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Show COMMISSION WILL ' ' ENFORCE OlIHi Decide to Stand Pat in Rooming Room-ing House Eight; Order Chief to. Make Arrests. Instructions to arrest and prosecute ail rooming house keopers who attempt to i operato their business without licences were given to the chief of police by the city commission last night. The commission commis-sion decided in executive session yosler-day yosler-day afternoon that regardlot-s of the host of suits brought nguliwit iho city by thoso who have been denied licenses', challenging the city's right to enact the rooming houso ordinance, the law will be enforced until It la found unconstitutional. unconsti-tutional. Since tho filing of the suits by the proprietors of condemned houses some doubt has existed as to what the attl-tudo attl-tudo of tho commission would be pending pend-ing the outcome of the tcBt cases. Tho commission settled the matter definitely yesterday by deciding to stand on its present ground and fight the matter to a finish Some of the proprietors whose applications appli-cations for licenses have been denied have been given until February 10 in which to closo their places. Others arc alrcadv (supposed to be out of business. Tho aVrcat of all the latter class who attempt to operate has been ordered Immediately Im-mediately and the former will he prosecuted prose-cuted should they Ignore the date sot by the commission Tor the expiration of their old licenses. This order will not apply to tho cases In which the temporary injunctions have boon granted by the district court forbidding for-bidding the city from Interfering with the operation of the. houses. |