Show DEALERS RAISE PROPOSED FEES Mayor Says Says- Prohibitive Law Qiu auBe Be Broken Br k ll Merchants of Ogden Osden- today tOday- met the city commissioners and were permitted to make changes chane ch In the city ordinance licensing auction 1 so that the license fees were rallied raked to practically double those proposed ed by the Commissioners and nd the tir city at- at at torney attorney The Th commissioners rs said they ordinance will probably pass piss the th nance Thursday s The Tb auction house tight began bean recently when Bell Griffin auctioneers petitioned the tile board to decrease the amount of o license from from lO lOI I a a day dllY as at lit present They asserted that the present tee fee made costs cost ot of o prohibitive VISITORS HEARD A new ordinance was then thep drafted AV by the the- the th City City Attorney A Ai V v Agee Asee and presented Before action the board mem mem- mem- mem bers members decided to permit merchants to set ct forth their views In the matter lI More ore than a dozen leading of ot the city appeared thus this thatto morning and declared that to permit In Odgen n would not only Injure the th per per- per manent permanent merchants who ho are arc now carrying a hea heavy load but would also be an Imposition upon the people ot of Ogden They asserted that th the fees proposed In- In In the new ordinance were not high enough and requested that that they be raise raised Mayor 1001 George E Browning Bro and the the commissioners than placed the matter entirely lo In he merchants mer mer- merchants merchants chants hands and permitted them to change chane Change the tho figures In In the tb pro pro- proposed pro proposed posed ordinance The Th merchants then raised the feet for auction houses house from for fort a three months month's period as prOposed to from tor Cor for fora a six months period to 6 SO 0 from Crom CromUS US for a anine nine months period to iGO and from Crom ISO for tor a o OO They also set the th price pric of license for tor a transient auctioneer at DO 50 0 a 1 day with the understand understand- understanding Inc ing that no license could be Is- Is Issued issued Is Issued I sued for tor d a a period of less than 10 das da's days CAUTION UTION Mayor explainer explained to the that the th In force Coree orce At present calling for lor a 0 afee afee fee feo pC pf f 1 00 n a day has been been held excessive by py y the city attorney and that Jre ie e had no doubt douht If It the auctioneers cared to take the mat mat- matter mat matter ter ler to court a lower tee fee Ie would be ordered lie He ir suggested that the th mer mer- merchants mer- mer merchants merchant chants chant not price too price too high explaining that If It the th price were made unreasonable It would bean be bo an easier caster matter for the auction auction- auctioneers auctioneers cers to win If It Hl they y decided to the th test the ordinance ordinance- In Incourt court Tho The merchants however howe set act forth that they they desired to have the tho- price set so 80 o that auctioneers would be barred They explained that In lit the t past be- be before be before fore a prohibitive ordinance was in effect the public had been stung slung time and again aln by cheap and misrepresented pt d goods While the merchants who In building up the city cilY and paying heavy taxes were Injured ln In their legitimate b business nes The proposed ordinance ex- ex ex exempt empt churches charity events and benevolent organizations paying a a fee fero A AS S feroS SPOKESMEN John S Lewis tin nn James l-James H L Douglas were spokesmen for tor th the Jesse S Richards represented the Odgen hamber oC or commerce which has ha also e entered lt- lt ed the th fight lit |