The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
FIRST MEETING OF EXCISE COMMISSION ID BE HELD TODAY New Members May Hold Their Conferences at
 the City Hall
MOORE AGREES WITH
 AGEE'S STATEMENT
Agee Spends Sunday on His Farm and Will Not Return Until This Morning-May Receive
 Applications Today

The newly created excise commission
 composed of w. c. Agee, chairman; E.
 Wilkinson and Sydenham Moore, with
 Jack T. Stallings, secretary, will meet this morning. Announcement to this ef- feet was made yesterday.
 The meeting will perhaps take place in the city hall, although no denfinite an- nouncement as to the place has been made by any of the new officials, that
 proposition being left to Chairman Agee.
 The meeting will be for the purpose or
 getting organized and deciding upon
 permanent set of offices, ordering sta tionery and setting a regular meeting
 time.
 The commissioners will receive $10 with every application made for saloon license or licenses of any other character, which
 money will be used for such purposes as they may decide With that fund It
 may be possible that the commission will secure offices in some of the office build ings, although the city commissioners, IL is believed, would be agreeable for the
 new body to meet In the city hall if l'suitable rooms could be provided.
 Agee Spends Day on Farm Chairman Agee spent yesterday at his farm a few miles away from Birming- ham, and it was given out at the resi- dence of Dr. Stubbs, his brother-in-law, that Mir. Agee would not return to the city until this morning. Commissioner Wilkinson was down town early yesterday
 morning, as was Commissioner Sydenham Moore. Various friends met the newly | appointed officials and shook hands and congratulated them upon their appoint ments.
 Commissioner Moore, in talking to newspaper men, said that he was abso- | lutely sure the excise commission could
 handle the restriction situation here, and | that such would be done absolutely &C., cording to the law.
 We will meet Monday morning, I am | informed" said Mir. Moore. "as there seems to be eagerness on the part of the business men of the community that the situation become clarified and let the will of the voters recently expressed go | into effect The statement of Chairman Agee that this commission will strictly
 
 lutely literally, as we intend to make
 this city model one from regulation
 standpoint. I do not know where we will first meet, but I presume Chairman Agee
 will settle that point. We will get right
 cown to the work in hand, and as few delays as possible will result" May Receive Applications &l,1
 mission this morning will be principally for the purpose of organizing, 1t is
 not improbable that many applications for saloon and' hotel licenses will be re-
 ceived. Following the filing of every ap-
 plcation with the excise commission, signed by 20 householders and freeholders, testifying to the good moral character of the applicant, the applicant must then
 advertise his intentions in daily news
 paper for two weeks. It will at that time
 be the privilege of any citizen of this
 county to appear before the excise com mission and make charges against any proposed saloonkeeper which evidence
 must be heard and regarded by the com
 mission.
 Inasnuch as the greatest impatience and eagerness is evident for a clarifica-
 tion of the situation, there is expected to be iiitle delay on the part of the com- | mission in shaping affairs for the open ing cf at least a few saloons October 1. | It Is expected that careful scrutiny will be exercised as to the location of
 every saloon, and that the. commission will refuse to permit the opening of sa- looms upon certain streets and avenues.