The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-30
COUNC| Fr.S ES OVER | lGF ISES Special SeS -.,,cId By SoIons
 In Bessemer
 - RAILWAY FRANCHISE TAX Important Conference Held at Mayors office-Negro Woman Kills Man at Woodward--Deaths
 In Bessemer.

Bessemer. November 29-(Special.)- l The City Council held a special meeting this evening and the recently raised license schedule was gone into in detail The petition from the Birmingham Rail- way, Light and Power company was read ln which they asked that the city re- train from raising thsir license any more
 than it was at the present time, from
 the fact that the increased taxation that
 they would have tp pay for the year
 l9OS would more than make up for the amount that the raise in license would
 amount to-
 The matter caused good deal of talk,
 Lut the members q the board could not agree on anything and it was left open and will come up for discussion at the
 next regular meeting of the council, which will be or. next Tuesday even ing The pool table license, which was T. 'sed, was changed and the license is now as follows: Pobl tables, six tables ald less, $50 each table; $10 per table for each table over six tables.
 The general merchandise license came uo for discussion. and the following schedule was arrived at: Stock of $500, slO; stock of $500 to i10O0, s15 each addi- tional thousand 8 per 5000.
 A lengthy argument was held regard ing the gr -'n" of the franchise asked for by the ,-m and At- lantic rail gham Rail- way, Liz panv along Second
 Aldern lesirous that the roa lnchise while on the m Lewis was of the anchise should be grs m down Nine teentf First avenue. turning ur e to Twentieth street. thence on toI tlIst avenue and up through First alley into the car she'd
 Alderman Winters idea was that the cars should come down Nineteenth street to Second avenue. town Second avenue to the car shed, whfh will be located in | the Steiner block. through the building 1 into First alley, and then back to .Sine- teenth street.
 The board was abdut evenly divided on i this proposition and it was finally given l ul as a bad job. nd will be considered | later. Mayor Rush expressed himself as being in favor of thd Third avenue route, | as by this means thd cars would take the | passengers right ub to the depots of | eacn of the railroads. This matter has | been on trial at the different council | meet several months | and F it will be set i tied
 Tn the police force ! cam, was trouble. It | was held some time | ago 1atrolmen should | be re all good men, but Hat see how the city | coul many men on the polio aid off originally were ngs, Thomas, and Ozm
 Or m Winters made | this Ditly was rein stat IS decided that he shol )n the 1st of De- cem
 On motion made by Alderman Lewis 1t was decided that George Goings would also be retained.
 Then it came to pass that there would 1 have to be two other men put off to take i the place of the two that were reinstated. The deadlock came at this juneture and ! continued for just two hours No one would recommend a man to be put off, the result was that motion was made l that the matter be allowed to stand al it was originally. namely. that the four men that were at first ordered put off the force on the 1st of December be no- tlfied that they could not be used after the first of the coming month. This mo- ton was carried after considerab ble de- bate, the council was about evenly di- vided on the question.
 In this connection be it said to the credit of the men that have been laid off, that it was through no fault of theirs that they were laid off. It was simply done because the board felt that in order to meet the expenses of the city retrench- ment had to be the order of the day. Everything that can be done to reduce the running expenses of the city is being done, and it is thought that at the next t.,x.x xf asI day evening further reduction in the city s force will be advocated.
 Alderman Edmundston made a motion allowing the merchants to pay their 'i- censes for 1908 in two payments. The first half on the first day of January and the second half on March l.. It is thought by this means that no great hardship will he worked on the merchants because they are compelled to pay an increased amount for doing business.
 A license of $50 was placed on medicine manufacturers
 license of $1Oo was placed on moving picture shows.
 Conference Among Officials.
 An important conference took place this afternoon in the office of Mayor Bush be- tween the Mayor. Aldermen Winters, Bat son and Edumuldston of the miscella- neous committed to which the license or dinanee will be referred, for the city, and President A. H. Ford and General Sup erintendent C.. H. Harris of the Birming ham Railway Light and Power company. The meeting was an amicable one in every respect and the matter of the pro posed raise in the companys license to  at Il a. m. No evening services will be held.
 St. Andrews, Tenth street and Eleventh avenue, south service at Il o'clock, con- ducted by the pastor the Rev. Raimundo