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Show PROHIBITION BILLS TO BE CONSIDERED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Prohibition bills are to bo taken tip Monday by the senate committee on agriculture and irrigation. Chairman William Seegmiller has announced that there would be no more public hearings hear-ings on the liquor question, so the committee com-mittee will now concern itself with the bills before it, with the idea of reporting back to the senate within the next few days. The principal measure before the committee, com-mittee, the one over which there has been the most discussion, is Wootton 's statewide prohibition bill, introduced at the request of the Utah Federation of Prohibition and Betterment leagues ami, the Municipal league of Utah. Senator Cottrell s proposal for a constitutional con-stitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor is also before the committee, as are also bills bv Chez closing the saloons at 9 p. in., and prohibiting the serving of drinks in restaurants and cafes, and by Fund prohibiting liquor sales in and shipments to dry territory. The fate of the Wootton bill at the hands of the agriculture and irrigation committee will be watched with interest. in-terest. When the measure was referred there, after a contest, friends of the measure- had the idea that nearly every member of the committee favored it as it stood. Sentiment for the Wootton bill as drawn is understood now to be not so favorable. There may be a bare majority ma-jority in the committee favorable to the bill as drawn, in which event there is likely to be a minority report. Still, it is not even certain that a bare majority will indorse the bill as it stands. .- . V |