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Show President Browning Vot s to Sustain the Executive Execu-tive Whom He Compliments Other Council-men Council-men Deny That They Had Made Pledges to the People. Mayor Glasmann's veto of tho new liquor ordinance was voted down at the city council meeting last night by a voto of 7 to 1, two councilman, Fly-garo Fly-garo and Barker, being absent. The vote for tho veto was cast by President Presi-dent Browning. Those against it were cast by Councilmen Austin, Dana, Humpnrls, Wilson, Larson, Dickson and Peery Humphris, Dana, Wilson and Dickson Dick-son for themselves personally denied tho imputation that the council had pledged to tho people that they would make no changes in tho liquor law of Juno 5, but tkat they liad agreed only to not chango the closing hour, which was fixed at 9 o'clock p. m. Tho new ordlnanco makes no change in this respect. Councilman Peery was not a member of tho council at the lime of the enactment of the June 5 ordinance ordi-nance and Councilmen Austin and Larson mado no lemarks last night regarding tho mattor. Browning Compliments Mayor. President Browning stated that ho understood that it was agreed that the ordlnanco as passed by tho council should not be changed In any material respeot and that ho was going to stand by tho pledge. Mr. Browning stated further in explanation of his vote for the veto that be could not always agree with tho mayor on questions of public policy but that in this instance he fully agreed and he complimented the mayor on tho veto. "I think this is one of the best things the mayor has ever done," said tho president, "and I think that if wo do not sustain tho veto the people will consider that wo have loIated a pledge made prior to election The now ordlnanco, in my estimation, throwB down tho bars for tho violation of tho open spirit of tho liquor laws as passed by the state legislature and the ono paBsed by this council June 5. It seems to me that It is giving the big restauranteurs advantage over tho little ones." City Attorney's View. In reply to the mayor's veto Attorney Attor-ney De Vino stated that he considered tho veto vory wordy and that he felt that ho ought to compliment tho mayor on the manner in which ho had prepared it, "But," said he, "I cannot can-not compliment him on some of tho things he has said In tho veto message." mes-sage." The city attorney went on to say that the Introduction of the words "successors and assigns" written In the recent law and not Included in tho law of June 5 had been wilttcn at tho suggestion of the mayor himself. This statement was denied by the mayor, ho stating Ihat ho desired only that holders of liquor licenses should havo tho right to renow the present license and not to havo them transferred trans-ferred lo other parties. Mr De Vine stated further that tho new law Is in accordance with the Btate law in many respects and that It does not supersede In any particular. He reiterated what he said when the ordlnanco was first introduced that It had been drawn in a way to avoid entanglements and conflicting ideas and that ho had prepared It for the purpose of merely aiding tho council to euact a moro correct ordinance than they did -Juno 5 He oxplalned that tho elimination of tho search and bei.ure clause from the ordinance was for the purpose of throwing the responsibility re-sponsibility on tho stato officers and lo save tho city expense that would be Incurred in that manner of piocedurc-Ho piocedurc-Ho said there was no effect of importance im-portance lo the selzpre act inasmuch as no prosecutions could be had under un-der It and that it moant simply the power to confiscate liquors kept for Illegal purposes In dry territor and that, besides, the old law conferred the power of seizure on the chief of pollco only, leaving all other officers of the city out of it Mayor Answers Attorney. Answering this point. Mayor Glas-maim Glas-maim stated that ho had purposely made that provision because the city attorney had told previously, regarding ather things, that he would not act ;is detective or spy, or trump up cases for tho city and ho thought It was, conferring a courtesy on tho attornoy ly excluding him from responsibility in the soarcli and sol.urc clause. Regarding tho mayor's charge thai Ihe mailer of providing for one saloon sa-loon for ertch 1,000 people of tho city Jad boon mado to moan nothing, Mr. De Vine declared that the new law iocs not change tho provision of the aid law at all, but simply provides the manner of elimination. The mattor f sorvlng liquor with meals, the at-.ornoy at-.ornoy said, is provided for In tho t ! state law and that the city could not avoid It if-lt ao desired. Mayor Glabmann made a brief statement state-ment to the council rehearsing largely what was contained in his veto message. mes-sage. He stated that he desired tho councilmen to consider the matter carefully and vote as they thought they should He was quite certain that the councilmen had agreed to not change the purpose and intention of .the old law as he unaerstood them. Mr. Glasmann considered that the people peo-ple of the city so understood tho agreement and voted accordingly Should Keep Pledges. t "Even if you feel that you did not entpr into, su"ch an agreement. ' said tho mayoi; "before passing on this veto you should determine whether the people did not understand jou to have done so. Every pledge with tho people should be religiously kept and acted uppn. I cannot see how you could hayo misunderstood tho question that flight, for. If you lemember, President Pres-ident Browning made the statement that he would surely not vote to increase in-crease the time of closing, but that he mlgh. at any time try to enact an ordinance providing greater restrictions. restric-tions. He said he would get a hotter law If he could, but promibed not to repeal It," The mayor called attention to the fact that a large delegation of business busi-ness men, assembled at tho council chamber that night to hear the action ac-tion of the council on the liquor ordinance, ordi-nance, and the wero all "wet" Thov were business men who wanted the city to remain wet and yet they were not satisfied with the mannor in which tho city handled the liquor quostlon In the past. They said thev wanted a stricter liquor law and, upon their suggestion, the mayor said he had presented the ordinance to the council and "had nsked that thov make no changes in it. That was the way the mattor was settled and that was the way In which tho business men wero satisfied, Mr. Glasmann declared. Speaking of the drug store llconso which Is eliminated bj tho new ordinance, ordi-nance, tho mayor said that the stato law plainly provides that drug stores In wet districts shall pay a license not less than ?200 a year, and not more than $600. The mayor's veto appears in full elsewhere In this pnpor. Routine Matters of Council. The city engineer and tho commltteo on sidewalks reported that they had examined the sidewalk on Rogers avenue av-enue which had been reported to bo. inferior and had loarned that It is aB good as any that aro mado with tho material used for that purpose. They stated In the report that nothing further fur-ther could be done with it, Tho report re-port was adoptod. Protests against tho opening of Sixteenth Six-teenth street wore roported by the recordor and they wero referrd to th city engineer. Tho agreement prepared by the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line for the right to construct con-struct three eloctrlc light towers on city property, accompanied by a chock for $75, wa6 accepted and the mayor and recorder wero authorized to consummate con-summate tho doal. Tho company is paying $2f each for the right to construct con-struct towers on city property east of tho city proper. A petition for bettor Hglu on Wash, ington avenue, between Sovonth and Ninth streets, and asking that an arc light be stationed on Eighth street was referred to the light committee. Tho petition of F. M. Tout asking to transfer his saloon from the basement base-ment of Twenty-fourth slreet to the stand formerly held by the Emerald saloon on Washington avenue was ' granted. The petition of W. W. Richards for i reappointment to tho position of pa- 1 trolmon was roforrod to the police commltteo. The park commission was granted the privilege of nelccting places for i the installation of 25 additional arc 1 HghtB in the parks, which will bo furnished fur-nished froc by the Merchants' Light and Power company Tho matter of releasing n bond of 535,000 held agnlnst the J. P. O'N'" company on contract for the haHdinc of the Cold Water canyon conduit was roforrod to tho waterworks committee. commit-tee. The waterworks commltteo was also given tho matter "of extending wator mains on Capital avenue to consider con-sider Curb and gutter ordinances 103, 10 1 and 111- passed their third and final roadlng. . oo ; Call for LUXUS, i "Tho Beer You Like," I ut the Biamark ' |