The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-16
WILL DISPOSE OF WORK FUR COUNCIL Various Committees Hold Meet ingS This Afternoon COUNCIL MEETING SHORT Application for TideWater Franchise Out Fifth Avenue Is Among Mat
 ters to Come Up This
 Afternoon.
COUNCIL MEETING SHORT

| While 1t Is probable that the meeting or
 the City Council tonight will be of short
 duration it Is positive that a great
 amount of business will have to be dis
 posed of
 All of the committees of the council
 will meet today and as the work of the
 board is always done in committee meet
 lngs, the session of the council will nss
 be long unless some matters demanding
 argument are broached.
 The street committee. with Alderman
 Stockmar in the chair, meets today at
 noon Several Improvement ordinances will be considered. A resolution calling
 for the inspection of alleys on Twelfth
 and Thirteenth streets will probably be , adopted and reported.
 The finance committee meets at 2.50
 o'clock, with Alderman Harry Jones pre- siding This committee will audit all bills and accounts of the city. and will pass
 on all applications for refunds and Ie- | bates, etc.
 At 3 o'clock, the Judiciary committee will meet, with Chairman Fulghum pre- siding This committee will consider a
 recently reported resolution restraining
 the telegraph companies from collecting
 an extra fee for delivering messages n the city limits Amendments and addl- tons to the plumbing ordiances as pro- posed by the plumbing inspector will also | be considered. This committee will con-
 slider jointly with the railway committee
 the application of the Tidewater company | for a franchise on Fifth avenue. The railway committee, with Alderman Parker presiding, will meet at 3;3O o'clock
 and will consider the application of tho | Tidewater company for a franchise to lay | tracks on Fifth avenue. This committee will also investigate certain granted fran chises to street railway companies which
 are now void on account of non-use The parks and cemetery committee with | Alderman Slmms presiding, will meet ar 1 { o'clock. This committee will consider the recent petition for the making of Il play ground in East park, and other mat ters. The market committee with Alder
 man John Copeland presiding will meet
 at 415 o'clock The matters before this committee are chiefly routine. The excise committe. with Alderman Walter Moore presiding, meets at 4.so o'clock. This committee has in charge the traffic of retail liquors in Birmins- ham It will consider numerous petitions for saloon licenses. Several proprietors
 on Eighteenth street 10 whom have been
 granted the privilege of negro patronage
 are enviod by others not so favored. The others think that the committee has acted
 partially, and have drawn up and pre-
 sented numeous petitions.
 No call has been issued for the police and sanitation committee. but the com
 mlttee will meet. The committee will consider the conditions of the city jail. through which Chairman Heidt was re- gently escorted, and will make report The committee will also consider the re- cent report of Chief Wier in which he
 recommended an increase of fifty men t. his present force. s
 All of these committees have in addition
 much routine work, and when all Is dis
 posed of, each will have report for
 the consideration of the City Council.