The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-08
D|N|NNY FIRES HOT
SHOTSAT MULVEY.
City Attorney Stands by Guns
and WreStS Admissions
From Foes.
SHOWS VIOLATION OF LAW
LIQUOR LICENSES WILL REQUIRE
UNWiNDING OF RED TAPE.

Harper J. Dininny. city attorney, had
the pleasure last night Of mixing YER
bally with Councilman Martin Mulvey
at a meeting of the municipal laws
committee, and figuratively walked all
over the rotund frame of the council
man IRON the Fifth. The scrap be-
tween the city attorney and MulveY
VINO is a member of the license COM
nittee, has been brewing for a good
many months, and crystalized into a
real bout when the city attorney sub
mitted a letter to The council two
weeks ago declaring that the license
committee was proceeding contrary TO
law regarding the handling Of retail
liquor licenses.
At that time Councilman Mulvey
characterized the letter as a "damna-
bic insult" against the committee and
the council, and declared he would say
things wnen the matter came before
the committee. But he did not have
much TO say last night. as the city at
1orney stood by his guns and made the
members of the license committee ad-
nit that they had been proceeding
contrary to law.
AS a result of the municipal laws
committees discussion, which lasted
almost until midnight, resolution was
adopted to the effect that the license
committee had been following the pre-
cedent of several years in the manner
of handling applications for licenses,
and that the council had also been Vto-
lating the law. The committee recon-
mends that in the future both the
council and the committee conform
TO the law"
Delays in Licenses.
This means that the licenses will
first come before the council as petit
lions, then so TO the chief Of police,
back to the city council at the next
regular session, then to the license
committee for a report and then back
TO the council for passage or rejection.
1t viii mean an extra amount OF work
in the city recorders office, as the city
attorney said a record Of the council s
actions would have to be made in re-
gard to each one Of the 100 applicants
for licenses every three months.
Councilman Mulvey kept referring 70
licenses for old liquor dealers as renew
ais. but the city attorney would not
stand for il and declared that dealer
must take out a new license every three
months. In censuring the license COM
mittee, Dininny said that of the 100 APP
pIications recently approved by the
committee, fifty-fve did not state the
address where the liquor was to be sold,
five were not sworn to at all, eighteen
did not state who held the lease on the
premises, and sixteen of the att1daVitS
were sworn to by Miss Wagner at the
Office of the Wagner Brewing COM
pany.
Not finding much sOlace in the scrap
in which J. b. MoretOn, chairman or
the committee. took a hand now and
tlen, Mr. Mulvey wanted the municipal
avs committee 10 recommend TO the
council that all Of the city ordinances
aud state laws be lived up TO. But this
was turned down, and Mulvey said he
would have it tackled onto the report
Monday night, as an amendment. But
all of the changes made in the appllca-
tions and the method Of making APP
plication win be carried out according
TO the demands Of the city attorney.
For six-inch Mains.
The water works committee recon-
mended that six-inch water mains be
laid on Thirteenth East street, from
Twelfth South to StratfOrd avenue, in
Highland Park, and then east and west
on StratfOrd avenue, and the city at
torney was Instructed TO draw an Or
dinanee covering the matter. The COM
mittee also decided to insist that the
hoard of education pay S2,1Sl.SO for back
water tax, and not accept the compro-
mise of Sl,306.90 offered by the board
The same committee also filed the let
ter Of Newell H. Clayton Offering his
land, adjoining the surplus canal, fol
$500 per acre.
In regard to the druggists liquor
license for the University Drug cOmpa-
ny, the license committee put the mat
ter over a week until the owners hold
a meeting with the university regents
If the regents stin protest, the license
viii probably be denied.
The public ground committee seemed
favorable TO the petition of the driving
club for a speedway ON the west drive
in Liberty park, but asked that the
park board meet with the COMMITTEES
next Thursday night to discuss the
matter further.
Th. finance committee fled the peti
ton of T. C. WINNER and others fOl
grading, curbing and guttering Of
street, from South Temple to Fourth
avenue. because of the expense TO thu
city, which was estimated at 1874. Tit
petition Of the employees Of the water
works department fer an icrease il
wages of 20 cents a day was also fled
The sanitary committee listened {
John II. Barlow, jr., in regard to tht
petition of farmers of Davis county 70
q central market nlace, and laid tht
matter over one week. The problem O
handling the farmers and their wagons
during the summer season could not b'
solved.