Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-02
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NJ Applications for Liquor Ii
eenses Were Properly
Presented.
HEY MEET GAIN TOMORROW.
During Last Nights Session, sam sam
goldman, License Collector, Was
Put on the Griddle.

q
Put on the Griddlc.
The city council discovered last night,
ftet Mrangllng two hours, that none
ofsthe applications for saloon liquor
,icenses had been presented properly
,a HE council SO the meeting was adj
,aurned with an understanding that
No license committee would take the
,,atter} up at II O'Clock Saturday morn
,nc in the council cliamberiand hear the
!, .reiected applicants. The inability
n the city recorder, rho license asses
st u, and the city auditor to carry out
4 & ,le ordinance was responsible for the
VI y.,,ul ana all the saloonnen will have
n make new applications this week
oespile the fact that the saloons nave
no licenses, the council will 5peritlit all
I Inc saloons to carry on t!lelf5 business,
II is probable that the tangle VIII NOT
M straightcned out for q &nonth.
Il The ordinance requires that the APP;
nlications be made to the city recorder,
q addressed TO the city council, accom-
nanied With an affidavit that the APP
81 nlicant owns tho fixtures In tho saloon
md Z copy Of the lease ON the building
asdupllcate sc the application, AFFIDAVIT
md lease is also to be filed with tho
ljcenseaa ssessor and the city auditor.
ii developed last night that this had
not been required. Sam Y, Goldman,
/ The license assessor, received the 8appli-s
cations. kept thenoncy in his posses
sion. sent the applications to the chief
N police for approval, then they We're
returned to the. city record r,f and re-
jtrred to tile license committee No
duplicates have been filed with the city
auditor ans license assessor Nothing
. has been seen of the copy Of the lease
on the building either.
Z BEGIN OVER AGAIN.
This method worked out all right
when tho license committee approved
tie applications and sent them to the
council. But i'll the case of the ~
saioonlncn who We're refused licenses
last Wednesday because the "Ameri-
can, party wanted to punish them. the
city recorder had never received them
and could not produce them.
When City Recorder j. 3. Moreton
made this statement, the city attorney
said that the applications We're not
properly before the council. as the pro-
visions OF the ordinance had not been
carried out President A. j. Davis
ruled that there was nothing before the
house, but suggested that all the ga y
locnmcn withdraw their present appli--
cations and present them according to-
thesordlnance before Saturday so that
therejected applicants can be heard be-
fore the license COMMITTEES.
Nearly all the saloon men affected
were present and most of them We're;
represented by counsel. S. r. ARM
strong, j e. Darmer. and Soren a.
Christensen We're among the attorneys
T who arc members of tho ..American'i5
party who were present to defend their
clients. They have promised their
clients to pull them through all right.
AFTER GOODMAN, TOO. ".
Sam I. Goldman, the license inspector,
was criticized by several of the cou,l-
cilinen as being incompetent. The "a
applications finally turned up i'll his
hands last night after /, search was
made for. them with the checks for s3TT58
pinned OIL them. Goldman has 8no right
10 hold any Of the city's money for
more than a day, but he has evidently
been holding II for a week at a time
When Goldman produced the applica-
tons. City Recorder Moreton asked him
why he had not turned the applications
over to him. Goldman replied that he
tons to him or the money either, for
that matter.
Z After President Davis had ruled that
there was nothing before the council,
Stewart moved to adjourn. Goldman,
Who sat in Il. ID. w God $ chair, seconded
the mction Councilman Martin called
the cllairmans attention to the fact
that Goldman had seconded the motion,
and asked If tho license assessor was
amenbersof the council. Davis repri-8
lnanded him for his officious actions.
Councilman Feinstronl started the
( sMrangle last night whenBhe moved that
\ the council sit rs committee of the
Whole to consider the rejected licenses.
Half an hour was spent in wrangling
ever this, but it was finally carried.
6 Then II was discovered that the re-
Jtcted licenses were not in the res
4 cordcr's possession and could not be
taken up. None of tho saloon meil
& had been notified to be present. but
z nevertheless most of them We're tire
4 There was fusiale OF motions and aft
tor another half an hour the nembera
found themselves up in the air With
nothing accolnplshed.so they adjourned
70 take the matter up in the committee