Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-25
DELAY ACTION~IN
LICENSE CASE
COMMISSIONERS LET PHIL
LIPPI CASE REST A WEEK
This Course Taken After Tilt Between
Mason and James and the Lat
Ter Had Denounced the
Protestants

AT the conclusion of q lengthy ana
lively session of the police commissions
ers last night the question Of revoking
the saloon license granted John Phillippi
at Gas South Broadway was continued
until next Tuesday night.
After ten representatives Of property
owners had protested to the commits
sioners against the issuance of the
liquor license to Phillippi, Police Com
missioner James denounced the actions
of the protestants as a display of ignor-
ance of municipal affairs.
"I can hardly understand the actions
of the protestants," said omnissioner
James. "I am disguised with the people
who are rated as intelligent citizens
and supposed to understand the muni-
cipal affairs when they enter such a
protest as this.
ut was not so very long ago this
town voted in favor of a wet town.
The vote cast was almost two to one.
Part of the citizens Of this city are in
favor of a wet town; another class
want no licenses issued at all. l, as
one of the police commissioners, was
placed here to discharge my duty. l
was elected as police commissioner to
grant licenses, and in that capacity
shall continue so long as am in office.
Delay in Protesting
"The Phillippi application was filed
with us in the usual manner and a
notice of the filing of the application
was printed in the daily papers. The
time for the protest against the Phillippi
application was when the application
was still an application and laid here
on the table for the inspection of the
citizens of Los Angeles, among whom
are included my friends and fellow citi-
zens who have so strongly protested
against our actions tonight.
"Why did the people mot come and
file their protest when they had the op-
portunity and at the proper time? We
have known nothing about or heard
nothing about a protest until one was
filed with us yesterday noon, almost a
week after the license was granted.
1.-The action of the citizens who have
protested against this is nothing short
Of fooishnesS and a rank display of ig-
norance of municipal affairs. No, while
we are here working without salary the
people that decry our actions and damn
u.s. sit at home and dine.
1--WE are declared to be controlled by |
the liquor men. 1 defy any one of the
that have appeared here
tonight to make such a statement to
me. If one should 1 would not hesitate |
TO denounce it as damnable lie and
to that effect am willing to be quoted.
No liquor man ever had any influence
over this body"
The protest of the property owners
along Broadway against the issuance of
the license to Phillippi was brought to
tie board of police commissioners by
r. e,resentatives in most instances.
First Protest Made
Mr.. Newly of Newly & Newby on |
South Broadway made the first protest
against the granting of the liquor !
license to Mr.. Phillippi. He said in part: |
Broadway has for a long time been
the great retail street of the city of
Los Angeles. 1t has been an ornament |
10 the city and is recognized as one of
he most beautiful streets in the United
States. 1t is not for the welfare of the
moral interest of the city of Los Ange-
es that this license shall be allowed
Mr. Phillippi. My protest against it is
not from personal feeling against Mr..
Phillippi, but for the welfare of the
property owners in that district.
"A new department store is going UP
across the way from our property. 1
10 not know the exact status Of the
granting of the license, but know that |
we do not regard 1t as for the best to
the interests of the city of Los Angeles
should this license not be revoked"
w. H. Anderson of Anderson & An |
ierson was the next to file a protest |
against the action of the police COM
missioners. Mr.. Anderson came as the
of Wesley Clark. His
protest was in effect:
I'VE believe that Broadway should
be guarded to a certain extent from
any more saloons. In the past Broad
way has been no saloon street, and l
90 not, nor do any of the property own
ers that we have consulted, believe that
we shoul6 get down to granting any
more licenses on South Broadway. At
present there are two saloons in the
the Lankershim bar
makes third, and the Phillippi license
will. if not revoked by this honorable
body, be the fourth.
TN the judgment of the property
owners and myself there is not suffi-
cient room for another saloon in this
Seventh street and
Broadway is destined to become the
center of the shopping district, and
women and children will be the ones to
suffer for the Phillippi liquor license
unless it is revoked.
We have the greatest faith in the
hno nd NJ t1Olipa commissioners and h0na