The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-29
COUNCIL VOTES
To RENEW LEASE
WITH RAILROAD
By Mere Majority of One the
Petition of Road Was
Granted.
ANOTHER LIVELY SESSION
Arguments Were Continued Yes
terday and Many Talked for
and Against Releasing of
the Foot of Mans .-ieId Street.

After dreaming over he situation
and in an executive ses on the ne
cessity of which was no. manifest
city council yesterday We ed to re
lease the property AT the 70 of Mans
field street to the Southern "lilway on
the same basis as has beer the case
in the past The council IL t in re-
cessed session at IL O'Clock and did
not adjourn until very near o: e. With
the exception of Alderman brams,
the full board was present ard The at
tendance on the part of citizen etc,
was about the same as was tlu 2se
Monday evening.
Talks in favor Of the releasing &C
the property were made by Messrs.
F. D. M. Strachan, F. E. TWitty and
F. D. Aiken, while Secretary Weather
ly of the Board of Trade took the
other side of the question and he was
ably assisted in his position by Presi-
dent A. J. Long, head of the Macon
Atlantic Navigation company. The ar
guments took a very wide range and
did not differ materially from those
presented at the meeting on the eve
ming before. Council has always been
divided on the question Of releasing
this property for the reason that there
is a general idea among the members
that Brunswick has been discriminate
ed against by the Southern, as well as
the Atlantic Coast Line, and it was
felt that to refuse to grant the lease
would be regarded as an evidence that
the city proposed to fight against the
evils. However, the arguments sub
mitted showed pretty cOnclusively
that the city council was not the
place to fight out an issue growing
out of determinations, etc, and they
had their weight with several mem
bers of council After both sides had
presented all of the arguments de-
sired, Alderman McKinnon moved an
executive session and council retired
to consider the matter.
But little was accomplished, hoWev-
er, at the useless executive session al
though one vote was taken and the re-
leasing of the property was lost, but
one member stated that he had voted
under misapprehension, and changed
his vote.
On reassembling in regular session,
the question was called for and the
aye and nay vote was taken, the vote
being as follows:
For releasing the property: Alder
men Ludwig, McKinnon, Roberts and
Leybourne.
Against releasing the property:
Alermen Cook, Dart and Jones'
Thus it will be seen that the vote
was not almost unanimous as has been
enormously stated.
AS matter of fact members of
council who voted in favor of re
leasing the property, stated that if, in
their opinion, it was thought that a
refusal to extend the release would
have remedied the evil, then they
would have voted in the negative.
They all seemed to appreciate the fact
that the discrimination charged ac-
tually existed, but that the question
had DeEn carried through the wrong
charheh
AS viii be noted by the official pro-
ceedings, a resolution was passed at
the meeting authorizing an investiga-
ton and it is more than probable that
the matter, before it finally ends, will
be carried to the state railroad com
mission or the interstate commerce
commission.