The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-03
THEY HAVE NO AuTHnRITY-

VI az, ehOio Will uS sOue lively scenes en-
acted DIT this evenings session of the city
council.
THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY.
A member of the body has been looking
up the ordinance creating The office of cap
tain OF police and sergesnts, and he says
the law Is entirely void because, while it
creates the offices, it does not specify the
duties of the men appoin ed to fill them,
and, as a result, they can only act under
direction of the chief of police; in other
words, they have no authority except what
the law imposes upon them as patrolmen,
or peace officers. This being the case. it
would appear that Parker's acts as captain
OF police have been Illegal. unwarrauted
and without sanction of law.
LOOK OUT FOR FUN.
Mayor Scott will preside at this evenings
session of the council and it is understood
that he is likely to have something to say
in regard to the ex-captain of police and
also the city marshal. 1t will be remem-
bered that when Acting Mayor Packard
issued his now famous instructions TO
Marshal Young. e., not to arrest any
women of easy virtue while he (Pickard)
sat in the mayors chair-he said he did so
at the request of certain well-known
Christian ladies' of this city, with whom
Mayor Scott had previously conversed on
the same subject. Then the Ne,cs, in com
menting UPON this order, quoted someone
around the city hall as saying thet the ladies
who made the request were certain friends
OF the acting mayor, whose regulations
were not above suspicion, in fact were
very shady. This statement was evidently
inspired by some Que who had it in for the
acting mayor, for obvious reasons Now.
1t Is said that tue statement was wholly
false, as the ladies referred to by MIR.
Packard are members of the church at
which the mayor Worships and of which
he has long been regarded as a pillar.
Friends and relatives of these ladies' have
taken up the fight in their behalf and
Mayor Scott has been asked to do what
lies in his power TO bring to account the
fellow who made the vile attack. Whether
he has assented TO this request or not re-
mains to be seen, but as the gentlemen who
have the matter in hand belong to the
Liberal party and are particular friends of
the mayor, there would seem to be good
reason TO believe that something will come
of it, and at once.
BY the way, Pickard's order, and the re-
quest of the Christian ladies in connection
with 1t, has never been properly explained.
1t was not in behalf of confirmed prosti-
tutes that heir plea was made but for the
hayward girls who follow their vile voca-
tion in aquieter way and for whom some
hope of reformation may still be enter
taiued. Those girls are arrested and fined
s25, and when they lack this sum they are
not retained in jail. but turned loose with
the injunction that they must make good
the remainder. Some OF these unfortu-
mates, it is said, have been reclaimed, and
the ladies who are engaged in this mission
airy work believe they could rescue more of
them if it were not for the police.
THE MERCHANTS LICENSE.
Itwcs said yesterday that the committee
on license, TO whom had been referred the
recommendation Of Treasurer Walden tnat
the merchants license be abolished, had
come to an understanding and would re-
port tonight to the council, recommending
that the license be abolished That the
merchants license must so appears to be
DeyOnd question