The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-05-28
MAJORITY or. THREE PASS REso-
LUTON AT SPECIAL SESSION
TO HOLD COUNTY FUNDS.
IMMENSE CROWD AT MEETING
Able Plea for Building Of Permanent
Highway System Made by Chairman
w. w. House Fails to Move Opposi.
ton to the $4,000 Mile Project.

By vote of thirteen to nine the
county quarterly court on Monday
repudiated the contract, made by the
state highway commission for the
i construction of the Spring Hill to Co
| lumbia turnpike at cost of approx
mately $4,000 mile. The following
is the detailed vote on the resolution
Of Squire English to repudiate and re
scind the contract made by the state
commission: ..,.. .4.,,
i Justices voting aye; ,Sowell, For
4 gey, Goad, Derryberry, Hardison,
4 Pinkston, Denton, Dugger, =, English,
Wilkes, Carr, Akin and Stanill. To
tai 13. ,l.......r .,,.4
!. Justices voting no-7Hull, Matthews,
4 jackson, Ross, Ricketts,, Harlan,
\ Guest, Orr and Jones, Total 8,
Y Squire Farris was absent and Squire
1 Davis, while against the resolution de-
clined to vote because of that he CON
sidered the ERRONEOUS ruling Of. the
chair in not permitting the reading
of the resolution after the. roll call
had started.
The county court met with the larg-
est crowd of people that has attend
ed session of that august body in a
long number of Years Judge Tnr-
ner kindly consented to adjourn cir
cult court, the large auditorium of,
that court was used and it was packed
and damned with sweltering humani-
ty.
The crowd came from all parts of
the county, Every district and vot
ing. place in the county was represent
ed. The largest delegations came
from Mt. Pleasant and Columbia and
they were u noisy bunch of good roads
iaooters. They cheered and applaud
ed every auttterance made by the advo-
Gates of, ting road construction. But
fRhhe were, talso some xociferous op.
PIGMENTS of the road contract They
1 came from the first, some from the
4 second, the fourth, fifth, sixth land
tenth districts and although they had
\ little chance to cheer, because the
/ Speaking was all done by advocates
Fof the contract, they made lot of
noise whensthey got chance. They
gave a wild yhoop or two when the
first test vote on Squire Hulrs motion
to table the English resolution failed
! by a vote of 10 to 13
Not only were all the seats of the
court room taken, but many stood
during the two hours of the session,
Despite the crowd the order was good,
the closest attention being given to
every speaker. m i: Ma 44r
The roll call developed that only
Squire Farris was absent Judge Whit.
thorne, who called the court to order,
asked Bishop Beatty to offer the invo-
cation: This was done, the bishop
repeating the lords prayer at the
close and being Joined by many of
those present f@
AS soon as proceedings opened
Squire Carr made a motion to employ
w. s. Fleming, ST., to assist, the coun-
ty attorney in any road litigation, but
/
the motion encountered opposition on
the ground that the need for assistant
counsel had not been made plain, was
withdrawn.
Then Squire \English got the floor
with the following resolution, which
was adopted:
BE it resolved by the quarterly
county court OF Maury county, Ten
nessee, in extra session assembled
upon this the oath day of May, 1920,
that all connection with, responsible
ty for and liability under a certain
contract entered into at Nashville,
Tennessee, upon the = day OF May,
! 1920, by and between the state high
way board of Tennessee upon the one
| part, and the Knoxville Construction
!