The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-21
TO EXTEND WATER MAINS City Will Put Them in for Cloverdale. THE COUNCIL ACTED ON 1T Bids for Street Paving Were Re-
 turned. City counii Heia Lens Meeting Last Night At which Many Routine Matters Were Diseussed. Mayors Veto Sustained.
 

Tn . meeting devoted principally to the consideration of ordinances per- taining to the extension of the water mains beyond the city limits and to street Improvements. the City Council last night whiled away three hours.
 An ordinance to extend the water main throughout the property owned by the cioverdale Homes and Improve ment Company. in which obligations manifestly to the advantage of the city were assumed by the company. was adopted with only one dissenting vote. President Gaston Gunter strongly ad- vocating approval of the measure. Aside from that ordinance. the main feature of the meeting was the return of all bids on the bithuiithic paving of Clayton and Montgomery Streets to the bidders. Reports of committees and the referring of resolutions to the proper committees consumed the great CT portion of the time of the city fath- CTS.
 Proceedings were instituted with the reading of resolution returned to the Council with the Mayors veto rei- atfve to the extension of the cityss wa ter mains beyon the city limits.i The resolution was lost. although every ad- vantage was given 1t, the fans being stopped upon motion by Alderman Johnson that tho reading might be distinctly heard.
 The reports of various committees were then heard and matters of small importance were discussed.
 Provocative of considerable discus sion was the consideration of bids for supplying the city with 4.000 feet of fire hose. The Alabama Machinery and Supply Company had submitted their bid without the certified check de- manded by the Council. they claimed through . misunderstanding or an over sight.
 fact that Alderman Sullivan made powerful plea in favor of the consider ation of the bid on the ground that the concern was the only Montgomery manufactory which had entered tho competition. Alderman Morttx opposed Alderman Sullivan in his advocacy of the adoption of the bid. stating that the committee had full cognizance of the bid and were at liberty should they see fit to reject all bids. thus placing all competitors on common footing. As a matter of precedence, he declared. the Council should deman that all btd- ders comply strictly with the rules gov- erning the reception of bids.
 After consideration. all bids for the paving of Clayton and Montgomery Streets were returned unopened to the
 
 sion was fnduIged in by various mem bers of the Council before the vote declared the sentiment of the body, but 1t was evidently felt that In xair- ness to all the step taken was neces- sarv.
 The propositin of the Cloverdals Home and Improvement Company was, President Gunter contended, the most favorable ever presented to the Council by a corporation, he having resigned the chair to speak in its favor. The corporation purposed to lay at its own expense the water main, several miles in length, specifying further that the work should be done under the su- pervision of the City Engineer. The mains. the ordinance provided, would become internationally the property of the city within a period of ten years, and should 1t desire, upon the exten- sion of the city limits previously to that time, to possess the mains. the company agreed to dispose of them at q pro-rata rate. Meanwhile, the citi- gems using the citys water were to pay for their supply at double the rate given residents of the city. Alderman Saul objected to the ordinance, alleg- ing that 1t was unfair. but it was adopted with his single opposition.
 After the consideration of several or- dinances regarding such nuisances as liar subjects, the council adjourned. the time being then 10:45 o'clock
 A motion to meet again tonight was lost, though it is possible than an ex- tra session will be called for the con- sideration of important matters which were to have come up before the body last night.