Show city council THE LIQUOR LivEs sleanus nox A special session of the city council was waa held last night mayor Dinen berry presiding siding all embert in except albirs J 3 11 1 1 antl J 19 A bean opre er pre s e 11 1 ir moved that tile the council connell go in into t 0 collin i I 1 t tee of 0 ilia i whole h ole for or t alb h a consideration of petition ut of a U 11 duggins mid and others and from J IV loveless anti and others and relief belief and improvement societies the prevailed the council then went into committee ot of the whole with aith sir air booth in ili the chair the petition of 8 31 M duggins arid others othe was then rend read the object of oil petition m was asto to induce the council to repeal the ordinance ordin anco prohibiting the sale bitle of liquor the rending reading of the remonstrance then followed follo ived air scott haj heard it intimated that several small children had sl banned binned the remonstrance and antl moved that alie t is nantes on tho the ha be rend read tile motion was carried and the names were rend read numbering several hundred There were very few irresponsible signatures igna tares found on tile the protests air mcewan moved that tile alie petition of S A M daggins and others be granted mayor dusenberry moved to amend ly by inserting the word not between tile words worda ile be and granted mayor dusenberry addressed the council co illic ilon on the lie question ile he claimed til tint at tile community was not prepared for any buch change as asked it is evidently the kinli of tho the public that prohibition should continue coutin ue in this city many mail of 0 those persona vi ho he had bad signed th ait protests were rn in tf the I 1 0 o speakers aar 0 opinion i n to responsible i his to for the failure pi ol 01 alie i prohibition ordinance ile he pointed with pride however hower to the orderly condition of provo city it had been claimed by some ome that there was more intoxicating liquor sold in ill this city than would li be under a license system the speaker could not sea bee how tills this conclusion lied had been reached he did not believe the claim WIB was a consistent one and it was true the question had not been tested mr mcewan referred to the tha fact that tho pro petition contained the names of representative denmen who had done more to build up provo brovo city the than had one half bait of the persons who signed the counter petition speaker criticized the sentiments expressed in the be latter petition and pointed to the fact that no remedy had been suggested by the signers did not believe there wits was a single ol of who would come to the front and ana help the officers ollie ers in enforcing the egisti existing ordinance clithe the signer asks is ahall b 11 be continued mr farrr farrer supported arted tho the motion lie ile h had ad p participated articie RI in tho the passing ol of tile the prohibition ordinance and consistently lived by it it to ia not to encourage the sale ol of liquor that he be would bould vote veto for or the change asked but to remedy the exist ini ing evil we have now the evil without the revenue i with the license 0 Y me m WO we should still have the hie eyl etil b but 11 t th then e n there would be a revenue with nv ith which to regulate and control the traffic at present prent wo we have no means with which to do so 10 he thought therefore that a trial at least should be made of the license system meet 0 of tile the majority of the citizens the revenue by which many thir lying municipalities pali ties hare derived their substantial support and nd prosperity hits has come from the licen ic ensing Bin of the liquor traffic and no doubt the ot at the daggains Dag glins peti tion had thia in mind when they signed it some people had began to think that hat the city council was in sym pa thy with the druggists How iio was con vinced that a high license system with strict regulations woo better than our pro present so called ss BI steal t em e w without t an any re regulations ions mr oo 00 11 did I 1 d not agree with the a strictures tures used med in reference to the bienem 0 of f tile the protests the petition of 0 liner a M dug guggina adlas and others does docs not represent the licensed lic enand class of this thia city while the counter petitions do represent the tha substantial business clauses classes tile the Bi speaker leaker believed that the present ord ordinance cnance aoud be enforced and that hat tile alio p romis profinia cueua cuu a 8 aellig gell ig of liquor can be controlled he thought the ilia prosecutions mere riot not esry vigorous fr lie Is referred to tile case of 0 joeph oseph morgan who had been sentenced to imprisonment the case care was appealed pe a led and confirmed by the district vt court ur t at and 1 I yet vet nothing hai since been dune done to that sentence tiu tim speaker did riot not believe this thia was waa very er vigorous prosecution prom the tra trade used to pay its ita wicy end and can do so ao no now if tho the prosecution var Is I 1 a a vigor oui one the mayor made a few moru more remarks ile iia was not in ili favor t ivor of spending another dollar for secret service fund 10 he v M lobed I 1 to see those ft ho he had signed the protests pro teata come to the front and help mr holdaway favored the Bug suggestion of one or two of th the a speakers to tile the el ef beet there a public on the subject at the next election mr ir mcewan inside i a few additional remarks in ili support of 0 ills his motion mr brown spoke in favor of prohibition and advocated tile tiie licensing of laiq liquor or solely so lely for medicinal purposes aea and raki making g the tha license as aa heavy as possible under the tha law the question on oa the amendment was put en and carried cai gitil dusenberry brown and holdaway voting in the tha affirmative firma tive and smoot farrer farrar and mee ilee awn wan voting in the negative mr scott and mr glazier abstained abata ined train fron voting mr scott moved that the committee arise and report the motion prevailed nod and the committee arose and reported progress the tha council then adjourned |