The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-12
TO CHECK
SALOONS FAILED
CITY COUNCIL ADDS TWO MORE
TO NUMBER AGAINST SA.
LOON MANS PROTEST.
ONLY -FOUR VOTED ING
Ordinance Relating to Vehicles intro
duced-BuiIdinu Ordinance Com
inr in Month--Wire COM
mittce Gets Job

mittce Gets Job.
The second regular May meeting
of the city council was held last
night. Those presen- we're: His
Honor Mayor Parsons and Aldermen
| Koehler, Magner, Burke, Ferguson
German Mcdaniel Scuin, Kelly
Williams, Nellis, Cannon, Davis, Nee
han
The street committee reported rec
ommending that gas light be placed
on south side of Division street, be-
tween Poplar street and Washington
avenue, gas lamp on north side Of
, street and Washington avenue. arc
/ light at entrance of st. Mary's Park
on Park Place West.
Claims and accounts were read and
allowed including $19.07 being the
amount Of the assessment of the city
of Cairo on account of streets lying
in the Cairo Drainage District, and
to defray cost Of drainage.
A claim of the Mobile & Ohio for
$73O.35 for stone useI for street work
and reyetment work on Mississippi
side of city, was laid aside at the
mayors request for lnvestigat on.
Bill of DR.. Cary for service in con
nection with smallpox was referred
to committee.
Saloon Licenses.
Committees recommended that
dram shop license be granted to H.
Solomon at 40S Commercial, and
dram shop and wholesale license be
granted to Sol Isenberg at 41i Rail
road street.
Alderman Sculln protested agailst
granting these applications, saying
'if We are going to check this bust
ness it is about time we were max.
ing beginning. | am in position
where | must defend the saloon men
and the public at large, and | believe
we are going too far in this matter of
granting licenses indiscriminately to
every one that applies. There ought
to be Il limit somewhere. The
trouble seems to be that we are up
against the owners or property who
are offered big rents for their houses
for saloon purposes. and who then
come to us and ask us 10 vote for the
license, without regard to who the ap-
plicants are-sometimes even the
house owners themselves DO moi
know the men they rent to.
Alderman Ferguson said: I'm of
the same opinion as Alderman Soul
lin, Think we are going it at a pretty
lively pace when we are crowding
two saloons into a single lot. We do
not have to go any too far between
saloons now for a drink, and it is
hardly necessary to 'buncn' them that
way"
In answer to questions from Alder
man Koehlcr the city clerk said the
petition of Isenberg was originally
for AS Ohio street, but was changed
to i1i Railroad street, which is the
rear end of the same building
A roll call was demanGed on the
committees report and it was adopt
ed, the only nays" being Alderme1
Ferguson, Scullin. Magncr and Kelly.
Miscellaneous.
Petition by Cairo City Gas Co. for
permission 10 lay gas main at inter
section of Sycamore and Twenty
eighth street was granted. The ac-
bond was signed by L.
f. Fischer and the question was
raised as to whether or not a non
resident could sign a bond, or one
who had direct interest IN the peti-
tion. City Attorney Bird said the
bond was regular under all the cir
and it was accepted. b.
was the new city attorneys first off
hand opinion with reference to mat
ters that came up before the city
cornell, and the aldermen were well
pleased.
Official bonds of all the appointed
officers were presented referred to-
committees diu dpptONth' a itttoo
being taken to permit the commit
tees to consider them and report a
once
The mayor named w. II. Suther-
land to succeed T. ]. kerth as park
commissioner, the latter having re-
signed.
Alderman Nellis moved that. as the
city council had now fairly respective
quarters to meet in. and had resolved
10 meet earlier and otherwise be up
to-date and business-like, the mayorI
be requested to rearrange the seats
of aldermen 50 that the members
from each ward would be seated to-
gether. instead of being seated at
random as now.
There was some difference of opin-
ion on this and several aldermen pro-
AlJnrv,7au Nn1lfe said II