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Show NEW OiNK is rase Proposed Liquor Law Attacked and Defended Before Council Coun-cil Committee. WAlfM COLLOQUIES MARK PROGRESS OF THE DERATE No Definite Action Is Taken, Either for Approval or Rejection Re-jection of Dill. The proposed new liquor ordinance was discussed beforo the municipal laws and the license committees of the city council coun-cil for three hours Tuesday night, after which the committees adjourned without with-out accomplishing much, cither toward the passngc or Ihe rejection of the proposed pro-posed ordinance. At this meeting there wore more than a score cif liquor dealers und olhcrs Interested In-terested In the passago and an equal number of women representing various women's clubs opposed to the passage of the proposed ordinance. The liquor dealers deal-ers were represented by Gcorgo Whlt-aker, Whlt-aker, who talked at length In favor of the measure. Mr. H. E. lierg spoke at great length for tho opposition. The session, which was otherwise, rather tamo, was enlivened by a joint debate between Mrs. Berg and Eugene. Wlllo relative to Iho contribution of a first-class liquor-selling restaurant to the moral uplift of tlio community. Councilman J. W. McKinnoy presided at the meeting. The others of the committees com-mittees present were Councllinen Mulvey. O'Donricll, Recdall, Morcton, Lync, I fall and Ferns t roin. For the Ordinance. George Whltnkcr opened with the. argument ar-gument favoring the passage of the ordinance. lie snld that the ordinance was favored by the Knights of Ihe Loyal Arch, an organization of Salt Lake business busi-ness men, Including nearly all of the more reputable liquor dealers of the city. The object, he said. In presenting this ordinance was to urge upon tho council the necessity of passing an ordinance that could be enforced. In discussing tho phases of iho ordinance he was Interrupted Inter-rupted several times by Councilman Fcrnstrom and n lively argument ensued, in which the councilman from the Third came off with second honors. At the close of his discussion, several councllmcn asked questions, and finally Councilman Fcrnstrom asked: "Is your organization political?" On receiving a negative reply, he asked, with characteristic sarcasm: "Didn't you give the Republican party J45.0OO last fall for the campnlgn fund?" Air. Fernstrom was told that the organization or-ganization referred to was not in existence exist-ence at the time and that If any liquor dealers had contributed that sum the speaker was not aware of It. For Public Morals. Mrs. Rerg. in speaking for the opposition, opposi-tion, said that the women of the city were opposing the proposed ordinance, not from a political, financial or even a prohibition standpoint. She admitted that slu was an ardent prohibitionist, but said that In this case that matter was purely personal and that it was from a standpoint of publle morals that she was opposing the ordinance. The points Mrs. Uerg attacked particularly particu-larly were those in which throe offenses against the ordinances were allowed before be-fore It was mandatory for the city council coun-cil to revoke the license: tho reduction In the license from ?1500 to $1200 a year, and the granting of saloon licenses to reslnurants. Tn arguing the last phase of the ordinance, ordi-nance, which she contended was tlio worst, she provoked a debate witli E. L. Wllle. Mr. Willc agreed with her that there wero some restaurants which wero detrimental to the morals of the community, com-munity, but he declared that tho influence influ-ence on I lie first-class restaurant which catered to Iho best people was not injurious in-jurious tn the community. Mrs. Berg declared that more harm resulted from the attractive, so-called first-class liquor-selling liquor-selling restaurant than fromv ihe low dive. Mr. Wllle iliagreed vehemently. Adjournment Stops Debate. -Alrs. Berg brought on another storm by asking Ihe members of the council why the saloon llconso was fixed at the present figure. Mr. Fernstrom said that It was done to eliminate the dive. Mr. O'Donncll declared that II was a political politi-cal measure to get even with the brewers brew-ers for contributing lo the Republican campaign fund. Air. Recdall emphatically emphati-cally disagreed with Mr. O'Donncll, saying say-ing that it was because the city decided that a more drastic measure was needed to curb the prohibition agitation. Finally. Mr. Mulvey camo to the rescue res-cue by moving an adjournment, which was thankfully agreed to by the other members of the committees. |