Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
AMENDED DANCE HALL
PETITION SUBMITTED
SIGNATURES SECURED GIVE
AMPLE MARGIN
Sunday Rest League Will Endeavor to
Obtain Repeal of the Ordinance
and Holding of Special
Election

Just before the city hall closed yes
terday F. H. Solomon submitted an
amended petition TO the referendum
which contained 1434 names. Mr.. Solo
| mon declares every one of these sig
natures is verified by the great regis
| ter. Today was the time limit Tor SUD-
| mitting the amendment
While only a few more than 200 bona
| fide signatures were required to COM
plete the referendum Mr.. Solomon says
he submitted 1434. so as to be sure and
have margin wide enough.
The required number of signatures
| to make the referendum mandatory was
| 2240. Mr. Solomon's first petition con-
tanned more than 5000, but so many of
these were fraudulent that the genuine
fell below the required number. The
1434 which Mr.. Solomon submitted yes
terday have been checked up with the
great register and, he says, all will be
found genuine. He has employed men
to do the same work that the city
clerk must do as soon as the amended
petitions are submitted.
But if the Sunday Rest league has its
way the question will never come to a
referendum vote. Mr.. Solomon frankly
admits that the sole object of invoking
the referendum in this case is to delay
the operation OF the dance hall ordin-
ance until the next general municipal
| election, a year from January. With
the privilege of keeping dance halls
open on Sunday the admission of min
ors and other features which are for
hidden under the law, extended by the
notice of referendum until the next
election, the dance hall managers will
be satisfied.
League to Show Fight
This is lust what the Sunday Rest
| league does not propose to permit. Ac-
| cording to Rev w. F. ireland, as soon
as the amended petitions to the refer
endum are found to u sufficient his
| organization will petition the council tC
repeal the ordinance. With the ordin-
ance repealed the referendum will not
| have leg left to stand on. AS soor
as the ordinance is wiped off the stat
ute books the Sunday Rest league will
circulate initiative petitions. On the
initiative the council is compelled tc
| call a special election. On the refer
endum 1t can lay the matter over tc
a general election.
| Should the council refuse to repeal
the ordinance the Sunday Rest league
will prosecute charges of perjury ir
| connection with the securing Of the ref
erendum petitions, which will invali-
date the referendum if a conviction is
| secured.
The charges of forgery and obtaining
money under false pretenses however
can be prosecuted by F. II. Solomon
alone, as he is the one who suffered
through these acts. 1t is not likely he
will prosecute.
In a conversation with Rev Ireland
Solomon declared he was just as re-
ligious as Ireland, but in more prac-
tical way.
probably those fellows who got 81
cents or a dollar from me by means
of forgery needed the money to get
something to eat. My plan is to bring
them around TO you and let you teach
them the error of their ways. I won't
put man in jail for grating four bits
to get some food for himself and his
starving children" was the way Solo
mon put it TO Ireland.