The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-04
PETIT SPECIFIES ON DRUMMING EVIL
ALDERMAN POINTS TO THE DOC TOR AS BEING THE PLACE
 TO DIRECT THE FIGHT.
Defends His Ordinance as Merely Extending Opportunity of Hotel Men. Money Legisiatons Not Up.

Taking an emphatic stand that eV- cry drumming doctor should be run out of the city, and that in extending the privileges of hotel men soliciting their trade he was not defending doctor drumming. Alderman Petit last night took occasion to make his position in the matter clear.
 A protest from Superintendent Trowhridge of the reservation had been read as communication, also one from Mayor McClendon. both serving as direct protests against tho passage of the Petit ordinance, which seeks to extend the limits within which hotel drummers may operate.
 The ordinance did not come to vote, but the communications from superintendent and mayor brought the matter to public attention. May or McClendon urged the council to proceed slowly and Unexpectedly in | the matter, stating that more ad, | vancement had been made in the sup. pression of drumming recently with city and interior department cooper. ating, than had ever been made be. fore. and he urged the council not to recede from the position the admin istration had taken. He declared that to pass the Petit ordinance would a. this time be a great wrong.
 T move the communications be laid aside" said Alderman Petit af. ter the reading of the Trowbridge letter. This council knows what it wants to do without outside nterfer. ence."
 'I would prefer the communica. tions be read, and given considera. tion, said Alderman Williamson. "1t is the privilege of every man to ex- lpress himself by petition"
 But this is not q petition" said Mir. Petit
 Mir Petit then explained that he and Mir. Trowbridge considered his ordinance together He said that he had Mr Trowbridges consent to the ordinance. and later confirmed that ! NoiANt hbt ilt lttiby lItt0lOIts ilN NdlQ, been taken by surprise when Mir Trowbridge came into council with a protest. He said he did not liko that kind of treatment in the matter.
 No man is more opposed to doc
 tor drumming than l am" explained
 Mir. Petit, but believe that a hotel man has legitimate right to solicit business the same as any other busi- mess man. The doctor drummors ought to be run out of town. Doctor drumming is curse now, and always has been. But the way to meet it is to 70 after the doctor who holds up a purse to be split with the hotel man, rather than to go after all hotel men Mr Trowbridge is the man to stop doctor drumming, with his gov. ernment officers. l could do it if were in his place and 1 would do it. IL is a joke-on the water off the water on the water, again. The gov ernment does not enforce it's rules against the drumming doctor, or the evil would he stopped"
 1 There were present Aldermen Pc den, Mclaughlin, Williamson, Petit | Rigsbee, Shepherd Weaver and Gun. | ther.. eiaht in number, but Alderman Gunther received telephone call early in the proceedings and left the council chamber That left less thaS the number required to pass any leg. islation in which money had to be disbursed, so after some delay, fnlod in with minor business. the .ouncil adjourned.
 "I don't believe the people arc get ting q square deal in the matter O. attendance on the council meetings" said Alderman Williamson. This is the peoples business and they ex pect us to attend to it, and 1 believe that we should have more complete attendance on these meetings"
 Secretary $. A. Buchanan filed a l communication which explained that he had made complete audit of the city books from April, 1911, to April 1913. which in brief was the fulfill ment of his work in the matter of the l city audit. that the board or public affairs had agreed to purchase at | $500. There was no fight addressed to the communication. because t could not have been acted on as there were but seven members present, but that there is likely to he when the matter comes up at another meeting was indicated in the care taken of it by those from whom a | fight is expected
 l Alderman Williamson put over his resolution providing for the tearing mp of the Iron Mountain tracks on Valley street, and while there is at present a temporary court injunction prohibiting the carrying out of the order in tho resolution, yet tho reso lntion is there awaiting it's opportun ny
 Chief of the Fire Department Hen. | ry Higgins was granted a leave of absence of thirty days because of ill health. He had been in poor health recently and will take a trip. l The final report of improvem ant