The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-22
Aim Was to Equalize
 Charges. PROHIBITION DEFICIT IS
 ANTICIPATED CAREFULLY Scores of Licenses Were Raised After Much Discussion. sInyor Teague Surprises Body by Lettep Construed to Veto Ciayton Street
 Paving Contract of
 Asphalt.

last night turned out to be one of the most dfgnihed and businesslilke in the history of the august body. The last meeting under the old fiscal year was one of the most important for at it the revision of the licenses schedule on which the Finance Committee has been pondering for months and working for weeks was adopted with. it is true some discussion. but on matters of inl- port It's adoption was finally unani- nous. with only one or two semi-im- material notifications of the important work, the vote for final adoption being unanimous.
 Realizing that the city had to make up for the big financial loss it will suffer through the adoption of prohi- bfticn. and to make up for this loss the business men of the city would have to suffer in raised licenses. the Alder men regarded the matter as one of great seroiusness and one that had to be handled with exquisite care and thoughtfuiness. Only such businesses that the people could do without. and be better of by their absence were materially affected. soft drinks con- taining. or said to contain drugs, com ing in for a substantial raise.
 Alcoholics of course were handled as though prohibition were to last for- ever. and the Council would never get another shot at them. but of course If the law is ever killed, the license will in all probability be reduced
 Aldermen c. F. Moritz. chairman Of the Finance Committee, offered the re- vised license schedule for adoption, moving that the items be passed upon in the course of the reading and after ward the revised list be adopted as whole.
 Ali licenses affected are effected for the period from october l. 1908. to Jan uary. 1909, the schedule also to be for hm .xnar f00Q
 Important List of Licenses.
 Following are some of the items of tAe schedule, the majority of the h-' censes being unchanged. The licenses as quoted apply for twelve months:
 Abstract firms to be licensed in the as,n of s75 a yeaer; street car adver- tfsements $150; auctioneers. S10o; au- tounobfie dealers, $50: repairers, $35: as public carriers. $75; for four-seated vehicles. less amounts being charged for fewer seats. (Alderman Sullivan moved that this change be cancelled ma the license be kept at it's figure of fast year, saying their being in busi- kness made competition and so made Metter service. The motion was lost. \ Business agencies, $40; dances, $5; sAreet parades, S55; baseball matlnees, sA5: barber chairs, $5: dealers In keg afad barrel beer, $500; book agents and other canvassers. $25: breweries in 4tbwn S250; bowling alleys. $25; each member of a brokerage firm. SEQ; cotton exchanges, $25; butter substitutes, $50; cattle dealers $50; circus parades, $100; horse and mule dealers, $1OO; play houses with reserved seats charging more than twenty-five cents for ad- mission, $500: wild west shows, $2O0; big circuses and parties giving pa rades $500; cemetery companies, $20O; fortune tellers $50; coal and wood deal ers, SIS; commission merchants $10O; AafF w more than ten cows, $25; daRce halls R50 detective agencies, $50; electric light companies, $500; express com panies. $500; ice and fertilizer facto- ries, S250; soft drink. $50; soft drinks with dope" $250; soap factories, $40; merry -go-rounds. S100; soda fountains $50; fruit. stands, $50; wagon fruit peddlers, $100; fish, game, etc, $50 fresh meat sellers, $50; wohelsale fresh meats S200; hotels with more than 200 rooms $250; fire insurance companies, S400; street railways, $2.500; whole sale liquor houses, $250; morning pa- pere, $200; evening papers, $1OO; malt IEquors, $50; near beer, $200; saloons for three months remaining of happi- ness, $250.
 MT Sullivan arose as this item was read and said it was a hold up and that the license for that amount cov- cred six months and since the places
 
 was unjust. He said that Inside ssthe fire limits the old code called for S400 for a year and outside fire protection 1t used to be $201, and that 1t was all wrong. He exonerated the finance committee from any unjust spirit in the matter. but said they were not treating the whiskey people right.
 Big Business in Store.
 Mir Moritz said in reply that the Iiuuor dealers had had the privilege of taking out licenses under the old regulations but had not done so, and that the excess business that will be done these three months was ample reason for the raise. Mir. Sullivan fin ally moved to make the license $150 for all within the city limits. and sec onded by MT. Moritz, the motion was carried.
 Retailers were designated as those selling less than quarts and whole salers as those selling more than that amount. both being allowed to sell malt drinks under the same license.
 Other licenses were fixed as follows; wholesalers, $250; money lenders on any xort of security, $400; real estate negotiators of loans, $75: osteopaths, s25; oculists, $10; pawn brokers, S15O' nalm readers, $50: photographers, $25; plumbers. $50; pistol and knife dealers, s1s0 nublic halls. $50; railroads doing
 
 cars, s20O: real estate agents. $l0o; restaurants, first class, $50; second class. S35: special headers other than doctors. $50; steamboats, $2l5' tele- graph companies. $500: telephone com nanies. $500; long distance phones. $150; ticket scalpers and theatre ticket brokers. $500, undertakers the same as merchants.
 There are many other items of the l,at and many variations of the degree of the businesses named, but the most important new schedules are those ouoted. All previous schedules and laws conflicting with the new schedule are repealed. Tn addition to the $50 linense of fresh meat dealers tax Of fen cents on cattle and hog carcasses will be charged and five cents for aheep and goats. This item of the list called for a long talk but was 6nalIy settled as stated
 One provision in the meat license Is that if any dealer be found selling even An ounce of meat uninspeoted. his lfcense shall be revoked and he not be allowed to continue business at the some stand.
 President Gunter said in conclusion of the matter that he thought they had licensed everything licensable except pot flicker" The schedule was final lx unanimously adopted