The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-31
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
TWENTY-sECoND DAY.
lf
COUNCIL.
Monday, Jan. Goth, . pm.

Dill, d. +. 8, providing for the ar
polntment of justices Of the peace
where there were vacancies, was re
ported by Councillor Thurber, a
amended by the conference commit
tee and passed.
| Mr.. John VanCott, the sergeant
alarms, reported that he was un
able to secure more than one COPY O
the session laws of the Forty-sixtl
Congress, but would continue t,
search If the Council would sugges
where he might look for them. IA,
was released from further response
bility in the matter.
a message was read, stating that
the House had adopted the recon-
mendatiOns of the conferences com
mIttee in relation to the amend
ments of the bill referring TO Vacan
cles IN justices of the peace.
On the bringing up Of G. f. No. -
IN relation to mortgages of personal
property, Councillor Thurber moved
that the listing of the articles be
stricken out, and the words call
property not exempt from execu.
ZION" be substituted; but upon Conn.
cllor Thatcher demonstrating that
this amendment would annul the
exemption law. the motion was
Wltndrawn, and the bill laid over
until to morrow.
The balance of the bill for licens.
ing and regulating the sale nj
liquor was then taken up. and Coun.
cllor Game moved to insert a clause
that City Councils could adopt this
Dill by changing the words County
Court" 10 "City Council" and pre-.
hlbltlng County Courts from inter.
ferlng with municipal councils in
regulating or licensing the LIQUOR
tratfic within their corporate limits,
Councillor E. Snow could see no ben
eht to be derived from this
amendment and would prefer
to see the bill recon-
mitted and frame a bill covering
more ground than the present one,
and IN its matter to provide that a
portion OF the revenues from fines
and licenses in towns and cities be
given to the school fund. AS the
Dill now stands city councils can use
the whole of the revenue from this
source for improvements, but
county courts are asked to give one
half to the school fund. The Terri
tory needs more revenue than it
now has; and, in comparison, cities
less; and it did appear to the coun-
cllor: that if this nolicy is continued
the Territory will be called upon
for funds for general public i'm
prOYementS, and the cities be hedged
around and protected, spending the
whole Of their revenue for internal
improvements. The city authorities
may possibly become as graspipg on
the liquor question from their stand
point as the liquor men are from
their standpoint. The revenue of
Salt Lake City is as large as that of
the whole Territory, and yet none of
it is required to he paid into the
school fund. He wished to see a
bill governing the corporations and
the counties alike on this question,
and preferre | that the bill be recon-
mitted that this dcsideratum may
be accomplished.
Councillor Caine said that the OBJ
ject Of the amendment was to give
power to cities if they were disposed
To use them. The powers granted
in the charters 20 different cities
were varied, and he would not, for
instance, impose upon the cities of
Logan and Provo q duty to license
and regulate the liquor business,
when they now can and do prohibit.
The revenues of cities should not be
undaly curtailed for, as the liquor
business brings more expense and
trouble within the limits of corpor-
ated cities than the county and ter
ritorial officials have to meet, there
is need of larger revenue to keep
order and preserve the rights of
peacably disposed citizens. In re-
ferring to the revenue of Salt
Lake City. the councillor said if the
revenue is as large as that of the
whole territory, the citizens of Salt
Lake City pay it, and he said it was
also fact, capable of proof, that the
workingmen Of this city paid as
much taxes as some of the large
property owners in the country dis
trictS. He was not committed to the
bill as being the best measure that
could be suggested, but could con-
scientiously ask for the amendment
to give to give the corporate author
tiles exclusive power and revenue
to govern the uncomfortable element
that naturally gravitates to business
centres, and thought that it was a
late hour to kill this bill which was
needed to govern the traffic of liquor.
Councillor Murdoch supported the
bill as necessary measure. In his
district some of the liquor dealers
are irresponsible men. and the eff
feet upon the young people is very
injurious. He liked the law to give
the authorities power to make the
vendors of liquors responsible,
either by themselves or their bonds
men, and to obtain damages that are
constantly entailed upon the com
munity by distressing families and
leading the young astray. The
councillor was not SO much of a
stickler for revenue as for guarding
the morals of the people, and he
thought this bill would bring about
q Oraat reform alnOOU tho uoODla Of