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Show HOUSE DEBATES BIBLSJEIIfiETS Southvvjck Bfll and Amendments Amend-ments Come in for Many-sided Many-sided Attacks BAliT LAKE. Keb. 16, - "Women . ml cigareta." formed the chief feature of dlseuaalon yesterday in the house of. representatives when the house resinned re-sinned Its fight over the Botithwlck 'antl-clgarct bill and the proposed amendments to it. Representattee N. A. verSOh Of Box Elder inuntv iiia.ie ths itnrtim? statement, "The ringer.s of our rlrls are being varnished :vith the stains of those harmful little Instruments ot destruction." The Box Elder member Was not the only house member who told of the; reports received of women smoking, cigareta, for Mr. Mm Bells Thurni.cn lils of Salt like quoted troin Stati msnts she "ahl she had received from physicians relative to the use of clgn-reft clgn-reft by women. lK.lt M l PI NS Representative Jorjeneen of Sevier ! county opened the debate on the measure mea-sure yestdrday. Ho declared that the 'report of the house committee on. I manufactures and commerce was not ;an amendment, in his opinion, but an , Offer r n substitute bill. The South-! South-! wick bill, he declared, would prohtbH jtho sale of clgjtretn In I'tah. The proposed pro-posed amendments, he asserted, would legalize their sale. He declared the amendments do not provide any penalty pen-alty for sale of Ugurets to minora and he thought the proposed penalty of Ion elt or e of license, was more or less of a Joker. It appeared to htm. lie said, us If the amendment bad been drawn by the tobacco Interests. Resurrection of some of Monday's remarks was employed by S. W. Alor-1 rlson. Jr., who. upon taking the floor. 1 said ho represented oni himself and I gae only his own opinions. Tho Suit I Lake member declared there was nl-i ready too much prohibitory legislation! and too little regulation. He favored I the amendments, he said, because tho meant regulation and did not attempt to prohibit what It would be Impossible Impos-sible to prohibit. "I am one of those reprehenslbles," j declared Representative Ivers of Salt Lake. . "I use tobacco In all Its forms. I have been known, in the days before prohibition, to occasionally take al drink. Why, at ont. Urn. I did use 1 snuff Notwithstanding, I am con-1 Isldsred more or les.s respectable. l! have been listening to the same old arguments ar-guments I heard at the time the prohibition prohi-bition question was being debated. It Is none or my business how much Anyone Any-one smokes, here or hereafter. H n 1 iw 'g m 1 "Why, some of our mombcra have been standing on the floor hero for the' last two days boaatlng of their families. fam-ilies. Of their growing boyt. It sort ,of made me Jealous, l am the father 1 !of five, and I am still a young man. I Two of the11 al. Inc.N, and 1 nin ;.ollii; to try and teach them not to smoke, but I want to say right here and noe that if l do not catch them, at noontime noon-time in their youth, trying to smoke 11 1 clgaret, a cigar, om-silk or a piece of I srhipstalk, I am going to be greatly disappointed in them, for it would1 1 make me reel terrible to realize that they had not done something in their I lyoutn to make them smell like men. They ar,. going to learn morals In Bun-,day Bun-,day school and on their mother's kn--e but I certainly will feci badly if they 'have to go to this book rcterrlng to the compiled statutes of the state) for their morals. 1 have heard it said, and I have no reason to doubt it, thnt this south-wlck south-wlck bill, written by a Democrat and fathered by mettajbets of that party. Is simply a measure designed to cin-barrass cin-barrass put governor, and here Is a house ,i representatives of forts-six Republicans and one Democrat debating debat-ing over such a measure " I M'1 May Belle T Tavls spoke in favor of the Southwlck bill as reported hy the minority of the committee .sp.. aid she favored an educational eam- PaJgn ntore than one of prohibition, but that the amendments, to her noli no-li Ion. voided the senate measure to such an extent that she could not sup-jport sup-jport them. She quoted figures that she sat, 1 h.1(t ,f.0 thered 111 Salt llike In a surve by prominent physl-I physl-I clans, srhleh were to th0 eff-ct that 1000 women in this cltv were users of le,nrcts, ihe.se ilgnres including women wo-men or the underworld who SfffSSked She said, however, that she preferred jto cut that figure In half. WOM1 N vMiiM "Some of these women smokers are nursing children. " she declared, and' she Insisted thut the growing children1 must first be protected. The propo-.-.i amendments, -he asserted, would not "ven make it difficult for minors to ( procure cigarets. I Representative qulnnev. n member ,of the committee on manufactures and commerce, a nonuser of tobacco I whose father is m the stute sonatt and who voted in favor of the South . ,bill in the upper house, said he ad-I ad-I mired his father for voting for his conviction, hut he said that he ln- .tended to cast a vote in the house ugunsi the bill, and that he felt his father would honor him for witing his ivh ti..ns. .Mr. Qnlnnsy h.iid i,. 1 made S areful studs of the Southwlck hill and of the nmendment.s. and that he favored the latter. "1 think there is merit In the rnendments." he said The senate bill 1- i-rohlldlors We hast had too much i.-f mis vcrboter stuff. rne would think be was living in Prussia. That whs no idle assertion we heard on the floor yesterday regarding Internal Inter-nal trouble over such legislation as the Southwlck bill Neither ineusure is perfect. There will be bootlegging or iclgaret-. and every person who has a rlgarvt In his poaselon unllder the I Southwlck bin. Mould be Hahls t.. inl prosecution. " M guinn-N i'.mpire, both meaafires In detail, declaring de-claring that the amendments placed an additional hurden upon the dealer and upon the minor, who would lie r his nge. WCM I D BK BOQfTI 1 cc.im. Kor a moment It looked like Repre-i .eiitin.. sjevy had left the 8egmillsr (fold, foe when he arose to speak ou the cjucstlon of accepting the minority1 report, he dec lared that he was uot an I enthusiastic supporter of legislation of I the radical sort; that he did not believe be-lieve too much in pi . iiibltorv legialn-' tion. However, any hopas the amend-1 ment ration might have had of winning win-ning SV o,er wer I oat when the Piute county representative cam outl plainly tn,. sgVithwick mejaure. He! admit, ,,,..r Xouid be clgaret boot-1 'egging, .ii lorltig that he did not expect ex-pect 11 lo runetlon BrfeUl nnv n.er. than did ihe liquor prohibition Uw at j the present time, hut he felt thjtt it would be a t.p in the right direction. Me of the opinion, he said, thae ins proposed nnendmenls would not help, and It appeared to him as If all I bat un left ,.f 8outwlck meat, sur,- in the aineiidmenta was its nuin-br nuin-br antl the name of the Utah county! aenator |