The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
IS SLOGAN Wholesale Cuts in Salaries
 Ordered COUNCIL IN SESSION All Sorts of Fireworks Set Off at Last Nights Meeting-Ross Criticises Mayor
 Lewis

Bessemer, July Especial. 1.-The city council held it's adjourned meeting or Tuesday night tonight and after empow- ering Mayor Lewis to have the city stock insured, passing on the introduction of an ordinance regulating the scale of license for oil companies doing business in this city, receiving Professor Persons water analysis with thanks, and awarding the contract for the Hard school addition to the Crotwell Lumber company, the sensa. tional cut in salaries proposed by the finance. street and light committees and the mayor was adopted. A communication from the mayor rec ommending the purchase of wagon for the sanitary department and that the sanitary officers be required to do dis injecting for the city free of charge, was turned over to the finance commit- tee. Chief of Police Wallace submitted the following report:
 Cases doclSeted, 241 cases dismissed, 40: nolle pressed, g; convicted. 1s2; fines as- sessed, $2s2o 50; fines paid, s1gOo.4o; fines served out, s1o2 25; fines remitted, s3s S5; fines being served. s549.
 The city physicians report showed:
 Births: male white 3; female white, 4; male colored, l. female colored, I; total, 15 Deaths: Male white. 1; female white, A. male colored, q; female colored, [; total, 19.
 Remarks: The number of deaths exceed the births in the report because the physi- cians do not file all the births and the health of the city has been fairly good for the past month, and is free from con tagious diseases.
 Alderman McTyeire moved that the amended ordinance for the Providence Oil and Gas company be passed but La Rue's substitute, that 1t be referred to the street and light committee to make a change in regard to the rights of the ultimate consumer, was adopted instead. The police committees report that the request of Captain Teasdale of the Salva- ton Army for financial assistance be de- nied. owing to financial straits of city, was adopted.
 The council agreed to drop the matter of getting water piped to Cedar Hill cemetery upon recommendation of ceme- tery committee. The Clarendon alley boundary for cattle running at large pc- toned by Mrs. Lee was denied.
 As the fire department committee rec commended the city stock will be insured | and Mayor Lewis empowered to act and the purchase of another fire horse be de- | ferred
 The special committee reported that the blowing of the whistles of the Atlanta,
 Birmingham and Atlantic railroad coming around the Reeders bend will be stopped
 immediately. The finance committees
 recommendation that the monthly bills,
 amounting to S2s606o. be paid was ac-
 cepted.
 | The water works committee was grant,
 cd further action for the preparation of legal proceedings against the Bessemer Water Works for violation of contract.
 The matter of grading Fifth avenue
 from Fifteenth to Seventeenth street
 was referred to the aldermen of the
 Second ward.
 After some discussion of the best
 sliding scale of licenses for oil com panies doing business in this city an
 ordinance was introduced to be com pleted by the miscellaneous commit
 tee to cover matter of annual licenses
 for these companies
 Enforce Sanitary Laws ,aeol,tiop iptroducad hu Alderroa I,