The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-28
LAWS COMMITTEE
GETS VERY BUSY
Digs Deep Down Into Pouches
and ReSurrectS Many
Musty Matters.
OLD SALOON ORDINANCE
IS AMONG THE NUMBER
Recommended for Passage as a
Joke Upon Councilman
Martin.

At the committee meetings OF the city
council Friday night the municipal laws
committee put on It's old. everyday WORK
ing clothes dug deep into the pouches,
Tesurrected several old and dusty meas
ures introduced months and months ago.
and recommended them Tor passage. 49,,
One of the dust-covered measures tlr
committee dug up was Mr., Martins $ OF
dinance introduced last March, colupti-
hing the saloons to close between mo mo
nisnt and o. IN. on week days and from
II O'Clock Saturday night 10 cioch
Monday morning (Sundays), Inc dNS1
was eIngerly nicked off this proposed
measure and IL was unanimously recon-
Tnen the COMMITTEES took another tack
in the proposed anti-saloon ana h9uot
legislation. II unesrthed from the ous s
an ordinance revoktng the Incense ol re- re
tauran,s connected with saloons or sen,
lag liquor, and unanimously accompanied
this for passage, too. inns olullausS
ukewise tabooes wine and cardroons ana
bcotns In restaurants, SO the couhG.iI, ~
IL has its Sunday clothes on next NOT
iay night, will have a multiplicity OF anu
liquor measures 70 sSiecl from !" NM .
May Increase License.
The committee also went on record YER
oaIlv as favoring the increase OF Wnole-
sale liquor dealers licenses from Stuo 70
$500 a year, and the Advance OF me me re-
tailars licenses from Sl-VO 10 SloVV' "a
possibly $500 q year.
II tue municipal laws COMMITTEES has
its way. tho junk dealers win also oe
gotten after with a sharp stick. AN or
dinance introduced ages ago, making ~
unlawful for Junk dealers TO buy from
minors without first ascertain!ng II thty
have the legal right 10 dispose OF tae ar
tirie offered for sale. was resurYected,
and passed on favorably. junk sellers
II this measure passes VII! nave 10 !iie
a bond IN the sum or 5000 running TO t'S
city before they can get license. and
iruk collectors and solicitors BOND OF
$500 The provision forhlddng junk deal
ers TO buy articles from minors IS 10 ala
in the suppression OF theft among boys
Another sntediluvian measure resur-
rected and recommended for passage was
the ordinance aimed at the West Sldc
Rapid Transit company. s9-caiiso. requ!E-
ing street railway companies TO MAINTAIN
both a motorman ana a conductor on each
car at all times.
Another attempt Is 10 be made to abol-
ish the smoke nuisance. The proter OF
aid 20 this end by the Civic Improvement
league. made through its secretary, Rob-
ert 3. Porter, the first OF the year. was
dug up. and 1t was recommended mat th2t INC INC
building inspector go after the violators
OF the smoke ordinance with the assist
ance OF the league,
Want More Information.
~ regard to the communication of Ed
ward l.. Burton TO the enect that he Is
agent ior 30 acres OF land In Emisration
canyon, which the owners, Will sell 10
The city for SO an acre. the committee
recommended that Burton be summoned
10 appear before the council with more
definite information as TO the location
and merits OF the land IN question.
q The engineering committee recommend
cd the granting OF the petition of John
T., Uooly and others Tor the reducing OF
the roadway and the widening by six
feet on cacn side of the walks on First
West street, between South Temple and
Third South streets. The petition also
asks Tor tlc paving OF the street with as
pnaltum and this was recommended TO be
granted also.
The ordinance providing for q board of
examiners for plumbers. and the protest
Of the Westminster Presbyterian church
against the removal of the rcdlight dis
trict 10 the west SIDE, were recommended
fled.
Chief OF Police Pitts recommendation
that the salary OF Mrs. zeia Clifford. mat
ron at the city jail he increased from
S22 TO S32 n month, was recommended
denied by the police and prison COM
mittee.
David Wolstenholmes petition for the
extension of the cement sidewalk on the
west side of Sixth West street, between
First and Second North streets, was rec
commended granted by the engineering
committee.