Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-10
LIQUOR PERMIT FOR
RACE MEET REFUSED
COUNCIL TAKES ACTION AFTER
LONG DISCUSSION
Wallace Maintains Clever Fllipuster
and Succeeds in Defeating PriVl-
Ieqe Asked by Los Angeles
Horse Association

Councilman A. j. Wallace at the meet
tho of the council yesterday morning
affectually prevented the granting Oh d
| s1eciai privilege to the Los Angeles
94orpess Horse association for a retail
! liouor permit during the race meet ~
| he held at Agricultural PARK july
14-17. -.,z, 4ac+ics of
4 Councilman Wallace the matter was
nostnoned until an adjourned ineetihS
/ ~ the council Monday morning AT ~
! o'clock. and even should the couilSi a
ASS the special ordinance at that tiIIe
! II will be too late to be eHectlVe III 49,
for the race meet. The ordinance hi ~
he nublished thirty days, ana py lne
n',,oi,ast action possible the ordinance
| Gould not he effective until July To- one
day after the meet begins. A..
This quick action would give tne %
sociation t5ne special permit for tnree
| davs of the meet, but the orulli etii'S
must go to the mayor for his sigma u ..S o.
He Is opposed to the measure ana III III,
dey the law has the right to hold II IoI l
t tT devs He then probably would
eend IT back with his veto. AFTER ~
was nassed over his veto by the coun-
iii and not enough votes could pc mus
taTed to do this, the police commission
! would have to meet and grant the per
NIT. J. J. Andrews, memper VI e.lo
notice commission, told the couneli w. 81
! terday he was personally opposed 70 d SLae
special permit, SO opposlllon , mTSiC
yeIon among the police commissioners
! n II was not actually turned do"l''
which would be expected. A. &c
| 60 there is no probability the Los
! Angeles Harness Horse association W III
have its special permit. CharIes 0a az
dier. who presented the petition on pc
half of the association, declared ne
/ hnfnTn
came before the council MONDAY
Would Let Down Barrier
Mr. wallace made his great night
against the granting OF TINS spe 9-lsI
privilege not so much because II Mas
| for the one permit but because ne sag Ts
II was a. letting down of the bars: IL
+bis hermit was granted to the mar
ness association similar privileges
would have to be granted the German
| Anoarican alliance, and this organlza-
zion has a petition before the councli
asking that legislation be enacted tIat
will give the police commission tne
right to grant liquor permits on spe-
cial occasions. - 60
vored argued Mr.. Wallace. then the
Walters union must have the same
! privilege. as it has asked for IT, ANA
! then come trooping hundreds or organ
| izations. some of which will be forfneI
for the sole purpose of securing sPeclai
permits to sell liquor. The proposes
easure let's down every barrier that
bad heen so carefully maintained by
the present council, said Mr. Wallace:
"Tbis council, in the two and a nan
years of its existence, has granted no
| srch specia1 privileges, said MT. WAL
lace. "and I am proud of the record we
have made. We should be very careIui
] To do nothing that will Spoil our rec
ord in this last half year of our lncuin-
| bancv We are under contract with
goo men who pay us a large sum OF
money every year for the exclusive
rieht TO sell liquor at retail, and we
would be breaking faith with them 4
we grant these special permits. ihere
is another reason why this one Is es-
pecially Objectionable. The race meet Is
| 10 he held at Agricultural park. rms
mark is to be a great gathering center
! for our people. Fifteen acres OF 1t is
| to be set apart for a playground Tor
children Tt should be kept tree ever
lastingly from liquor"
| Mr.. Saddfer answered this objection
of Mr.. Wallace. He said he had expect
ed Wallace to oppose the measure, as
the members of the Harness Horse as
sociation did not attend Mr.. Wallace
church. but he called attention to the
fact that the association had been
largely instrumental, through financial
support. in getting the decision giving
Agricultural park to the people.
Church Federation Protests
Nathan Newly, chairman of the civic
righteousness committee of the Church
Federation. protested against the
granting of special liquor permits tc
! any organization. He called attention
to the fact that the police commission
had passed a rule it would grant nc
LIQUOR permit to an organization OF
| even a partnership, but insisted that an
Individual make application. Saddlel
| said the association expected to apply
| through an individual, but Mr.. Newly
answered that the ordinance presented
specially referred to the Los Angeles
Harness Horse association.
Councilman Dromgold suggested the
council pass the ordinance and put the
/ final action of granting the permit VI
to the police commission. He declared
the police commission was appointed
to deal with just such matters, and
that body should be allowed discretion
in the matter.
Wallace at this point asked City Al
torney Hewitt if the ordinance as pre-
scented was not class legislation. The
city attorney replied it most certainly
was class legislation, and he would
recommend that if the ordinance was
pessed at all the name of the associa-
ton be eliminated. Then Dromgold
asked that the ordinance be amended
so as to permit the police commission
to give special liquor permits to any
one it chose for any place. This
brought down a stort Of protest. Healy
and Clampitt argued for the liquor in
terests and were applauded by the
large number of persons interested in
this side of the matter who were pres
emit Wallace was applauded by the
Church federation and those who APP
peared in opposition to the measure.
Although Healy was in favor of the
measure he was the one who really
flung the bombshell that exploded the
whole matter When it appeared the
ordinance would pass by six to three
Healy said:
"There is one thing you people for
get. If we pass this ordinance it still
has to get by the mayor"
Wren and Wallace took advantage OF
|