Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
THUMBS DOWN FOR
GLADIATOR MULVEY
e.. uroadsword Of Abuse and
,,s rorn From His Hand by
Dininny's Assault.
pEEwSH WHEN DEFEATED.
H.. WIN Move That Municipal
committee De Charged With
rs,rclnr Every Law in Books.

r.,,r Martin Mulvey the big
man of the city council. went
,o an nglorious defeat before
l' s,,merings Of city Atty. Harper
ll' n,.i,,v i'm the meeting Of the
J. So laws committee Of the city
o bsld last night Mulvey and
-, diderod on e little point as
IN. method in vogue In the city
-u during the last two terms Of
'....,rr administration. OF Illegal
hing licenses for the selling OF
er Mulvey claiming that the old
uas AN right. while city Atty.
r'.i,rv insisted that the method
,.,,e5 bv the council was all wrong,
IA contrary 90 the provisions of law.
~, weeks ago city. Atty Dininny
.-,ttsd a letter to the city council.
-...,,- that the license committee
--,'sedinr contrary to law In the
nj handling retail liquor IL
and insisted that to be legal
". .,,Ysst for liquor license should
,.' ~ with the city council the same
I'D, other petition. The petition
'ld then be referred by the council
=. h. chief OF police. whose duty 10 Is
Investigate the building where the
ne covers and report back to the
.,se1 within five days his recon-
,-.5Iation as 20 whether the license
.s,r5 he granted or not. The council
,-,g8 then refer the application with
Il. chiefs recommendation TO the Ii
- committee for consideration. and
.tst committee should frame its re-
~. recommending the granting or re-
Fssl Of the license. which report and
-..onmendati0u should then go TO the
nm council for It's action.
mULvEY FEELS INsULTED.
Councilman Mulvey characterized the
a.tar Of the city attorney at the time
.. "damnable Insult against the
r.snse committee. OF which Mr.. Null
I'D is member. and TO the council.
Ina declared there would be things
ding when the matter came up be-
ars the committee last night. The
.,sl0n of the committee lasted until
ssar'y midnight. but city Atty.
Unirny was so well prepared and
scked up with the laws and the stat
les therein made and provided. that
he rotund councilman from the Fifth
.as practically knocked off his pins"
ma although he persisted I'm referring
% The quarterly licenses granted to
au0r dealers as renewals" he was
nIked even on that head when Atty.
Bnnny showed that they were not
renewals. but each one was a new IL
sl,e every quarter.
The committee was finally COM
piled to acknowledge that 70 had been
sdng the liquor licenses Illegally.
Pleading in excavation that Il had
Gg followed the example OF the
irercan" council during the last
hr years IN so doing
h the result Of the discussion. a
resolution was adopted to the effect
thai the license committee had been
mating the law I'm following the
PRECEDENT OF the preceding councils.
at recommending that In future both
No council and the committee con
,lm % the law"
h Censuring the license committee
N Illegally issuing licenses. city Atty
Dn.nny said that Of the 1870 applica-
tons recently approved by the com
niiee, 5j did not state the address
were the liquor was TO be sold. five
we're not sworn 10 at all. rs did not
'ule who held the lease on the prem
's' and l6 OF the aiiidavits were sworn
BY Young woman. Miss Wagner,
ne office Of the Wagner Brewing
company
IN his extremity OF defeat. Council
nan Mulvey then moved that the
laalcipal laws committee recommend
70 ne council that all the city orrli-
.ace' and state laws be lived up TO.
tl ne motion failed 10 carry. Null
lg sara that he would tack the recon-
.rhaailon on 20 the report at the
o-neii meeting next Monday night
" an amendment
OTHER COMMITTEE WORK
"aierworks committee recon-
i., g'a-i mat siy-inch water mains be
l on thirteenth East street. from
tss.Ih South 20 .,tratford avenue. I'm
I. s s.-I' Park and then east and west