The evening times., 1895-08-14
Saloon Men Appeal In Vain to
the Excise Board.
CLAIM THE RULE Is UNJUST
Liquor Dealers Association Send a
Delegation to Protest Against What
They Claim Is Discrimination.
Question of Sunday Lights in bar.
rooms Also Argued.

A committee from the Liquor Dealers
Association, appointed at the meeting
held last Wednesday at Costello's Hall,
protest against the order requiring ap-
| plication for license TO placard the build
ing where 1t is intended to open a bar
with a notice of the Intention.
The committee also entered an objec
ton 10 q ru!e which the delegation under
stood TO have been issued requiring light
to be kept burning at night and during
Sunday.
1t was the understanding, as under the
law, the owner of a saloon has no right
to enter the bar on Sunday, except IN
case of fire or sickness, that the light
left burning Saturday night must continue
to burn until the doors are opened on Mon
day.
The committee was composed of Messrs.
E. L. Jordan, Hugh Cosgrove, William Nc
Guire, Thomas Walsh, and NJ. +. Sui.
livan, the latter serving as spokesman.
Upon hearin: the case the board informed
the committee that there was miscorr
ception of the order for placardiB. the
prospective saloon, and no rule existed
requiring the light in the bar.
As a matter of safety" said MEM
ber of the board, lit might be well TO
observe the rule in force in other business
places, and keep light, but no man1s
obliged to do So"
ONLY NEW APPLICANTS.
Respecting the order for the posting
81 Johnson aynlafnai
that the rule applies only to new appli-
cants and 10 transfers, and that estab-
lished places, not obliged 10 procure
signatures for removals, are exempt
MI Sullivan thereupon admitted that the
stin. had been extracted from the require
nient in large measure. but Mr.. Cosgrove
asked that the order be rescinded al
together.
1T is huniiiiating to reputable men," he
said, ITO have his business treated as q
pesthouse. There are men in the liquor
business who are just as respectable as
people in any other occupation, and SO
long as they comply with the law it is
unjust to single them out in this way.
No nan has any right to protest against
saloon SO long as its proprietor conforms
to the law"
Then you do not consider this to be
free country" queried Col. Bates, of the
board.
"Yes, / do" retorted Mr.. Cosgrove,
land for that reason / ask that the order
be rescinded. The law gives a man the
right to run saloon, and you will find
that the respectable barkeeper is more par
ticular to get respectable class OF GUS
toners than the grocer OF the dry goods
merchant.
BOARD WAS EMPHATIC.
"Wcll, the order VIII not be rescinded,"
said President johnson. I'VE debated and
considered the question carefully before
1t was decided and the rule will be enforced
against new places and transfers"
THE saloon men are in a peculiar posi-
tisn," remarked Mr.. Cosgrove later. Judge
Miller fined a woman for entering her bar
on Sunday TO procure q roast of meat from
the Ice chest. Another decision of his is to
the effect that hotel waiter may enter
bar as often as is necessary for the ac-
conimodation of guests, and still another
decision was rendered exenpting the Press
Cips from paying license. These are three
decisions that seem to me to be conflict
ing"