Show NEW ORDINANCE LIMITS SALOONS I I Blacks Measure Stirs Up a Heated Row in the Council I I NOW OPERATING IN CHICAGO 1 PERMITS ONLY Y AMERICAN CITI CITIZENS CITIZENS ZENS TO SELL LIQUOR One of the warmest debates ever held In the city council resulted 13 t night from the presentation or of a now new ordinance to govern the saloon clement In the city b by Councilman T r R H Black The rhe now ordinance was to the tho council and Councilman Black ask asked d to have It referred to the committee on mu municIpal laws Ir air there thore are no objections the nanco will ho bo referred to the committee on munIcipal laws Council I Pr President Davis Dais DavisI Oil I think wo could kilt kill that here now before It reaches the committee said Fernstrom from the tho Third I I move mOe that it Il do not go before the corn com committee lL IC you ou had been paying attention Mc lr said Council President Da vh you OU would have known what dis disposition position was made of th the ordInance The ordinance has been referred to th the com los ben this mean 7 ask asked d Fern Fernstrom strom When hen was It 7 Council President IDa DavI Is Informed him himas fiS as to what action had been taken and was Indignant Kill it Tonight Wl ought to till kill that ordinance to tonight tonight night continued I 1 do not b that this town wants u a monopoly on the saloon busIness This ordinance proposes es to create an absolute monopoly When we try to curtail any mans I rights and say one kind of oC man cnn can run u a sa loon an and another man cannot we arc tr try lug to do something that we cannot do This Is u a countr country of equal rights We Ve cant say to one man that he cannot have what shat another man has hns We Ve cannot re restrict restrict strict trade and sa say how man many men can run In any particular line hue of business Even If the legislature said we could re restrict restrIct strict the licenses to a certain number w we could not do it itI OIl I want to get a crack at that too I said Councilman Mulvey Let Jet the ex cx or ordinance alone alono and give gie the chief I or of police and the city council a chance at them Do you remember that the reve ree revenue nue from the saloons is a In this town j I Purpose r I do 10 not see an any chance for this pro ordinance to accomplish an anything Mv Il Intention is before I leave loae tile the council th thIs s earI resigned again yet yetto tt to see seo that we have a saloon that will be nil all right I dont believe we ought to have saloons In iii the residence district Vas this or ordinance framed up In the caucus of oC the majority of oC the council interrupted Councilman Barnes 1 dont know where It was framed up I i at the caucus answered lul V vey y yVe Ve have the right to sn say that there thre shall be no saloons in th the city If we want to use that right said Councilman Thomas Hobday Oil urn am surprised at the thc attitude Councilman has hns taken I on this measure to tl try to kill It It reaches a committee I have heard Councilman Fernstrom say time and again that the only time he was ever eyer awu from the council or the committees was when religious work kept him away And then he will tr try to J kill this meas measure are ure which Is proposed because it places n a check on the saloons It is surprising Lo 10 see him supporting the cheap saloons City Has the Power The legislature In its charter to the cit city has given the city supreme power In Inthe inthe the mutter matter or of liquor licenses said Coun Councilman cilman Black In support or of his motion to refer And I serve notice on you ou rIght now he continued It If you OU kill that or I tonIght I will como come back with It next night And ir If you OU kill It next Monday night I will come back with It time the next week And I 1 will continue to come back with It until it is given time the consideration It deserves b by the commit tee teo and by this council TIme caucuses of oC the majority of the he council had nothing to do wIth the Ing or of this ordinance We e want to settle this saloon question for all time Under I this ordinance If a man infringes on the law he loses his license for all time There will be none of oC that business or of promis lag Ing him that If lie hc will be a good little Sunday school bo boy lie he can have his Ji ii cense cease back baek in a few da days s That busi business ness wm will be done away with I I move that th the ordinance do not pass said Councilman Fernstrom The ordinance Is not up for tor passage said Council President Davis When Then you make the proper kind of motion the chalL chai will pot It to the coUncil The American This Is a fine timing thing said Fernstrom Indignantly when the hierarch or of the American party part can sa say that those who do not pa pay their tithing Into the cam campaign campaign fund will be excommunicated from the American political church Upon Councilman Fernstrom formally objecting to the reference or of the ordinance to the committee a vote was called for which resulted as To 10 refer Councilmen Black Carter Crabtree fob da day Martin Wells Veils and Davis Not to re Barnes Fernstrom Hol Icy ley Mulvey and rho ordinance which created tile the trou ble was framed after time the ordinance now operating In Chicago The rhe ordinance provides that no license shall be Issued to any person nerson not an American cItizen provIdes that no lh license nse shall be reissued or transferred to any but an American citizen Another provision is that all licenses Is in Issued sued prIor to the passage or of the new or 01 shall be reissued only upon the acceptance of the new ness or ordinance by the licensees No 10 new lIcense shall be is issued issued sued for the keepIng of n a saloon except to those saloons that now have licenses In excess ot of one saloon for tor every 1000 population as determined by time tIle last na national national state or school census At t the present time there are li Ii licenses censes In existence while the tho population Is estimated at about The present excess of saloons would not be bc affected by the new ordInance To I Individuals Only The uThe privilege of renewal or or provided ty y this ordinance says an another other paragraph shall apply appl on only so long as the license in each case shan shall ha have ve been kept In force continuously and un Interruptedly in time the name or of the tho licensee or his successor in Interest No license shaH shail be Issued to a fIrm except they be engaged In the tho retail saloon business as such and then in the names of the vidual members of the firm and no li Ii license cense censo shall hereafter be Issued to a cor corporation corporation provided however that an any corporation now holding such a license In Its name may designate the person or persons who shall haU be entitled to a renew renewal ul al 0 or or of such for tor the license period beginning at the next ensuing provided further that such per persons sons Eons shall duly qualify by c complying with aU all the laws and ordinances in force loree at the time In the city f Salt Lak |