The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-11
Question Argued for Over An Hour - Measure
 Seems Doomed
LANE UNALTERABLY
 OPPOSED TO TT
Does Not Think It Fair Either to Housewife Or Truck Grower. Other Commissioners Decline
 to State Position

T am unalterably opposed to the mar ket ordinance said City Commissioner A. O. Lane yesterday. Tt won't work. We've tried it now twice, and l can't see why there is any reason to try it again.
 Tt isn't fair" added Judge Lane, ito compel any farmer or peddler to go to certain place to sell his goods. and 1t isn't fair to make the women of the city come to these market places to buy. This town Is too big and too scattered Some women could do it. but there are whole lot more who could not If they did they would have to spend 10 cents car fare, lose an hour or two, and instead of the market being blessing it would be a curse to them for they would be out of pocket and out of time and out of pa tenee Pm going to vote against it.'
 For over an hour at the commission meeting yesterday a few women who are leading the market league movement held lively session in the commission cham Der at the city hall. Many of them spoke in favor of the market ordinance, and several ridiculed a few farmers and ped dlers who were there and took the floor to defend themselves.
 The other two commissioners declined to state their position on the ordinance There are strong indications, however, that the ordinance is doomed. If passed at all now, there is practically no doubt but what the provision prohibiting ped dlers and farmers and truck growers from peddling in the residence section during the market hours from to 10:30 o'clock in the morning will be stricken out
 It is understood that the leaders in the market league movement do not care to have the ordinance passed with this feature left out The ordinance was post poned for action until next Tuesday.
 Those who spoke against the non-ped- ding feature of the ordinince were At torneys Prosch and Dinsmore, K. T. Daly, w. l.. Parkinson. A. J. Hammond and others. The farmers and truck growers presented petition signed. they said, by over 2000 housekeepers who were their reg ular patrons and who protested against the ordinance. They state they worked on the petition but a day or two. and by next Tuesday will have l5,o00 or 20Oo0 sig natures attached to it.
 Those who spoke in favor of the ordi- nance included Mrs. Julia Truitt Bishop, Mrs. R. DuPont Thompson, Mrs. F. F. Glass, Mrs. c. B. Tandell of Woodlawn. Mrs J. A. Swanton of East Lake, Mrs. w. II. Yenni and others.
 The ladies allowed the first two or three men to speak undsturbed, but after that kept up continual run of repartee and jokes at the expense of the speakers.
 The general argument Of the farmers and peddlers was that they object only to the anti-peddling clause during market hours. passing their objection upon the contention that but a small part of the housewives will come to the market and they will lose business. that after market hours their stuff will be wilted and of no use: that their losses therefore will be great and they'll have to go out of bus- ness. On rainy days and bad weather and in hot weather they said the women would not relish the idea of coming to the market even if 1t was within a block or two
 ''Those women are earnest and fair in what they are trying to do," said Judge Lane after the meeting. 'but they're just simply mistaken. Their idea won't work here, in it's present form, and that's all there is to it"