The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-28
WINE ROOM LAW IS
DELAYED FOR TIME
Aidermanic Committee Fails to
Report for Lack of At
tendance

Inc Hackney wine room ordinance
forbidding women the right to frequent
saloons, except under certain specified
conditions. failed to receive a favor
able report from the committee on
streets of the board of aldermen yes
tsrday.
This does not mean that the COM
mittee is opposed to the ordinance, but
that favorable action was not deemed
wise because but four members of the
committee We're present at the meet
ing. consequently il was referred back
TO the board of aldermen without rec
concentration.
Aid. Lynch moved that a favorable
report be made. Aid Bantz stated
that there was already a wine room
ordinance. and that he did not see the
necessity OF passing another. The con-
stitutionality of the Hackney ordi-
nance was next questioned. but Cor
poration Attorney Michael settled that
point by stating that an ordinance
even more stringent than the Hack
ney ordinance which was adopted in
Denver, Colo, was declared legal by
the supreme court of the United
States.
FaVors Main Feature
Aid. He'll. while stating that he IA
vored the ordinance in its main fea-
ture. which was for the purpose of
keeping a certain class of women from
frequenting saloons, suggested that it
be amended to simply take in this
class. He stated that st. Paul had a
large German population. and that they
should not be hampered by any law
from enjoying their ordinary recrea-
tons. Mr.. Michael said that such a
classification would be special legisla-
ton and would vitiate the ordinance.
-
exceedingly active in securing a pas
sage of the Hackney ordinance. said
that the ordinance did not refer to
respectable women. He claimed that a
woman that thought anything of her
reputation would not enter a saloon
for glass of beer unless accompanied
by her husband or father, and that the
terms of this ordinance made excep-
tions of such cases. Mr.. Morgan also
said that the ordinance would not af-
fect over dozen saloons in the city
and these were places he declared to
be disgrace to st. Paul.
Considered Unnecessary
Certain aldermen have intimated
that they did not consider such an or
cinance necessary, or that all the sa-
loon keepers in the city should be pun
ished for the misdeeds of a few
In speaking of the matter yesterday
one alderman pointed out what he
considered the poper manner to ham
die this much discussed question. He
said that women did not frequent sa-
looms in Minneapolis, and there is nc
ordinance there forbidding it. AS a
police regulation, however. Mayor
has held it to be prima facie evidence
of disorderly conduct on the part OF
the saloon keeper who permits these
women in his place, and the license is
Immediately revoked.
The common council, said this alder
man, has the power to grant and re-
woke saloon licenses.
IF there is a small number of sa-
loon keepers who encourage this sort
of trade, and they have made their
places menace to morality and an
added hardship on the police depart
ment. have no doubt that if a recon-
mendation for a revocation of their
saloon licenses. made by the proper
official. would reach the common coun-
Gil that these saloon keepers would be
Immediately put out of business