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Show 1Y CLOSE BIS fiLLMIUESBlY Cafe Managers and Saloon Men Will Protest to City Commission. Considerable dissatisfaction was manifested mani-fested ycHtcnlny by- cafe nianapcr.'i who run bars In connection with their places, and hy tho saloon keepers of the city over the order from Chief of Police Grant that they would be required to keep all bars closed from midnight tonlRht until 0 o'clock Wednesday morning- The. cafes had made special aiTanfjomcnts for election elec-tion returns, and were plnnnlny to entertain en-tertain record crowds during the cvcnlnpr. They supposed that they would be permitted per-mitted to sell Houor nfter the polls closed at 7 o'clock tomorrow evenlnp. as has been, dime In the past. The new liquor law, passed tn K'll. saya that licensed llo,uor dealers shall keep their placca of business closed "on the day of any soneral or special election" elec-tion" Where tlds means that "election day" Is the time wlun the polls aro open or whether It means ih entire day, is the question that Is bothering Hie cafe owners. It Is probable that thoy will ask for an interpretation of the law today to-day and take, the matter up with the city commissioners. In the past the saloons and the cafes have opened their bars after the polls were closed. Tills, however, was under an old oj-dinance. which, according to police officlala, has been replaced by tho 1011 law, which reads differently and which they tako to mean that the s;ile of liquors Is unlawful throughout the entire en-tire day. 'T will take the matter up with our attorney." said Cieorsc O, Ttelf. manager of tho Hotel Utah, last ni-lit. "If he decides that the. law provides that we must not sell liquor at any time during the day we will abide by the law." Other cafe maunders seemed to be of! the fame opinion, tiiat they would not sell liquor if they would trungrcss the law by doing so. but a number of the saloon men and cafe proprietors strenuously strenu-ously objected and said that they would make certain that they would he wrong if they opened before they would change their plans. |