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Show m & wl$ i !; mil iIIIpS W ilk SIS t Sh lllif. LiyUuK UhulnHnuL ) p - Proposed Law in Accordance With the State Statutes Stat-utes Bars Can Open From Hotel Of fice Liquor May be Served With Meals. After a prolonged star chamber session Inst night, the city council held a meeting and passed the secon'l reading of ordinances providing for the opening of Twenty-ninth street between "Washington and Pacific avenues. ave-nues. After passing the seconi reading read-ing tho ordinances were referred to the law committee and the city attorney at-torney for consideration The ordinance ordi-nance providing for the Inspection of foods was not called up. It has passed pass-ed the second rending and Is in the hands of the law committee and city attorney. The bone of contention wns introduced intro-duced when the new liquor ordinance was culled for consideration It passed pass-ed its second reading with but one dissenting vote, that of President Browning. It Is predicted that the mayor will veto the oriinnnce when. It comes to him for consideration In voting in the affirmative on the ordinance or-dinance Councilman Austin slated that he reserved tho right to change his vote If he so desired when the ordinance or-dinance comes up for Its final reading read-ing and passage. Cltv Attorney De Vine assumed the role of recorder and road the ordinances or-dinances that were brought before the council, and he made explanations of the new liquor ordinance. The attorney at-torney stated that the new ordinance is the sanio as that passed by tho council June 5, 1911, with few exceptions, excep-tions, and that it is in accordance with the provisions of the state law In the second reading of the law the sections in which no chances were proposed were raerelv referred to as being tho same as the former law, only the amendments being taken up for literal reading and consideration. The first amendment was that relating relat-ing to the liconslng of drug stores. The original ordinance provided that druggists should pay a license of ?300 a year, but the law also provided that they should not sell Intoxicating liquors except on a physician's prescription pre-scription The council took the view that tho provisions were inconsistent and that it would be hotter not to require re-quire druggists to take out licenses. This provision leaves the drug store liquor traffic to be conducted as heretofore here-tofore Sales shall be made only for medical purposes on prescriptions of phvslclans. It was also provided In the amended ordinance that licenses granted Ba-loon Ba-loon keepers June 5, 1911, shall bo renewed re-newed at the exniratlon of the quarter-year if the saloon kerners so desire, de-sire, but If they permit tiioir licenses to lapse no license for the sale of liquor in saloons In excess of one for each 1,000 of the population of tho city shall be granted This provision, however, 'loes not apply to hotels. Tho hotel Is placed in a class of its own. The law also provides that an opening open-ing from the hotel lobby to the bar shall be permitted, nnd it shall be law-rul law-rul to serve Intoxicating drinks with meals. It also provides that a hotel bar license shall be classed with re-tall re-tall saloon license and that the same regulations shall be followed ns In the sale of liquor In saloons The liquor licensing district is extended ex-tended to erabraco the wholesalo liquor house of Fred .7 Klcsel on Wall avenue. Public dining rooms are defined de-fined as places where fifty people may be served at one time and where ten neople are employed to serve the public A hotel Is described as a place where there are at least twenty-five rooms for lodgers Those voting for tue ordinance in its amended form were Councilmen Dana, Austin, Peerv, Humphris, Wli-son, Wli-son, Larson, Dickson, President Browning voting against It, Council-men Council-men Flygare and Barker being absent. The ordinance will be taken up for its third and final reading at a future fu-ture meeting of the council. In talking to the question of permitting per-mitting hotels to have an opening between be-tween the bar and the lobby of tho place, President Browning stated that In his estimation It was n dangerous thing to do and would mean the throwing down of tho bars for the violation of the liquor laws with Impunity. Im-punity. He s'tated that so far as he was concerned he would enforce the law against hotels as rigidly as agninst the saloons and that he would make the law just as exacting, Councilmen Dickson, Perry and Humphris stated that they had never seen a first-class hotel where the bar was not opened Into tho lobby, and It was their opinion that the rule should not he deviated from In Ogden. Dr Dickson was In favor of licensing li-censing the drug storeB and permitting permit-ting them to sell bottled goods under the same restrictions as salpons, regarding re-garding the hours, selling to minors and all other regulations mentioned in tho ordinances. Other members of the council, howovor, did not see tho matter In that way and they voted to abolish the license on drug stores. There was but little discussion on the proposed amendments to the ordinance, or-dinance, it appearing that about all that was necessary to say had been said in the mayor's office before tho council met. A delegation from the Women's Christian Temperance union was pres-enL pres-enL but they were not given an opportunity op-portunity to speak on the question. 'They did not ask the courtesy of the council, but It was understood that they were at the council meeting for the purpose of aiding In passing legislation legis-lation for the betterment of the liquor traffic in the city. , |