Show CITY COUNCIL SPIKES A LITTLE V VAUDEVILLE AUDEVIlLE TURN HERE HEBE ARE SOME GEMS Some gems of logic reeled off at last nights night's Council meeting MR HEWLETT HEWLETT We We will now find tho the remedy for tho the cure CUIC MR FERNSTROM-At FERNSTROM At the tho ministerial ministerial ministerial minis minis- meeting on Friday night they will discuss all nIl scandal MR This FERNSTROM-This FERNSTROM T This is matter is very much execrated meaning menning exaggerated MR EARDLEY EARDLEY-Ad EARDLEY Adjoining EARDLEY-Adjoining Adjoining joining contingency contingency contingency contin contin- gency States are arc now publishing re reports reports reports re- re ports of ot crime which are arc not true MR ROBINSON Tl The ROBINSON Tho o newspapers should be h annihilated meaning suppressed The City Council session of or last night was devoted de to the discussion of a n. re report report re- re port of oC three members of or the Police and Prison committee of the Council relative rela- rela live tive to the morals of the city an and the existence of social evils The report lauded the Chief of or Police Pollee and sc scored red the newspapers for giving sl publicity to I existing conditions I IThe j The report which was as un unsolicited was signed b by Eardley Fernstrom an and I Hewlett of ot the Police and Prison com com- i the the other committeemen not not I concurring I IThe The discussion ion was long lone nn and heated and resulted In the rejection of or the re report report report re- re port b by a t vote of or 9 to C. C The report stated state that tl after arter a thorough thorough thor- thor I ough Investigation an un undesirable clement element cle ele- ele- ele element ment existed In the city but It Is no worse now no nothan than it has ever bern been It denies that young oung bo boys s 's visit questionable questionable questionable question question- I able resorts The un under er world Is more thoroughly hh controlled by b- the police polle-e than ever er before Newspapers exaggerate con conditions to the detriment of the city The report also Iso asks the Council to Join th the citizens In a call caU for tor a grand Jury I to Investigate conditions condition and clear the city's name The newspapers are arc severely se- se j verely cen censured ure misrepresentations misrepresentations I The report concludes by sayIng saying say say- sayi i In Ing that Salt S Lake Lale is the most moral I city of its size In the world orl Very Veley few of or the members expected I such a a communication nn and the surprise of the Councilmen was apparent as ns the reading re progressed As AR coon soon as the communication haul had been heen read Councilman Council Council- man Fernstrom opened debate and spoke at considerable on length In support support support sup sup- port o of the report His remarks remark were prefaced by the statement that nearly all nIl the robberies and hol holdups holdups hold hold- ups which have been given publicity through the columns of the press were fa fabrications Mr Fern Fernstrom explained that th the stories of or ups hold were invented by d dissipated husbands who vho squandered their money at ot night and then told their wives wJ they had been held up and robbed lobbed In regard to the calling of or a grand Jury to Inquire into the city's morals he courted a rigid Investigation believing believing be lIe- lieving lIc that such would result In the censure o of the newspapers an and the ex extolling extolling extolling ex- ex tolling of or the Police department In conclusion he declared Salt SnIt Lake Lale to be bethe bethe bethe the most moral city Of t Its size In the coun county country t Councilman Eardley could coul say but little except to censure the papers Councilman Hewlett one of or the signers of or the report declared that conditions In iii Victoria alley were not as as bad a as ag represented ente and denied that school schoolboys schoolboys bo boys s 's It visited the alley or the resorts Councilman Daveler was then recognized I and attacked the report declaring that conditions were not theoretical but actual He asserted that the Police Pollee and Prison committee could not clear Its skirts of or Its refusal to give Chief o of Police e Paul all the men he requires to patrol the city by presenting such a re re- re port He then defended the newspapers newspapers newspapers pers and n advised the Council to not antagonize them He said Chief Paul had the authority to regulate such places and he would woul have havo the support of ot the community b by so 50 doing Councilman Thomas believed the re report report report re- re port to be Ul Thou Though h he Was wan wana wasa a 0 member of or the tho committee he did not see ace the report until a few Cey minutes before before before be be- fore the Council met Councilman Davis Davis Da Da- vis is would like to see sec th the tho a agitation die dle out and then handle the matter according according ac ac- ac cording to to law Robinson on was n aggrieved b by the manner manner manner man man- ner In which the city's immorality was advertised by the press and VIgus opposed opposed op 01 op- op posed the report because the Council would be he Inconsistent In passing a report re- re port art denying the c existence of ot Immor immor- a lit Sharp said bald Ml the report was ill ill- advised and believed it to be poor judgment Judgment judgment judg Judg- ment to hammer on the papers paper Hp He moved that the report be referred back to the committee e but D Daveler and VIgus VI Vl- gus fUS insisted that It be disposed of ot at once Sharp then withdrew his notion motion on and the question was put ut to n It vote ote re resulting re- re suiting In the rejection of ot the r report Those who voted against the report were Arnold Ainold Black Daveler A A. A J. J Davis Davis Da Da- vis Robinson on Sharp Thomas Tuddenham en- en ham and YI 3 while E E. H H. Davis Fernstrom Hewlett Spence and Cottrell Cot Cot- troll trell favored a 0 real It |