The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-17
DISREGARDED MAYORS VETO Council Passes Salary Ordinance in Toto. SERIES OF LONG DEBATE Keeps City Fathers Up Rather
 Lates selons Engage in Many Friendly Rows and Put Tax of 50 Cents on
 Cows-Many Minor Matters
 Receive Their Fall.

Passing the salaries ordinance over the Mayors veto. ordering that clnders citizens could. with decoruln and dry feet, enter the churches. reading bids for supplies, donating site for nos pital, deciding whether dss,,, street cars as would have to be driven over them, making appropriations for the pay ment of notes aggregating thousands entertaining a score of motions to ad- journ--doing all those things, with most varied but -humored depate, the Council last night spent three
 The Mayor, communicating to the Council his disapproval of specinc sec, tions of the salaries ordinance aaopttSSe tSe Secretary of the Mayor should receive only $1.000 a year. instead or ti'EVV stipulated by the ordinance; that the be within the precincts of his of1ice. had no need of the horse which the ordinance provided for the feed ot; tnat the plumber of the city water ss5o woaNs and that the creation of the ofhce @ o1 city veterinarian at salary oi sI'Soo was ytbs and aSt had been read. Alderman Virgin moved for an adoption of 1t over the veto and the motion carried. Aldermen Parrisn. Perry. Thompson and Tyson young 1t was the consensus of the Council that the new rate of payment, m. salaries of the Police and Fire Depart ments' employees were effective rom
 Anoth CT executive veto that was set aside by the Councils vote upon mo- ton of MT. Virgin was that which disapproved of the ordinance or Al. derman Saul. making the office of City done, it was agreed by ballot that the Mayor should be allowed to postpone until January the appointment ot the car inspector. who. by the salaries or ceive $500 a year. The question of a charge of license of 50 cents year on each COW. which persons not actually in the dairy business used to supply milk to customers. was at the same time settled. and the license was es-
 Close to this was the consideration of the ordinance of Alderman Saul for the establishment of the office of City said that the ordinance did not create but only defined the duties of the office, and the measure was passed over the Mayors veto.
 Tempest in a Teapot.
 The Committees on Hospitals and Einence made a~rreport that caused most talk. As publish ed several days ago, the report contained an -ordi-
 
 Madison Avenue between the car barn of the Montgomery Traction Company and Hilliard Street to the Montgomery years, and the price one dollar for each year. The report was made for the committed by Alderman Moritz Of the the chairman of the Hospital Commit. tee. MT. Parrish.
 Mir. Sullivan objected to the location next the car barns where he said the rish said 1t would not be noisy, and Alderman Moritz supported the conten- lions of Mir. Parrish. MT. Seidle spoke against the site, and MT. Kennedy said the site had been selected by the Coun cil years ago. MT. Ruth corroborated Mir. Kennedy. and then Mir. Gunter, the President, amended the original report the city might. if 1t wished, take back the site and give another. an amend ment that was finally adopted.
 champion of the charter. objected to the ordinance as whole. He said there was no necessity for another hospital, which would shortly cost the of the efficiency of St. Margarets Hos pital as an eleemosynary institution and said that the reduced revenues oi the city. contemplated on account of placed the city in such condition as that it could not afford greater ex- pense than it at present undergoeS.
 Mir. Parrish. author of the ordinance, said he deemed 1t an honor to have in- troduced the measure. The establish ment of the Montgomery Infirmary, be said, would not put the St. Margarets Hospital out of business. Ho main tained that the city was making good bargain. He held that fortuitous cir cumstances which some held had thrust prohibition upon Montgomery should not prevent the city from assisting its uoor and needy
 Need No Other Hospital.
 MT. Sullivan agreed with Mr. Tyson that the city needed no other hospital than it now had. and pratsed the ex- istent infirmaries. He was AgaiIst one that would have tombstones on one Moritz. deprecating. sophistry., senti, ment and false philosophy. advocated the adoption of the ordinance with the amendment which he said he had ad- vocated. The city, he declared. was not building the hospital, but must af- ford those who would build it some- thing tangible to work on. He said il was not a question of dollars and cents but of humanitarianism.
 MT. Parrish again spoke. saying that the property owned by the Infirmary lon Perry Street would add $20.000 to the endowment of the hospital. On final passage the amendment offered by MT. Gunter was adopted only MT. Ty- son voting nay; and then the amended ordinance was unanimously adopted And all those matters, like everything