Show GOVERNOR VERNOR KILLS LIQUOR MEASURE ALSO RIPPER AND DESMOINES DES MOINES BILLS SILLS IMPORTANT LEGISLATION SUMMARilY Chief Executive Offers No Explanation for Vetoes Ve Vetoes Vetoes toes of Most Meas Measures ures of the Session Action Made Easy for Him in Regard to Liquor Bill by Clever Campaign in Senate vv v 6 vv The governor has lias authorized me meto meto meto to say that he will veto senate bills Nos 89 HS and His veto statements will be filed flied with the secretary of state tomorrow morning and will set forth the grounds on which the bills were vetoed He declines to announce those grounds except in the state statements statements ments rents to accompany the bills The statements will be prepared in the morning H K Hardy secretary to Governor William Spry s Senate bill No 89 by Marks Fire and police pollee commission for Salt Lake City appointed by the v governor v Senate bills Nos and by b Benner X Y Smith Moines plan of government for Salt Lake City 3 Senate bill No by majority of committee on manufactures and commerce Providing for local op and liquor regulation v v v vv Governor William Villiam Spry through hl We hie private secretary announced late test milt night that he would veto tho the Badger liquor bill the fire fro fire and police ripper bill billand billand billand and the Des Moines bills The governor declined to give the rea reasons reasons reasons sons for his vetoes but said al they would be set forth in hm statements to be made public this morning The vetoes of the governor kill by far Car Carthe the most important legislation le of th the Eighth session of the time legislature of The veto eto that attracts the tile most public interest Is the veto of the Badger i liquor bill The passage of or this meas measure measure ure urt was the culmination of months of I I agitation for statewide prohibition for Utah The bill a as a compromis meas I I y I t I t I I SENATOR RUDOLPH KUCHLER Leader of the whose tactics in the senate made It easy for Governor Spry to veto the loaded liquor bill ure are passed both houses Its final pas passage passage passage sage occurring on last Saturday just before the adjournment of the legisla legislature legislature legislature ture The veto yeto of or this measure by the gov govenor govenor govenor enor was made easy by the shrewd and careful loading of the measure by Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Rudolph Kuchler of Weber coun county county county ty Senator Kuchler was the chairman of the committee on manufactures and commerce and led the fight against prohibition and also against radical liquor legislation He introduced sev several several eral amendments to the bill which on their face appeared innocent enough but b t which would probably have rendered ren rendered rendered dered the measure inoperative If it had been enacted into law Amendments One of these amendments introduced ostensibly to make Salt Lake and Og den deli units in tho the local option elections was a prime factor in fn the final execution execution execution tion of the bill This amendment pro provided vided that the provision of the th a fl at f I should be operative in cities ciU of asere than titan 1090 inhabitants only wh when n tile legal voters of such BUch elites clUe Stall shall haw have Ita voted in m favor of or prohibition The jok joker j jer er in the amendment was wu that It dM did not say a R majority of the voters of eves cities Under a strict construction tits vote for prohibition must be Then too it said the provisions of t tact act so IO that the regulation as applied to cities of more then than laid inhabitants were not bOt operative unless URIeR he be voters oten should declare unanimously u lF in favor faor of or prohibition and then of course there would be no need of reg rig regulation regulation features 8 Another feature of the hill bill which doubtless will be need to explain tIN the governors action In vetoing the mea masse ure was the fact that no appropriation was made for carrying out the tM provi provisions provisions provisions of or the act acL The bill provided fur fUn state inspectors of the liquor traffic c to W travel through the state as a sort of et f state secret service No appropriation was wag made for lor the salaries of the tit these in Is inspectors nor for their then traveling ex ox expenses History of Badger Bill The Badger bill was a sort of or Illegitimate successor to the Cannon bill for statewide prohibition When the com orbs committee r on manufactures and ADd commerce cotuMa com ee of which Senator Kuchler wa was wu Mir man roan submitted to the senate an adverse ad report killing prohibition a majority of the committee Chairman Kuchler d te enting reported favorably on eeN settle t bill This bill as U originally introduced pro pie provided vided for county local option and strict regulation The TIle report bill was signed sl by Senators Badger Hyde John Y T Smith and Bullet Bulten Sos Sen Senator ator Badger however was conceded to te tebe tobe tobe be the author of the measure which whick TV was as an of or laws of almost alm et I every local option and regulation state K te tein in the union In his dissenting dl report I Pt Senator Kuchler said that In many man features fea features f tures the bill blU was meritorious but bat that I he w would Insist on an amendment mak making ing Irs Salt SaIt Lake and Ogden units u its In treat local I If JUn inn elections He lIe was opposed o posed to and Salt Lake counties voting I is s un ts in such h elections a little discussion the Badger I bill hi was referred back to the committee commit m rn n manufactures and commerce In two u h it was as reported out with a nv nr o n for state option the state t tv to is tot vote v tc t as ns a unit on the prohibition ques questin question tin Uon In July 1910 From the report ef of the committee Senator Kuchler again ted Quartet Bluffs Senate Then began an active fight on the bill Mil Milas billas billas as It stood Practically only four foul sea sen senators President Gardner and Senators Se Kuchler and Benner X XI i yr Smith I SlI th ruled the senate and by I sal bluffs forced the majority to accept their amendments Senator Badger loll led leath th opposition but was WM outgeneraled an and I outwitted by the quartet opposing 3 ing him After every amendment the tM four In the minority had introduced h had hed hedI I been voted down the majority weak weakened w weakened k kI I ened ned and accepted the amendments In Including Including including the Kuchler jokers which made the bill inoperative The bill then passed the senate senale unanimously every o othe one ol of the eighteen senators voting for It The same day that