The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
City Council Not Ready To Act on
Plans To Collect Double Ii
CenseS From Wholesalers
BREWERY MEN STATE VIEWS
All Admit They Are Doing Wholesale
and Retail Business and That
They Have Taken Out Two
Governme nt Licenses

The Council at its meeting Monday
night heard the stories of the brewery
agents concerning the stand that
they would take in regard to the pay
rnent of wholesale as we'll as retail
licenses in the city but all action in
the matter was deferred until the
regular meeting of the Council on
next Tuesday evening in order to give
the city attorney a chance to look up
the law on the matter and make re-
port to the Council. The brewery
agents were out in force, every whole
saler in the city responding to tie
call of the Mayor to come and explain
their position on the question. All of
them admitted that they we're doing a
wholesale and retail business under
the law and with one exception they
seemed to be of the opinion that a
single license was all they needed to
continue their business. James w.
Rose appeared ia the role of the hero
of the evening as when he addressed
the Council he declared that he paid
two licenses to the government and
that it was his opinion that he should
pay two licenses to the city and he
was ready to come up with the money
just as soon as the City Council de-
manded il. He stated that he had
never been asked to make the second
payment and that for this reason he
had never proffered it to the city.
The discussion of the question led the
Council into deep water as the agents
of the oreweries declared that if they
we're to pay double license every
agent who came to the city to sell
toxicants should be forced to take out
wholesalers license.
This idea of the law did not appeal
to the City Attorney and he gave it as
his opinion that this plan could not be
carried out with any success. He,
however, thought that wholesale
license could be collected from
dealers in Racine who pedd1ed wet
goods by wagon in Kenosha. All of
the brewery agents stated that they
were ready to pay the added license
if the city imposed it but one of them
made the complaint that this question
should have been raised before the
first of last July IN order that the
licenses then in existence would not
have been endangered by the demand
doubt but that the members of the
Council are with the Mayor on the
proposition and it is expected that
when the matter is taken up on next
Tuesday evening the wholesalers will
be directed to see the city treasurer
aud settle up. Nothing was said at
the Council meeting in regard to the
collection of back licenses and this
matter will not be taken up until the
question of the wholesale license is
settled. It is claimed that the city of
Milwaukee and other cities about the
state are now collecting both whole
sale and retail licenses but no specific
statement was made in regard to the
method in which these licenses were
collected.
The Council fought shy of the fight
in regard to the sidewalk on the east
side of Chicago street from Deming
street to Cobers Alley and in order to
lay the matter over it was decided to
employ disinterested person, to be
appointed by the Mayor who will visit
people in the neighborhood and see
just how they stand on the sidewalk
proposition. It was expected that
there would be some red FIRE when this |
question was reached but neither