Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-25
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ORDINANCE: alone Al !. Nj:
cannot trust the Police to Keep
out Of Partnership With With
Underworld.
NICK AGAINST KEARNs FENCE I.'
n,.incss Men Complain That obstr''c-
don HIS Lost Them Much
Trade During Year.

what vas thought would be a pas
.,,.o session OF the city council last
a,,bt developed into II lively AFFAIR
,sben the municipal laws committee
:,aserted report recommending tf1at
r. cty attorney. be instructed to DRAFT
=, ordnance in Keeping with the sus-
.astion OF Judge j. j. Whitaker th Niat
~ punishment for vagrancy tie re-
.,,cen 10 sac fine und 80 iuays' lmpriso ~.
.,nn, INC council did not take klnuiy
,maihc iaea OF deprivng prisoners OF
~. ~ r;yht of trial by jury and by i
81. o. 10 10 3 the motion to auopt inc
renort OF the committee was lost
ilvhen Mayor Bransford. Chiet bar
,ou and Judge Whitaker countea h.ses
,,he proposed ordinance about wv o
,"sets ago they found out Mt thht tiillc
' Me.Ns ,hsI, vas little chance OF having
s.nasse1 Members of the council couiu
~ through the scheme. They objected
ssSmaLfing the police court IL clearing
house for prostitutes.
Councilman Hall said that he thousht
i, Mas n step backward, IL any Sucn
an ordinance were passed. don
believe in making the fine so low tnat
he nollce department can go back mo
partnership with this class OF peopis
ike they were years ago, sa'9 NJ
I'VE had Just better keen.onr hanas
os and leave things as they are.
Ntnuncjlman Fernstrom protested on
.he ground that If such nm ordinance
,rere nssed 1t would give the police
fudge too much power. and That tnetl
Tho div attorney and the city judge
could take things too easy.
When asked for an opinion concern.
inc the proposed ordinance. Asst. CITY
Atty. P, ]. Daily said that. while ne
would like to see the ordinance passed
for the purpose of making a test caSs
Dit he was strongly of the belief that
IRE higher court would decide that the
ordinance was unconstitutional. He
said that the. higher court would most
likely hold that vaErancy of the class
spoken Of involved moral iturpitude, and
that this necessarily meant that the
person accused had the right to trial
by jury
TO SET ASIDE DEDICATION.
An important step toward the erec-
tion OF the new s500,00O high school was
I, taken last night when Glenn Il. Both,
well and r. Z. McConaughy petltioneu
the council to set aside the dedication
Of Sunnyside avenue, the thoroughfara
that runs through the ll-acre tract be-
tween Eighth South and Ninth South
streets and Twelfth and Thirteenth
East streets. Tho petition went to the
engineering committee for report. Inerc
Is no doubt about its being granted.
Another protest against the unsight-
~ fence around the kearns building
was made to the city council. this time
by the Robinson-Smith Shoe company.
which has store near the site of
the new office structure. This firm asks
for an abatement OF their taxes for.
the entire year Of Il $40 on the grounds
that their business, has been seriously
injured by the obstruction. They say
that the fence has been permitted to
remain longer than Is allowed by law
and that they have not been accorded
the protection that is accorded other
firms on the street.
This unslghtly fence has been stand
Ing in the busiest part of the retail
district for more than a year. and for
the last four months 1t has remained
contrary to the city ordinance. which
provides that fences shall be removed
when the second story Is completed.
Tho american" party councilmen,
however. obeying the voice of their
master Frank Sefrit. passed resolu-
ton giving the Kearns' constructors
the right to violate the ordinance.
LOOKING FOR MONEY.
The recommendation OF the en-
gineerlng committee that the board Of
public works contract with Mckay & I
Reed for cross walks this year be:not
approved, because u provision to care
for the cost inadvertently was left out
Of the budget. went back to the street
: committee, which will confer with the
finance committee in an effort to dig
up enough money for cross walks most
needed. Mr.. Hall said that the adj
mlnistration was spending money for
things less needed than were cross
walks .T
councilman Mnlvey introduced a
resolution that the lease of Rudy a.
Lundin on the city sewer farm, which
would have expired in 1912, be can
salled The resolution was adopted.
me special committee, appointed to
TOOK into the sewer farm proposition,
VIII hold a meeting In the mayors
Office Thursday afternoon.
The application off, H. Little for a
Z retail liquor license at 219 west Sec
, ohd south street, approved by the
, license committee was granted.
nlateo Cufran had formerly made
application for this number, but n
number OF protcstants appeared an1
NE application was held up. Mr.. Lit
ue owns the property at wrich the
saloon will be located.
me petition of John Argos for civ
inspection of animals Killed on Ills
Premises near Tenth South and BriEh-
s .pn went to the committee on sanitary
,roi'owins hot debate, the recon-
M m,hsnuation Of the committees of the
smn"le mat the contract for S, 900 feet |
Jiri m"ss Tor the fire department. be
u.vlden equally between tho New Ter.
ny ~. var Springs & Rubber com1ranyand
= rhlrbanks-M Morse &. Connnn,. ,,a
adopted. i''is''s was
me appointment by the mayor Of
vas ea MS deputy meat Inspector
vac confirmed by the council. \ +