Show EXEMPTION BILL FAILS fAltS TO PASS Stones ones Collection Agency ncy Meas Measure ure is 13 in the House H use I 4 CLAIM C AIM POOR WOULD SUFFER I I y DECIDED DECIE MJ RITY AGAINST AG ST MAKING MG G DEBTORS DETOR PAY COSTS COSTS 4 I Ignominious defeat was the fate late of ot i the Stone collection agency ag cy bill blU at the th l forenoon session of or the house hous yester yesterday yesterday ester esterday day Even with wih a favorable report from the judiciary jud cla committee to help It it the measure measure was slaughtered by a vote of ot 26 6 to o 15 The bill bl changed change two words In the exemption law The present present statute reads read that in itt no case shall the judg judgment mont ment rent debtor be forced to pay the costs of suit sui Stone who keeps a store at at atS Salem S lem wanted It i changed to read r ad all al eases cases When the th committee report was read Stone urged its Is adoption He claimed the change chang would help poor people to get credit Norris Morris Moris was the first frt man to take a acack crack cack at the measure We Ye wrestled with wih this same proposition proposition tout four days two years ago he said and we decided that the law as asAt a asat At t present on the th statute books book was as best best The speaker speaker attacked a certain col collection collection lection lecton agency In Salt Lake This agency he declared makes a business of bringing suits and nd col collecting collecting unjust bills bil ard arid and building up upco costs coLs co tg Give GI e the laboring man an a chance I Ito to pay his debts If I you pass this bill bi billyou YOU place in this hands bands han s the I most powerful engine ever given to op oppress oppress I press the laboring man mn Others Oppose the Bill Bil Done said reputable attorneys were i ioP I opposed oP os to the bill bm He declared this agency would levy lev unsuccessful gay gar month after month mont to build buildup buildup costs up It means depriving a man many of or his job joh johnine nine times out of ten said Barrett Barett I Two years ago aso I had communications communications from the leading heading merchants merchant of Ogden against the bill bi announced Mc McFarland McFarland McFarland Farland McKinnon and Chipman favored It It They declared it i would not hurt honest people but only dead beats beat If I I were an attorney I 1 would go g around and tell tel people to vote vot against the bill bi said sid Richards who favored the th measure He averred merchants would limit their accommodations to customers without some such protection protection tion ton Two years ago said Hamlin a acourt acour acourt court cour record was brought in here show showIng showIng Ing mg that a man owed a debt of ot 50 and arii the collection agency gecy made m de him pay before he got through Under the theold theold theold old way a man could be garnisheed twice a week w ek making costs cost each time tm How Ho can you expect a poor man manto manto manto to pay his debts at that rate rte Morris Moris resented any reflection on at attorneys at attorneys attorneys If the bill were passed said he hp attorneys would get ten times tm s the th amount mount of ot business they do now No honorable attorney would vote foe for bill bl White Wie Roasts Bats Committees John D j Rockefeller sent word to the senate not to pass any antitrust legislation ton said White The same sae sentiment nt has prevailed in this house We go ito O Into a committee room and 2nd whom do we find represented there Special Interest after special Interest and matt mart not a representative of the poor 1001 martHe mattHe He cited the smelter smoke bill bi min mining minIng ing hills bills bis and the Cahoon liquor bill and declared that special interests were rep rOp represented r resented before the committees but the poor people were vere not He opposed d the pending measure as against the In Interests interests of ot the poor people Dr Condon resented some of the th statements statement as reflecting on members member of the house I had no na no intention to cast aspersions on any member said sid White Speaker Hull Hun called caled Hamlin to the chair and made his first speech ch from the floor foor during the session I 1 am surprised he declared that even a a few should stand up for the op oppression oppresSiOn oppression of the poor por and unfortunate We have in Salt S1 Lake one of the mos mo most oppressive collection agencies that ever disgraced our state Its Is a disgrace to the merchants that such an outrageous institution should be allowed to exist exist in our state Stoker Stok of the judiciary committee said the report was not unanimous H He us opposed the bill billIt bUt bilLIt It gives a chance to run up costs until a poor man cant get out of debt he said It I would drive many out of the he state Stewart moved that the committee report carried be b laid on an n the table This was I 1 move that the enacting clause claue be he stricken out said Barrett Barrett Col Colon Colton ton wanted to give some of the members of ot the judiciary committee who vho w o voted for the bill bi a chance to be beI I I heard hc rd When Wen the roll rol was wa called caled the yore was w as a folI ws on striking out the t j j j j enacting clause cause and a killing lh the bill l i j Ayes Adams Anderson Adeon Barrett Bart Ca Cahoon C Cahoon hoon ho n Child Condon Done Evans Eva FiShburn Hamlin J E B Johnson J H HJ Johnson Johnsn J lr Merrill Merrl Molyneux Morris Nash Peterson terson Robison lois Nah l leron Spry Stewart St wart Stoker Watts Watt White Wilson i Hull 26 Noes Austin Chipman Colton Has Haslam Ha Haslam I lam Hawley Lee Luther Lut r I McRae Redd Richards RIchars Roberts Robet Smith mih Stone 15 Absent and not voting Brink Coul Coulter Coulte Coulten I ten ter te Metcalf Hall U L |