The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-20
SCHEDULE ITEMS STILL HOLD BOARDS AT THE CITY HALL Barber's Action on Barber College Will Be Watched
 With Interest WARD ON PERSONAL
 TRIP TO ATLANTA Commission Will Meet in Adjourned Session This Afternoon to Finish Business Began at Tues
 day Meeting

This afternoon at 3 o'clock the city commission will convene in the council chamber to take up business left unfin- ished at Tuesdays meeting. The sched- ules for licensing the plumbers and the reconsideration of the vote on exempting l the barber and business colleges from paying city license are the principal matters up for consideration.
 1 Yesterday was a quiet day at the city | hall. President of the city commission George B. Ward was in Atlanta on pri- l vate business and nothing of a newsy nature happened to the other members of | the board.
 At today's meeting the vote of Commits stoned Barber on the reconsideration of the vote to exempt the Birmingham Bar Der college from taxation will be watched with great deal of interest
 It will be remembered that Commits sioners Ward and Barber are responsible TOT the entire 1916 license schedule and it's subsequent increase as a revenue bearer over last years measure.
 FIRST BREAK IN SCHEDULE
 The first break in the schedule came
 
 quested that it be exempted from paving a privilege license on the grounds that II was an educational institution Con- missioners Ward and Barber immediately rushed to the defense of their "child'' and maintained that as the business col leses or the city were money making in- stitut1ons, they should be taxed just as consistently as Loveman, Joseph and Loeb. or any other large merchant. How ever Commissioners Weatherly, Hornady and Truss thought differently and the business colleges were ordered exeonted rom paying taxes amid the fervid ora tory of Commissioner Barber, who yainly requested his confreres to desst in their rash action.
 A few days later the Birmingham Baroer college requested of the com lhlssloh that It also be exempted, as it was an educational institution When this came to a vote Commission CTS Weatherly, Hornady and Truss were consistent, and voted for the eXemp- tlon as was expected from their pre- vicus vote on the business colleges. However, to the surprise of MT. Ward, Commissioner Barber switched and announced that as the business colleges had been exempted he thought the bar Der college should receive the same conslderatlon. Commissioner Ward then replied that just because one mis- take had been made the week previous it should not be made a precedent and he therefore, voted against ex- empting anything or anybody just as long as single corporation or indi- vidual was taxed
 BARRIERS PROTEST On Tuesday the barbers of the city came to the city hall and protested l against the action of the commission in eXempting the Birmingham Barber college from paying privilege license It was stated that the Birmingham Barber college was practically a huge barber shop in which individuals re- ceived tonsorial attention at cut prices in direct and disastrous competition with the barber shops that were paving large license to the city. The bar bers requested relief from this injus- tice. Commissioner Ward at once made motion to reconsider the previous ac- tion of the board, and then the whole matter was left open for discussion this afternoon. On Tuesday Commissioner Barber admitted that the contentious of the barberS were just but that he was puzzled as to how to vote. Whether he has solved the puzzle will be made known this afternoon Comm missioner Ward feels that if Commissioner Bar Der switches back to his original stand and refuses to exempt the barber col leges that another commissioner will also change his attitude, and there is an, excellent likelihood that the busi- ness as well as barber colleges will be made to pay a license on the same basis as other money making institu- tions.
 As to the plumbers, it is stated that the present graduated license on the numbers of men employed by the con tractors may be charged to the gross business done during the year. The city commission is disposed to meet the plumbers more than halfway.