The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-24

It's restriction by increased taxation was unnecessary. The Council had power to discriminate in the issuance or licenses and this power Mir. Sullivan stated. would, If porperly exercised. be sufficient. He declared there was less disorder In the suburban saloons than in the bars within the fire limits,
 MT. Lobman, like Mir. Sullivan, whom he followed. began his part of the de- bate with remarks of a personal nature T am not In favor Of prohibition, do not drink, l do not care who drinks he said. But if he were able, MT. Lob man continued. he would make the license $2.500; the city had outgrown itself and must have increased revenues.
 He stated that he took an interest in the adoption of high license for the purpose of averting prohibition rom Mont gomery. The proposed amounts at which licenses should issue S4oO without the Fire Limits, and $60o with in them, were small enough. He wish ed to see whisky sold, he said, but with the proper license. He said there were disorderly saloons in the suburbs and he wished them put out of business, C. Tyson. who spoke after Mir. Lobman had concluded, said prefatorie ly that ho was not a liquor man and that he did not drink, but he could not see how it was possible to make moral | men by the imposition of high licenses, the idea of doing it, he said. was ab- surd.
 The troubles resultant from the | iiquor business were not the effects ! of low licenses; the City Council was l duly empowered to control the liquor business. Referring to hr Lobman's S ] statements in regard to high licenses averting prohibition MT. Tyson said | t,f frb xs,01n1d mi chanOn a solitary vote.
 1 Mir. Holloway closed the debate with | a speech in favor of the passage of the ordinances. He adjudged the licenses in Montgomery exceedingly small, and he quoted statictics showing compara- tive fignres in Montgomery and other cities It was the business. not the men, which made the liquor traffic a matter proper for regulation by government.
 | The surveillance of saloons by the | police cost the city money, and the | city had a right to regulate the saloon | business. The right of municipality | or of State to regulate and restrict, even to prohibit, the sale of intoxicants had been fixed by the Federal Supreme l Court, Mir. Holloway said and conclud- | ed his remarks by reading the opinion I of the court.
 | Ordinances Voted Down. | On roll call President Gunter, Messrs l Foster, Holloway Lobman, Tait, voted | for the adoption of the ordinance af- | fecting licenses within the fire limits
 voting nay were Messrs. Cox. Coins | Hudson. Jones, Ryan, Sullivan, A. l.. | Tyson. U. c. Tyson,
 | In favor of the second ordinance. af' | fecting licenses outside the fire limits
 only Messrs. Foster, Holloway anc | Lobnnan voted President Gunter said
 he voted against the second ordinance
 because the first was lost.
 The liquor license question appeared
 in other form when later in the pro- | ceedings the Council accepted the re- | port of the Police Committee, delivered 1 by Alderman Ryan, granting the pray
 CTS of petitions of seventeen applicants l for retailers licenses.
 | The applicants were: w. J. Gard I ner, l4 South Court Street; Johr I O'Leary, 474 Bell Street; Julius Ga
 briel, 860 South Decatur Street; Joseph | Letter. roo South Decatur Street; J. s. | Openheim, 792 South Decatur Street; D | Dreyfus. IT North Court Street; w. | O. Stallings. 1O2 Blbb Street R. c. l McLain, 737 Bell Street; Sam Strauss 1 129 Dexter Avenue; Charles Brady, 11+ | Montgomery Street; Montgomery Beel | Bottling Works, 19 and 21 Monroe
 Street; A. Calm, manager, 4 Soutf
 Court Street: J. F Harrison. 122 Mont, gomery Street; Mrs. K. Pelligrini, 20i Commerce Street; George Preiss, +
 Monroe Street; c. K. Jones, 122 Ludi'
 Street; Tillery and Anderson, Mill ant {, Mobile Streets.
 | Ordinances to change the licenses O l slaughter houses and of Ire insurance
 companies were adopted by the Counci
 after considerable debates. The fixing
 of A fiat license of S400 for each agenc, | n va said hN
 Alderman J. c. Tyson to be unfair t'
 the smaller companies doing business | in the city and he stood out for th'
 taxation of per centage of premiums
 Mir, Lobman thought the flat rate Il
 ccnse equitable. After short speeches : py Aldermen Foster, Holloway ant
 Hudson the ordinance was adopted, Al ! dermen Coins. Sullivan, A. l.. Tysor | and J. c. Tyson voting nay.
 The ordinance to fix the amount of
 the license of slaughter houses at $15C | was accompanied by briefer debate and
 was adopted without dissent.
 | Another matter of great pith and moment treated with quietude last | night was the present unpleasantness between the City and the Montgomery Traction Company over passes on the Company's lines for the Citys em'
 Alderman J c. Tyson's resolution
 that the City Attorney be instructed
 to take steps immediately to revoke
 the company's franchise was adversely
 reported by Alderman Holloway for tho
 Judiciary Committee because manda
 mus proceedings had been instituted
 MT. Tyson protested against the ad
 versing of the resolution and said th'
 city ought to make the company obey
 the laws without mandamus proceed ings. The Committees adverse repor
 was adopted.
 By resolutions adopted last night thu Council will meet at noon. October g
 to hear objections to the amounts to b' assessed against properties abuttins
 upon streets improved by paving ant eutters, and on the same day 1t vii hear objections and complaints, if an! there be, against the assessmens fo , taxation made by J. G. Cowan. Licens' Inspector, whose completed work wa last night transmitted to the Counci ' |