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Show PROHIBITION WOULD FAIL IN. OGDEN ) That prohibition would not be a success In Salt Lake City or in Ogden Og-den was the contention of Jacob Evans, county attorney of Utah cdun-1 cdun-1 ty and the man who drew up tho nayes local option bill, In 'a speech I delivered before tho senate this morn-lug. morn-lug. Attorney Evans was granted permission per-mission to talk boforo the body upon roquest of Representative Pope, who stronglv favors the passage of tho Hayes bill. The framer of the bill which calls for the prohibition of saloons in the rural districts of counties, coun-ties, stated that It would not be practical pract-ical to pass a bill 'which would pro-j pro-j hlbit the sale of intoxicating liquor in tho cities of the first class. He said that in cities Hko Salt Lake and Ogden it would bo foolish to even put the matter to a vote. He commended the "search and seizure" class of the Hayes bill and stated that, without such a clause, it would be impossible to enforce prohibition pro-hibition in the restricted districts. By Granting the authorities of the prohibition districts the right to isearch suspected places and seize any intoxicants found. The attorney vowed that blind tigers could be brok en up. The attorney also advocated the limiting of licenses so that there could not be more than one saloon to 2,000 people In any community. He took occasion to severely rap the Badger bill, saying that there were in it so I xnany exceptions that It would be difficult dif-ficult to enforce any part of it, In the house, this afternoon, Representative Repre-sentative Tobias Introduced a bill to fix a maximum freight rate for the I hauling of coal. A copy of this bill was sent to the senate and will bo I presented by Senator Gardner. ! A resolution was passed In tho 11-1 11-1 quor committee this morning fixing the minimum saloon license fdo In cities of tho first class at $1,000; in the cities of the second class at $800, and In cities of tho third class and in all other districts at $600. The maximum max-imum rate Is not to exceed twice the minimum price. Representative Kuchler introduce'd a motion to fix, the minimum rate or license at ?G00 and the maximum at $1,600, but this niQtion did not como to a vote. It seems likely that a committee will be appointed to draft a now liquor liq-uor bill which will be more simple in Its wording and which will moot more of tho requirements than nny of I the bills so far presented. Such a commltteo would most likely tako i clauses from all of the bills so far presented and yet it would be 60 different dif-ferent from any of tho present bills I before the house that it could not even partake of their name. Tho ! Badgor bill already has been so bad-I bad-I ly mutilated that Representative Hol-! Hol-! man, in speaking of it today, said ' that some one would have to introduce it to Badger in order that the author might know It |