The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-07
WORK Of COUNCIL
ON FOR TONIGHT
Martins Resolution Against
Horse Racing Will Be a Fea.
ture of Session.
MEAT BILL SPECIAL ORDER
AND LIKELY TO BE PASSEn|
More Help Likely for the Health
Department; The Flood
Situation.

Horse racing, with its attendant evil.
gambling, will receive considerable at,'
tention at this evenings session of The
city council, under Mr.. Martins reso.
luton, introduced last. week, to nut
horse racing in Salt Lake City under
the ban.
That the resolution will awake livcly|
interest is certain; though fhe remedy
for the evil is not IN municipal action
for Mr. Martin has threatened TO place
every councilman on record as to paru.
bling. but several amendments of nm
certain character will first be attcmnted.
One of these amendments will be from|
Mr.. Fcrnstrom and Mr.. Wood. it is nm
derstood, has another. Mr.. Fcrnstrom q
amendment Will bc directed at stud
poker and similar games, while Mr..
Wood. 1T is said, wants the west side
so called stockade included in the rcso.
luton What effect these ameudments
will have upon the final adoption of
/ he resolution is uncertain.
That the races are fevcrish and de-.
moralrzing there is no galnsaying. Thev
rob the community of a largo amouuf
Of money that can lily be spared, but
as there is nothing on the ststnte book
ih'il. 'A'tHI OUlE lnS1iHI
as they constitute gambling all that
the adoption of tho resolution would
do would be 10 drive them ont of The
city and the city would lose even lis
present police power Of preserving OF
der and supprcssing robbery and lob
berry in the sport. The remedy is in The
legislature. but the dominant church.
so far, has never thought any such
legislation necessary and none has been
enacted. True, the late lamcnded legis.
lature made an effort, but it was a
puny one. The house passed bill d.
rcctcd at horse racing, but the senato
promptly killed it.
Mr., Martin, however, appears Ia
think tho city should enact the lcgisla-
tion the state so far has refused 10
place on the statute books.
Made Special Order.
The meat bill, so long delayed, haz
been made special order for tonight
and should be passed the first thing
Mr.. Black SAID Sunday evening that la
is going 10 do everything in his powcr
10 get the measure through this even
measure Will 90 through unanimously<
without any changes. 81
The measure will regulate all The
slaughtcring plants IN and around Salt
Lake City. without federal inspcction.
and will throw a wonderful Safeguard
around the public health "a
The board of health is unable %
handle the delugc OF spring garbase.
and it is likely that Health Commits
sioner DR.. NJ. r. Stewart will be given
two additional teams and wagons per
mancntly to keep the garbage out Of
the way. Frank Raleigh has offered I'd
enter into a contract to remove The
garbage for period of three years for
$500 month, and this likely will ;rc-
ceiye consideration.
The food situation is critical. and n
is possible that The council will End
II in It's power to do something TO rel
leve tho conditions. Several council$
men spent big part of Sunday at the
scene of tho worst floods, and if The.
waterworks superintendent and The
street supervisor need any more mon
as Is likely, they Will get thcm