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Show II CITY COUNCIL HAS I mm m 11 .Mr. Kerry Mays Nr. Kernstrom i r$ ;i Scold, and Should II lie Ducked. , III MCE LITTLE ROW HAD j REGARDING SALOON MEN if Hacr Saves His License by H Following Example of fl Washington. Ig l S. Fernstrom, councilman t'roni the I: I hird ward, is a coimnou scold and nught to hi; ducked. This is the pri-( pri-( I ' ate opinion of "W. Mont. Ferry, Mr. E j Fernstrom 's colleague from the Fifth f vd. expressed in public t Monday voniugjs session of tin city council, tt Mr. Ferry is tin-d of beim scolded by III Mr. Fernet mm nnd thinks the old hlu R ;w of Massachusetts, providing a if Mucking stool for scolders, ought to be 111 invoked 'for such as ho. This opinion it f Mr. Fornstrom is shared by Mr. M flack, in private, y The city council Monday evening re-Mjj re-Mjj nlved itself into the criminal division j; f Ui.e city court, as Mr. Black termed fj . to Cry John Baer, who runs the Lion It ;.r at 120 South State street, for al-Jfit al-Jfit -wing women in his saloon after 7 p. Im William Strom, who runs a saloon HE 1-1 . Commercial street, was to have In l e n tried on a similar charge, but in Hi i w of the fact thai he is to be tried In iu ''f,ro Police Judge tfowmun this morn-M morn-M i nji for the alleged violation of the tm io,nor ordinances. Mr. Stewart moved R m? both c:iss go over until Thursday B Miing. Q To this Mr. Fornstrom strenuously m l-ir-cffd on the ground that there is no B i-nnectioii belwccn I lie police court and H 'i'- ejiy council. Mr. Ferry asserted I n -it the council is not i-npable of judg-Bj judg-Bj "(; of the competence of the evidence m adduced before it', ami classed the trial 7N -if such cases before it as a farce. The. ae. inigln go over for two years as H f ri he was concerned, he declared. EEj Opinloii of Kollcy. m r. liolley opined that some of the l loonkeeper's whose licenses, had been II rvoked by (he council don't, consider Em hmv trials" muck of , farce. Mr. Black B igreed with Mr. Ferry tliat it is be-jfl be-jfl , renrh the council's dignity to go slum-in slum-in "iinjr 'O get evidence against saloon-in saloon-in T eprrs, and classed the trials a howl-B howl-B Micr farce. The councilmen addicted to he shimming habit wouldn't dare pre nit their evidence in a real court, he f-id. "Wo are making a laughing r-roclc of ourselves,-" he asserted. "We . onvicl these men on the prejudiced testimony of two or throe councilmen. T am in favor of these cases going to the police court. If the accused are found guilty there, then we will take 'lie matter up.'' Mr. Fornstrom questioned Mr. Black as to whether the court has the power to revoke a liceusc. Mr. Holley thought Mr. Black's opinion of the city council was rather small and narrow and cramped. Mir. Fornstrom said ho was surprised at Mr. Black that he had made such poor use of the statute books provided for each councilmnn soma months :iLro. The legislature had pointed point-ed out in the statutes, he said, that if the council found a saloonkeeper violating vio-lating the laws the council was to take his license away from him. It is not in the province of the jiolice judge or the police department to do this, he said. Mir. Fernstrom imputed a timidity of duty to Mr. Ferry from his desire to see "the case at hand go over two I At this Mr. berry took umbrage. 4 I am tired of being scolded by Mir, Fornstrom, Forn-strom, '' Mr. Feny expostulated. "He gets up here, waves his arms franticnl-lv franticnl-lv and quotes indefinitely and uncertain-lv uncertain-lv from laws that ho doesn't know anv more about than we, making himself extremely ridiculous. When he places himself upon a pedestal of virtue and civic righteousness, it is 1 0 laugh. The rest of this council is just as conscientious conscien-tious as he. He drags prohibition in bv the oars and then ridiculouslv wanders wan-ders from his text. There used to be a law for the ducking of scolds in the Now England states, and it ought to be revived in Utah. It would be a good rider t for tho proposed prohibition Black Gives a Jab. Mir. Black declared that if the people who elected him had intimated to him that the duties of .his office extended as far as Mir. Fernstrom claims they ex tend, he wouldn't have qualified for tho place. Mir. Stewart followed with a hot shot fo the effect that Mr. Fernstrom Fern-strom '5 clarion voice against vice wasn't heard when he sat in the council coun-cil seven or eight years ago and gambling gam-bling was open. Hero Mr. Hall entered 'he objection that, tho councilmen were indulging jn too much pcrsonalit', and f'hainnan Wood cautioned them to retrain re-train from this. The temperature of the council chambers lowered perceptibly percepti-bly in a few seconds. The motion to lay both eases over until Thursday evening lost, 0 to 7, and Mr. Stewart then moved that the Strom case go over, which carried, 7 to 0, Mr. ftaybould changing his vote in the noga-. live on the continuation of the two. cases to the affirmative on the Strom Mr. Black wanted lo bar the cil.y attorney from participating in the case bf-caus'e Bucr had no attorney, but Ibis was not allowed. Councilmen Murdock. Raybould and Hodgson testified that they had seen a woman in n locked booth in Baer's saloon Saturday night, February S. Hearing a woman's voice in the booth, they tried tho door and found it. locked. Not to bo beaten in their Sherlock Tlolme? stunt, thoy nceped through a half-inch crack in the Baer mado a frank breast of the whole thing and thus saved his license. The. woman called to gpf. him to assist I her in exploiting a patent iron, he said, and ho couldn't very well kick her out. Tho only thing she drank was a hot lemonade, he testified. His wine rooms don't bring him 25 cents a dav, ho asserted. as-serted. Only Mr. Hall voted 'in favor of revoking his license. President Davis and Mr. O'Donnell were absent. |