The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-03
Elected at Last Nights
 Council Meeting.
MIR. cONNIFF FOR ALDERMAN
Can Have Place of Mir. Tait If He
 Desires It.
,-ngthy Session Held But Little of Special Interest Was Done Council Hid
 Referred.

After a dozen or more ballots. con- suming nearly two hours of time, the Council last night surprised nearly ev- erybody by electing Alderman Robert Tait to be City Treasurer. Practical ly nothing had beeI said about Mir. Tait's candidacy. and his election caus- cd general surprise.
 Mir. Tait's election was followed hy a call among the Aldermen for the election of w. J. Connif to succeed MT. Tait as Alderman from the Fifth r Ward. MT. Conniff, in the election of
 r1ermen had missed election to the ouncil by only three votes. He had sasily been elected City Treasurer. His popularity had been attested most strongly in other ways. But Mir. Con- nif declined to say last night whether he would be candidate to succeed Mr. Tait
 The expressions of many Council men, however, conduced the belief that he would be elected if he so desired.
 Names of the candidates against Mir. Tait were not published. It is known, though. at least half a dozen persons aspired to the office and that 1t vas only after a dozen or more ballots that the ultimate decision was made. :,ev- eral who were candidates at the jast election again asked for election and besides those several others asked for votes.
 An Interesting matter introduced as that in regard to the attitude of Mont gomery towards the waterways Ji Ala bama. It was publlshes in a reso'u- tion introduced by Aluerman Moritz and adopted by the Council. It was as follows:
 Where, the aera included in the Mobile Basin has greater riches in crude materials of wealth than any other given area in the United States A,1 Ax kla ofr
 Whereas, the only cheap outlet for its billions of tons of marble, limestone. iron, steel, coal cement and other min eral products, Is by utilization of the l.500 miles of improvable water high way existing in the Mobile Basin, and
 Whereas, the statesnanship that is forcing the Panama Canal to comple- tion is presaging an area of uneaxan- pied opportunity for the Gulf States {, therefore
 Be it resolved by the City Council of Montgomery, the Capital of Ala bama, that they join with other munic- ipal and commercial bodies of the Mo- bile Basin in requesting Congress to put on the continuing contract system every portion of this water system hitherto surveyed and repol ted improv- able by the engineering forces of the war depaItn At; and that they speci- fical1y suggest investigation or 6 plan for the Coosa River that shall combine the development of power with that of Transportation, thus utilizing to the full the gifts of nature in this remark = able stream.
 Resolved, that copies of this resolu- tion be sent to the Senators and Rep resentatives of Alabama; to the Rivers and Harbors Committee in Congress and to the Commercial bodies within the Mobile basin"
 If is doubtful if session of three hours. sepnt in consideration of serious matters, could be productive of more debate and the transaction of so much business.
 Those present last night were Presi- dent Gunter, Aldermen Saul Jones, Toole, Sullivan, Tait, Thompson, Bras sell. Seidle, Kennedy. Moritz, Virgin, Johnson. Tyson, Ruth, Parrish Perry
 The veterinarians ordinance, the measure introduced by Alderman Saul, caused much talk and there were many amendments. Alderman Saul explained that 1t was not an ordinance to create new office but an ordinance to pro- vide for a supervision of affairs that had not 'been previously properly supervised. The matter after serious debate, received no final disposition.
 Bids for the leasing of the city's con- victs were received and opened. They were:
 By L. A. Hunter-For female con- victs, under sixteen years of age, $3 a month; for female convicts, over I6 years of age, $5 a month; for male con- Victs, under 16 years of age, $5 a month; for male convicts over Is years of age $9.5O a month.
 By W. A. Hendersou-For females under 16 years of age. $41O; for females over 16 vearg of age, $40;