Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-22

ANSON HART, Of Johnson county.
The Temperance Prsclivities u Mayer Hsdsen.
Wspressated tho reply Of the Mayor elect,
Mr.. SrLAs A. HUDsoN, to certain structures of
ours, in our paper Of Tuesday, and promised
ourselves the privilege Of rejoinder. This
privilege We mean now to exercise in part, at
any rate. .N a
His Honor starts out BY putting in gen
eral denial Of oil our allegations, touching
himself ~ we'll A. the election. The first
th;ag denied 10 our assertion that last season
the Ordinance granting licenses was defeat
ed-but Afterwards taken up in the absence
ef . nsaber Of the Board and passed. Our
assertion u regard to this transaction, owing
to the carelessness of our informant, was not
strictly trse--yet it was true in spirit, and
was not in the smallest psrticulur unjust or
unfair to him.
What were the simple facts? An ordinance
Was introduced before the City Council by
Mr.. 8. A. Hudson, to grant licenses for the
sale of Beer, Ale, Porter and Native Wine.
On motion Of Mr.. Burnap an amen iment was
carried, providing that no such license should
be granted but upon the applicant procuring
petition signed By majority Of tho proper
~ holders in the Same block asking for the
license and recommending the applicant a, a
suitable person to keep Beer House. Four
Aldermen voted in favora Of the amendment,
and four against it, and tho Mayor gave the
casting vote in the affirmative. The ordinance
passed By vote of S to 3--Mr. Kricchbaum
who had votes for the amendment, voted for
the ordinance, on i,s fnal passage, and had
declared that he would not ,o:s for it without
the amendment was inserted. sas .4
ae At the next meeting Of the Council, Mr..
Hudson moyed and carried a reconsideration
Of the vote on the passage of tho ordinance,
and moved to amend it by striking out the
clause requiring the recommendation OF q ma
jority of the property holders of the block,
and BY striking ont oil relating to Ale, Por-
tor and Native Wine; division of the qucs-
tion on the motion being called for, and Mr..
Hudson having failed to carry his PROPOSE
ton dispensing with the recommendation of
the majority of the property holders in the
block, refused to vote for his own amend
ment, striking out all Porter and Native
Wins, and the ordinance passed in ito former
shape and by the vote Of 5 to 3.
In few weeks Mr.. Adams went to the
East, and on the day that he left the city,
Mr.. Hudson intl oduced an ordinance with
the feature 50 Objectionable to him and his
friends stricken out. On motion 20 insert
Mr.. Burnap's amendment, it failed by vote
OF 4 to 3, and the ordinance passed by vote
Of to 2-Hudson, Wightman, Krechba am,
Ray and Myers voting in the affirmative and
D. Chamberlin and Starr voting in the mega
tive. Under the ordinance as it FIRST passed
there were no applications for license and
never would have been any. Under Mr..
Hudson's ordinance ~ shaped and passed, in
the absence Of Mr.. Adams, to suit himself
and German friends there have been licensed
ali the beer shops and doggsries now in the
city.
These are tia precise facts in regard to this
matter. How do they tally with Mr.. Hud-
sons statement:
It il not true that a ma
jority OF the Council last year, were opposed
to licensing, or that proposition to license
was made and failed-or that advantage was
taken of the absence of Mr.. Adams. The
vote stood on the passage of tho ordinance
10 3, (Mr. Adams PRESENT. was subsequently,
amended and passed BY vote
IF to 2, expressly to secure that order,
which the other law had failed to accomplish.
This is . very fine expose of the truthful
ness aha candor Of Mr.. Hudson. A propo-
,iticn Is iicehse Was ID rsaity defeated as We
sstort stated, and advantage was taken. Of
he absence ola member (Mr. Adams) to
procure tho passage Of an acceptable ordi-
rance, and Mr.. II. Of course knew it when he
vrots the above. But he tells US that this
otter reconsideration and amendment was
,assed sssrpressly to secure that order sohici. ,
he other latc had failed to accomplish 20
What does he mean by this? Does he mean
. convey the intelligence tina: a proposition
squirting the consent of property holders
vas IN impossible one and under such an
ordinance licensed beer houses never could
,xist and that beer houses being necessary
or Ahs peace and good order Of society, the
,Sssags Of al acceptable ordinance for their !;
license would BE- promotivs of these ends I?
I ibis is what he Intends to say or insinuate J
y con at once understand what b. means
,hcn he says bic I" oficial services" have 1
cen devoted to the suppression Of intern 1