| Show BREWERS IRS STRIVE DESPERATELY TO BEFOG THE ISSUE Saloon Ownership Embodied in Fixtures Which They Cant Dispose Of INTIMATE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW IS IMPOSSIBLE ALSO SEEK TO DIVERT ATTEN ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION TION TO BULLERS ES ESTABLISHMENT ESTA TA B LISH M ENT E NT That there is a concerted movement among the other brewers of the city cit to get set the Buller Builer brewery if they the can was made manifest at the tail tall end of ot last nights hearing before the license com corn committee committee of the city council Just how bow strong this infantile conspiracy will in the prove proe to be remains to be seen see but taut there is no doubt that the Buller brew brewery brewer brewery ery er is a marked establishment esta That at any rate is the opinion of ot those who heard the discussion in committee last night After the business had been threshed out as far as it could be beIr Mr Ir Fisher of the A Fisher Brewing com corn company pany begged leave leae to ask one or two questions I 1 would like to ask the committee committees said s Id Mr lr Fisher Fishier if a license is required for the sale of beer beer only at brew breweries breweries breweries eries in small what you ou might say in buckets rs Is such a license required Mr Ir City Attorney It is replied P J Daly Dab assistant city i attorney Well ell the reason I 1 asked said Mr Ir Fisher is that if one brewery enjoys enjo os a certain privilege I would like my own brewery to enjoy a like privilege I 1 do not sell at retail at all inter interjected Interjected interJected Jacob Moritz of the Salt Lake Brewing company Our brewery is not in the city limits said W P Kiser of or the Wagener brew brewery brewer cry ery er I will ask ak you gentlemen then said Mr r Stewart if you ou know of any an brew brewery brewery brewery ery that is selling at retail without a re retail retail retail tail license licenser r I dont know anything any thin about it only if there is said Mr r Fisher as a begin beginning fling ning and as as far as he got Yes there Is emphatically put in Mr Ir IrI Moritz I ritz The Buller people are doing it right along Mr Ir Godman asked one of ot the com corn committeemen committeemen speaking to the license collector collector collector tor has the Buller brewery a retail li Ii liquor liquor quor license No Xo sir None one of the breweries has 1 I v c The and the It is charged that the breweries are after alter Bullers scalp because Buller would not come in with them In their deal with the Republican party part This is the means r they t ey are arc taking of or getting the Buller scalp It jt is charged also that Peter Buller Builer was talked to and with until his patience was exhausted to get into the combination but Buller would have none of it Will Licenses Be Granted There is before the license committee a bundle of applications for retail liquor licenses numbering possibly 1 Of the places for which applications are made are alleged to be brewery brewer owned orned The others are arc from persons who own their own on At the conclusion n of the committee meeting it was tentatively the till under understanding understanding standing that the committee would report favorably for the passage of the licenses of ot the saloons at next Mon Ion Mondays Mondays days da s council meeting and to hold further consultation about the saloons in dis dispute dispute dispute as it was put the saloons in dis dispute dispute dispute being those contained in the lists already printed as saloons controlled owned or directed by the Salt Lake the Fisher and the Wagener breweries What hat do you think will happen to the saloons in dispute was asked of Mr 11 Fernstrom who is the leader of ot the fight against the saloons That is hard to say sa just now no But the breweries will have to live up to the law lawSo lawSo lawSo So the saloons will wilt be in a state of suspense until after alter Monday londa nights meeting at any an rate As to the Ordinance At the last meeting of the city council councilman Fernstrom introduced an ordinance ordinance ordinance nance which amends the present ordinance ordinance ordinance nance in that is requires that licenses shall only be given to bona fide owners of saloons and that dummies shall be out of ot it There is an ordinance now that provides that no person or firm shall own more than three saloons The new ordinance ordinance ordinance nance is intended to shut down on the practice of breweries establishing sa Sn saloons saloons loons without regard to number and with without without without out much regard to the character of the persons who hun them Inasmuch as the ordinance was re referred referred jointly to the license committee and the committee on municipal laws which practically includes the entire membership of the council it was trans transferred transferred transferred to the municipal laws committee in whose pouch it will rest comfortably for tor seme time to come no doubt said Mr Fern Fernstrom Fernstrom It goes over oer now no I strom but in a while I 1 venture to wager this ordinance will pass I tell you ou the breweries have hae got to obey obe the law and they have got to quit evading it The Committee Hearing It may be surprising news to a good many people but it is a fact borne out by the testimony of three of f the leading brewers of the city cit Mr Ir Moritz Mr Ir Fish Fisher er and Mr Kiser that t the breweries do donot donot donot not own a single saloon not a single one Of Or course they own the back bars and some of the other fixtures in a good many places and they the own the property on which many man saloons are located and they the hold leases on a good many man buildings that are used as as saloons but they dont a abit abit abit bit of glassware not a bit And the breweries are anxious to get rid of the fixtures fi tues es which they the do own On very anxious They The have been Deen trying tring for five years jears according to Mr Ir Fisher to Continued ed on Page 5 |
