Show OUR CITY FATHERS they sit down on taking scrip for licenses AND SCORE THE POLICE FORCE FOR NEGLECT OP DUTY the city attorney also escapes not their anathemas Ana themas the city council met in special session last evening with mayor W H dusen berry occupying the chair the absentees were aldermen dunn and brown and councilor bean the petition of nels et al asking that the etrest leading west from seventh street be opened for the public was referred botho committee on streets and alleys the water masters annual report was read and referred to the committee on irrigation tiie report of the showing a list of delinquent water taxes for the epars 7 was read alderman alexander considered that delinquent water taxpayers should he made to pay he had understood from the that th reason the city attorney had not aued on their accounts was that ha thought it was not wise Hs could not see the polica of this however he had to pay the tax and others should be made to pay it he would like to hear the ter make a statement in the premises gee stated that ho had asked the city attorney both in 1886 and 1887 what he should do in regard to delinquent taxpayers that he was on hand to help enforce the payment of the same but the attorney had always been too busy to attend to the matter this year he had asked him what to do with those owing for their water tax the attorney stated that he would look into the matter and finally said it would be well for him to of all delinquents and he would buo each one but nothing had been done in the matter the wa ter master concluded by saying when the attorney is ready I 1 will aue every darned one of thorn and the first one I 1 will get after will be tha bagget one in the whole outfit alderman alexander did not know that the council had to wait the pleasure of the attorney in this matter if the attorney wout act let the city get along without him finally after three quarters of an hour had been spent on the matter the report was accepted and placed on file tha city recorders quarterly license report was read it shows collected in licenses councilor maiben asked the recorder if there were any delinquent license payers on the list the recorder stated that he thought there was mr maiben said city attorney had stated to him a short time ago that he wished to heaven the police had sens e enough to swear out a complaint against some of them so that he could enforce the payment the report was referred to the committee on finance the question of revising the ordinance relating io licenses came up during the debate alderman holdaway scored the officers for not enforcing the payment of license on billiard tables he considered two whisky saloon smore preferable than one billiard table in conjunction with a saloon they were th worst evils provo had to contend with councilor maiben did not think alderman holdaway know anything about billiard tables As to there being contaminating tamina ting influences connected with them there was no more contamination than there was in playing a tin horn beating a big drum or even salvation army he thought the best policy the city could pursue would be to reduce the license to the same amount as other charged the city attorney who had entered during the discussion of alie subject expressed his surprise at being informed that the proprietors of billiard tables were not paying license alderman alexandr well the city has never required them to do so and I 1 dont blame them city attorney thurman could not see any obstacle in the way of the city enforcing tho ordinance in connection with tha matter the chips given at the bar of the saloons ware but a device to attract custom As to allowing their tables to be used free of charge lie did not believe in any anch stuff if the ordinance had been violated tha guilty parties should be made to pay the penalty councilor maiben that the keepers of pool tables did not use any chips in the playing of billiards as referred to alderman alexander and councilor daniels gave evidence of the fact that chips were used which convinced the gentleman of his error councilor maiben thea said if such proceed iuga these were going on in the city it was a funny thing the police know something about it abey certainly should not be timid in seeing tl e law earned out alderman holdaway was thoroughly convinced that there nad ben a dere lection of duty somewhere the law was on tho side of tha city and at the law hai been openly and shamefully violated the last six or eight moats he was in fator f suppressing th billiard table and especially in connection with the whisky saloon chev wei e but on a j with houses of prostitution in their demoralizing effects councilor maiben 1 I suppose you will want to the boya playing marbles yet alderman Mol daway replied in a manner that left no doubt of his earnestness nest ness in his desire to see tha evil suppressed it was the sworn duty of the officers ace the law and they were riot in sitting silently by and see the ordinances flagrantly violated tha city attorney thought the acty could not the billiard tables the charter did not give it the power if wa were going to suppress them en tir elythe city would have to pass a special prohibition ordinance it would be safar to do this than charge an exorbitant or license the occupied nearly an hour of the councils session and finally passed over to be further considered tha committee on irrigation reported that they had considered alie petition of A 0 scoot asking a remittance of hafl water tax on land in tha south field and that thoy had decided land was benefited benefit td by irrigation and consequently recommended that the petition be not granted the report was adopted alderman alexander staled that in the excavation of abellar under the proposed new store to be built by J R boshard a great amount of dirt could be used in the bene fitting of the streets tho contractors wished him to ask the council to allow a reasonable compensation for bald dirt the matter was referred to the committee on streets and alleys with authority to act in the premises prem isea councilor fairer arose and stated that he had heard it reported that the saloon keepers were in the habit of paying their licenses or partly BO in scrip if such was the case he was opposed to it scrip was not a legal tender and the city had no right to accept it Al dennan alexander remarked that he had heard the same thing an had asked the recorder why be had adne so the recorder had excused by saying that the mayor had agreed with the saloon keepers to take scrip and he took it on the mayors orders too maye then stated that gubb apas Q ra the case he had agreed that the city should take the scrip hut he had arranged that it was to be taken at a legal discount the scrip was a curse to the town it was true hut it could ha paid the treasurer at the same discount alderman alexander said that the city was under no obligations to take the scrip the treasurer had stated to him i that it was a perfect bother and that he had refused to take it but that the parties he had refused to take it from had gone to the mayor and he iu turn ordered the treasurer to tike it and he would he responsible for it councilor was also opposed to such a state of affairs the city safe was flooded with it and it was a nuisance if the saloon beeders beepers could pay crip other business men could do so with equal alderman moufid that it be the sense of the council that the treasurer accept no more scrip in pay jaent 01 any license this move said mr holda ay would have the effect of causing the saloon keepers to refuse scrip and would undoubtedly prevent many young men from spending their means in auch places the motion prevailed and the mayor added that he would endeavor to secure a cash customer for tho scrip taken on liquor licenses the subject brought a wholesale fus milade from the mayoralty on the scrip question which his honor denounced aa an infernal nuisance to the city at ave minutes to 10 the board of health bill was resumed section 10 on which the council stuck last time and adjourned was again deliberately libera tely discussed discus sd it was not passed however when the council adjourned at a little after 10 the next session of the council will be held on tuesday evening december at 7 p m |