The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-08
DEBATE ON CEMETERY Burial Ground Resolu- tion Postponed. SHARP PLACE IS OFFERED Committee Urges Appropriation of
 About $40,000. Charges of "RaiIroadinss Made When Report h Presented at Late
 Hour of the Council
 Session.

At ten minutes after 12 o'clock this morning the Cemetery Committee of the Montgomery City Council present sa report to that m tb body har the Upper Wetumpka Road, for approx imately S40,000, to be used as ceme- tsry: and proposed immediate action
 The report of the committee precipi- tated heated debate which at times verged upon personalities. The com mitteemen were accused of undertaking g late hour of night, and the commit teemen on their part declared that the property was desirable. and 1t must be accepted at this meeting or the city
 By vote of 2 to {, the Council, at i2;as o'clock, postponed the matter in-
 Aldermen T. c. Foster submitted tee. It recfted that many proposals of been submitted to the committee. and was as tne arp raes o1 the Wetumpka road, three miles from the heart of the. city. This property, the report stated, consisted of $40 acres $. eS .oeo to S@ be .psid when the he City it At At: torney had passed upon the title, and the remainder on or about December 15. with no interest on the deferred
 
 Immediate Purchase Urged.
 The committee recommended that the. property be purchased. as 1t is highly desirable that the city should possible moment. The report also re- commended that in making provision for the purchase money an additional sum should De appropriated for im-
 As soon as the clerk had finished reading the report. Alderman Lobman moved that 1t be adopted.
 Alderman Hudson, who had made few speeches during the session opposed the motion. He expressed surprise that the comittee had recommended the pur- chase of $40 acres.
 We do not need 300-acre planta- ton for a cemetery" said the Alder man, speaking slowly and deliberately. ''The present cemetery. consists of about seventy.five acres. and it has accommo- dated the people of Montgomery near. ly 100 years. I am distinctly opposed to the report
 Alderman Foster said the Sharp prop s;rsbie for cemetery purposes. The eom- mittee, he said, proposed to establish there a large cemetery for white per- sens and a separate cemetery for ne- tbsu far done. He spoke of the en- iargement of Oakwood, and said that the addition was now nearly filled, IT the city found that the sharp place + could be disposed of easily. He was advised. he said. that 100 acres of it could. be sold at a profit. It was neces- sary now. to buy all; of it to get any part Of 1t.
 "Absolutely Absurd" , @.'t
 eIt seems to me-" said Alderman Strauss, absolutely absurd for the city. to buy $40 acres for a cemetery, If this property Is so valuable, why not let some one else buy it and sell the city 100 acres?'
 He said he did not question the judg- ment of the committee in deciding upon the location. but there was too much of 1t. He moved to indefinitely post pone the action on the report of the committee. :
 Aidernaan Foster begged Alderman Strauss not to insist on his motion, but the Alderman at-large was inexerablN. Mir. Foster said if the matter was post poned the. city would not buy the prop erty at all.
 '"They are waiting to see what the Council will do tonight" said Mir. Fos- ter, land if we do not accept their proposition they will cut 1t up into
 Then Alderman Roemer came to the assistance of the committee, of which