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Show THE COUNCIL TONIGHT. The lerchants License Couiea In for a Leading Place. The feature of the bulletin which the sages of the city council will be called upon to face this evening is the proposed revision of the license schedule and the adoption of an ordinance, of which Treasurer "Walden is the proud father, that will abolish the merchants' mer-chants' license. The ordinance, as drafted by the treasurer, contemplates con-templates a number of modifications comprehends a list of pursuits upon which no tax is now lsvied and makes a Tariety of changes without making any serious inroads i upon present revenues. j Among its opening paragraphs is a philanthropic philan-thropic move in favor of the woman who is struggling to make a 6canty living in a small-fry restaurant. A reduction in the license is recommended. Building, loan, discount and irj estment institutions which have heretofoi lent their coupons without paying tribuf 1 the city will, under thr new schedule envited'to tip just f 50 a year to the ll "If r. This claust II looked on differently from different soas J I The better class say it is a mere tf jlto them and that it'will drive thej'll'al who does business with an Jlocean of gall and a pasteboard M out the field. A strike is .v made at the man with any cf the mtov-., species of fakes, and with the adr,4 ' he ordinance he will be requested U J Jiay into the till. An Twiwif.n r J.'.iaa should the dealer conclude to-toiTaiJ permanently. Freaks of nature also i f me within it, and from this eirce considerable revenue rev-enue is exjlcted. For the reiief of Fne Lanct., iiflnay be suggested that the home product in protected." Natural curiosities curios-ities are also stabbed at and must ante f 2 a day so long as curiosity demands their presence. Hitherto the man who consecrates his life to finding employment for the idle and unemployed un-employed at the rate of f3 a head has been overlooked. The. new tchcdule remembers him, and it ordaias that he shall put $50 in the slot or shut up shop. Oil companies and oil wagons are also provided for and will be assessed as-sessed t'J5 annually, while tha man who peddles ped-dles home manufactures or home products, of any variety will have his license cut down to $25. Heretofore the peddlers of any baker's product, including the pie man, lus had to march up with r0. The new ordinance ordi-nance leduces the tithing to $15, a figure fig-ure that will bring in the hosts of to mala men and rcudcrs of fried chicken. The uiiy gentry who have bem canvassing the city in tne iuterert of art, as it thrives in crayon portraits and pictures at the ate of $1.50 for a cbromo and $10 for a frame, is also given a place and 425 is the levy. These are among the notable changes in the schedule. Should the merchants' license be abolished it will prune off $23,400, while under the new schedule 80U0 is brought, in from other sources, thus reducing the loss to $H.400. Will the ordinrnce as revised go through ? |