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Show STEWiri ONIUICE 1 m mm mm i ! Pet Measure of GcuOemaii From Fourth Has Some Rough .. Sledding. Councilman J. J. Stewart's long ordinance, ordi-nance, which is Intended to do things to the saloons and restaurants, came near getting Its quietus at Wednesday night's recess session of the city councIL In the middle of the heated dlECus-slon dlECus-slon of the ordinance Mr. Black moved that the enacting clause bo stricken out, which would leave the measure powerless, and the motion, seconded by Mr. O'Don-nell, O'Don-nell, came near carrying, lacking only threo votes. The absence of four of tho city colons possibly saved the ordinance's life, temporarily, at least. Tho vote was ns follous. President Doyls and Council-men Council-men Wood. Ferry. Hodgson and Martin being cither absent or out of tho room: j Ayes Black, Fernstrom, 1-Iolley, Hall and O'D.onnell 7. I Xaye Stewart, Reedall, . Kaybould, , Murdock and Cowburn 5. Mr. Hall bitterly assailed the citizenship citizen-ship qualification on the ground tliat it Is unconstitutional under the commercial treaties thlscountry has made with many 'orelgn countries, which guarantee an j American abroad all the business prlvi-i prlvi-i loses enjoyed by native-born citizens, and , j vlca versa, and that not citizenship, but : 1 law-abidln; licensees Is tho essential qualification In the saloon business. "1 wish there wore no saloons In Salt j Lake City," declared Mr. Hall, "but this? thing is a smirch on tho foreigners, and I am against it." Mr. Black then moved to strike" out the enacting clause and pass the ordinance, to which Mr. .Stewart strenuously objected, object-ed, charging Mr. Black, who helped gst up the ordinance, with being a traitor. ! Following the defeat of Mr. Blank's mo-) mo-) lion. Mrr -Fernstrom Jumped up with th ' assertion that his ordinance, Introduced i age's ago, requiring applicants for liquor licenses to make affidavit that they own thii fixtures and the building, or else control con-trol tho lease thereon, and declaring that It Is his belief that this measure' offers a remedy for the whole thing, moved that his measure bo substituted for Mr. Stew-nrt'3 Stew-nrt'3 ordinance, but Mr. O'Donnell ended the misery with a motion to lay everything every-thing over for a week from next Monday night. The motion carried, and the coun- 1 oil hastily adjourned with a long, dtep- ' drawn slzh of relief. |