The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-01
THE ADMINISTRATION I'm a
HOLE.
SALOONS MUST CLOSE TODAY,
OR THE MAYORS OFFICERS MUST
IGNORE THE DECISIONS
RULINGS.
WHICH ARE THEY GOING TO Dor
List of the Places Which Craig,
Thompson, Reardon and Kirke
Say Must Close.

The assembly, at the meeting Tues
day night, refused to pass upon batch
of applications for saloon licenses, on
the ground that the time for receiving
objections against the granting Of the
licenses had not expired. Messrs
Craig, Thompson, Reardon and Kirke
took the ground that it would be lille
gal to pass on applications until after
Jan. 9, which was the date set for the
hearing. Other members Of the as
sembly called the attention Of the quar-
tette to the meeting held in the may
or's office some weeks ago, at which it
was decided that there would be no
thirty days grace allowed saloonkeep
ers this year and that those whose
license expired Jan. /, 1897, would have
to have the license issued to them on
time, or close up until they were is
sued. No arguments would go, how
ever, and the applications were reject
ed, but finally referred back to the
license committee.
The list Of saloons where the appli-
cations were not passed upon included
the following:
Robinson G. Rowe &c East Fourth street;
w. S. Twombley, 1928 Wabasha street; Her
man L.. Schade. 965 West Seventh street;
Carl Schollenberg, 1888 Rice street; Louis D.
Phillips. 2s2 Sibley street: Noyes Bros. &
Cutler. 400 Sibley street; w. W. Lorrimer,
20l East Fourth street; Peter J. Hoffett, 80
South Wabasha street; P. j. Esch & Co.,
13 East Sixth street; Cronstedt Bros. 279
East Third street; w. G. CARING, 349 Robert
street; Jefferson Carson Merchants hotel;
Frank G. Brady 345 Wabasha street; John
Berwanger, 491 Wabasha street; c.. L. Egg
CERT, 484 Robert street.
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find out what action the authorities
would take regarding the closing Of
the saloons mentioned, owing to the
licenses, which expired last night, not
having been issued. At the city clerks
office it was stated that nothing was
known about the matter.
Mayor DOran was also averse to talk
ing on the subject for publication, but
it is known that when he was &C
quainted with the action Of the as
Semlbly, or, rather, the four members
Of that body, he WAS excited. In the
language of the sport, he was up in
the air." and not in the least pleased
at the action of the assemblymen. Dur
ing the last campaign the saloon ele-
ment stood by the mayor almost to a
man, and some Of those prominently
identified with the liquor traffic made
no bones about doing everything they
could to secure his election. Of course
being a representative Of the reform
element, the mayor could not publicly
cCme out and announce that he was in
favor Of allowing the saloonkeepers
any particular privilege, but he had,
until Tuesday night been under the
impression that the members Of the
assembly understood that, while the
administration was to pose in favor of
a strict enforcement Of the laws relat-
ing to the liquor traffic and other re-
forms, there was no intention when it
came to cases, to work any hardship.
License Inspector Maloney, seen
about the closing up Of the saloons
owing to their having no license issued
to them, said he had been informed
some weeks ago that licenses due on
Jan. l must be taken out on or before
that date, or the saloonkeepers would
be liable to arrest and punishment. He
had heard nothing to the contrary, but
would see his superior officers regard
ing the matter Chief Goss said he had
received no orders from the mayor re-
lative to the matter and was inclined
to think that no precipitate action
would be taken regarding the saloon