The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-18
Not 10 MoUe Fountain,
 Council Is Determined.

t q Ia T in regard to the duties of the superin- tendent of Stock. The measure was adopted.
 Other matters were of routine nature.
 When the roll was called by City Clerk John ]. Farley, those present were President Gunter, and Aldermen Brasseii, Johnson. Jones. Kenendy. Lowe. Moritz. Parrish. Perry. Ruth. Saul. Seidle, Sullivan. Thompson, Toole. Tyson and Virgin.
 Immediately after roll caA Mir. Ken nedy moved and Mir. Johnson seconded. that the rules be suspended and the ladies present be allowed to speak upon the question of the removal of the Court Square Fountain.
 MT. Moritz moved an amendment that the report of the joint committee first be allowed to report. The amendment carried.
 Mir. Kenendy. reporting for the joint committees, delivered the information that the resolution for the removal of the Fountain was adversely reported.
 Turmoil Made.
 Immediately there were motions for indefinite postponeinent of resolution and report. to lay on table, again to lay on table. Questions of order were raised in rapid succession. Mir. Moritz said indefinite postponement of con- s.deration would kin the matter. Mr. Johnson said the ladies present should be heard. Mir. Thompson said he was for consideration and immediate dis- posal. Mir. Kennedy said the ladies should be allowed to speak before the committees report was heard, so the Council could intelligeptly determine.
 The chair held that despite indefinite postponernent of consideration of the matter the ladies might properly be heard Mir. Saul moved that the la dies be heard and upon second of Mir. Brassel1, the motion was adopted.
 Mir. Sullivan interpolated the remark that at no stage of the proceedings, with an election imminent, had he doubted that the ladies would be heard.
 Miss Tuccoa Cozart. representing the Flower Growers Association, was the first speaker. Miss Cozart spoke for the memories and for the material re- niinders of the past. She held that the city could not afford to do without them. Great buildings, Miss Cozart said could not take the place of such sacred monument as the Fountain, in the care of the city.
 The speech of Mrs. Frank Fillmore was notable for pungency and humor and convincing strength. For health, for beauty. for memory, she pleaded, the Fountain should be allowed to re- main as 1t was. Mrs Fillmore. as rep. resentative of the Ladies' Memorial As- sociation, several times was applauded during her all too brief speech.
 Gen. John W. A. Sanford spoke against the removal of the Fountain. Aside from sentiment and from mem- ory, he said. the Aldermen, forgetting their duties. could not legally contra vene vested rights. There was, more- over, no reason for it's removal now; no more reason now than ever. The citizens had right to demand its per- petuation. The Council could not prop erly, for individual caprice or prefer. ence,
 Mrs. John Lee. on behalf of the la dies present offered thanks to the Council for courteous reception.
 AIdermaY Parrish, author of the res- olution that the Fountain be removed, spoke. and in a speech replete with verbal grace and abundant humor and sentiment. withdrew from the position he had taken. In eloquently expressed compliment, Mfr. Parrish bowed to the Judgment of the ladies and asked unan- imous permission to withdraw the reso- lutionE Mir. Parrish was r0undly ap- piauded for his speech.
 There was an objection to the with- drawai of the resolution eRnd the mo- ton for indefinite postponenaent was adopted:
 The following resolution by Alder man Virgin was unanimously adopted: Be it resolved. By the City Council of Montgomery, as follows that:
 "Whereas, the members of the Coun- cil in their endeavors to advance the interests of the city may sometimes permit the material progress of Mont gomery for the moment to shadow the sacred shrines of patriotic sentiment; and,
 whereas, The women of Montgom- cry, ever mindful of the sources whence spring eternal the waters of N civic | righteousness. have como amongst the members of the Council to offer them words of wisdom and encouragement; 1 therefore be if
 ''Resolved, That the thanks of the 1 Council be and hereby are offered to l the women of the city for that they so | loved, the best of the past and the pres | ent and the future as that they should 1 give us their counsel. their confidence | and their allegiance in the discharge oi l the duties of statecraft and citizen ship"
 Alderman Thompson moved for the reconsideration of the Seidle ordinance | the sense of which was to state the | duties of the Superintendent of City | Stock The ordinance had previously been lost. Immediately there was a sharp parliamentary debate on the mo- | ton.