The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-21
UP TO ALDERMEN
Cotton Men Of Montgomery and Labor
Council Protest Against Meas
ure Aimed ut the Private
Wire Houses.

The ordinance which seeks to pro-
hibit brokers with private wires from
doing business in Montgomery will be
reported TO the Council next Monday
night by the Committee to which 1t was
referred, without a recommendation,
and the question will be fought out
upon the floor of the Council chamber.
When Alderman J. l.. Holloway i'm
troduced the ordinance three weeks ago,
II was referred to the joint COMMITTEES
en- Judiciary and Finance with Alder
man Holloway as chairman. The riem-
bers of these committees are Aldermen
Holloway A. l. Tyson, Gunter, Lob
man, Foster, TAFT and Strauss. Several
meetings Of the joint committee were
held and the Aldermen could not agree
on any ordinance covering the ground
suggested by the Holloway measure.
A final meeting of the joint committee
was held at the City Hall yesterday
and all persons interested for or against
the measure were invited TO be present
and express their views. Armistead
Brown. President of the State Sunday
School Association. was the only per-
son outside of the committeeman who
was present. although he did not I'D
dress the committee. He is law part
ner of Alderman Holloway and 1t is
understood that hq fdvors the ordi-
nance as 1t was originally drawn. The
only memberr of the committee pres
| ent were Aldermen Holloway, Foster,
A. L. Tyson and TAFT.
| The committee received an earnest
potest from the warehousemen, export
ers. and cotton buyers of Montgomery
against the passage by the Council OF
| the ordinance.
/ 1--WE understand this bill to mea.
the complete stoppage of all quotations
and dealing In contracts" says tn,
protest. This will be a great detri
ment to us in not being able to ge
quotations and Information about cot
ton promptly, and likely to- cause Vi
great loss. Now as we only use thu
future market as a hedge against pur
chases and sales we can see no earth
ly use Of its drastic clauses that will
enable those that are in the cottoi
business in other cities to have an ad
vantage of us in dealing In cottol
In Montgomery. A withdrawal OF thes
facilities will more or less hamper tn
, spot cotton BUSINESS and neither tn
buyer nor seller can act as intelligertl
without them as with them
The protest is signed BY The Roma
Cotton Co., The Peoples Warehouse
the Montgomery Cotton Mills, the Peo
pies Cotton Factory, the James +. Fer
rail- Cotton Co.. Marks DC Gayle. We
Bros, the +. b. Fisk Cotton Co. A. /
|. | w UNI sS w. QtiilldH * 10
, Leopold Loeb, J. @. Sefbs s. Co., p !
tombstone e. Co., the Alabama Rouh
, Bale Co.. A. NJ. Agelasto & Son and A
, N. Catrevas & Co.
The committee also received a serie
of resolutions from the Central Labo
. Codn;Il of Montgomery protestln
against the passage of the ordinanc,
, The resolutions set out that If the wir
houses are driven from Montgomer
twenty or more telegraph operators wi
. be thrown out of employment
The communication from the Labo
Council Is signed by W. Al. Michel Q
the Machinis.s' Union, C. J. Hines q
/ the Retail Clerks UnionA D. II. Spec
of the Sheet and Metal Workers Union
James II. Screws of the Stage En-
, ployes Union, Thomas ]. Kelly of tn
! Bartenders' Union and F. A. Means Q
! the Plumbers and Steam Filters unioI
The committee was in session thirt
minutes AT the close of TIC meetin
Chairman Holloway said IL was yer
probable the ordinance would be re
ported to the Council next Monda
evening without a recommendation.