- day at noon stood in the way of mem bers of the Council who desired to ap- propriate S250 from the city treasury to go to the fund for entertainment of President Roosevelt on hls visit to Montgomery October 23.
 There was a bare quorum present at the special meeting and the resolution to appropriate the money. which was introduced by Alderman GunteP, would have been undoubtedly passed had not Alderman Mcintyre been called from the Council chamber. thereby breaking the quorum. Alderman Mcintyre, who is Acting Mayor of Montgomery, said after the meeting that he favored the appropriation.
 But the resolution to appropriate money to entertain the President gave MT Sullivan opportunity to make q speech. It required unanimous consent to pass the resolution at q special meeting. and Alderman Gunter asked his colleague for this consent. The Sixth Ward Alderman wanted to go on record as opposed to spending the peoples money for entertaining any one and he talked in characteristic fashion, He said In loud voice that he was "teetotally, emphatically and double dead against giving away this money to provide the great Bear Hunt CT with some merry moments, when he could call on the New York Life and get twice the sum by winking the other eye and then blame 1t on Cortelyou."
 Mir. Sullivan said he hoped 1t would be understood that he wanted the President to have a good time in Mont gomery, which he called the fairest city in the Southland" He wanted 1t understood that the doors of Montgom- cry are always open to a man occupy ing the distinguished position that Mfr. Roosevelt occupies. He believed that he should be entertained and enter tained with genuine, unstinted South ern hospitality, but he believed that the entertainment funds should be raised by popular subscription from the merchants and business men that the visit would benefit and not by spending the meagre funds that the taxpayers have paid in for schools. streets. lights and so on, 'to give any one man on earth n hot old time.'
 Alderman Mcintyre said that it was his understanding that the Commercial and Industrial Association had prom ised to raise all the funds Neverthe- less he entered no objection to unani- nous consent and indicated that he would support the resolution.
 Alderman Gunter said that there was food for thought in the utterances of Alderman Sullivan. but he believed that the appropriation should be made
 The question came up for vote but in the meantime Alderman Mcintyre had silently withdrawn from the cham Der. leaving no quorum. The resolu- ton went over until the next regular meeting of the Council.
 Alderman Mcintyre said after the meeting that he had been called into the Mayors office to fill an important engagement and did not realize that his absence would defeat the purpose of the resolution introduced by AL derman Gunter.