The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-27
LICENSE
IS AGAIN DEFEATED
Attempt to Call Special Council
Meeting is frustrated by
the Statute.
COMMITTEES IN SESSION
LET THREE CoUNCILMEN TRY
TO REVIVE THE AFFAIR.

Another attempt to pass the Salt
Palace liquor license through the city
council was beaten last night, when
Councilmen NJ. z. Mulvey and ]. B.
Moreton tried to call a special meeting
of the council without notifying all of
the members.
The scheme was Matched by Council
men Moreton, MuIvey and c. H Reed,
who were responsible for the trick at
tempted at the last regular meeting OF
the council, when a second applicat ion
for liquor license for Emil Lehman
was slipped to the council 20 minutes
after the former petition had been re
fused. Like the former attempt, the
move was defeated, but last night the
other members of the council were not
taken off their guard, and Councilmen
Mulvey and Moreton were bumped"
with neatneSS and dispatch
The occasion last night was the reg
ular meeting of the council committees,
and, taking advantage of the absence
of W. Mont Ferry, president of the
council, COuncilmen Moreton, Mulvey
and Reed Matched a plan to call Spe-
cial meeting of the council and dis
pose of the Lehman matter by grant
ing the license. Accordingly, the call
for the special meeting was prepared
and signed and handed to City Recorder
Ben S. Rives at $50 o'clock. Other
members of the council, who were busy
with committee work, were surprised
when the city recorder raped for or
der and read the call for the special
meeting.
Councilman Mulvey was on the spot
before the other members had time to
take their seats, with a motion that, in
the absence of Mr.. Ferry, J. 3. More
ton be made president pro tenn. In an
other minute Councilman Moreton was
in the chair, and all was in readiness
for the motion of Councilman Reed that
the action of the council in refusing
the petition of Emil Lehman for a
liquor license at Salt Palace be re-
scinded and that the license be granted.
FernStrOm Calls Halt.
Councilman T. S. Fernstrom was the
first to call halt and J. W Mckinney
and L. z. Hall seconded the protest, ar
gUing that the call for the special
meeting was Illegal. inaSmuch as all
OF the members of the council had not
been notified of the call for the meet
ing.
l. E Hall insisted that several weeks
ago he had notified the council that
he would not stand for such irregular
and illegal proceedings by which mat
ters could be rushed through the cOun-
ell without allowing all of the mem
bers to be notified of the meeting.
COunclmen Mulvey and Reed argued
TO the point that the call for the meet
ing was perfectly legal, and it was not
until l. E. Hall read the statute that
the matter was settled. The law as
read by Mr.. Hall provides that a spe-
cial meeting may be called by two
members of the council providing that
al OF J4e menu eTS OF the council are
notified in person or by leaving word
at their homes
He called attention to the fact that
". Mont. Ferry, z. G. O'Donnell or A.
J. Davis had not been notified of the
meeting. It was suggested that this
could be fixed by notifying W. Mont.
Ferry of the meeting by telephone, but
that was just what COuncilmen More
ton, Mulvey and Reed wished to avoid.
and a motion to adjourn was carried.
Councilman Moreton ruled that there
had been no meeting, and instructed the
city recorder that no mention of the
meeting was to appear on the minutes
of the council.