The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-05
ONE LICENSE
 IS REFUSED Council Refuses One to. I. I. Trenthail1. HE BOUGHT STOLEN BEER Final Vote is Seven to Two, Tait and Sullivan Voting No. sharp Debate on Question, in Which It was Declared That Trentham Had Beea Bound over to the Grand
 Jury.
HE BOUGHT STOLEN BEER

Committing an ordinance which post pones consideration of any rehearfng ot the petitions Of negroes for license 10 sell intoxicant liquors in the city. the Council last night had for it's chfef issue the application of T. T. rentham. SPA North McDonough Street. for q li- cense to sell liquor. It was only after a sharp deabte, in which 1t was declar- : the grand jury to answer a charge of having bought stolen beer. that the pe- tition was denied.
 Messrs. Foster. Hudson. Jones. Lob, man, Ruth, Ryan and J. c. Tyson voted against an issuance of the license to Mir. Trentham and Messrs Sullivan and Tait. both of whom explained their votes. cast their ballots on the other side.
 The question whether licenses should issue to negroes. which 1t had been ex- pected would be the chief business os : the Council, rose but single brief mo- ment above the froth of matters trans. Chairman taken at his request by AL derman Ruth, was upon the floor and offered an ordinance. The purposed effect of this was to render the nscal year of the city ,as regarded licenses. -Cof1temDATaaeGus- with the nscal year of the county and State, in that the licenses should issue from January I. instead of october |, and should be valid, unless extraordinarily ordered for twelve months. This ordinance was committed to the Judiciary Committed, which is expected to report upon 1t at the meeting of the Council Monday night.
 There was no discussion of the issu- ance of licenses to negroes. there was hardly a mention of 1t.
 The real talk came when Alderman Ryan, Chairman of the Police Commit titions for liquor licenses. One of the applications was by T. T. Trentham. 5524 North McDonough Street, MT. Trenthana 1t was stated In the dis- Recorder E. F. Baber to give answer before the grand jury to a charge of having bought stolen beer.
 Alderman Lobman ssrongly objected to an issuance of the license. Denying that he sought to adjndge the peti- tioner guilty or not guilty and declar- ing that every man accused had right to prove himself innocent. MT. Lobman protested aeainst the Police Commit- lees favorable report upon the appiica- ton of a man held to the grand jury be- cause of hn alleged violation of the law
 Alderman Sullivan tnterposed '.iu- tion that the petition be again referred to the Committee, but there was unsur- mountable opposition to this proposal. Mir. Lobman declared that 1t was the duty of the Council to cleanse the icy; of not granting license to one who was held in bond to await the action of the grand jury
 With MT. Lobman. from the first sstood AldeEman ] c ]. Tyson. wnos said that the Council must closely scrutin- ize the issuance of licenses for the sale of liquors. In speech in which he d-e clared that he was not in favor Of high license because he thought the Council ougnt and in any circumstances was empowered to control. the liquor traf- fic, MT. Tyson maintained able argu- ment.
 He stated that it was not his or the Councils intention, purpose or power to adjudge the guilt or the innocence ol