The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-31
IMMORAL WOMEN WILL HAVE
LONGER TIME TO RESIDE
ON ROSE STREET.
CounciImen Engage in Spirited Dis
cussion-Proposed Plan Is to Have
Restricted District.

The city council split wide open last
night when Councilman Glasford
moved to reconsider the ordinance pro-
viding for the regulation of houses of
iii fame, and for about Is minutes there
councilmen present. Speeches were
made by every councilman and when
the smoke of the battle had cleared
away the ordinance had been recon-
sidered and Councilman Smith was so
much put out that he asked to be ex-
cused from further attendance on the
meeting, which request was granted
by Mayor Hunt. He returned, how
ever, a few moments later and re-
manned until the session was closed.
AS soon as the council had been
called to order Councilman Glasford
arose and moved to reconsider the Or
dinance. He gave as a reason for his
action that if the ordinance as passed
at the last meeting became city law
it would result in the immoral women
now residing on Rose street being scat
plan whereby these women could be
compelled to reside in the upper
stories of buildings in a district that
could be specially set apart for them
This statement brought Councilman
Smith to his feet. 1t was evident from
the expression on mis- face that he was
angry and he at once turned loose.
For five minutes he delivered an adj
dress that would have been creditable
to any Fourth of July orator. He
maintained that the move to reconsider
the ordinance was made for the spe-
cific purpose of killing the ordinance.
He opposed the proposition to place the
women in a specified district claiming
require the services of at least four
or five policemen to keep them under
surveillance and would benefit only
the persons who erected the buildings.
Councilman Bridges was of the same
opinion and he registered pronounced
objection to the reconsideration of the
ordinance.
Councilman Martin was of the opin-
ion that it would be better to have
restricted district for the women and
he favored the reconsideration of the
ordinance.
Councilman Cox stated that he be-
lieved that such women should be
made to move into the upper stories
sideration of the ordinance in order
that the council could designate some
certain place where they should be
quartered.
Councilman Glasford again took the
floor and informed the councilmen that
he would at the next meeting introduce
another ordinance which would GER
tainly meet the approval of every
member of the councilmen. He said
it would give the women six months in
which to vacate their present places of
abode.
This did not seem to satisfy Council
men Smith or Bridges, who still as
serted that the proposed action was
only a scheme to kill the ordinance.
Councilman Mexican stated that he
did not have much to say on the sub
ject as he had expressed mis- views the
night before when the ordinance had
been passed, still he believed it would
be wise to reconsider the ordinance
and pass a new one defining a certain
district in which the women should be
compelled to live.
Before the roll could be placed
Smith moved that the ordinance be
reconsidered, placed on the calendar
and buried so deep that it could never
be resurrected. Bridges quickly Sec
onded Smiths motion, but the mayor
called for a vote on Glasford's motion
which was carried, Smith and Bridges
voting in the negative