The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-09
LICENSE ORDINANCE.
THE MERCHANTS WILL PETITION
FOR ITS REPEAL.
Bills That VIII BE Presented Mt the
Coming Session of the LegisIa-
tive Assembly.


ton met last night at the chamber of
commerce with President Weber in
the chair and Secretary Ball occupy
ing the recorders desk. The merchants
were not out in as full force as the
Importance of the meeting merited, but
those who were present were unusually
enthusiastic over the protective meas
ures proposed for introduction in the
city council and the coming legisla-
ture A petition for the repeal of the
license ordinance will be introduced at
the first meeting of the new city coun-
Gil and as soon as the legislature has
been thoroughly organized and is ready
for business it will be asked to enact
into laws bills providing for mechan-
les liens and improved attachment
methods
1t was only few minutes after the
appointed hour, 7:30 o'clock, when the
president called to order and after the
usual preiiminaries called for the re-
ports of special and standing commit
tees.
The committee on mechanics lien
laws, through Chairman Morrison, re
ported that it would present to the
legislature the propoed mechanics lien
law which was known during the last
Legislature the PROPOSED mechanics lien
which has been amended in those sec
tons which were considered weak by
the former members of the legislature.
This bill, without the amendments, was
introduced in the council by Moran,
and after a hard struggle received its
death blow on account of its many de
fects. The committee, in its report,
stated that these lefects had been rene
died, the amended bill having been
drawn by eminent counsel, after full
consultations with representatives of
the interests to be protected.
Chairman Weber. of the committee
on attachment laws. reported the bill
which will be presented to the legiSla-
ture for favorable action, and for his
committee stated that considerable
time had been devoted to the drawing
of the proposed measure and it now
has endorsement of the entire COM
mittee. The bill provides that the
present attachment law shall be
so amended that the home mer-
chants will be enabled to protect them
selves in cases where they have in
secure accounts by suing and attach
ing at the same time without being
compelled to allege fraud on the part
Of the debtor The bill will also, pro-
vide that where a debtor is attached
he may give security for the claim,
pending the settlement of the suit,
thereby protecting himself from any
hardship through being attached, sby
releasing his property from the at
tachment. The merchant is also pro-
tected in his interest by the bond The
bill is the result of Investigations of
the statutes of Nevada and California
and consultation with the best attor-
neys of the territory. The report was
adopted and the committee retained
to see that the bill is properly pre-
scented to the legislature
The merchants license question was
then taken up and discussed at length
by the members present a rough
draft of &, proposed ordinance was
presented by Mr.. Luke and after
heard upon the salient points contained
in the measure it was referred to a
committee composed of Francis G.
Luke, c. B. burst, r. K Thomas n
P. Nelson and j. B. Barton, with full
power to act, to prepare an amended
ordinance and present it to the council
at its first meeting in January The
desire of the association is that the
present license ordinance be repealed
and new one enacted in its place
which shall provide for the exemption
of all merchants from license after
they have been in business six months,
or long enough to give evidence that
they are here to stay This exemp-
ton would, of course, apply only to
regular merchants, not to saloons
fruit stands or peddlers.
The association now has a member
ship roll Of over 200 and the president
called attention to the fact that there
were still large number of merchants
who had not identified themselves with
the movement He expressed the
opinion that in view of the proposed
heroic measures which the association
is advocating every merchant of the
city should join and become an active
member of the association.