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Show SKI HBI ADMIT THEY Applications for Licenses Finally Returned by Recorder. City Recorder B. a Rire this moraine mora-ine returned by nail i-tjr-lght applications ap-plications for liquor lieons, the form af white did not comply with th atat liquor law, in that th affidavit were ot signed hy the aeeeesary fiv ri-dent ri-dent freeholder of tha district ia which each separata lieease waa to b-oma b-oma effective. These licenses are tha majority of tha eeventy-nin which war filad with tha eity reeorder eevernl daT ago. Eleven of the applications were approved aa to form by tha citr ra-aordar ra-aordar aad thaaa war aaat to tha dia-' dia-' trict eoort. Whaa Mr. Riraa refused to approve the form of tha sixty-eight applications repreaeatativee of tha aalooamaa and brewere aaked him to hold I hem until Hoterdsv', the nana for which way wot intimated. However, it ia believed that tha aaloonaiea ware contemplating bringing mandamaa proceeding againet tha eilT recorder to eompal him to aaad them to tha diatrirt court. Na action being takea thla morning, however, Mr, Rivee aent tha applications applica-tions back to the applicants to be cor reeted, if possible, before they are again ' . .. "I do not believe the aaloonaiea will make ear attempt to fight tha law. at leaat aot for lha preeeat. We will likely hold a meeting; tomorrow or Monday, Mon-day, at- which tha latent move ef the cut recorder will bo dieraaeed, ia order that w may have a better aaderetaad lag of the poeitio which he haa taken; but, from tke aentimaala whiek I kava ' kaard expreeeed by a anmber of the aalaoamea, I do aot thlak any immediate! imme-diate! aw actio will be aadertakea. . will rather let tha matter ataad where It im mA . how tklnea Shane out ' ' So est Oeerge f. Roper, rliairman ef the executive committee of the Kmshta of the RoraJ Arch, when Informed that City Recorder B. a. Rlvea had returned llv-lht apnUcatlana lor retail liquor llcenaes la ths applicants aa the (round that they did not conform to the law. which aava that each application muet be aianed by five resident freeholoers In the district for which (he license la to he granted. Of the number returned thla morning, forty-sis are lor saloons Inflls-rlnt Inflls-rlnt M which la bound by aouth Tern- rie. Siate. Third Buntb an Main atresia, n thie diettict there are but four people who ere qualified to elan the applloatloaj. one lea thaa the law requlrea. The saloon me admit that the latent ruling en the law aa made by the city recorder ta a "stumper" for thsm, and that thev do not knew what to do. AU or them nave rlrense to evotlnue In business busi-ness unlll Dentemher 10, and under the law they hove until aeptemher he in which to hie their applicauesi for a renewal of license. ; In disrueelng gn matter thla morning , a promlnerit lawyer eaut:. "Tke latest ooaatructloa) placed on the raw irtakre It one of the most rtdlruloue kits of rceislatlen ever peeeed by a legislature. legis-lature. The law provklee for a special eUH-lloa to deride whether or Bos liquor nail be sold In a city, town ar county. It the fofe an t provide that In the aveat tha vote la for sale' tha city council coun-cil shall sound tha district In which It hall be sot, and then, under, tha latest Interpretation, It la found that It cannot be ae'd in the very place thai tha people nd the city council hava aatd It mav be ao'd. (f aver there i a oonalome rated mess of Idlooy this law contains It. hl)a I am not absolutely certain. I he-(leva he-(leva that It la within tha power of the city council ta as chance tha district In which saloons toay be established aa to Inrtude enouch resident freeholders to coa r tha point now In dispute. Thet the council haa tried to follow . the letter and tha spirit of tha law la evident from the fact that It la but a short time sine that body , refused to extend ex-tend the district so aa to include ths T arm Sarin as, fair grounds and the AaJt Fatace. Thla was dona notwithstanding tha fact that petltHtns slvned by hundreds Of powerful and Influential dtlsena were brousht to bear to have the district an-tarced. an-tarced. I do not know what the saloon men are going to da about It, but 1 ballet's ba-llet's that If this and sevnml ether points la tha law are taken r la tha supreena court they will be declared uneonstltu Uoaale' |