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Show SENATE PASSES NARCOTIC SILL MEASURE PLACES RIGID RESTRICTIONS RE-STRICTIONS UPON SALE OF DRUGS IN UTAH. Governor Announces Opposition to Any Prohibition Bill Which Creates a Commissioner of Prohibition. Salt Lake City. Debate as to whether the money to purchase transportation trans-portation to Logan, where the members mem-bers of the state senate are going on Friday, February 2, to inspect the State Agricultural college, should come out of the educational funds, the contingent fund of the senate or out of the senators' own pockets, enlivened enliv-ened the proceedings of the senate an January 22. Senate bill No. 9, introduced by Senator Sen-ator Archibald Bevan and providing that narcotics shall not be sold in Utah except upon prescription, was finally passed and ordered transmitted transmit-ted to the house for its consideration. Tales of the extent to which the drug peyote has enslaved the Indians of the Uintah basin and reservations elsewhere else-where added interest to its discussion. discus-sion. Prohibition relegated routine matters mat-ters in the house to the background on January 22, and even placed a dimmer dim-mer on the public utilities bill, which .was introduced in the house by Mo-Kay Mo-Kay of Weber. The house had a big lay over matters of party pledges and party concern. The presentation of gavel to Speaker Tolton by the membership was a pleasing incident in the afternoon of turmoil. The legislative reference committee commit-tee also got in work on a number of bills, but the standing committees of the house with one exception did little lit-tle work. The crowd attending the session was the largest of the session ses-sion in the galleries. Governor Bamberger on January 22 announced his opposition to any prohibition pro-hibition bill which creates a commissioner commis-sioner of prohibition and indicates he would return such a bill to legislature. The house refused to amend the bill to exclude sacramental wines from tile state, as moved by Bevan of Tooele and seconded by Mrs. Grace Stratton-Airey of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City. Prohibition was again the feature at the capitol on January 19. ' Heber J. Grant, president of the Betterment league, and John Henry Evans, secretary, give endorsement of the league to the Young state-wide prohibition bill. Much opposition was expressed at state house to the commissioner of prohibition feature on -ground of expense. ex-pense. Those favoring the bill claim that 15,000 would -cover the appropriation, while those opposed claim that ?50,00-0 would be required. Many leaders in the' Democratic party in the senate and the house are favorable to the 2 per cent alcohol clause of the Boyden bill. A delegation of retail liquor dealers called on Governor Bamberger and urged an extension of time for prohibition. prohi-bition. He said he would veto any bill which did not make August 1 the date for the law to become effective. The session of the state senate on January 19 broke the record of the present legislative term in the number num-ber of bills introduced for consideration considera-tion and in point of brevity. Fifteen measures, varying greatly in importance import-ance and character, were presented and referred to the refrence committee commit-tee within twenty minutes' time. Some of the most important measures meas-ures proposed in the senate were prepared pre-pared at the instigation and under the supervision of the League of Municipalities Munici-palities of Utah. Among many things of perhaps lesser importance, they called for the creation of a park commission, com-mission, a widening of the appropriation appropria-tion powers of the city commission, the fixing of the city treasurer's bond, the apportionment of the expenses of asessing and collecting taxes, giving the municipality jurisdiction over land, etc., to the source of its water supply, the rendering of the board cf education educa-tion liable to special taxation and special spe-cial assessments,-and the making of the water tax, or rental, a lien upon the property. The house passed the bill amending the garnishment law so that the same set of facts are required to garnishee as to attach. The house declined to adjourn over Saturday, deciding to meet at 2 o'clock on Saturday. The chiropractic bill was introduced intro-duced January 19 by Argyle of Utah and Bywater of Salt Lake introduced the bill he had prepared abolishing capital punishment in this state. Other bills and resolutions were introduced, in-troduced, including those extending the terms of sheriffs and the preventing prevent-ing of combinations in dairy and egg business. Lead'ng Democrrtis in the house and senate expect to be ;Yle to prepare a bill to create a board of control to take charge of all of the social institutions institu-tions in the state and that part of the state's educational institutions which relates to buildings, repairs and supplies. sup-plies. Under the provisions of the initiative and referendum bill drawn by the Democratic caucus it will requ're widespread wide-spread agitation before elections can be called. The bill is practically the same as that introduced by Dan B. Sh'cids at th? Via. session. |