Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-08
COUNCIL TRIPLES
WITH LIQUOR BILL
u,,bioo Accomplished by the
earned Aldermen After
Long Session.
MIDNIGHT CLOSING DEcREEO
N,st Lock Their Doors Then
10 stay Locked Unti Six
In the Morning.

elmo last night q looked as II
.ey council would be Obliged TO
' .,,,,n while committee consulted
w. sn,hoHties on definitions and dis-
u' - inst what q hotel Is. IL had
80 80 seemed easy enough to the
''" - before 10 define the meaning
~ word and tell just what was
~, biz a hotel. but when this class
.,tfio house became involved IN the
V.d,,v problem Of the liquor ordinance
- identify became so fugitive and
Y .,.,,,red by niceties Of distinction
.rstinr It from saloon, restaurant
lin, house and boarding house that
w.. .,onbers wanted information.
' -rS.n tbis critical stage Of the meet
IA been reached. L. d. Martin fell
~ TO another one Of those flights OF
-. FOR which he IS becoming fam
=. and told the council his story.
4. said he had once had a friend
arranged the double business Of
W., and restaurant that IL would
, s4.ge hsen Impossible for the best brains
s M citv detective force TO have told
49, me- one ended and the other be
W. and was moving along through the
- m architectural film ham, when
lc''-no1r,an stewart Interrupted and
eoated 10 know what all that had 20 DO
r,,h ,be amount Of license the council
line 10 assess TO the hotels.
1,sf al this acute stage Of the pro-
,Iings Councilman Black. who had
~ peacefully dreaming that he had
~, rescued a poor unonending and
...-sggiing saloon keeper from the
lt,tsIss of the council, awoke and
,.snto5 10 know what IL was all about.
s,S Martin disclosed the purpose Of his
5gsamlapd talk by movi TO strike
ost The enacting clause OF the much
shattered ordinance.
PROHIBITION THREATENS.
Councilman Stewart was on his feet
IN an instant IN the defense of his
rnch mutilated ordinance, and after
an impassloned plea for the remainder
Of the life there was In II, gave the
floor 10 Councilman Fernstrom, who
added his plea 10 that OF the father of
Inc NltuhNir NNk lti a uliANA GU way
There 8 a cloud In the sky" said the
member from the Third, land while it
IS not yet large enough for some OF
the members TO see. we will all see Il
within a week or two, and It means
trouble
Prohibition Is the name of the cloud
and Il Is growing bigger every day, and
because OF this ! think this ordinance
should pass with what there is Of good
left IN H."
Il wasn't much Of speech OF
warning. and Mr. Fernstrom only said
few words. but the effect was notice
able m the next move of the body, be-
cause It was the only one In the whole
Time that the ordinance has been up
for consideration, that did not pull a
fang or remove sting for the saloon
healeN.
EARLY CLOSING.
Councilman Martin. who has never
sad that he was an advocate of
lhoneue spelling, can no longer deny |
ue charge that he leans to that sys-
um Of pronunciation. In the course
q long Hypothetical discourse on the
,Ns or prohibition politics, as mani
lesled IN town that he used 10 live
A explained the intricicies of the
service Of drinks from buffet" bars To-
'a'ed IN cafes, pronounced as spelled.
ala was going on further with the
armed discourse when Councilman
fsinslrom wanted 10 know IL they had
avhoiton IN that town now, and upon
''ns assured that they did not, he