Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-21
LICENSE INCREASED
 FR0M ss00 TO s4OO Increase Was Wish Of Taxpay- CTS and Will Be Effective
 January 1.
(Tucson Citizen,

taxpayers. as expressed in no uncer- tain nor mistakaDie terms in the re cent city election, the council last evening tThursday) by vote of 1 to and with the approval of Mayor l.. H. Manning. increased the retail sa- loon license from S5U- per year to Si000 per year and the wholesale r. cense from $500 to $i00 per year.
 The increase becomes e1ective on January 1, 1907. It means an in- crease annually in the city revenues of sf4.G0G. as there are thirty-Gye sa- looms which will have to pay an ad- ditionai S400 license. It places Tue son on the same plane m.3n Phoen.x, where the saloons are compelled 10 pay license of 5000. The Phoenix license ordinance was passed several months ago. The saloonists there 1 kicked, but none of them quit the
 usinsss.
 Nor uid the council and the mayor stop their good work here. They an pointed committee, conSio,ing of five prominent citizens in each instance, to investigate the electric lighting company and the telephone company to determine whe ther the users of electric light and the telephone are securing adequate service for the rates imposed by these two com ranies.
 After the expressed intention of Mayor-elect Slack and Councilmer- elect Bail. Hutchinson and Rasmess- en not to raise the saicon license, but to continue it as it was-s600 per year-there w2s little likelihood or the will of the people cn this matter securing expression in legislation through the next council. With this ia mind, Mayor Manning and the dem- ocratic majority in the present council enacted what will be pointed to later as the crowning legislation of two years of useful service.
 Tn the republican platform in the last city election there appeared this sentence, referring to high license: l. We pledge our nominees to strict abolition Of gambling in all its forms ana to a proper resfrict-on or the iiq- uor trsf7c by the imposition or hig1
 cense."
 :. his clause became one cf the lead ing issues Of the campaign Mayor Manning and the democratic nominees fer the council were oEen in their declars tions that they did not iaFor an increase in the license above S6Oo.
 The republican nominees for may a- ard the councli maintained tentG- lively by their silence that they fay- o-ed a higher license. The reading cf the!r platform p-in1 'by the ir 2 rcsition of high license, indicated that the present license was ne cor s.dered high license
 "It's fine politics" one Of tne heel CTS remarked during the campaign .ItI eaten tnem coming and going the saloon and the church vote"
 But the saloonists were not wcr- riad. They knew the statements that would follow the election nom the If ruhlfcan machine nominees on the ii- eense proposition. The high license adyoca'es were ignorant of the 'in- side workings" and subsequently, they worked against Mayor Manning and the democratic nominees.
 Every member of the council was present last evening when the specia! meeting was called to order by Mayor Manning. Immediately after the of GcIal canvass of the votes at tne recent election had been completed the license matter was taken up.
 The amendment 10 the present IT. cense, making an increase of S4O0 per year in retail and s100 per year in wholesale licenses. ws5 -1sroduced by Councilman Nose Dracnman.
 Tn introducing these amendments I wish 10 state that previously l iaV- ored allowing the license to remain as it was fixed several months before the recent election. But the ls- sue of high license was put before the peopIe and most emphatically they
 f,T. I Do4iGVp always in going by the will of the majority while serving as a public representative. and in v--w of the fact that a majority of the citizens and taxpayers of Tucson want high CT saloon license. it is the duty Of every public servane to heed and be eufded by the will of the majority.
 ssrhe democratic nominees came ont boldly and without reserve de- clared that they favored allowing the license to remain as it was The re- uublicans said nothing and Dy their very silence jed the voters to believe tbny favored a higher license Now they declare they will not increase tne license.
 But the people have spoken and no matter what might be our person al convictions. when the overwhelnl- ing majority say that We are wrong, thengst is our duty to legisiate in ac- cordance with their wishes and not in the manner we to our own satisfac- ton might think best And is-is for these reasons that now propose an amendment to the present saloon H. cense ordinance increasing the retail license to $250 per quarter and the wholesale license to $10o per quarter"
 Council Drachman's smendment and his address was like an exploding bomb in the ranks of the republican minority in the council, consisting of Conncilmen Hohusen and Adams. For 2 few minutes the republicans were ron-pinssed. then. when they recov- cred. Eie~ made an effort to defeat the increase. asking first for delay. thep for the submission of the matter so tAe people at a special election and arsilv voting flatly against the in crease
 Following Councilman Drachman. Favor Manning said: T recommend sl1e psssage of the new ordinance. A majority of the citizens are in favor of high license and the raise here