Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-10
COUNC|LMEN MEET
LIKE REAL SOLONS
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Business-Like Gathering Results
lnTransactions Of Volume
And Importance.
BREWERY SALOONS COME UP
councilman Fernstrom Objects siren.
uously, but Majority Oycmidcs
Ills Expressed Opinions.

Promptly dt Q O'CLOCK last night,
PRESIDENT Davis gavel called the city
solons to order and one OF the most
pusiness-like sessions held by the coun-
Gil in many days was commenced.
There was an entire absence of acri
nlony and lll-feeling, conditions which
have married many meetings hereto
fore.
Among the many items of business
Z transacted was the granting of licenses
to long list of saloons many of their
proprietors being foreigners with unpro-
nouncible names. This is the batch
2 known, as the brewery saloon IL
celses, an ordinance to regulate which
has been Introduced by Councilman
Farnstrom, and is now pending.
The latter gentleman strenuously OPP
posed granting the licenses to what he
& characterized as a gang of lawbreakers.
He said these saloons had been run
ning without licenses since Oct. |, in
violation OF law, and they We're also
violating the law which provides
/ that no person or corporation.
shall control more than three
saloons within the city. He said,
IF you must grant these licenses. let
us pass my ordinance next week to pre-
NcIIl- idttlGCuiIGilGGE III lIlS ulSBldCGlul
condition in the future"
Councilman Stewart said it was only
heating the devil around the bush" to
pass this ordinance, as IL the saloon
mon and brewers are headed off ono
way they will soon discover another
means OF getting around tho law.
They will run In spite Of anything we
can do,
PETITION IS GRANTED.
The report OF the waterworks COM
mttce refusing to grant free water to
use on the grave of the late President
Brigham Young was amended on mo-
ton of Councilman Hall so as to grant
the use of'Water gratis. In n long and
earnest speech he urged the council to
lay aside prejudice and grant the pray
CT of petitioner. He closed by, saying:
I'VE not only have a right to grant this
request. but 1t is a sacred duty of this
council and of the people of Salt Lake |
City to see that the last resting place
of the great leader and pioneer be kept
green and beautiful" His motion car
RED
Auditor Aft presented his belated |
financial report which was Of such
mammoth proportions as to stun the |
august members. for it fell amid a
death-like silence and was referred
NllllouL auisscIlt.
COUNCIL ROUTINE.
Following is q resume of the bust
The city attorney reported that the
bond in connection with excavation uIi-
der sidewalks for building purposes is
continuing bond. The improvements |
committee will take the matter in hand |
again. The ordinance will probably be
SnI tn ca, pNrt, fr,pI xer. tnr
lnents.
The Lyric theater requested action
in the removal of the obstruction near
its doors--in front of the Salisbury /
building-and the installation Of per-
manent sidewalks.
The matter Of the city installing a
power plant of its own to use the fall
of Big Cottonwood conduit for the gen.
Grafton of electricity for the pumping
station at the intercepting sewer was
referred back to the city engineer for
Il report as to whether it would be
cheaper to build a $4,000 power plant
and maintain IL or to continue to hire
power.
Ten of the 10 councilmen present at
ast5night's meeting promised to go to
the site of the Jordan river crossing at
First North, WHARF, II new bridge Is to
be installed. The party will leave the
Wilson hotel at 2 o'clock.
All of the actions taken by the board
OF public works Friday night We're ap-
proved
DIR. S. G. Paul, assistant city physi-
clan, was made n member of the board
of health commissioners. and now he
will have a voice in its deliberations.
Paving extension No. 49, Eighth
South. between Main and State, with
asphalt, was ordered, and bids were or
dered advertised
The petition of the Emigration can
yon cariline for permission to haul rock
over the streets was denied on the
ground that it hauled ruble stone and
not building blocks. IS some of the
aldermen. thoughtit had intended to do.
w. II. Dye was appointed poll tax
collectoryat s75 a month
Tho contract with Fairbanks, Morse
& Co.. for the machinery at the inter-
cepting sewer pumping station, at a
cost of Approximately $1,000 was APP
proved.
An application for permission to dig
cesspool in the rear of the new Co.
lonial theater because the grade is too
low for sewer connection was denied.
One OF the protests against changing