Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-06
WANT COURTS
 ORDER MODIFIED ATTORNEYS FOR SENX ARD AND BELZNER ASK JUDGE PHIBP0T TO GIVE THEN | LITTLE
 TIME
HE THINKS TT OVER
May Permit Saloon Men to Keep Open Until Judge Grace Reviews the
 Evidence.

Attorneys M. Danaher and w. D.
 Jones, representing the firm of Sen
 yard and Belzner, saloonists, whose
 place was closed at midnight Monday
 following an order revoking their H.
 cense because it was held by Judge
 C. M. Philpot that they had violated
 an agreement made when the license
 was issued to them appeared in the
 county court yesterday afternoon and
 asked the Court to modify the order
 and permit their clients 10 continue
 in business until the appeal could be
 heard by Judge A. B. Grace in the cir
 cult court. The attorneys asked
 judge Philpot to give the petitioners
 an opportunity to have the case dis
 posed of during the first week of the
 October term of court and then if the
 matter was not taken up by Judge
 Grace and an opinion handed down
 there, that the county court order
 the saloon closed pending final dis
 position of the case before Judge
 Grace.
 Deputy Prosecuting Attorney r. G.
 Parham resisted the effel of the attorneys for the petitionei e. deelar- ing that he saw no reason W " Judge
 Philpot should have revoked the li- cense at all if he was to permit the
 saloon men to continue in business until the appeal case was heard in the higher court. He argued that the court would compromise itself if it granted the request of the saloon men,
 Attorneys Jones and Danaher con- tended that it would be only fairness to Messrs Senyard and Belzner to give them an opportunity to have court erred in it's ruling; asserting that the circumstantial evidence in- troduced at the hearing before Judge Philpot was not strong enough to war rant the revocation of the license. Property rights, they argued, were to ! be considered, and the great injustice that would be done the saloon men by keeping them closed during four of the best months of the year, without any recourse whatever. If Judge Phil pot closes their place of business by lyyy court rules that the county court er- red, the lawyers say that it would be doing them harm. On the otherhand, it was argued, if the saloon men were permitted to continue in business and the higher court ruled that the lower court was right in it's decision, then the saloon could still be closed and the county would not be losing any thing by such procedure. The saloon men knew nothing of the gambling in the building, it is contended, and especially MT. Senyard who was out of the city The fact that MT. Sen- yard asked Chief Parmell to keep watch over his place and prevent any gambling in his building during his absence from the city, was alone proof of his good intention to carry out his agreement with the county court, said Judge Jones. He merits { some consideration at the hands of the court" he said.
 Judge Philpot said that he is con- vinced that the saloon men had vio- lated their agreement with him. He says he is still of that opinion. He { did not want to be put in the attitude that he was not sure of his own judg- ment and at the same time he did not want to be unfair to the saloon men, fs He said he wanted the law enforced \ among saloon men as we'll as others { insofar as the county court is con- cerned. He states that he realized that the burden would be great on { Senyard and Belzner and that their l porperty rights should be considered but he wanted to do what he thought was right in the premises.
 After considerable argument on the matter, during which the attorneys |, for the saloon men presented a strong plea asking the court to give them until certain time to have the ap- peal heard before Judge Grace, and