The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05


 ident of the South Carolina division: NJ L. Johnson of the Georgia division; c. C. Moore of the North Carolina division, and W. L. Jones of Anniston. and W. H. Seymour of Montgomery, president of the Alabama division, all members of the executive committee of the Southern Cot ton association, passed through Birming- ham last night on their way to Jackson, Miss, where a meeting of the executive committee Is to be held.
 The purpose of the meeting will be to
 
 tees and defining the rules of procedure of the council. Cooper attempted to lay these over to the next meeting but he was voted down by the majority
 Excludes Greener Resolution.
 Then came the fight. Alderman Full ghum secured the passage of all parts of the judiciary committees report, except that relative to Alderman Greener's reso- lution. He then moved the odption of that part of the report which read as follows:
 That we adopt the resolution of Alder man Greener with reference to prohibiting the sale of liquor in the city of Birming- ham during 1908, go over until licenses are fixed for the year"
 Alderman Moore then arose and sub mitted the minority report as given at the beginning and moved its adoption O'Nefll moved as a substitute that 1t be referred to the finance and taxation com mttee.
 Aldermen Declare Themselves.
 Estes: ;'Gentlemen, many of the alder men present have already expressed themselves in favor of prohibition, amonh them Aldermen Jones, Parker Heidt ard Hogan. We ought to show how we stan1 on the question, and this gives us chance to let the public know what we are. I call upon every prohibitionist in this council to vote for the resolution and stand by us'
 Hogan: q have publicly announced my self for prohibition, but l don't know whether the voters of the Eighth ward want 1t or not and I will vote against the proposition until after the people have voted on the question, which is already up to them."
 Fulghum: Laying aside all my per sonal desires, 1 am here to represent the people of Birmingham, and l think it would be absolutely foolish to anticipate what they want when they are preparing 1 to vote on the question. Suppose we were to put prohibition into effect inside of Birmingham and then the county should 1 vote against it. How would be stand
 
 ] personal opinions with our public duty.
 Estes: Consistency, thou art jewell 1 say that the men who threw out Mayor Ward in his absence and have acted<as the majority has. do not represent the people consistently. l represent the Ninth ward when 1 vote for prohibition
 Klotz: T am surprised at Alderman Estes, who publicly stated here that he thought this question should be dropped, and voted to table 1t at the last meet | ing It is not our place to decide wheth- CT the people shall have prohibition or not 1 favor 1t, and believe 1t will re- 1 suit"
 Heidt: Last May, Mayor Ward asked me to vote for a s25O0 license" Estes: "Is it fair that a man quote l a private conversation when the other | party Is not presentT'
 "Heidt: "I know how to protect gen | tleman without any assistance from you, l sir" He then went on to say that mo l agreed to vote for a 5000 license, but that would not suit the Mayor. He said: As l long as I am chairman of the excise committee I will do everything under the sun to take away the licenses of men who | run disorderly houses, and will go to a great deal of trouble to catch any viola | tions of the law. I am democrat, and if the majority of the people vote for prohibition, I will stand by their de- | cison.'
 Kiotz moved to lay the whole matter on the table, and the vote was to 10 Tn | favor of tabling.
 Alderman Jones caused considerable mjrth by the manner in which he voted l mo" on every question that came up. 1 Parker ruled him out of order several | times | Alderman Cooper read this resignation which was accepted with regrets: Gray Tenders Resignation. | CT herewith tender my resignation as a member of the Board of Education, and 1 ask that you present same to the Clty | Council and request that they accept It at 1 their meeting tonight. 1 wlsh to lhaHh l every member of the board for the very | kind consideration they have always | shou,n me and to assure them I appre- | ciate the compliment paid in electing me l f othe Board of Education for the past | ten years. With very kind regards, l aIh' yours very truly, HENRY B. GRAY. Cooper explained that on account of the | fact that he is connected with the cty | in the banking business he could not con | tinue to hold office under the muhlclpai l code. , oo Tba citv attorney was instructed, on | ,,otion of Alderman Estes, to investigate | tha rights of the Birmingham RahWaN' | JJpht and Power company. lie aiso il troduced a resolution doing away with l srrit stands on January l. which was re- ferred to the miscellaneous committee
 Kicks on Committee Arrangements l Alderman Estes then, in an imposing manner. registered his protest against the manner in which President Parker had appointed his committees. He then pro ceeded to show how completely the ad- l ministration faction had been frozen out of the six governing committees, without | A single chairmanship and only nine posi- tions.
 He compared Burnett, with five places m committees, to Cooper with none, re- marking: "There is not single alder .sACVFgTehsn Every bottle