Show JAWS JAViS JABBER III Ir COUNCIL ROO ROOM 1 i Councilman Black Decries Gum GumShoe GumShoe Shoe Tactics of Some City Aldermen The city councilmen at their weekly weakly de debating debating bating society last lat evening said some hard things to each c h other Councilman Thomas K B f lack Insinuated Insinuate that some Bre Tom of the te councilmen on 01 their slumming expeditions lund had attempted to persuade prade men to sell al liquor unlawfully and In had thur tu participated pitted In unlawful acts actio Even E n the mild and gentlemanly W v Mont lont Ferry was WI mid moved an to remark that the from m the tha tho Third Thir ward Councilman was wasa a common scold and deserved deed the ducking tac stool stol To the spectators and there t r was a arther rather fuller fuler gallery than usual UA the per was Mas most moat amusing p The Te fun began with wih the reading of Mayor veto ta of the resolution requiring clubs cubs to take out ot a license I from the city ct Mr lr Fernstrom na eloquent cl ut in an unsuccessful ful attempt to induce the council to pass p the resolution over oer the veto eto He described describe the horrible canal tong in the th city elt and nn the worse conditions C which would woul follow the thc killing of the reso re saying that clubs were being al already already 1 ready formed formO to evade vade the law He lie ad admitted admitted mite that he hv Ii introduced the resolution a ruton to take a slap at the Commercial club cub cubas as he ho himself put it f because buse the he prest pret dent had bad taken a a stand stan against prohibition ion tion ton and an stated state that the club was WI unan una opposed to prohibition Mr Fern Fen Fenstrom Fen FernStrom strom said members of the club cub had ha told him tire ure that they thoy favored a a prohibition mess meas measure mes ue ureThe The mayors ma ors veto eto was wa sustained only Councilman Cowburn Fernstrom Hodg IoK son Sn Hall lal and voting against it IL It John Baer Ba r proprietor of ot the Lion Li bar barat br brat barat at no State Stat street was a told to go and sin aln no more mure after his g story had been heard herd Three Thre councilmen Murdoch Hodgson and ana told of ot a slumming trip on Sat Saturday SatUrday uray evening Feb 6 when they tey went into Haers saloon salon n 11 1 and midnight and saw a woman wO n in a wine room rom there Bacr admitted this and ex cx explained that one woman there ther was win wi jl her husband and was a personal penal friend find and the other had called caled to see him on business His HI Iii explanation was accepted apte and the charge dismissed William Strong against whom there thre is a similar complaint will wi be b tried trIe by the council on I Thursday evening When he these the ca caes s up tp there was WIS some lively debate and a bit bt of filibustering even the th deputy city cl recorder taking a hand In the te latter iatter latterA latte A motion moton was wan made to put both cases case over until Thursday Thursa Councilman Black Blak enlivened elvene the discussion bj b terming tring nil all I such stick trials farces and made the statement that in most moct mott of them the accused parties had lost their licenses lens merely because baus they were Councilmen went wet slum slumming slumming slumming ming ming he lie said and aud then came in with evi dence which they the would not dare to take taketo taketo to court Another gets up and says he hes U Ii i s going to vote to revoke roke a license just Ju on the mere statement of ot another member If I he thought the Fifth ward wand demanded that he should make a u sneak of ot himself by b prowling around aroun at night and inducing men to violate the law thus participating In an unlawful would voul at once one re resign resl resign sign sl n Mr Ir nIr Fernstrom said st he lie was not surprises at Black Blak who he lie was sure had never nevor read red the statute about a d dl di i ties te The city he said was full tul of dives and imd the administration old did ld not seem sm ana ious iou to clean clen it up This awoke woke a Councilman W M nt Ferry err to say sy that he was wa tired tr of being b I repeatedly by b Fernstrom who h in le other oth days might have been ben subjected to the ducking stool tool Councilman J J Stewart made mae a I state statement statement ment that Fernstrom had never neer relied raised rala MX his hil voice olce against gambling and an the th wicked city et under administrations of o which he lie was a part The members were finally called caled to order ord and a tL vote oto taken on the th postponing of the cases There was waa wal a p l lear ar 1 majority with wih Fernstrom and his colleagues but bt the deputy deput recorder delayed delae matters un aim until u til t Councilman Mark who wh had b gone out could be bo sent for The Te vote was wa announced announce as a carried by seven see to six Ix Most of the councilmen demanded that the vote ote be checked cheke up when the figures were reversed and the lie tle motion moton to postpone was ws lost by b the te following vote vot Yeas Black Fem Ferrs Martin Stewart Wood VO Nays Cowburn Fern Fernstrom Fer Fernstrom strom Hodgson Holley loley Hall Hal Murdock User Baer was then theft tried trie and acquitted Strongs case C e was wa postponed post inel until Thurs Thursday Thursday day dR evening because a charge chap against him will wi be b held by Judge Bowman In the police poli court this morning morning The Te m budget t went over for a week Ther Therm are arf some iv cv it ms to be b added adde to the budget and perhaps there may ma be b a a fight fi t over oer some of ot the Ih appropriations The municipal laws II committee reported having heard herd E H P Yowell Yo el on the plan of nf Ogden oe capitalists to t t establish a wholesale commission district and ad market marke on o the west wet side side de and recommended that his com corn communication be flied filed fed with wih approval of the plans and commendation of the enter pise John Holley Holey In a resolution calling for forthe forthe forthe the submission of plans plas of the Or ONg Oregon fon Short Line for a foot viaduct on South Temple street street got gt after the company saying that hat It was wa locating the viaduct In the middle of the block blok Instead of on South Temple street where It I had been ben promised The Tho streets str ts and an engineering committee will wi look into Ino this |