The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-09
Proposed Law For Limiting Sa-
loon Licenses Now in Hands
Of the City Clerk
NO LICENSES FOR YEARS
Number of Licenses To Be Reckoned in
Accordance With School Census
No Transfers Of Licenses
To Be Allowed

City Attorney John C. Slater has
fled with the city clerk his draft o1
the ordinance which will limit the
Council in issuing saloon licenses and
the ordinance will probab bly, be sent to
the Council at its next regular meet
ing. The ordinanceis one that will
be eminently satisfactory ito all con
cerned for it will certainly cut down
the number of saloons IN the city and
will make it impossible for the City
Council to issue any new licenses for
years to come. The ordinance pro.
vides that all licenses now in force
may be renewed from year TO year
and it is expressly stated that ii is
not the purpose of any portion Of the
ordinance to legislate outof business
any saloons thatare now legally DO
ing business in the city. tase
These licenses may be- renewed on
the first of July 1907 and at all sue
ceeding license paying periods SO
long as the saloons are run in keep
ing with the laws of the state and the
ordinances of the city. After the
firstaof July, however, the City Coun.
Gil is given the power to grant
licenses only at such a time when the
number of saloons in the city shalt be
less than one for each FIVE hundred
people III the city. The population
on which5 the number of licenses is to
based is to be figured on the school
census taken annually. In comput-
ing population from the school census
the number Of people to oe counted
for each school child is placed atytwo.
Schoofchi1dren include all people in
the city between tte ages Of four and
twenty years. AL the present time
based on1tl1e 5scncol census the city
would have a population of a little
over sixteen thoasahd people and the
limit for saloon licenses Will be thirty
twoG7s The nfnety Ss9foons nowin BUST
ness can NOT be Disturbed at this time.
The ordinance grants wide powers
to the man with the saloon license.
He may sell this license III any license
paying period pro vfded that the trans
fer, if suchdt Fmay be termed, is APP
proved by the license committee ST
the City Councils. The ordinance Of
course relates 70 saloons In the saloon
district, but those outside the district
at the present time may be continued
from year to year so long as the pro-
prietors of The places . are able to get
the required number OF signers to PEI
titions. The licenses must be used
continuously fof she place and the
Council will have 10 power under the
new ordinance to grant a transfer
from one building to another, and at
any time when building becomes
unfit for uses as a saloon the license
will become null and void. Should a
man quit business and pass-the time
for granting licenses in any year he
may not later ask the Council to re-
new the license.
1t is generally believed that under
the ordinance the city will issue no
more licenses in the next ten or pos
sibly twenty years. Before another
license can be issued the city must
have a population of nearly 0,OOO,
and it Is not thought that this popula-
ton will be attained before 1925. 's4