Show SALOON QUESTION j TO BE DISCUSSED Council Tonight Will Consider Regulation of the Liquor Traffic FIGHT THE CLOSED BOOTHS Proposed Step of Increasing Saloon Licenses May Also Considered I The proposed regulation of or the Saloon traffic and the tho eliminating oCL of oC L from restaurants will vilI be bl the tho most mot Important matters to come before be be- foro fore council at nt Its m meeting eUng tonight The two ordinances drawn by ly Councilman Councilman Coun Coun- y cilman J. J J J. J Stewart at nt the tho suggestion llon of or Chief of Police Tom I D. D Pitt PUt and Indorsed by the license e committee t will ho bo considered by council to tonight tonight to- to night for action ordinances One One of tho the proposed will do 10 awa away t. t entirely With Ith tho the closed booths In tin tim restaurants of or Salt Ll 1 LakeIt Lake e. e It is declared by th tho chief of police that this Is ls the worst feature of ot the saloon loon business that he ho has 1138 to deal with and that if the booths In restaurants res rca were open there would be belc beless lc less C of th tho wine room evil iI The rhe other ordinance which re received ro- ro of the committee com corn the tho Indorsement Is directed against ag the restaurants restaurants restaurants ants which have communication with next door or below belo Chief Pitt wants this business busine done away with entirely or make tho the restaurant luke out a salon mba license If any Intoxicants cants arc aro sold suld therein sold either cither b by bytho tho restaurant direct or sold by hy the f restaurant after being brought In ln r fl from irom a saloon next door k Saloon M Jj It is al also o possible that the proposed pro pro- i posed j step of or Inci IncreasIng easing the saloon licenses from 1200 l OO per year to oot will como up tonight for con con- The saloons now pay Y J ZOO every ever thre months for the privilege l logo lege of conducting th their lr places and tho the proposition Is to make nako o them pay t fio a quarter It Is Ie believed 1 that In m this manner of ot smaller some ome of ot tho the worst the L wives and several so of those In the outlying out out- t lying lying- districts will wm be forced to close their doors and that the liquor traffic will be concentrated In the city The The- American party pal leaders are aro also of or the opinion that the saloon men were vere against them In tho recent election and this measure Is made mado partly to to punish them The dela delay of ot tho the board of public works in pushing the Iho completion of the connecting link to the intercept intercept- jn Jug sewer may also be the cause of some omo protest on the part of certain councilmen who have complained In Inthe the tho past k 1 L. L E. E Hall HaH is Ig not hot yet et satisfied with I the 1110 Wa way his proposed ordinance for sl sidewalk wall improvements has lias ben been benI I on an and ma may ma- bring it up again tonight Mr Air Hall believes that it would bo ho the best thin thing for or tho the city to have the Intersections on sidewalks sidewalk I paid for by hr the property owners affected af at- reeled and anti riot not to have the city pay ar for tor or this work 1 coplo Want Vant ant Improvement r. r The people all over o Salt Lake want wantS S ll ro said Mr Ur Hall H last IW 4 l L- L 8 s matt matters letters are now tho city inu must stand nir a a heavy expense each jear ar arto S to prosecute this work When ilen our c tax money Js is used usell up we e will h o hil vo to toC C deny petitions for sidewalk extensions exten exten- dOllS because we will not Il have VC the tho theS S money mone In hi the treasury with i which to lO pay it our om end of the work I believe c. c there are man many owners of or property S throughout hout the city who would be beS S t only onh too glad ln to to be assessed for the whole work and in these cases we weS S should be able to I let t. t them have havo the I work done Instead of holding them 1 off bit rr simply because c we have o not the themon mon money in the tho treasury The matter mutter will vilL be discussed cusse but butS S there will likely be bo no action |