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Show PROHIBITION BILL PASSERBY BOUSE UTAH WILL BE A DRY STATE AFTER JULY 1, 1916, IF SENATE APPROVES MEASURE. Forty Members of Lo ver House Favor Inauguration of Prohibition Measure Meas-ure Without Submitting Question Ques-tion to the People. Utah will be a saloonlcss state after July 1, 1H Hi. The Wuotton state-wide prohibition bill passed the lower liouso of the Utah legisalture On March 1, by a vote of 40 to 5. The measure now goes back to the senate for its approval of amendments to the bill, and then to the governor, when it will become a law, unless the governor gov-ernor should veto the measure. An attempt to have the question of fjtate-wide prohibition submitted to the people was defeated, forty members mem-bers of the legislature deciding that Ihey knew what the people needed. Those who voted in favor of the iiill were: Aagard, Allen, Bevan, Jllackett, liriukerhoff, Browning, Urown, Chrlsteusen, Croft, Day, Kn-nis, Kn-nis, Fowles, Goodwin, Griffin, Hammond, Ham-mond, Hawley, Hayward, Hinckley, Jlorsley, Kelly, AlcShane, Mabey, Meeks, Morris, Nebeker, Oldham, O'Neil, Page, Peterson, Pope, Redd, Sevy, Shields, Stewart, Taylor, Van Wagoner, Warnick, Wing, Speaker Anderson; total, 40. Those opposed were: Barker, Child, Fitch, Folkman, Lund; total, 5. Absent: Wolstenholme. Joseph H. Fowles of Weber voted for the bill and gave notice of reconsideration. recon-sideration. The vote by which the bill passed both the house and the senate precludes pre-cludes submission of the question of Ktate-wide prohibition to the voters of the state on a referendum. The vote in the senate was 14 to 3 in favor of the measure, and as both the senate sen-ate and the house passer' the bill by more than two-thirds, the constitutional constitu-tional provision on the initiative and referendum prohibits the submission to the people. James J. Barker and George D. Folkman, both of Weber county, led the fight against the bill. Both offered a large number of amendments, all of which were voted down almost unanimously unani-mously by viva voce votes. The only two important amendments amend-ments adopted on the floor Qf the bouse were one prohibiting the manufacture manu-facture of wine for sacramental purposes pur-poses and the other eliminating from the bill the provision requiring physicians phy-sicians to state the malady afflicting the patient for whom intoxicants might be prescribed. 'Five bills were passed by the senate sen-ate Monday, three of them providing for transfer of duties from the office of the secretary of state to the state bank commissioner, who hereafter will have supervision of the Dusiness of building and loan associations. One of the other blll3"passed amends the drainage district laws in a manner man-ner approved by the supreme court judges and the attorney general to make it conform to the constitution. Another bill from the house that was passed under suspension of rules was that providing for the transfer of county records to Duchesne, the new county. Committee reports added several more bills to the senate calendar, including in-cluding the Dern bill for regulating the sale of liquor, a bill to make it a misdemeanor to substitute coal from one mine when another kind is ordered, order-ed, a hill to permit special parking districts in cities, a house bill amending amend-ing the laws relative to collection of corporation taxes and the bill providing provid-ing for the appointment of a commission commis-sion to select a site on the capitol grounds for a monument to the Mormon Mor-mon battalion. The house passed three bills and killed eight at the session on February Febru-ary 26. The greater part, of the time was taken up with reading of committee commit-tee reports and introduction of new bills. The bill by Ira R. Browning, which provides for an annual license tax to be paid the state by owners of automobiles auto-mobiles and the licensing of chauffeurs, chauf-feurs, was passed after being amended amend-ed so that no one under 16 years of age may run an automobile or a motorcycle. mo-torcycle. Chauffeurs must be 18 years of age. The bill provides that all machines under forty horsepower shall pay $10 a year license and that all machines of more than forty horsepower shall pay $20 a year license. Motor trucks and other motor vehicles are taxed at $15 a year. Motorcycles pay $5 a year. The number plates must be obtained from the secretary of state and this official also issues chauffeurs' licenses. The bouse suspended the rules and passed S. J. M. No. 5, by Senator John W Thornley, which asks congress to appropriate $300,000 for the eradication eradica-tion of wild and predatory animals. The discussion on S. B. No. 53 took up the greater part of the afternoon and resulted in the enacting clause being stricken out, which effectually effectual-ly killed the bill. The bill provided that an assistant librarian be appointed appoint-ed to aid the justices of the supreme court. Parley P. Chaistensen was the only lawyer in the house to vote against the bill. H. B. No. 126, by Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, prohibiting children under the age of 16 from working In any painful occupation more than nine hours a day, also created extended argument. ar-gument. Exceptions to the law are domestic employment, farming and packing of fruits and vegetables. The kill was passed. There was an hour's debate in the bouse on February 24 on Goodwin's bill to appropriate $1,000 for a commission com-mission to select a site for a monument monu-ment to the Mormon battalion, but the bill was finally approved. |