The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-19
WOMEN TOF|GHT
LIQUOR ORDINANCE
Representatives of Clubs Will
Meet With Council Com
mittee Tonight.
OBJECT TO NEW MEASURE
DETERMINED PROTEST OFFERED
TO BE RouNDLY DISCUSSED.
OBJECT TO NEW MEASURE

Irate and determined women, represent
ing nearly every woman's organization in
Salt Lake, will meet with the city council
and saloon men tonight at o'clock in
the city council chamber, when the pro-
posed new liquor ordinance will be under
tire. Really, the matter will be before
the municipal laws and license commit
tees, but every member of the council will
probably be on hand to listen to the talk
and prepare themselves for the vote on
the measure next Monday night at the
regular council meeting. The ordinance
has been prepared by the Royal Arch, an
organization of saloon men of the city,
which is seeking a number of radical
changes in the present ordinance.
A determined protest against the pro-
posed ordinance was received by the coun-
Gil last night, and more than % women
slgners of the protest appeared in the
council chamber under the impression that
the matter would be acted upon. An eff
fort was made to approve the petition, but
this was filed and the council decided to
refer the matter, with the ordinance and
other petitions. to the committees at their
special meeting tonight.
During the discussion last night Chair
man James Mckinney of the municipal
laws committee and several other council
men declared themselves unalterably OPP
posed to the granting of the ordinance
asked for, and it seems foredoomed.
Some of the Objections.
The protest last night came from the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
of Salt Lake and from officers of nearly
every woman's organization in the city,
chiefly protesting against these clauses
in the proposed liquor ordinance;
Sections and Issuing a license
for the sale of liquor to restaurant
keepers.
Section Producing the amount of
license to be paid by the retail liquor
dealers from 1915 per quarter to $500
per quarter. eve feel that the present
amount is inadequate)
Sections II and 13-Giving authority
to saloon keepers to keep their places
of business open until a. m. from
Monday to Friday night.
Section 22-Requiring three convic-
tons for infringement of the law be-
fore license can be revoked. Zone con-
vietion should be enough.)"
The communication winds up with the
statement that these are only a few
of the flaws found in the proposed Ordi-
nance which would be for the benefit
of the saloon men and against the in
terests of the city
Councilman F. S. Fernstrom made an
attack on the saloon men of Salt Lake.
who. he declared, were violating the
law every day without being punished,
and he declared that it was time for the
city council to insist that the law be
upheld. He declared that the proposed
OiOihdASO MdS QThWH SplSly IOF the D6n-
eft of the saloon men and that II should
be defeated. He made q motion that the
petition of the w. c. T. u. be granted
and that the ordinance be killed before
it was taken to the committees.
Mckinney Opposes 1t.
James Mckinney, chairman of the
municipal laws committee declared
that he was unalterably opposed to
the reduction of the price of the
license, to the three convictions clause,
the late closing section land other OBJ
noxious clauses" He declared he would
not vote for the ordinance and be-
lieved the present liquor ordinance to
be one of the best of any city in the
United States. But he declared that !
members of the Royal Arch had desired
to be heard upon the ordinance, and /
thought it no more than right that the 1
committees should hear their side of |
the matter before disposing of the |
measure.
Councilman Fernstrom had a little /
fun with Ed G. O'Donnell when the /
matter was being discussed. O'Don- |
nell said that the men who had drawn 4
the ordinance wished to be heard and 1
Fernstrom reminded him of the fact 4
that his was the only name attached to |
the ordinance as presented to the coun- /
Gil. ODonnell then admitted that he /
had introduced the measure at the in /
stance of the liquor men, and the coun- 1
ell and audience had a good laugh at 4
his discontinue.