The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-14
NEW LICENSE ORDINANCE.
It Passed the Passed With But Few
Changes.

The new license ordinance was pass
ed by the council last evening as pre-
pared by the license committee. The
only attempt made to lower any item
in the ordinance was the clause taxing
the premium stamp concerns. The
committee had placed the license at $500
a year, or $50 month.
Councilman Belts moved to reduce
the license to $500, saying that he doubt
ed if the city had any right to tax the
premium stamp concerns at all.
This brought Councilman Roundtree
Immediately to his feet.
You seem to want to take a back
ward step in this natter he said 'At
first this item was $500 a year, but 1
moved myself to make it 5000. Now
you want to cut that in two. The
merchants have petitiOned to make this
license $500, and they have started a
concern of their own and are willing
to pay this license. These stamp con-
Germs come in with scarcely any capital
and this is the only way we have of
getting at them"
The motion to reduce the license fee
was defeated.
When the ordinance came I'D for
final passage. Mr.. Belts said he could
not vote for that license on premium
stamp concerns. although he was in
favor of the rest of the ordinance, and
he voted against it.
A discussion also arose over the Ii
cenSe TO De placed on teamsterS who
haul brick, sand and stone. The COM
year for each team. Mr.. CLANCY said
that the president OF the Transfers
union had come to him and asked that
the license be raised to SIS in order to
keep teamsters from outside the city
from coming in and competing with the
city teamsters. Mr.. CLANCY moved that
the license be raised to SIS,
Councilman ROundtree thought SIS
rather high for all teamSterS, and he
moved as an amendment that the IL
cense be made SO a year.
Councilman Burgess said: There
have been good many kicking to me
even on a IS license. Just because some
organization that probably doesn't rep
resent one-fourth of the teamsters of
the city, wants to freeze out other fell
lOWs,-Im not in favor of it. There are
some men who work for $3.50 a day, and
they make just barely enough to feed
their families and their teams.
Councilman Belts and Benson spoke
along the same line. and the motion to
raise the license was lost.
The licenses on the different lines of
business are as follows:
Mercantile or commercial agency, $50
per year.
Employment agency or intelligence
Office, SO.
Loan or adjustment agency, $50.
Sewing machine agency, So
Baby rack, cane rack, knife board or
ball throwing game, SO per day, or SO
per week.
Bill posters, $50 per year
Bill or sample distributors and sign
tackers. SO per year. Each distributor
must wear a. metal badge with the
number of his license.
Electric light company $10O a year.
Express agency. $3.50 per year for
each One-hOrse wagon; IS per year for
each twO-horse wagon.
Gas company, 500 per year.
Water company, 800 per year.
Telegraph company, 81 per pole for
the first so poles, and so cents for each
additional pole in the city limits
Hacks and cabs, SO each.
Laundry wagons, $3.50 for each one
horse wagon; IS for twO-horse wagons.
Delivery wagons, including coal, fruit
and milk wagons and wholesalers, 81. so
for each One-hOrse wagon, So for two
horse, $3.50 for three horse, and $40 for
fOur-hOrse wagons.
Muscle or lung testers, SO per day or
SO per week
Omnibus, s. per- year.
Premium stamp concerns, $500 per
year.
Land dealers, $25 per year.
Solicitors or brokers, SO per year,
Baggage wagons, So per year.
Brick, dirt, sand or stone wagons,
$3.50 for One-horse, IS for two horse,
$3.50 for three-hOrse, and $40 for four
horse wagons per year.
Express wagons, One-hOrse, 81 so; two
horse, IS per year.
Transfer and freight wagons, same as
delivery wagons.
Hot tamaIe or lunch wagons $40 per
year.
Job wagons, same as delivery wagons.
Wagons must carry metal tags with
their license number.
A fine ranging from IS to $500 is pro-
vided for violations of the ordinance.
FLOORING THE VIADUCT.