Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-27

compelled TO pay according to the amount OF
their loans and discounts, at the rate OK IA
cents for each $1,000 worth OF loans ana
discounts Under the old ordinance banks
doing up to s100 900 worth OF loans and dis
counts had to pay 10 cents for each $1,000
worth OF loans and discounts, but pank
doing $2O,OOO,ooO worth OF loans ana oiscousS .a,.
was only compelled to pay $50 per month.
or at the rate OF 2h cents per 1900 worth o.
loans and discounts. The defect IN the oid
ordinance was that 1t was inequitaole 10 tne
small banks.
cIRCUs-IJnder the old ordinance circus
was charged IS per car for the first day and
SO per car for each additional day. The ol1-
ficulty with this was that the circus men
usually became aware OF the fact that une
CITY Of Los Angeles charged them 30 much
per car and there was a disposition on the
part of the circus men to unload a NUMBER
OF their cars outside Of the city and only pay
a license on part OF them. In order 10 40
away with this chance for fraud, the new
ordinance charges q license of 50 for the Ilrst
day and SO for each additional day. Whlch
makes It impossible for any circus 70 .nhe .,,h0
terfuge Sldeshows were raised from S25 a Gay
to $50 for the first day and $35 for each ao-
ditonal day.
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND GAS COMPANIES
Under the old ordinance the gas companies
were compelled to pay 500 month, no matter
how Ittls or how much business they old.
One hundred dollars month was TOO much
license for the small neighborhood conpaltes p ts
the big companies who, through their Size,
were enabled to monopolize their business
through the license ordinance. Under the oio
ordinance the electric light companies uOihS
less than $500 worth OF business pay Sz0 a
month, or per cent Of the gross proceeus
OF their business, and those doing more thah
$1,000 worth pay 800 per mon month. - a a. ia
panyss gross proceeds are $1,000, under the oia
ordinance they were only paying ohe-lenth
OF 1 Der cent, while the company whose gross
proceeds were only $500 had 10 pay per
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inst and tended toward the monopolizatlon OF
the business by the larger companies OnueI
the new ordinance both gas and electrlc hsh.
conpanies are compelled to pay a license OK
onatbird of per cent of their gross pro-
ceeds This gives small company the saine 2
chance the large company. under aedo the n1 olu
ordinance the city was receiving $'zOO d 80 Set.i
from the gas and electric light companies
and under the new ordinance they Will re-
ceive $4,000 a year, and at the same tiiIe
make it easy for the smaller companies to
engage in business
INSURANCE. AGENTS-Insurance agents
we're Increased from $40 for each agent or firm
to $40 for each agent or firm representing one
company and $40 for each company repre-
sented This will mean considerable lncrease
In the revenue received from the insurance
The above constitutes the material change in
the license ordinance as passed by the coun-
Gil and which is herein termed the new
lIcense ordinance. There numerous other
changes, such as cutting out the joker In the
expfess ordinance, which under the OLD orui-
nance compelled any man running V~enicle ~
for hire to pay a license, with the exception
of a man who hauled sand, dirt or gravel
for hire This Joker pure ana simple.
for the reason that man hauling sand' art
or gravel gets just as much compensation @ ZOE
his work as a man who hauls BRICK stone
or any other material, and uses the streets
in the same manner as others.
Another instance where the new oronahce
correots an injustice in the old ordinance is in
the restaurant business. Under the old ordl-
nance any restaurant doing less than $500
worth of business was not subject 70
license. This was taken advantage Of by a
great many restaurant keepers, particularly
Japanese, who did not pay license at all.
claiming they did less than $500 worth OF
business. This was unfair to other restau-
rant men. so that the $500 clause stricken
out Otherwise the section remains the same
In the new as in the old ordinance.