the bill passed p the tM senate enate the governor sent to each branch brans of the legislature a communication advising ad advising advising the passage I 68 ge of f some measure providing for local option and strict regulation After the bill passed the tsa t senate senale the governor requested the ap appointment appointment appointment of a conference committee from each house to consider con lder the moss meas measure ure The members of If the conference ee committees were those th who had bed take tak takeno no active part in the of t tem temperance o perance legislation laUon but who for tor the tM moet meet mo t part were men controlled a absolutely i s lately by the leaders of the Republican y s scan can party I IThe I The Conference Measure I I The Time bill drawn by the Joint conference ee I committee was a measure placing the tile liquor tragic traffic of the state undo under the ab alt absolute I solute control of the state tate board boud of ex oft examiners x xI I amine consisting coo I of the governor the I secretary of state and the attorney gen general I eral e al with absolute power to Issue ue or revoke licenses at will There was ateo aho a Continued on Page 2 IMPORTANT IMPORT NT LEGISLATION SUMMARILY DISPOSED OF Continued from Page 1 a very weak local loal option provision in inthe Inthe inthe the bill with counties and cities over oer 1000 of population as units Thus This T I bill was passed unanimously by the house and sent JUnt to the senate The quartet that t at had so successfully opposed the theother theother theother other bill passed by b the senate suc sue succeeded succeeded In delaying action on the admin administration adminIstration adminIstration bill until the house was forced to pass the Badger bill Some slight alight amendments were made by the house and on tho th final passage of oC the meas measure measure ure ore In the senate after aCter the house amendments had beer been concurred in the vote yote was 11 U to 6 Marks and with toe the four who controlled the destinies of liquor legislation le As sent to the senate the measure contained all of the Kuchler Kuehler Jokers and It was therefore easy for the governor to declare dC lare his Intention of oZ vetoing the measure On the final passage pas gt of the th bill in the senate those opposed to this class of or temperance legislation made but little opposition The feeling was wasand anti ansi it was expressed on the floor of the senate f by b those opposed to the bill that the lie governor gornor would veto oto the bill billand billand billand and further that aside from any an agree agreement a e ement ment mont with the brewers he ho would be justified in Joins doing doln so Vale Ripper Bill The rhe ripper bill cating the lire fire and police pollee departments of Salt Lake City and turning the control of 0 these departments over oer to a commission to be appointed by the governor was sup supported supported ported by b the city county count and state organizations of the Republican party Practically the th sole object of the bill was to take from rom the American party the control of these thele departments and transfer it to the Republican party part and I thus to build up a powerful state ma machine machine machine chine The Tito bill was introduced In tho th enate by b Charles E K Marks of Salt Lake Laue Lal and opposed by b President Gardner anc Sen Senators Senators nto Benner X N Smith John JohnY Y 1 Smith Kuchler and Burton Durton It passed both houses and there here was every indication that it would become a law It was believed to be a foregone conclusion conell lon that it would be signed by bythe b the governor since It was wa a political measure pure and simple The question of constitutionality was raised and prominent attorneys declared they the would stake their ons on its un on unconstitutionality unconstitutionality constitutionality It was sure Ure to cause litigation and there was a strong probability probability probability ability that the supreme court would take the position that it was unconstitutional In addition to its unconstitutional ty the governor probably figured it would be bad politics polities since the broad broadminded broadminded minded men of ot all parties opposed the confiscation by b the state of municipal departments The Des Moines Bills The Des Moines bills were introduced by b Senator Benner X Smith with the indorsement of the Civic Improvement league and a large majority of the bus business busness ness incas men of Salt Lake City Two Tivo years ears ago bills were passed by bythe bythe bythe the senate providing for the Galveston form of municipal government They passed the senate but were killed in the house because of the arbitrary of Speaker Harry Harr S Joseph Since that time the people of oC Salt Lake Lalta have given ghen the subject of or a bet better better better ter form of care careful c careful re reful ful study stud and sent a commission to Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines to study stud the system m of govern government government government ment in that city The rhe comm re ro reported reported ported favorably and bills were intro introduced Introduced Introduced in th tte senate adapting this form of oC government to Salt Lake ake I The bills passed both houses with little opposition opposition tion as they had the backing of oC practically every business man in Salt Lake Cit Soon after they the reached the governor it was apparent that the bills would pr bably be vetoed The governor said he h was opposed to them for several reasons One of these was his asser assertion assertion assertion tion that the plan would create a pow powerful powerful powerful erful city machine another was that he thought that the question of oC issuance issuance ance an e of railroad franchises should not be left to such a small body bod that this matter should be submitted to the lie peo people people pie at municipal elections and a third was his opinion that the recall feature providing that 25 per cent of oC the people on oil signing petitions could hold a ape special special cial cia election to depose any city officer would create endless turmoil and po political political political strife The governor gave a public hearing on the measures in his office yesterday afternoon Thomas G Webber Vebber J G O McDonald O 0 H Hewlett Senator Carl CarlA A Badger Frank B Stephens George GeorgeH H Forbes R B B Porter James Ingle bretsen George P Keysor V P Smith Henry W Lawrence Dr T B Beatty H L I Nelson Nel D H Christensen Christenson and Oscar L Cox spoke in favor of the bills In opposition to the Des I plan there appeared George M Moyer and City Attorney H J T |