The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
BOARD TAKES
FIRST STEPS
neWed.
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Inc dcllOn OF COUNCIL last night w do
some little surprise as it was gener-
ally believed that the city fathers
were going to allow the recommended
ton to die a natural death. The rec
ommendation of the business mems
committee was submitted to the coun-
Gil soon after the local option cleo
ton About a month ago Councilman
Bachtold brought the subject up in
open council and requested the COM
mittee on health and police to report
on the resolution but nothing was
heard from them. 1t is understood
that the business men of the city took
the matter up with the council and
demanded that some favorable action
be taken.
The first action taken in regard to
the liquor traffic was the renewal of
licenses for the George Retzer and
Albert Bachtold saloons. The next re-
port bearing on the question was the
recommendation of the health and po-
lice committee recommending that the
license Of George Hauser, granted
about three weeks ago, be revoked.
It further said in the recommendation
that the decision Of the committee
had been reached by a joint meeting
Of the business mems committee and
the committee on health and police.
On motion of Bachtold the recommen-
dation was adopted. Councilman Cum
Minis then gained the floor and said
that it was not because Hauser was
considered incompetent to conduct an
orderly place that the license was re-
voked, but because the reduction of
saloons in the city was necessary. The
report was signed by Fred H. Hull as
chairman of the committee and
John F. Stack and c. H. Cummins.
Other routine business was tran
sacted before a recommendation was
read from the committee on health
and police that the recommendations
of the business mems committee sub
mitted on January be adopted. This
recommendation was adopted unani-
mously on a motion of Bachtold and
seconded by Lern.
The ordinance reducing the business
hours of the saloon and restricting the
lewd pictures and picture machines
was then passed. This ordinance is
to become effective five days after its
publication. City Clerk T. d. S. Hart
announced last night that it in all
probability would be published today
and if this is the case it will become
effective after midnight Monday. and
instead of opening at II o'clock Mon
day morning the saloons will not
throw their doors open until o'clock
Every night thereafter the liquor
houses will close at l o'clock and re-
main closed until 5 o'clock the same
morning The ordinance carries with
it a fine of 500 for it's violation. The
ordinance was read twice and then
Stack moved and Bachtold seconded
motion that the rules be- suspended
and the ordinance go to its third read
ing. This was done and it's adoption
was unanimous.
Councilman Stack moved that all
saloonkeepers applying for renewal
of license be required hereafter to
make their application at least so days
prior to the lapsing of their old Ii
cense. This was passed. A few meet
ings ago the council passed a motion
requiring that application for license
be made at least so days prior to the
expiration of the license, but this is
considered rather an injustice by
council for the time is believed too
short in which they might dispose of
their stock in case the license is re-
vOked.
The recommendation of the business
mems committee which was busted
off and adopted by the council last
night is as follows:
Recommendations
Believing that the recommended
tions which we hereinafter make to
your honorable body will be for the
best interests Of this city and its in
| habitants in every way, and assuring
| your honorable body that we are ready
TO lend our assistance now and at
all times in the future for the en-
furcement Of all present laws and
regulations for the government of the
| liquor traffic, We beg to submit to
your honorable body the following
recommendations concerning the sa
| loon business, which We would pc
tition your honorable body to adopt:
"First-That by ordinance all sa-
looms shall be required to close at 1
a. m. of each week day and to re-
main closed until 5 o'clock a. m. of
|
o'clock midnight on Saturdays, and
to remain closed until o'clock a. m.
Monday mornings.
| "Second-That an ordinance be
passed prohibiting in saloons all lewd
pictures and all nickel in the slot
machines and other machines exhib
iting such pictures.
''Third-That the number of sa-
looms shall be gradually reduced I'M
til there remains in the city as near
as may be one for each 1000 of pop
ulation.
"Fourtn-That an effort should be
made to reduce the number of saloons
in any one block fronting in one street
to not to exceed four.
"Five-That when the number is so
reduced that no license be thereafter
issued for greater number than four
| in one such block.
"Sixth-That the ordinance now in