Show SALOON MENS COMPLAINT Want Permission to Ketp Opan Front Drmor The followimmg petition was Introduced in the city council last night We the undersigned citizens and taxpayers tax-payers of the city of Ogdeb resiestfuiiy represent to your honorable body that we have tar a number of years mild to this Cit in addition to our ordinary taxes the sum of p010 each for the riviiege of carrying on a liquor business and curing that time have conducted orderly places I and have carefully abstained from vioiat I up in lame e respectfully shoos that although there is aim ordinance of the cityof Ogden forbiduing the sale of lIquor on bunoays tflat there Is no effort upon the part of the police force or the mayor to enforce the same except as hereimi after set lorth although it is a notorious fact that almost au the saloons are kept open on Sunday and liquor sold therein I our iseririomlers raspectfuliy represent that believing that there should be ito eiiscrlminatlomm between the business mcii of this city in the administration of the iav and tiiat no omme should be pumiished for doing sshnt the authorities permitted Others to do your petltlommera called the attention of the mayor and the police liii thorities to the fact that else ordinance was tmelmig openly and generally violated anti stated to him that they tiesired mmotll lag but justice and an Impartial alrninis iranian of the laws us lady stand that if this ordinamice Is to be treated as a dead letter it saa only fair to them that they should be permitted to keep their liaces of business open op Stnoays as wel as other liquor dealers that thereUpOn there-UpOn the mayor informed tlmem that if they lid so they would be immediately arrested and prosecuted anti at the smme time refused to prosecute others violating violat-ing the said ordinance or to direct the hiolice to do so unless your petitioners would make complaint and furnish cvi dente against such others Your imetitions do not believe that it is any imuty of theirs to act ns detectives for Ogden City but are informed tlmat the police department Is employed under the direction of the mayor or the purposo of enforcimig the ordinances For the reasomma stated hereIn your t titioners having no otter means of redress re-dress ask that your honorable body do Protect them in the enjoyment of equal privileges to whIch time payment of yoUr license entities us or in the event that this cannot be done that your honorable body remit such part of thu license fee as will compensate them for such existing exist-ing inequality Respectfully submitted B F LiVINGSToN J II alTERS Attorney alaginnls and the petitioners appeared in behalf of the Detition and aIr Livingston spoke to the council basing his complaint uponthe fact that neither he nor aIr Myers had backdoors back-doors to their saloons and that unless they where allotveei to sehl through the front doors they would haye to close entirely on Sunday This they contended was arm Injustice Injus-tice as it pennmittcd all but the two saloons lIt question to do business and asked the council to perjnit them to sell or to close all of the saloons In either case they asked that unless they were permitted to sell that the council ri mit a proportionate amount of their license The matter was referred to the corn mlttee of the whole and the committee went into executive session for about I one hour but when they rose no repot was made I The commIttee on claims rerportG recommendun payment of bills amounting to S3626 The same corn mittee reconimended that the claim of E P Hulanisli be referred to the act ditor for investigation The committee on license recommended recom-mended that the petition of 14 C Bi low and others asking for the renoal of time merchants license ordinance be flied for th present but that befoko the end of the present year the nt chants license be repealed The teptt is made in this way in orde rnot to Ii feet the tax rate for 1899 The committee ore streets recommended recom-mended that cvork be clone on Jacksbn avenue also that the bill of F C Aims tin fgr 2070 be paid Fred 2 Kiewel presented deeds to the city for the property nov known is Butler avenue The city recorder read an lnvitati m from the aecretary of the League pf American alunicipalitles inviting the mayor and council to attend a meeting of that organization at Syracuse Sept 17 William Adamson receiver of the waterworks company presented a claim for 1020 for repairing cvater hydrants hy-drants It was ordered paid The matter of the appropriation of 8500 to the idov of the late Caisthln Brown vas tibied indefinitely Payrolls amounting to 61731 were Ordered Or-dered paid and the council adjourned for two weeks |