Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-21 | Page 14 | Salt Lake Saloons to be Open Today

SALT LAKE SALOONS TO BE OPEN TODAY Probable That They Also Will Bo Open on Pinal Election Day. Saloons will be open today, an election elec-tion day, for lack of a law or ordinance under which to close them, Aleo It Is probable that they will bo open, at the final election In November for the same reason. The city attorney gave as his opinion yesterday, upon a request from tho mayor, that thoro was nothing on tho stato or city law books to prevent the saloons from remaining open. In the first placo, tho attorney pointed out that today's election Is not an oloc-tlon oloc-tlon within the meaning of tho law. Nobody No-body will be eleoted to office today, he argues, and furthermore a municipal election does not come -within, tho definition defi-nition of general or special elections an given in the stato law. If tho latter conclusion holds good the saloons will not have to olo3e at tho November election. The state liquor Irw, passed In 1911, provides that EalooiiH shall bo closed during general or speolal elections. The state law on elections reads that a general gen-eral election Is one at which representatives representa-tives to the national congToss or a president presi-dent or vice president or tho United States, state and district officers or county and product officers, are olected. No mention Is mado of municipal officers. The law on apodal olcctlons particularly excludes municipal and school elections from Its definition. Municipal elections are thus defined Bnparately from general and special elections and there 1b no mention of municipal olcctlons In tho stato liquor law. The mayor announced yesterday that In view of the city attorneys opinion no attempt would be mode- today to close tho saloons.