The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-04-10
SEGREGATED COW
LAW is PASSED
MEASURE RECEIVES FIVE OUT or
SIX VOTES ON THE SEC
oND READING.
RESULT OF LAW IN OTHER TOWNS
Every City That Has Passed The
Stock Ordinance Is Pleased
With II.

up was the Segregated Cow Law
which was passed on second reading
with only one vote against it, that OF
Alderman G. w. Hayes.
When the ordinance came up for
passage, Alderman r. L. Mckinney,
who has all along taken an active
and commendable interest in the
enactment of this law, gave the Board
some valuable and interesting infor-
nation as to the success of exclusive
stock laws in other towns in Tennes-
see, Kentucky and Alabama.
When the question of the passage
of segregated COW law was first sug-
gested to the present Board, Mr.. Nc
Kinney decided to gain all the infor-
nation possible, so as to act intelli-
gently and wrote the following letter to
the mayors of twelve or fifteen towns,
some of them larger towns than Co
lumbia and some of them smaller, but
all in the town class:
ITO the Mayor of
Dear SIR
''As one of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen from our town 1 would be
glad if you would give me a little
information regarding your stock law,
if you have one effective in your city.
The question has been agitated here
for a long time, but we have never
been able to secure an exclusive stock
law. Our present Board has passed
an exclusive law on the first reading;
and, in order to meet the argument of
the opposition would appreciate any
information that you can give me re-
garding your law.
'Have you stock law? If so, how
long have you had one?
rs your law entirely exclusive, Gov
ering all stock?
"Is there any opposition to this
law now in your town?
do you consider it saving to your
citizens to be able to do away with
fences, thereby saving the building of
the same, repairing, painting, etc?
81 would very much appreciate your
prompt reply.
VERY respectfully yours,
''R. L. MCKINNEY.
ID MoX nj n
Columbia, Tenn, March 26th, 1908"
1t is noted that Mr.. Mckinney wrote
to these towns, not knowing in the
majority of instances whether COW
law was in force or not. He received
replies to nearly every letter written,
and there was not single instance
where the town did not have law in
operation, most of them exclusive,
and in every instance the reply stated
that the people were well pleased with
the law and would not under any cir
cumstances again tolerate the pres
ence on the streets of the predatory,
filthy cows. Most of the mayors
stated that there had been a large
saving to the property owners in the
cost of constructing fences, great i'm
in the beauty of the streets
and yards and in the sanitary condi-
ton of the towns.
Some of the mayor kindly sent
copies of the laws in force and some Of
them replied at length and enthusiast
tically.
Mayor Dunlap of Paris, Tenn, said |
the town had had the law in force
for ten years. That the question was |
the issue in several campaigns and
in the defeat of the party
unfolding the law, the grounds being
hat the law would work a hardship
On the poorer class of the citizens.
That since the law had been put in
effect there is little or no opposition
o it, the streets are much cleaner i
han the average town of its size, in
act are kept as clean as the streets
If a city, there is an increased atten-
ion paid to the appearance of the
ards. Paris is town of 2,01S popu-
alton according to the last census.
Mayor Skeggs, of Decatur, Alap
which is a town of 3,114 population,
avs THE people of the Decaturs gen.
rally favor the law,
Mayor Gardner of Union City,
Tenn, town with a population OF
,4O7, says "There was great opposi' :
ion to the law at first, Now there are
ot twenty-five voters who would IA
or its repeal"
Mayor A. M. Blue of Gallatin, Tenn,
town with a population OF 2,409,
avs: "This law has been In opera
on ten years, and now there is no
pposition to It. consider It saving
, the people"