St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-27
THE CITY COUNCIL.

The Board of Aldermen Take up the SUB
ject of Licenses, and Set DO,cn q Mark at
$500 for the Sale of Spirituotes and Malt
Liquors.
The city council met in regular session
last evening, with President Clark in the
chair
the committee on ordinances reported
new ordinance amending the ordinance es-
tablishing the grades of streets so as to
change the grades of University avenue so
that it shall be more level, cutting down the
highest point six feet. The rules were sus-
pended and the ordinance placed upon its
second reading and passage. a sewer was
ordered constructed in Cedar avenue from
Fourth street to Sixth street, and six inch
water main was ordered in Second street
from Nicollet to Second avenue south.
The ordinance requesting and controlling
the sale ofliquors was placed upon its second
reading for amendment. Section 2 was
amended, placing the prohibitory limitation
distance from any park or parkway at 200
feet instead of 500 feet.
Aid. EichhOrn moved to amend to strike
out the word adjacent" so that liquor
license may be granted a saloon keeper in a
building adjacent to theater The amend
ment was lost, all present voting except Aid.
Hashow, Eichhorn, Walsh, Holschor,
Noeremberg and Morse.
Aid. Hashow moved to strike out the en-
tire clause. The motion failed upon the
same vote.
Aid, Hashow then moved to strike out all
of section 2, of which the troublesome clause
formed part but this was also lost on the
same vote.
AID. Hashow moved to strike out para
graph 6, which requires the icensee to own
only one saloon. Lost.
Section was amended by striking out the
clause prohibiting the transfer of licenses,
qualifying the clause by inserting a measure
so that the city clerk may endorse the remoV-
al of the licensed saloon to any other locality
upon certain affadavits and allowing the
heirs and assigns of deceased's license the
full privileges of the license.
Aid. Eichorn moved to strike out the
words $500, the amount of the license, and
insert $780, and supported his motion in a
short argument. Lost, all the Republicans
voting in the negative.
Aid. Hashow moved to strike out section
9, which empoweas the mayor to designate
certain districts where licenses should not be
issued. Lost.
Aid Johnson moved an amendment to
section 10, so that liquor cannot be given
away by the license at times at which the
sale is prohibited, and another amendment
changing the hour for closing saloons from
II o'clock D. IN. to midnight Carried.
The ordinance was also amended, so that
when the license be revoked by the mayor or
council the licensee shall have returned to
him the proportionate half of the paid value
of the license.
A new section was inserted, so that the
ordinance should not apply to druggists sell
ing liquor only for medicinal and chemical
or mechanical purposes.
Aid. Eichhorn moved an amendment, so
that the minimum fine be fixed at SO in
stead of S25.
Aid. Hashow moved totable the ordinance,
but the same old vote crushed the measure.
The ordinance was then read third time,
whe Aid. Haugan moved to strike out the
wards 400 feet and insert in lieu thereof the
wards 800 feet from a school building, but
the amendment failed.
The ordinance was then passed as amend
ed.
The ordidance regulating licenses was
taken up and placed on its second reading.
The clause regulating a license in 500 for
junk shops was eliminated, Several unim-
portant amendments were also made, and
under a suspension of the rules the ordi-
nance was passed The report of the commits
sioners in the matter of the awards in the
opening of Twenty-ffth street was confirmed.
Health Officer Quimby asked two addi-
tional health inspectors owing to the fact
that the street commissioners were at pres
ent so busily engaged in the discharge of
other duties that they could give no attention
to the matter. A motion to table was lost.
Referred to the city attorney.
Adjourned until Wednesday evening.