Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-08
BARRIERS WIN CLOSING FIGHT
After Long Struggle Masters Must
Submit to Alright Ordinance.
JOURNEYMEN STORM COUNCIL
DIR. ConncIl, Before Committee of
whole, Declares Hotel Men Not
ObservinE Law and Suggests
License to Cover Inspection.

Two hundred BARRIERS, led by c. Nj.
Fielder, appeared before the council, sit
! ting aa committee OF the whole, and
demanded that the ordinance for Sunday
closing be amended so that no loopholes
remain and that action be taken at once.
j. l.. Garrison, Ed, Light Adam Morrell,
Peter Elsasser and Homer Kirk supported
Mr.. Fielder In impassioned speeches, which
were loudly cheered by the assembled
/ BARRIERS.
stanley Rosewater, attorney for the
BARRIERS In favor OF the opon shop on
Sunday. also spoke. The speeches by the
opponents OF Sunday closing were greeted
by prolonged Kisses, Al Pardun, John
Konvlin and Attorney Rosewater declared
that the council had acted once on the
matter and that the amendments to the
present ordinance were the same thing
they had voted down three weeks ago.
! The arguments became personal when
| Mr.. Fielder declared that the opponents
Of the Sunday closing were inslncere and
called the names OF several union and
non-union BARRIERS present who were op-
posing the plan. His speech was warmly
responded to and for a time a wild COM
motion obtained, but the chairman finally
secured order.
! Councilman Berka thought the question
ought to be a matter for state statute
] to settle and read letters from the city
clerks Of st. Paul, Minneapolis and Kan
sas City, saying that no city ordinance
could cover the issue unless a state law
was in force. Councilman Kugel favored
the ordinance and moved that II be rec
commended for passage Tuesday night.
Mr.. Berka promised his support If an
amendment exempting charitable institu-
tions be added, and to this the Sunday
closing advocates agreed, and the motion
to recommend It for final passage was
carried.
DR.. r.. w. Connell, health commissioner,
declared that lodging house and hotel pro-
prietors In Omaha are not living up to
the state law, which requires a certain
status OF cleanliness and nlne-foot bed
sheets The assertion was made follow
ing question by Councilman Hummel
and the doctor continued by declaring
that inspection OF lodging houses had
been made during the last year only
when complaints were made, the funds
in the health department being too low
to allow regular inspection.
THE health department will be moro
than soc behind at the end OF the year,
unless an appropriation Is made" said
the health Inspector. 1.-THE milk inspector
has been laid off and the dairy inspector
probably viii be"
running from s1S4 to tl75 per month. The
council appropriated $4,000 for the health
department at the beginning OF the year.
The monthly payroll has exceeded 81, 800
and there is now left In the fund S4,5iSO7,
ElI4bl,9a having been expended, and war
rants allowed and unpaid exist in the
sum OF sessa 90
DR.. Council asked for more money and
his request was backed by Councilman
Hummel, who pointed out that the city
OF Atlanta, Ga, which was visited a year
ago by a committee from the Omaha
council. expends yearly $4,000 ON its
health department.
! Councilman Burmester moved that the
city physician and the legal department
draft an ordinance which will require all
lodging houses and hotels TO pay a
! license, or secure a permit, annually, and
that this permit money he used in pro-
viding proper inspection OF lodging
houses and hotels, so that a large per
cent Of the fund appropriated for the
health department could be utilized for
other purposes. The motion, approved by
lar. Connell, carried.
The dance hall ordinance was again dis
cpssed and was referred without lnstruc-
lions TO the judiciary COMMITTEES. The
| proposition Of granting the Missouri
Pacific right OF way for a switch track
off the belt line in the neghborhood
Of Thirty-first street and Boyd was de-
ferred until the next meeting.