Arizona republican., 1914-06-30
Commission Then Adopts a Substitute Elimina t in 2 Clubs, Drug Stores, Etc, from Regulatory Provis- ions Despite Mayor Young NEW LICENSE
 LAW COMING IntimatiOn is Given That Merchants" Have Pre- pared Proposed Measure for Introduction at Early Meeting of Commission

Two emergency measures were adopted by the city commission last evening. one repeating city tax or dinance No. 6, and the other offered as a substitute to the proposed li- quor licensing and regulating ordin- ance offered for first reading at the previous meeting of the commission. Against each of the measures Mayor George U Young registered vote of nay and entered at length into his reasons in each instance. An or dinance that, according to Mayor Young, might easily have been cor dected so that it would have met with the approval of the business men most generally effected, was killed by the vote of the commission paving the way for the adoption of other measures it is hinted are in the course of preparation to be known as the mercantil ordinances. This as the mercantile ordinances. This the liquor regulating and licensing ordinance proposed at the previous meeting and which was sent to the boneyard through the adoption of an other ordinance agreed to by the commissioners at conferences held previous to the meeting of last eve ming at which the mayor, although invited, was not present
 Less than a week ago an ordinance was given first reading before the commission which had apparently been lifted almost bodily from the offending ordinance designated as No. 6. It was laid over for one week. In the time intervening there were sun dry conferences between interested parties with the result that a new proposed ordinance was in readiness to be introduced as a substitute for the one introduced previously and which was calculated to regulate the sale of liquors, particularly in clubs and in restaurants and private booths And this substitute was adopted last evening by a unanimous vote of the commission with Mayor Young voic- ing strong protest against it's enact ment
 It was an interesting meeting of the commission Mayor Young lifted the lid and gave the commission free rein. He did not attempt to influ- ence the vote of a single member of the commission. He waited until each of the commissioners had cast their vote before registering his disappro- val and before giving his reasons.
 T wish to say that Ordinance No. 6 could have been corrected and i'm proved" said Mayor Young. As it stands the city of Phoenix has been to an expense of more than $500 in drafting. enacting and repeating an ordinance that could have been cor rected at little additional expense. am passing my deductions upon the fact that I hold scores of letters from business men, members of the Merchants & Manufacturers Associa : ton, which indicate that the business men and the thinking people of Phoe- nix were ready to accept an amend ed ordinance and to have been sats- fled with it's enactment into a city ordinance"
 The new ordinance which becomes effective immediately classifies liquor dealers under three heads. The wholesale dealer, the retail dealer and the saloon keeper No reference is made to the drug stores or the clubs.
 A wholesale dealer is defined as one selling liquor in greater quanti- ties than two gallons. He is assessed tax of $125 per quarter-annum. Re- tail dealers have two sub classified tions, the one who sells sealed ol other goods in quantities of not les' than half a pint nor more than two gallons except that he may sell a cas- of twenty -four bottles of beer /
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