| Show THE CITY COUNCIL discusses closing of saloons inability to raise sufficient revenue ties councils hands in the matter the cit council nit int in session list thursday night ind and it vis tile the in ir r es ion which the council has bas had bad in man moons ille bitic 11 to close the saloons sa louns after the first of the year and place richfield on a local option I 1 as the topic which hah cau call ed afe tlc and there ecie some pyrotechnic ill all right ahen hen tin the members got i armed up to the matter in hand ahe question sas as macd ab m to N nat action thi council de irad to take in relation to refusing fusing ic licenses licen cs for foi the saloons after the of the jhai there anas s a decided appo mn man infested by councilman han hansen s ell who he nas as of the opinion anat until u n tl the hie itura took action on the matter that ann an action of towns or edies would be ture II 11 D youn nas in ill faor fanor of richfield taking action on hc m itter ater and refusing my any more licenses lieen eh to saloons ile he made a strung strong plea for local option ItNa it was then proposed tint alithe al the towns in the county should be ailed into the matter ind and a meeting of the toNn board the count commissioners and the richfield city council be held and the matter fully discussed as ali local option and a suppression of ta loons in all the counte this was rudall pas cd with ith A 1 I hansen and martin christensen voting against it the maor called attention to the action of the salina tonn buird buard refusing to grant the petition of tile the citizens citizen asking that saloon licenses be refused ile he also said he be had definite information as asto to the proposed action of the elsinore town board these to towns had found that under the present limitations of the taxing powers of the tile town boards that it was impossible ible to maintain town govern ments mants without A the revenue from the i saloons saloon anil and until that matte was nas remedied b by legislative enactment there was no chance of doing without the q biloon too this led to i a discussion of the ability of richfield to raise nise the bequir ed revenue for the city government ind the best that can be done under I 1 present t fixation pon powers ers is 2 a near ear anis will not meet the e pen pense of government ind NN when bell this condition was nas ri ealta jt it was con considered oddred unwise to call the meeting of ane ton town n boards so i motion na was made to to reconsider and tha th original motion i da as killed 11 P D young contended for ric rich fiel held d hiking the effort to d cb without N the saloons and he axed clo eloquent quent in the m itter and quoted from partick henn andu ando revolutionary lie ile wis of the opinion thit that this cita cit can lead in tile the in itter without I 1 regard to the revenue from saloons he fie was nas not lot wil ahing linc to admit tint that this cl city ty must derive its support horn from saloons ile he beli eed eNed tile the ajl iti was as in a condition to do without saloons now till and ll 11 lie he wanted to s them go x with till tile the beginning of the new cat mr air young was terribly in larnest I 1 11 i the ma matter tier when it was nas fully apparent that trie revenue outlook 1 w is bad until legisla legislative Lne alii f could be had tile the qa solons ins turned thi ir attention to saloon iegel i emulations actions which would be the nest est approach appi app loach to nu no saloons it was nas proposed tint that all pool tables be ordered d out of the saloons si loons ill all card caid tables hac likewise j c all chairs benches or otner other sats be forbid Jin and that tu to I 1 all parts of the biloon be open to the mars I 1 al at all open hours anil and that a clear niev bew of the saloon be main tamed from the street also anat no drinks be bc caned other thin ocr the ito I 1 1 ar and the practice of carry ing to other of the building occupied I 1 as a saloon te le for forbidden bidlen this met with ith general ampro ap proal ial and a special committee wis inas appointed appoint cd to look 1001 into the powers of the council as a to en ell foring forcing such regulations ahe committee consists of the m ibor the attorney the marshal aal councilman coons this committee will report at a special meeting to be held on thursday night of this ack week providing the attorney mr bates is well nell enough to meet with the committee and prepare a report by that time in the routine of matters melvin ross asked that the astray fees charged a against him for an animal of his impounded impound Lil by mistake be remitted which was granted councilman jensen reported on L the amount of water which the call canil al companies would have hane in ill the winter time available for power purposes at jericho point sir air jensen had been informed thit there would lie be from thirty to foite feet of iNai lable in the allowance lovance al of the regular monthly bills one ais as arc d b engineer En gincer Klein chmidt for 13 ID for his ser sen ices to the committee IN which aich NV wis is the propose proposed aNater row er at jericho the council was of the opinion that the bill was exorbitant but there ws mthm for foi it but to pi 1113 up |
