The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-01
NO LICENSES
 TO NEGROES City Council Refuses to
 Grant Them. SALOON MEN TO BE WHITES
No Debate on Proposition, But Vote
 is Unanimous.
Aldermen BaIk Ut Granting of Liquor Privileges to Eight women. Hut rinai,y G-.=s -sssa E. Vote
 of 6 to 5.

No liquor licenses to negroes Is the policy of the City Council. which lasr night declined nSne petitions from ne- groes without apparent consideration of any other quality than color. There Was no decrying of the applicants, but just a tacit consens4s that the trafhc had best be kept in the hands of white men.
 Of the 166 applications by white per- soW, one. by R. RI Pettus. ASA Bell Street. was refused, and another. by T. T. Trentham, 524 North McDonough Street. was referred again to the Po- lice Committee. which had returned It to the Counci without report
 The reporting of applications of eight women for licenses to sell liquors Dy retail precipitated long discussion or the propriety and the expedfeEcy Of giv- ing legal sanction to the sale of intex- icants by women generally supposed to be lewd and 1t was by very ciose vote that the petitions were granted
 Tha r~,.-~, 'e- been called together ... A eons eration of the appli-
 atteas for .4aor licenses. but under ]. .sipa ol tha rules other matters sft@e 4ei-gGacad Ordinances appro- p i9tsaH s45 a F the payment of sal- gfias aF th% cizrs employees for the .sonta ae a@at. ber and $2.051. .27 to sity eo1 yaceu tensions of the water .-erss .s stssI ere adopted. The .axs,.q a 91 cons licenses was dis cussed and several petitions were con- sidereds
 It was s:so o'clock. half an hour af- ter the appointed time, when President Gaston Gunter called the Council to order aud City Clerk Farley called the roll. President Gunter. and Aldermen Cox. Foster. Griffith, Holloway. Ruth. Ryan, Sullivan, Tast and J. c. Tyson 1 answered, Alderman A. l.. Tyson com ing into meeting u few minutes later.
 License of Express Company.
 ..i.w r1rfa khA letter from City Clerk Farley was read MT. Farley reported that the Southern Express Company had rendered to him. as City Clerk. $250. and. as fee for pay ment of license to conduct its busi- ness in Mont ntgomery, and that he had declined to accept 1t on the ground Of its insuffciency. The company main- tained, that by recent Legislation the Etata of Alabama had fixed the license.
 In like manner. MT. Farley said the amount of $11 was rendered by each of several agents of various mutual aid associations for payment Of ifc-nsss. had been refused by him. the conter- tions being the same as in the case of the Southern Express Company. The letter was referred to the Judiciary Cnmmiftaa.
 s.sr, reporting for the Financs ,asAaii,- offered an adverse report urlo 3a ,etition of the Montgomery Absi-ac. ompany that it's license be .ea'.e. m SIS to $50. The report
 rs@ ,ons of wild west and circus 2 ss4L. permission to advertise their ,,.:. .-,.s IS with signs variously dis
 ,f re sources of unexpected de- paue, ana they finally went to the Com mittee on Judiciary The general dis cussion of legislation upon signs was continued in the consideration of appii- cations by merchants for permission ta nnnt tcr
 The ordinances carrying appropria. tions were formal measures to make lo- gal the necessary payment of moneys already practically utilized and were adopted without opposition
 Alderman Sullivan wished to intro' duce a resolution that 1t was the sense of the Council that the attitude of the Western Union and the Commercial Telegraph Company towards the strik- Ing operators formerly employed hv them was deprecated. but there was ob~ deetion and 1t was not considered. A resolution that the Council uppoinh committee to> cooperate with Nhe Commercial Club in regard to Mont gomery Day" at the Jamestown ExposIs ton. was refused consideration. Negroes Refused Unanimously. It was then that the Council received the report of the Police Committe upoB the applications for 109 licenses for the sale of malt, vinous and spirituous li@ nrors and for sixteen for the sale of The report was read by syan, Chairman of the Com when there was no objAs- .. petition the reading of the u. ( petitioner was held to be ' avor of the adoption of the -atri ,ring the petition read. te re' tions Of nine negroes had sera :. gated and as the name of ey-r veta ,ner was rad the objection to the granting of the license was form ally sustained by the Council. The vote was unanimous. There was no E debate upon this matter. Tho names E of the petitioners are:
 T. w. Crowder, 701 Pollard Street. will Page, 409 South Street. Jack Green, 1 Drivers Row. G. E. Newstell, 110 North Court K Street.
 A. ". Wilson, 8 Coosa Street. c. B. H. Glass, S74 Jeff Davis Av-