Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-04

coming altogether too numerous and
powerful in Rock Island, and the op-
portunity to check it should be taken
advantage of by the council for the
protection of the people.
An aye and nay vote was called for
on the motion of Aid. Gall to take the
original ordinance from the committee
and resulted:
Ayes-Heideman Gall, Sober
strom. Kennedy, Anderson.
Nay wilkins, Sny-
der, Freed. Andrews, Willis, Moeller,
Fender, Robbins-9.
a motion was then adopted refer
ring the substitute ordinance to the
ordinance committee, in whose hands
the original has been since the No
VEN Der semi-monthly session, with
instructions that report be made at
the next meeting of the council.
The following resolution, offered by
Aid. Gall, was adopted:
Whereas, At our last regular meet
ing an ordinance was referred to the
ordinance committee, which provided
for the fling of a certain petition be-
fore license would be issued to con-
duct a saloon outside of the fire limits
within this city, and
Whereas, Subsequent to said
meeting and prior hereto, license
conduct a saloon in a building stu
ated on the southeast corner of Sew
enth avenue and Twenty-seventh
street. and as said building was occu-
pied as a grocery store at the time
the said license was issued, is now
occupied as a grocery and will likely
continue to be so used; be it
Resolved, That the obtaining of
this license at a time when it could
not and cannot be used was with the
express intent to thwart an expected
action of this council and is contrary
to the intent of our ordinance regu-
lating the issuance of licenses; and it
is further
Resolved, That the said license so
issued as above stated is hereby re-
yoked, and the city clerk is hereby
ordered to send the party to whom
said license was issued a written no.
tice of this action, and to return the
amount paid for the same when said
license is surrendered to him.
An aye and nay vote was called for
on the above. The vote:
Ayes-Concannon, Willis, Wilkins,
Moeller, Robbins, Gall, Kennedy,
Soderstrom, Anderson. Snyder-10.
Nays-Heideman Freed, Andrews,
Pender-4.
No License Pending Action.
Another resolution, offered by Aid.
Anderson, was adopted. providing
that no licenses be granted outside
the fire limits until the pending ordi-
nance containing an amendment to
the saloon ordinance, now in force,
shall have been disposed of by the
council.
Aid Fender believed in going slow
and endeavored to have the resolu-
ton revoking the license referred
with the ordinances, but a motion of
his to this effect was defeated. Aid.
Gall having alleged that Mr. Naab
had been indicted by the grand Jury
and fined in the circuit court for a
violation of he state law regulating the
liquor traffic, claimed that under the
provisions of the city ordinance the
mayor should not have granted him
license. The ordinances make it pos
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mayor by mandamus to issue him a
license if he first secures the sigma
lures to n petition OF six reputable
freeholders in the locality where he
wishes to engage in the saloon bust
ness.
Aids. Anderson, Fender aud Rob-
bins were appointed committee to
draft an acknowledgment of Freder-
lex Weyerhauser's munificent gift to
the Rock Island public library board.
a blue print of curb walk that the
D., r. 1. & N. w proposes building
at the east side of its depot on Seven
tenth street was offered by Aid.
Fender. 1t was referred for investi-
cation to the ordinance and street and
alley committees to report at the next
COUNTY TEMPLE.
Transfers.