The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-29
Rambling
ORDINANCE PASSED.
Council Knocks Out Pool
Rooms and Race Meets With
Book Attachment.
FILIBUSTER NOW ENDED
MULVEY FIGHTS TO LAST
ROUND AND LOSES.
.FILIBUSTER NOW ENDED

No more pool rooms. no more race
meets with gambling trimmings and. in
fact. no more gambling in salt Lake,
Is the gist Of an ordinance passed by
the city council last night after
fight against its passage on the pert Of
the big four" which has prevented &C
tiOn for nearly three months.
COuncilmen Mulvey. MoretOn. O'Don-
nell and Reed conducted the ftltbuster
against the ordinance with determine
ton. but when It came to the final
passage OF the ordinance. NJ. r. Null
vey was the only one who stood his
ground and his was the only opposing
vote on the last round.
The same tactics were pursued by
the big four" in attempting to stave
off action and they won their first
the tax levy ordinance at the opening
Of the recess meeting OF the council.
Councilman A. J. Davis was In the
chair. Councilman Mulvey insisted
that Il was an adjourned meeting, but
he was convinced OF his mistake ane
Il was decided that the anti-gambling
ordinance was In order.
Try TO Adjourn.
Il move we proceed with the tax
levy ordinance first" said J. B. More
con. and r. q. O'D0nnell seconded the
motion and Il was carried. Then came
the increase of two mills in the tax
and before A. j. Davis from the chair
could announce the result, Councilman
Mulvey called for the authorized list
which. he thought. was equivalent to
a motion to adjourn.
on the authorized list, Councilman Hau
called the attention Of the chair 10 the
fact that there was no authorized
list" before the council. inasmuch as
IL had been passed Monday.
Councilman Davis insisted first that
the vote could be taken anyway and
tho authorized list" although IL had
never been placed on the list for the
reason that II involved no expenditure
OF money.
Chair Backs Down.
There was call for an appeal from
the decision OF the chair. but the act
ing president OF the council backed
down gracefully.
Finally, the ordinance was read Tor
the first and second times with the
big four alone opposing suspension
OF the rules and then when the final
vote was taken, Mulvey stood alone.
The rotund councilman from the
Fifth died gamely. however, and he de-
livered an tmpassioned speech in which
he bewailed the fate Of the state fair
n gambling should be prohibited and
eNtOilcd the benefits which had ac-
crued TO the city from the recent race
meet and then bemOaned the injury TO
the hOrse-breeding interests OF the
state that would result from DOING
away with betting on horse races. Mr.
MulVey said he was opposed 20 the
pool rooms running the year round
but he was for the race meets all the
time.
The new ordinance was drawn by
the city attorney in a manner which
he believes will prohibit gambling OF
e eFe 5S, fG ssT t sRa sg 9G for each
ton or a term OF not to exceed three
months in-the city jail.
Law Against Dope
The council passed a stringent ordi-
nance making IL misdemeanor Tor
-, "a n =.
opium or any Of their derivatives with
out a physicians prescription and pro-
viding that such prescriptions should
be filled only once. This ordinance
went through for final passage with
little opposition. In urging immedl-
ate passage OF the ordinance Council
man Muivey said n any member OF the
council doubted the need Of its pass
age he could show them enough in two
hours to make them get up i'm the mid
die OF the night and come down to a