The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-04
City 10 Make an Effort to Collect
Back Licenses From the
Brewing Companies
RETAIL LICENSE NOT ENOUGH
Mayor German and City Attorney
Slater Declare That Wholesalers
Must Pay Two Licenses for
Business in Saloons

wholesale liquor dealers IN Kenosha
who have been doing business under
retail liquor licenses are to be placed
under the fire Of the city and Mayor
German and the city attorney are
urging that the city take steps to col
lect back licenses from these com
panies For the past ten or twelve
years certain brewing companies in
the city have operated their wholesale
business IN connection with regularly
licensed saloons but the Mayor has
been looking the matter up and he
declared at the meeting of the Com
mon Council Monday night that it
would be possible for the city to force
these companies to pay the added
license not only for the year Just be
ginning but for the past year that the
companies have been doing business
in the city. 1t is asserted that all of
the wholesale dealers who have taken
out licenses through a retail saloon
have paid two licenses to the govern.
ment, one for the retail store and one
for the wholesale business and attor.
neys have held that if the govern.
ment can collect double license the
city has the same right.
Some of the breweries represented
in the city have wholesale depart.
ments entirely separate from the re-
taihplaces and these breweries have
annually paid a license for the whole.
sale department.. However this class
of breweries is few and far between
and the greater number of the whole.
salers have saved money by doing
their business with the saloon men
under a retail license. Just the
amount at stake in the fight is not
certain but it is pretty certain that
the amount will reach pretty close to
SIS, 900. There are eight or nine
breweries and other liquor companies
doing business in Kenosha and the
list of government licenses in the
city is more than hundred while the
list of city saloon licenses is but
ninety-one.
1t is certain that the men interested
will make hard fight but the city
will have great leverage on them as
If they refuse to pay the licenses fol-
the wholesale departments the city
will be in position to simply force
them out of business and the breweries
will either have to settle up or get out
of the city. The one example of this
condition laid before the Council last
night was that of NJ. J. Scholey, who
is the agent for the Fortune Brothers
Brewing Company and who has beer
leasing his retail license for the
wholesale house. Mayor German de.
clared that after looking into the law
he was convinced that Mr.. Scholey
would have to get another license tc
continue in the wholesale business
Scholey is practically new conner
to the field and there are several
agents for brewing companies in the
city who have been doing business in
similar manner for several years.
None of these wholesalers has made
applications for licenses and under
the new state law it would be impos.
sible to grant them licenses at this
time. The working out of the theory
of Mayor German might force a
number of these breweries to give ar
their wholesale business in Kenosha