The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
LIVELY DOINGS
 IN CITY COUNCIL
Bessemer City Fathers Hold
 Their Regular Meeting
ORDINANCES WITHDRAWN
Proposed Measures Relating to Liquor Are Dropped-Report of Chief of Police for March Is Received
 and Filed as Information.

Bessemer, April .-(Special)- City Council met this evening and the session was an interesting one from several stand- points.
 They were all there from President Lewis down, One thing that was proven was that whenever tie vote comes up and MT Lewis is called upon to settle the matter he can always be counted on to settle the matter In favor of the crowd on the other side of the railroad track. It is just possible that some people in the city will not understand just what that means, and in this connection 1t might be stated that 1t means the First and Third wards against the Second and Fourth.
 As a matter of fact the Second ward has as many votes as any other two wards put together, still when a matter of interest to the general public comes up in the council il usually happens thar the vote is to i and 1t devolves upon thf president to settle it.
 This is merely stated in passing, and will be referred to again at the general election.
 After the council had decided to get down to business the first thing on the list was the report of the chief of police for the month of March. This report was received as information.
 Then came the report of the grievance committee to which was referred the ordinances relating to the storage of whis- ky and whisky ads. in newspapers that came into the city of Bessemer.
 In this connection Alderman Edmund- son introduced resolution asking that the ordinances be withdrawn. The reso- lution carried
 The grievance committee reported fa- vorably on allowing Detective Patton to have the Bell phone instead of the Peo- pies. Patton claimed the Peoples phone was not giving satisfaction. The report was adopted.
 Tine grievance committee reported faVor- ably on having MT. Doyle take steps to keep the cows off the streets. The re- port was adopted and MT. Doyle will be instructed to look after this matter.
 The report of the special committee which was appointed to look into the matter of purchasing the lot next to the Clarendon avenue school was read anu the report suggested that $lV0O De pald for the property The report was adopted.
 After this report was read and adopted President Lewis stated that the matter of petitions and complaints would be gone into
 The first one on the list was that of the City Buggy company. They wanted thelr license reduced. This was referred to the finance committee.
 " \ Kennedy then asked permission to say a few words. and hissrequest WIS readily granted Ii appears that Mr Kennedy did not like the way in which Mayor Rush was being treated during tne council meeting. and he stated that he be- Iieved the Mayor should be invited to slt by the side of the president, His remarks were received as information, and he was reminded of the fact that everything n Bessemer at the present time is being con ducted strictly according to 'the new code" and for that reason the Mayor has nothing to do with the proceedings of the council.
 Clerk Stubbs stated that he would like to have the city purchase the adding ma chine now Tn use in his office. The mat ter was referred to the finance committee and city clerk.
 (. L. Hadaway, who was discharged from the position of day warden some time ago. stated that he would like to have the council investigate his case inasmuch as no definite charge had ever been lodged against him.
 If will be recalled that MT. Hadaway was discharged after the last few pris- oners escaped from the Bessemer jail. This matter was referred to the police committee The matter of electing board of education was then entered into. and this matter was the star feat ure ot the smeet w. H. Lewis was elected to serve one year. pr. J. H. Downing was elected to serve two years w. L.s Rnsh was elected to serve three years. Dr. k. w. Waldrop was elected to serve four years, and Dr. R. P. McTyeire was elected to serve five years. Everything along this line passed off in good style until the mat ter of electing man for the five year term came up for discussion The name of pr McTyeire was put in nomi nation, as was the names of Gardner Goodwin and pr. McNeil. After wait of a few minutes President Lewis stat ed that Dr. McNeil had lost out from t. fact that no second was received to his nomination. This was just little unusual from the fact that ac- cording to parliamentary laws nom- inaUon does not require any second ill order to make it in force. However, President Lewis called the turn on the nomination and this little stunt caused some o ne to lose out. AlleT Dr NC Neil was declared to be out of the run niDg. the vote Was taken on pr. Me Tyeire and Gardner Goodwin. The following aldermen voted for Dr. McTyeire: Batson Benton, Long and Copeland.
 The following members voted for Mir Goodwin: Winters, Edmundson, Ross and Thomas
 Of course this made the vote to 1. and it remained for President Lewis to mend matters. He arose and made a few re- marks regarding democratic priciples as practiced in Sunny Tennessee" and stated that he believed that since pr. McTyere had been nominated in one of the many nallnllses held hX the City Council be