Show TIE VOTE OF COUNCIL NOT A FINAL VOTE administration forces astl ll 11 hopeful of passing liquor ordinance in the lopint opinion on of city attorney james devine tile the tie yoto which prevented notion action on oil the now new liquor ordinance in council meeting Aron monday day night did not dispose ot of the issue and the matter can be brought up again for a third reading with mayor brewer and councilman peery pecry attorney devine examined the minutes of mondays Ton days session ses slon an amendment to an amendment an amendment and then a motion mation to pass ther the ordinance through its final reading were all defeated b by y tie votes but it was held by the officials that the deadlock did not defeat the ordinance but merely prevented the third reading from being effected monday it seems that the ordinance can be introduced again by resolution or be taken up as unfinished business one of which courses of action will be resorted t to next monday to bring about a reconsideration while it is claimed by five of the council that the ordinance does not embrace anything ot importance which is not provided for in the statutes the opposition maintained that the present ordinance is good enough and that the proposed law would give to the mayor too much power over the regulation of the saloons the sections objected to most strenuously provide heavy penalties for infractions of the rules which regulate the liquor traffic on sunday and the sale of intoxicants to minors the mayor Is given the power to order the saloons closed when ho he deems it necessary the authority to revoke licenses and a lot of miscellaneous powers which tho the liquor interests assert are arc inimical |