The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-24
animals slaughtered by people beyond

animals slaughtered by people beyond the city Jurisdiction and brought or sent here from the interior for sale.
 Councilman Hale thought 1t hard ship to prevent back country" people from sending slaughtered stock here for sale. Councilman Craft said he was in the Council to look after the people of Mobile and not those in Mis- sissippi or up State or in the country
 The section prohibiting such slaugh- tered stock to be brought into Mobile without inspection tags by vote stood.
 Alderman Norville objected to a sec tion allowing the Board of Health to make such additional rules and reg uIations as became imperative until formally acted upon by the Council. His objection was not sustained. On motion of Councilman Inge. the ordi- nance was adopted. The ordinance does not become operative until nine months after approval of the Mayor.
 A second ordinance read by Presi- dent Mohr. of the Board of Health. pro- viding for the examination of appli- cants for meat inspector and assist ants by that body with a competent veterinary surgeon went over to the city attorney for ruling. The chair and Councilman Craft were of opinion the Council could not delegates to the Board of Health its powers to elect such officers. The chair staed it was his opinion such ordinance was uncon- stitutional and he added he was of this same opinion as to the milk inspection ordinance now in force.
 Councilman Inge introduced an ordi- nance under suspension of the rules. the substance of which was to make it eased cattle or animals after they had been condemned by the milk inspector. The ordinance carries severe penalties.
 In introducing the ordinance MT. Inge called attention to the report of the City Milk Inspector made to the Board of Health last night. Of sixty cows in one herd twenty-one were found to be infected with tuberculosis. By or der of the inspector these had been separated from the herd and the owner notified not to offor the milk for sale. Unless the ordinance was adopted be- fore the next regular meeting of the General Council these cows and an inn mense number of other similarly af- ficted and condemned cows. he said. would be sold to butchers. slaughtered and put on the market. It was urg ent, he declared. that the Council act immediately. The ordinance was adopted.
 A bomb fell in the General Council when under suspension of the rules Alderman Norville offered the follow ing preamble and resolution: Where as. on Sunday the 7th inst. there was preached at the St. Francis Street Bap- tist Church of this city. by the pas tor, Rev. W. J. E. Cox. sermon which seriously reflects on the character of an official of this city. not named. and, whereas. under the charge as made the innocent are liable to fall under slIspicion therefore be 1t
 "Resolved, by the Mayor and General Council, That 1t is the sense of this body that any offlcial guilty as charged should lose his official position. Be il further
 Resolved. That a committee of five be appointed by the chairman and in structed to fully investigate the charges made and report the findings to this Council"
 Alderman Norville read a section ot the sermon alluded to which had been printed in a local paper. the text o1 the sermon being, "The causes of and remedy of mob law"
 Tho section of the sermon read by the minister charged that a white of ficial of the city is charged with hay ing a negro woman for his wife and that the fact, 1t was reliably under stood, was known to certain people It was such things as this, 1t was al- legged, which tended to incite mobs The preamble and resolution was unan- imously adopted and the chair named Messrs. Norville. H. T. Inge. Ward Casin and Faith as the committee.
 The Board of Health of the City of Mobile is in a quandary and 1t is un- derstood a delicate legal point will have to be decided before the quan- dary is gotten out of. It is the qu as- ton of diseased milch cattle found in this city and vicinity. *.-...
 City Milk Inspector E. A. Peterson has filed with the Board of Health a partial report of his findings since being inducted into once. In this re- port, which was submitted last night. nearly one hundred milch cows were enumerated as afflicted with tuber- culosis or other infectious diseases