The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-01
MAYOR SULLIVAN
 VETOES THE LAW
New Ordinance Covering Matter
 Will be Offered
CITIZENS ARE INTERESTED
Permanent Organization of the Best People in Bessemer Will De- mand Enforcement of the
 Sunday Closing Law.

Sunday Closing Law.
 Bessemer, January Sl-(Speeial.) )-True to his early determination and according to the statement that he made some time ago Mayor Sullivan today vetoed the two ordinances passed at the last meeting of the City Council, providing for the closing of saloons on Sunday and for regulating the matter of excluding all persons except the proprietor or his clerks from all places where liquors are sold on Sunday.
 The ordinances were adopted by the council by vote of six to one, one mem Der of the council declining to vote on the final passage. To pass the ordinances over the Mayors veto six votes are re- quired and it is claimed by the opponents to the ordinances that the required votes cannot be secured.
 Shortly after the ordinances had been passed by the council and on the night after, Mayor Sullivan announced through the newspapers that he would not sign the ordinances, more than 10o of the best citizens in the city held a mass meeting
 
 templated action of the Mayor and adopt cd a resolution requesting that he sign the ordinance or some similar measure that would prohibit the sale of intoXicat- ing liquors on Sunday.
 Mayor Sullivan was present at the mass meeting and announced publicly that he would not sign the ordinances but he further stated that if the council would pass an ordinance requiring all places of business of every description in the city to be closed on Sunday he would sign 1t and see to 1t that such law was en- forced.
 Sunday Campaign Started.
 At the close of the mass meeting 1t was proposed to form a permanent organiZa- ton, the object of which should be to see that some efficient law be passed by the council requiring saloons to be closed tight on Sunday and to see to it that such law after its adoption, is strictly enforced. Judge B. Clay Jones was made president of the new organization. Judge Jones stated at the meeting that he would have prepared an ordinance that would require all places closed on Sunday that could be regulated under the state law and would present 1t at the next meeting of the City Council. Mayor Sullivan announced that if such law was adopted by the council that he would
  1t enforced to the
 The council in regular ses- sion next Tuest and It IS eX- pected that Judi will present his 1 ordinance at t provided the | council fails to ordinances al- ready under con! over the head | of the Mayor.
 The matter of closing of sa- | looms is creating ieal Of interest | in Bessemer just how and it Is understood | that the people of the city who were par l ticipators in the recent mass meeting and who entered into the permanent organi- | zation, will continue the fight until some reform is effected
 An interesting feature of the contro- versy is the fact that some of the most important liquor dealers in the city are anxious that the proposed law as em- bodied in the ordinance vetoed by the Mayor be adopted and enforced. They claim that on account of the unscrupu- lous dealers who disregard the law In the matter they are forced to transgress also as a matter of self-protecton.
 Go Into New Quarters. The firm of Rarden X Scott will move into the new quarters being prepared Tor them on Second avenue about the middle of February where they will be Letter fitted for their large and increasing busi- ness.
 The stores recently vacated by Rosen- baum Bros, and J. J. Sullivan are being remodeled and put in fine shape for the firm.
 One of the store rooms that this firm now occupies at Nineteenth street and Third avenue will be occupied by J. II. Johnson & Sons and the other will be oc- cupied by A. R. Jones, wno will open new store.
 New Directory.
 A movement is on foot to issue a direc- tory of Bessemer and the Bessemer dis trict. The Bessemer Board of Trade and the city council have taken an interest in the matter, and all the business and professional men of the city and section are lending their support and assistance
 It is proposed that the directory contain all the people on the rural free delivery mail routes running from Bessemer and will also cover the territory embraced in Brighton, Jonesboro and other nearby places.
 Bessemer has long been in need of such a work and 1t is believed that the diree- tory will be gotten in shape and will be with the printer within a few weeks.
 Fined $50.
 John Norwood, negro, was fined s3O by Mayor Sullivan in police court this morning on charge of larceny. IL was SnoWH Tn the tr1al of the case that Norwood entered Mac Claws pawn shop yesterday and picking up a cloak from the counter advanced to the rear of the place and offered to pawn it to MT. Clay. The proprietor upon examing the goods identified the piece as his own and promptly detained the negro by plac- ing handcuffs on his wrists.
 Notes and Personals.
 Mrs. W. D. Taylor is spending some time with friends and relatives at Me ridian, Miss.
 Jacob Rosenbaum has moved his family to Norwood, near Birmingham, where he has recently purcnased an elegant home.
 Pat Moore, who has been connected with the local office of the Southern E,x- press company for some time, has been made chief clerk for the company at Gulfport, Miss, and will leave to take charge of his new position in a few days.
 Carson S. Helms has received an an polntment in the railway mail service and has been ordered to report for duty at Chattanooga at his earliest convenience MT. Helms has been q letter carrier in Bessemer for several years and has given excellent service. The people of this citv regret to lose his services here, but are proud of his promotion
 The case of Mrs. M. L. Stinnett vs inc City of Bessemer, in which the plain tiff is suing for S5OO0 damages, alleged to have been caused by the pollution of Val ley creek by the citys sewers. is still