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Show SUNMY; CLOSING; LAW ' IS ENFORCED, HOWEVER Councilman Fernstrom made a bitter attack upon the city administration last evening because it has shown a determined de-termined effort to make the saloons of Salt Lake City comply with tthe law and close tbeir doors on Sunday. Fernstrom 's little apeech came when the Council refused to grant a license to a saloonist who had been found guWty of violating the Sunday closing ordinance. The t'itv Council, upon recommendation recommenda-tion of Chief of Police Oeorge A. Sheets, refused last night .to grant Caesar Cae-sar Bran, a saloonkeeper at 156 West South Temple street, a renewal of his license for the coming year. In a letter to the Council. hief Sheets declared that he was nnsh'e to approve Brun 's anplicstion, because the bartender at the place was recently convicted in the Police court of keeping the place open for business on Sunda-, December 3, in violation of the law. Mr. Fernstrom demanded that the matter be referred to the License committee. com-mittee. The former Councilmanie boss from the Third ward declared that the move of closing saloons on Sunday was merely a pretense to dissuade the" coming com-ing Legislature from passing a drastic bill to take the city police and fire departments de-partments out of the hands of the city. Other Councilmen denied that the re-fusnl re-fusnl of tho granting of the license was spite work. They declared that the hief of Police had warned the saloonkeeper saloon-keeper three times before the arrest. Councilman Hohdav burned Fernstrom -by showing that he Morris administration adminis-tration allowed gambling and wide-open saloons. The motion that the communication of the Chief be concurred in was car ried. Three Councilmen voted in the negative. They were Fernstrom, Holley and Preece. |