| Show lila BILL TO SHIELD COUNTY PAPERS DISTURBS HOUSE HOUSEMasters Masters l Attacks Publishers Who Vho Seek Seck Chiefly Legal Advertising Pelf Speaker Richards tool took a hand y yes yesterday In a n. debate over o tho the bills presented pre pro entell by Representative o Master Mastors which were prepared L by the lie executive e I committee ort 1 c of it the tho A O f lt flirt State I Press as- as 1 I J I d designates i i s what halH 1 newspapers SI p rR are arc qualified to print le legal al advertising and fixes a n maximum le legal al rate 1 an Inch and 50 cents centa for or each cach subsequent In Insertion In- In The Tho purpose of tho the bill Is to keep OltI out O the tIle Illegitimate newspapers that go into counties whore there lucre Is a a. great deal of oC legal I advertising because of or ortho the tho development of the country anti and I which Issue small editions and undercut undercut undercut under under- cut fair rail rates that tho the state association association tion has fixed The measure Is similar to laws Jaws in California and nd other coast and mountain moun thin tain states Under the provisions pro of oC tho bill no newspaper per can cnn print le legal al advertising td until It has been boon published for one year unless it Is the first paper established Representative Masters made mado a plea for tor the tho IJas passage ao of oC tho the bill Several So minor amendments wore adopted and then thon tho the called Representative tI to the chair while he himself took the tho floor 1001 in opposition to the tho bill hili Ills His contention was that the state had no right to bar out a business for tor twelve month or to sa say that a n publisher publisher pub pub- lisher usher roust must live 11 in a count county for a year oar Ho then moved moed that the words one ono year ho bo str stricken from tho the hill biLl Conner Country Journals Journal Pral Praised cd Mr Masters who Is an nn editor took issue with tho the speaker pe and made a plea for tOl the countr country newspaper Ho declared that most country papers In Utah were equipped with mOil modern ern machinery machinery ma- ma ma mn- chinery anti and that their Investment In differed from rom that of or moet most other kinds of oC business that the they worked nl night ht and day for tho the community in which they lived lI that the they did more free work for the people than any lI one else and ther entitled to protectiOn protection tion from men who entered tho the field purely for tho the pelt pelf that could be he got goat from Crom hea heavy runs o of legal leal advertising nd md had l their newspapers printed In Salt Lake LaJe or some other largo large place Ho lie concluded his a address L by a plea to the House to stand by the bill Representative D D. D D D. McKay lcK sought to b by saying that he ho believed ed that If IC the tho bill with twO twoS two companion comp ones was recommitted changes could be made that would remove features feature and that th the tho measures would then win approval al Ho moved that such auch a plan should be bo followed the advocate to of oC tho the bills accepted ted his suggestion sug ug suggestion and the House recommitted them to tho the committee Oh on ju Judiciary They will probably bl bo be reported back today |
