The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-05
TIED UP ON
 AN ELECTION Aldermen in Deadlock on Board Member. HAD SEVENTEEN BALLOTS Could Not Fill Vacancy on Equali-
 zation Board. e A. Allen. F. w. Jackson and c. A. Thomas Were Nominated--Coun- ell In Session Untii Mid-
 night Hour.

The Montgomery City Council was at itself Monday evening. The regular semi -monthly session began at o'clock and finished with rush just at mid The principal matter to distinguish itself as a consumer of time was the fight over the election of member or the Board of Equalization to succeed John T. Moses. The names of C. A. Al len. F. w Jackson and George A. Thomas were presented and there was no election when the matter was pass ed after the seventeenth ballot
 President Gunter was out oI the city aud the Council was called 10 order py Alderman c. L. Ruth.
 Five messages from Mayor Teague were read. He recommended in one that the property on Clayton Street turned over to the city by F. M Bil- ling as part of the assets of Josiah MOT ris and Company. be sold It IS en- cumbered by a six per cent. mortgage amounting to ss.5oo held by the s.atg ....is expire July | and the Abstract Com pany declines to renew 1t al a iess ra.e. rs,. The message was referred to the fih~
 Another message recommended that an extension of water main on com rnerce Street costing approximatey St,- 0eo be made. The message went to the
 4 third message accompanied an ord nance covering the taxation TOT lsVe; This, with the ordinance, was reierreo
 
 suggestion from the mayor that wagon be purchased for the city eiec- arician went to the committee on eiec- trical control. sa. versesy on the petition of the superin- fendent of street department askzn6 mat d monthly appropriation or Sl.oV for the maintenance or ms iloise
 number of licenses were trans ferred on recommendation of the com mittee on finance.
 Alderman Holloway demanded rs- port from the Fire Committee on ,ne ordinance for fire escapes ana was eio quently answered by the S,ai,,ran ennirlnah VI
 'sThe report 1t seems has been nein @ up,' said Alderman Holloway. oe- cause if would apply to the New Ex to leave the rest of the city unpro- fected on that account .h
 Alderman Sullivan said that the stairways of the New Excnange n,,id not break them by falling down them and SO they formed an adequate means of exit He asked that he pc a.ioweu until the next meeting night 10 The adverse report of the Street and Judicary Committees on a. petition from Nathan and Mena .saa Geif, f as dan1s snarss ages to warehouse on Pollard ana Decatur street, which was left some seven feet above Sae side walk as q result of the grading Of Decatur street
 Mayor Teague is Sustained.
 The Council was in a good humor ana sustained veto of Msyor s ueague' f6rz m rner meeting expressing the opinion that S6,455 was too much to spend TOT grading and graveling Felder Avenue from Court Street to Norman Bridge Road, considering the present condltlon of the city's treasury He suggested that an ordinance providing for this work should be repcaieo. dns nths o,I, aao and was vetoed by the Mayor but was passed over his veto. Later Tn the evening an ordinance was introduced providing for the repeal Of the ofoi-
 A petition was received from the res- idents of South Hull Street asking that that thoroughfare be paved with as phalt Numerous minor petitions were receiy ed. among them one from Mrs. III T. Gilmer asking that the employees of the ice factory at the corner of Bibo and Moulton. Streets be required 10 Eugene Duncan. a negro. asking that he be allowed to proceed with work at Wilkinson and Montgomery Streets, for which he says he has bought ma ferial and let the contract.
 The petitions were referred 70 com mittee
 Then came tho selection or memDer of the Board of Equalization. An ef- fort was made to postpone action. but it was pointed out that the Board meets today and the postponement was et- fected in another way. It would have been a sight for the constituents or the various Aldermen to have taken look in during this fight.
 Alderman Sullivan put ia nomination F. w Jackson. Alderman Hudson proposed C. A. Allen and George Thomas's name was put up by Alder man Lobman. They stood as follows for fifteen rounds with the exception of shifts backwards and forward by AL dermen Roemer and Cox:
 For Allen-Cox. Coins, Hudson. Jones, van. Tait and A. L.. Tyson.
 For Jackson-Griffth, Ryan. Sulli- van. Tait and A L. Tysoon.
 For Thomas--Foster, Lobman and Strauss.
 Three Wouldn't Vote.
 Alderman Holloway refused to vote and after the fifteenth ballot when Mir. Thomas's name was dropped the three City Hall statesmen who had voted for him refused to vote on the ground that there no candidate to vote for" The Council. being In the committee of the whole they could not be compelled to cast their votes and 1t took a majority of the mem bers of tho Council to elect After a large amount of wrangling in an ef- fort to force the silent ones to vote Alderman Ryan moved that the Ccun-