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Show , I CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS MAYOR GLAS-MANN'S GLAS-MANN'S RECOMMENDATION FIXING THE CLOSING HOUR OF SALOONS AT 9 P. M. MERCHANTS APPROVEEXECUTIVE'S SU6GESTI0HS Head of City Government and Members of Council Announce That Bill Is Not to Dodge Cam-) Cam-) paign Issues and Will Not Be Repealed Citizens' Committee Indorse Law -H- -f -- At the suggestion of Mayor -f Glasmann the city council last -f f- evening reconsidered the action -f 4- of the council a wee)c ago re- - -f garding the liquor ordinance and amended the ordinance fix- ing the time of closing at 3 o'clock p in. rather than 10 -t- o'clock. Other amendments were - - mado, but this was tho most t Important one. -r- -r-r -r-r-r-r -r- -r- After tho ordinance passed In lis amended form tho mayor stated that he wanted It understood that he had not recommonded the 9 o'clock closing hour or any othor provision of tho ordinance or-dinance for tho purpose of dodging any campaign Issues in Ogden for "wet" or "dry," but that ho desired to give the people what they want and stop, If possible, the agitation incident inci-dent to a prohibition campaign Councllmen Pledge Not to Repeal. This statement was made after the council had passed the ordinance, with its amendments,, and the councllmen coun-cllmen each stated that they had pass- j ed the bill with the 9 o'clock clause In It with the Intention of not changing chang-ing It to a later hour. President Browning stated, however, that ho would voto for an earlier closing hour at any time, but that he would never vote for a later hour. lie said he thought tho mayor and the council had done a good thing In passing tho ordinance and that good would come of It. It was also freely stated by the members of the council that the liquor ordinance, as well as all other ordinances ordi-nances of the city should be rigidly enforced and that the officers should be held to account for the enforcement of tho city laws. Mayor's Three Amendments. The mayors veto proposed four amendments, all of which wero flnnl-'ly flnnl-'ly accepted by a unanimous vole of the council, except that the time for releasing a building for tho liquor traffic where a , license for the business busi-ness had been revoked be 30 days, rather than six months Councilman Dana was opposed to the ordinance in any form, on tho ground that It was not the opportune time to enact such legislation, lie contended that the matter of regulating regulat-ing liquor traffic should be deferred 1 until after tho election of June 27. Councilman Wilson desired the 10 o'clock closing time, while Browning and Peery contended for the 7 o'clock time, every proposition being set : aside until the final vote on the original orig-inal motion to adopt the recommendations recommenda-tions of the mayor that tho hour of closing be 9 o'clock, which was finally adopted. Citizens' Committee Present. The committee of twenty-five, appointed ap-pointed by the citizens' meotlng of a few nights ago to wait upon the council coun-cil regarding the closing hour, was present and voiced the sentiment of the meeting through Judge Bagley nud John Volkcr These gentlemen stated that the gathering of business men represented the business Interests aud homes of n great portion of the city and that they had the welfare of the boys and girls, as well as tho commercial com-mercial Interests of the cliy.'at heart This representative body of business men were heartily In favor of the mayor's recommendations and urged that the bill, with the mayor's proposed pro-posed amendments, bo passed. Following Is tho mayor's communication communi-cation on the liquor law "Gentlemen. I return herewith the liquor ordinance without my approval and will respectfully ask that you malco four amendments to the ordinance ordi-nance and again place It upon Its final passage. Herewith following are the , amendments, which explain themselves: them-selves: "That Section 490 be amended as follows: "Strike out 10 o'clock p. m. wherever wher-ever It appears In said section and Insert In-sert nny hour satisfactory to the council coun-cil between 6 p. rn, and not later than 9 p. m. 9V "That Section 491 shall read as follows- "194 It shall be unlawful for any dealer In Intoxicating liquors to have, or permit, a door,, or opening of any kind lending frontf the place or room that is used for the purpose of selling Intoxicating liquors Into any other room or buildingjor to bave any connection con-nection with aiiMroom by stairs, elevator, ele-vator, dumb wititcr, speaking tube, electric apparatus' or any other means of communication leading from, or to, any room or place whero Intoxicating liquors are sold, Jyhothor same are under un-der control of- jQie owner of such a place where liquor Is sold or not. "Also, that Section 502x0 be amended amend-ed so that drugglbts pay less than ?b00.00, as the state law limits the druggist Uconse to $C00 00. and therefore there-fore It would be unlawful to charge moro than ?CO0.OO, and as druggists are prohibited from selling by the drink, the license should not bo over 300.00. "Also, that at the end of Section 5f215 there bo added the words, 'for a period of six months.' ' |