The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-04
BOOZE QUESTION
IN CITY COUNCIL
Druggists, Saloon Men and
Others Discuss Licenses.
VARIANCE OF OPINION
sALooNKEEPERs OBJECT TO
OTHER TWO CLASSES.

OTHER TWO CLASSES
After lengthy arguments submitted
by the saloon men, druggists ana
restaurant owners on the petition OF
the former TO have the license OF tue
two latter raised 10 $l.2J1 year from
$500 the council committee on mum
cipal laws last night told the three
classes to have a joint meeting OF
Representatives of each, formulate an
agreement and submit II 10 the COM
mittee so that a satisfactory settle
ment of their differences can DE- maze
Not for many moons has there been
such a large number Of spectators a.
a council committee meeting - thefe
was when the COMMITTEES on munlclpal
laws met to consider the petition 81
the saloon men and Ihe answer OF the
druggists and restaurant men. There
were present half q hunored Saloon
keepers. q dozen restaurant owners
and a half dozen drrgSists, besides
number. of onlOokerss
Chairman FernstroT1- OF tEe commit
tee. did not call thu meeting together
until late, after disPoSlnS' OF al othef
Official business
Judge Powers Address.
Judge O. W. Powers spoke first for
the restaurant men. lie said tnat OF
account of the saloons. the city had q"
have a large and expensive poice
force There are often disturbances
in saloons not heard Of in fSstauT aE IS
The saloons ought 10 pay Tor me
trouble they cause in the city. y re
restaurant men are violating me
law" he said there is way 10
reach them-by the police
There are numbers OF people IN inc
CITY who take liquors with thsiI
meals Restaurants should be alioWee
TO serve these customers without nav
ing 10 pay an eXOrbitant price Tor the
privilege.
The petition of the saloon men says
that there should be no discrimination
between the ssloonkeePers on one hand
and the druggists and restaurant men
on the other hand. From the very ma
ture of their diverse businesses there
must be a discrimination ] do not De
Iieve the LIQUOR men are sincere IL their
statement that they wish 10 benefit the
taxpayers when they desire to have the
license of the druggists and restaurant
owners increased. No druggist or
restaurant proprietor can afford 10
pay 81 200 a year license
For some unaccountabIe reason each
summer as hot weather comes on. the
saloon men COncOCt some grievance.
get together and come with it TO the
council. This has been so for the last
five years
Il am informed that the restaurant
license in salt Lake is higher than in
any other city in the country"
F. c Schramm then spoke in behalf
of the druggists saying in part,
F. C. Schramm's Talk.
About a year ago the saIOonkeep-
ers, restaurant men and druggists
agreed on an ordinance which was pre-
scented to the council and adopted The
druggists pledged themselves to up
hold the law, but ] regret TO say that
some OF them did not do so.
We cannot afford to pay $1,000
year license. 1 tried il myself one
summer and lost money on the prOpO-
sitiOn. Keep the license for Us as il
is The Druggists association met this
afternoon and pledged its moral sup
port for the enforcement of the liquor
law If a druggist is found violating
the law by selling liquor at his soda
fountain. or by the glass. fine him 800.
IL he does so again, take his license
away from him"
Attorney A J. Weber then sub
mitted an argument in behalf of the
saloon men.
The violation of the law in regard 20
the selling of liquor, said Mr. Web
!
the druggists sold liquor for medicinal
and family purposes only. they need
no license whatever The state law
mentions but two kinds of LIQUOR Ii
censes-whOlesale and retail The
druggists and restaurant men ought 10
pay either one or the other. Just as the
saloon men do. I believe that a saloon
keeper, if he pays his license under Dro-
test, has a good case against the city 4
or nn u.
restaurants and drug stores.
The saloon men agreed to the orIi-
nance formulated last year because
they had to-cOuld not do otherwise
Experience has since proven that tn
ordinance has meant q loss to nv
clients It has made saloons out of
drug stores and restaurants. The 81
loon men pay high tax for the mo-
nopoly Of the liquor business and
should be protected.
Restaurant Men Speak
George Morgan. Joseph Finch and
George Mueller. the committee of the
Restaurant Mems association. then
told their side Of the story at the sug-
gestiOn OF Councilman HOLIDAY. Mr..
Mueller said that the restaurant men
could not afford TO pay $1,000 License. /
He aVerred that he did not make
enough money out OF the liquor he sold
To pay for his $500 license. Ajr. Mueller
sold liquor to accommodate his Gus
toners.
Mr. Finch stated that his liquor bust
MSS amounted to about $40 d week. and
Mr. Morgan said that his beer bill for
last week was only SlA He sold very
little liquor
A controversy then arose between
Mr.. Morgan and 8Iulvey about orig
inal packages. the dispute being
started by Councilman Holiday asking
the former how he interpreted the law
in regard 10 the selling Of liquor AR
Morgan stated that he believed he had
the right to sell liquor I'm original PACK
ages ''tenths, as they were called.
"a drink to a bottle" according to tho
United States law. Mr. Mulvev stated
that this selling Of liquor By the res
taurant men in small bottles. merely
getting around the law against the
selling Of individual bottles. was Just
what the saloon men objected to- He
agreed that it was wrong for saloon
men 10 set up lunches just as much as
il was wrong for restaurant men to en-
gage in the saloon business. L do not
object, he continued to restaurants
serving a bottle Of beer or wine with
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