| Show DOMAIN I I WINS ONE ROUND iII Intended I nten edo to Help Smelting melting s I Enterprise in Tooele Too le County Passes House i i BY FIVE MEMBERS OF RECONSIDERATION TODAY IS GIVEN p The right to exercise e the right of emi eminent e l nent domain Is s extended to smelting com corn companies companies in a bill wHich passed the th house bouce yesterday It If it becomes a law smelting companies will have the right to con condemn domn property within a radius of four miles 3 of their works which means an anarea anarea anarea area with a diameter of or eight miles This is III based on the proposition that the smelt smelting smeltIng ing lug company has acquired by or otherwise 75 per cent of the property within such area leaving only 25 2 per cent at the maximum to be bl condemned In Incase Incase incase case it is necessary to condemn at all The bill is No 85 a substitute for a former bill n it passed the house with five live votes In the negative Seven were absent and the vote therefore was Ayes Aes 33 3 noes no 5 Ii absent 7 The mem mern members bars bers who voted in the negative were Me Mc Ic Rae Kae Ashton England Porter and VII Wil William liam haul McMillan lIc The bill went to the senate where it was referred to the com corn committee committee on mines and smelting gave a notice of a reconsideration of the vote today In the Smoke Zone The bill was wa championed by Mr Ir Baser Baker of Tooele who said Mid that arrangements were wore practically completed for the erection tion of a smelter at the mouth of Pine valley lIlley to cost Eighty Eight per cent of the district approximately had sig signified signified signified their willingness that the smelter should be established but progress was waso obstructed o he said by a few fe who owned a very small part of the land involved in any an part of the area Mr Ir Ashton opposed the measure on con constitutional constitutional 1 grounds Mr AIr Clegg said he would like to have haveit it go o over so that he ho could incorporate into it a provision that would take in m inthe the tIe scenic beauties of Provo Proto canyon whose absorption so to speak had been made complete by the thu Telluride Power company of Bridal Veil falls and nd other scenic beauty spots In the end Mr Ir Clegg voted aye ae and gave notice of re reconsideration reo reconsideration o consideration Mr Ir England of Weber moved to amend that the fourmile limit be made ten and the limit from towns be made mado five Mr England said that smoke was as bad beyond the proposed radius as it was within it and even worse he believed The motion was lost lostAn lostAn lostAn An Important Amendment Mr 11 Hodges of Rich proposed an amend amendment amendment amendment ment which was carried that the per percentage percentage percentage be based on the value of the theland theand theland land and instead of the acreage Mr 11 Baker said that It would be much easier to compute the area by b lines and boundaries and that if It the amendment prevailed it would result in no end of o disputes Mr Holman moved to defer but this was lost Archibald and cotton Wootton spoke earnestly for the bill Mr Ir Archibald in substance said that the mining industry is I greater than the agricultural and that home hams smelters are the first essentials Mr McRae in Opposition Mr 11 McRae Rae made an earnest speech against the tho bill He HI pointed out that the evils resulting from smelter nelter smoke and fumes spread over oer a territory far Tar farIn farIn TarIn In excess of the fourmile radius and declared In effect that the smoke from the smelters in the vicinity of Murray and BIngham Junction had a blighting effect upon vegetation as far north as Bountiful Mr Ir McRae employed the blackboard backboard in elucidating his ideas During the morning session Mr Ir Ashton invited Mr Ir to occupy a seat at his side Objection was made on the ground round that Mr was wag an inter interested Interested Interested ested party The speaker ruled that as the Invited guest of a member any per person person person son was entitled to the courtesy but that it must be distinctly understood that no lobbying must b In In the aft afternoon afternoon Mr Ashton resented the asper aper asperElo Elo 1510 which he believed had been b en in intended Intended intended tended to be cast on him and declared that there was no power on earth that could Influence his vote ote while he was a member of the house houseA A similar bill was passed by b the house housend and nd senate two years ago but was ve ye vetoed vetoed toed by the governor |
