The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-21
HIGH LICENSE FOR SALOONS
 - Mayor Recommends $1,-
 500 a Year. CITY NEEDS MORE REVENUE Condition of Treasury Has Handi- capped Administration. Expresses Belief Liquor Dealers Re- quire ResuIation-Number of Matters of Importance Come
 Before the City Fathers. 
rITY NEEDS MORE REVENUE

Not less than $500 a year, Mayor Teague recommended to the Council at it's regular session last night, should be fixed as the amount of license for saloons, no matter where within the city's limits they are situated, in lieu of the s400 now charged for retailers within and $200 for retailers without the fire limits. The recommendation, while 1t had not been anticipated, cre- ated little excitement because it was immediately committed.
 The present condition of the city treasury, the Mayor said, greatly ham dicapped the administration, and an in- creased revenue from licenses would, to limited degree, relieve the situa- tion. Assuming that the saloon busi- ness can contribute more revenue to the city than 1t now affords, and that the increasing of the license would eliminate many of the undesirable places where whiskey is now sold, the Mayor communicated at some length his opinions favorable to the raising of the license.
 Other matters, inclusive of the pro- hibition of the use of movable lunch stands on the street and any legisla- tion affecting peddlers of fruit, the Mayor recommended, should be trans acted by the present Council at once, that the persons affected might have opportunity to make, before the end of the present fiscal year, october 1. ar arrangements for the pursuit of other businesses.
 George w Jones was unanimously rerelected a member of the City Board Of Education, his term expiring last night.
 Besides the reception and proper com initial of the Mayors message, the Council had before it few matters of general interest. The Hull Street pav- Ing matter, long a subject of discus sion. was settled by the selection of asphalt as the material; the chicken ordinance was put upon passage and lost; an ordinance affecting the em- ployment of men by the operators of street cars was committed; the other affairs were not unusual in character.
 An ordinance to repeal the ordinance which the City Council had adopted over the veto of Mayor Teague, to re- quire street car companies to provide separate accommodations for white and negro passengers, was committed.
 Those present last night were Presi- dent Gunter. and Aldermen Cox. Eos ter, Griffith, Hudson, Jones. Roemer, Ruth, Ryan, Sullivan, Tait, J. c. Tyson and A. L. Tyson.
 Message on Saloons.
 The message of the Mayor which. immediately 1t had been read by City Clerk John J. Farley. was referred to the Committees on Finance and Judic- iary, wassas follows:
 Montgomery, Ala. May 20. 1907. gro the Honorable City Council oi
 Montgomery,
 "Gentlemen:-As there are a grea many matters which must be settled by the present Council, deem it prop CT to call your attention to some oi them at this time.
 Our entire population is thorough, in accordance with the sentiment tha Montgomery should be kept to tn, front, and to do this requires con siderable outlay. We cannot hope tC advance and keep in line with othei progressive cities without having i'm provements as the demands arise, anC many matters of great importance tC the future of the city need attention.
 We are greatly handicapped on ac count of the condition of the City Treasury. A means of relieving thu situation, to a limited degree, would b,