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Show AMENDMENTS 1 MAYEOSE OUT Weber Held to Blame for Defeat De-feat of Most of Proposed Changes vv.-ner county and ". p City Is being be-ing charge, l with the kllllnpr of two of the constitutional amendments voted upon at the last election. The unexplained unex-plained hoavv vote hero ajralnst the amendments is hellevcd to have caused the defeat of at least two of the , amendments contained on the ballot. Summit county sided with Weber, and probably with Salt I-ake county. in causing the death of all of the amend-j ments. In ten counties, the majority against .me ndmeiit No. 1. designed to Rive clt-,' les power to frame their own h n ters i.s defeated by 4231. While it is quite possible that a number of the other, .(.unites w-iii give majorltlefl for this amendment, it is likewise quite probable prob-able that the vote in Salt Iakf will be heavily against St, and there Is now little hope expressed that this amend-; mcnt will prove to have carried when the votes aie counted In the office of the secretary of state one week from next Monday In the same ten counties the major-it-, for the "school amendment," numbered num-bered 2 on the ballot, Is 5196. While J Salt Lake county may giv e a majority I of perhaps that many thousand aKalnst this amendment. practical b i i I erv other county to be heard from i i, known to have rolled up substan- j tlal majorities fur this amendment, I tall county probably probably setting th! b ail There is no doubt that this amendment has carried. In no count, in the state is there a heavy majority in favor of the i amendment proposing to increase the states limit of indebtedness and thf re ir. sonu substantial majorities against I it bo th'it there is now held to be littli likelihood that this amendment -ir-, ried The vote on this amendment was' the lightest of any in the counties so for making their official returns. On the amendment designed to make the workmen s compensation law con-Btltutlahal, con-Btltutlahal, as relating to death cases,' stituiibndt, relating to delays In many! caes bv guardianship proceedings in the courts, such as now occur, the ten counties give an aggregate majority ..'.Inst it of 2556 If Salt Lake voted like Weber on this amendment, it is lost Rut so far. there is little indication indi-cation that Sale Lake gave anv thing like the peculiar vote that Weber did i In practically every other county in the stair as et heard from the heavj vote w as on the school amendments. although it was perhaps the common-est common-est of the amendments In Yveber county, however. 8193 votes were cast, oji the first amendment, relating to I city charters, while only 4557 voters I expressed a preference on the pchooi question. The other nine counties In the lists below give a majorlt) for this' amendment of while the majority afTalnst it Is Weher county was 5087 We bet eounty voters as a rule skip-I ped the third amendment also, relating, to the state debt limit, and onl S78 4, balli.ts were marked on this question in that coiintv Rut on the fourth I amendment relating to the right of aC- I lion for damages In cases of Injury re- tilting in death, the Weber voters to I the number of 7C0(. marked their bal-l lots and voted bo heavily against the proposed change that the majority In j this county was 378r The llt Rave an aggregate mbjoritj for this amendment ' of 1230 If the amendment is killed It, will be because of the heavy adverse vote in W eber county. |