Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
Proposed Ordinance Will
Make Radical Changes
in Present Rules
CAFESARE CLASSIFIED
Powers of Police Commits
sion Enlarged by Pro-
jected Measure
Proposed Ordinance
for Liquor Business
saI0on license ices

TNCREASlNG saloon license tees
from 500 to $3.50 per month.
= Dividing restaurant permits in
TO Glass A and Glass and permitting
ethe sale Of short drinks, such as cock
tails and glasses of beer under Class
a permits, for which tho holder must
pay $3.50 a month, while under Class
q permits the license fee remains at
$75 a month, but only liquors in bot
ties may be served.
Givinu the police commission arbi-
trary power to revoke restaurant per-
mits without trial when such course
Is found necessary.
Granting local option to any block
and giving the property owners in that
block the right to say If saloon or
other liquor house shall exist in their
block.
Recurring all short drinks purchased
in a saloon to be drunk on the prem
ises.
, Removing the restriction of one-fitth
of a gallon from wholesale houses and
increasing their license fee from $75
to $125 a month.
Recognizing social clubs and requir-
ina them to pay a license fee of 500
a month.
Providing for a new kind of permit
called the "eombination" and applying
to hotels that serve liquors at meals
and drinks from bar and fixing the
license fee at $3.50 a month.
Increasing tho brewery license fee
to $3.50 month.
FIXING a license fee Of $50 month
for all wineries doing a business OF
more than $4,000 year and $16 a
month for all wineries doing less than
that amount of business.
Removing the restriction of requir-
ing tho consent Of property ownsrs in
a block where a saloon Is to be es-
tabIished.
The foregoing are the most import
ant provisions of the new liquor or
dinance. which has been framed by
Guy w Eddie. city prosecutor. and
which viii be discussed by the public
welfare committee at a meeting to be
held in the council chamber Friday
evening. At this meeting representa-
tives of all the interested persons will
be heard on the different propositions
which affect them.
The ordinance Is drastic in many
ways and has raised a storm Of protest
from the liquor interests. Mr.. Eddie
admits his ordinance gives them a slap
in two directions. They face greatly
increased license fees and they face
the prospect that the property own
ers OF the block in which they con-
duct their business can unite to put
them out entirely and 1t Is considered
quite likely that property owners on
Spring street may take such action
to bring the property on that street to
the same value of that on Broadway.
1t is pointed out that Broadway is the
best shopping street of the city and
the reason for this is said to be that
from one end to the other there are
but few saloons, while on Spring street
they are numerous.
There was rumor abroad last night
that the liquor interests would imme-
diately seek to give the impression
that their representatives had been
instrumental in shaping the proposed
new ordinance In this, 1t was said,
they would be supported by the anti
good government press. Their idea is
to create the Impression that the liquor
interests really wanted the proposed
legislation, knowing that IL the public
got this impression 1t would seriously
endanger the chances of the ordinance
going through. The liquor interests
really seek to defeat the measure If
any one doubts this, the supporters of
the measure say, let him watch the
developments of the next few days;
let him go to the meeting at the
council chamber Friday night and see
where the liquor interests stand in the
affair.
one thing will be certain to those
who read carefully the clauses of the
proposed ordinance-the liquor inter-
ests will not have any more freedom
than they have had In the past.
During the time the ordinances were
being drawn City Prosecutor Guy
Eddie consulted frequently with the
pobce commissioners and members of
the public welfare committee.
Mr.. Eddie said last night he had lis
tened to representatives of both sides
of the question and had heard their
arguments and suggestions. and that
he had done this with the full knowl-
edge and consent of the police commits
sion and of the public welfare COM
mittee.
Mr.. Eddie was appointed by the po-
lice commission and the public well
fare committee, and he undertook the
task of drawing up the ordinance. The
ordinance has been gone over carefully
in every clause by the two bodies and
II has their unqualified Endorsement.
The new ordinance prohibits the
commission from granting any more
LIQUOR permits of any kind on Broad
way, but those existing are not to be
disturbed until their permits expire,
either by revocation or voluntary re-
linquishment, when they will not be
reissued.
Several liquor ordinances in exist
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