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Show SENATE PASSES PROHIBITION BY ran 6 to 2 Amended State-wide Dry Measure Approved, Cot-trell Cot-trell Moves to Reconsider Recon-sider Action SEVERAL WANT BILL REFERRED TO PEOPLE Salt Lake Senator's Motion However, When Made Will Be Defeated, Will Reach Spry Saturday Wootton s state wide prohibition bill as amended by the house of representa j t ves was passed in the Ltah senate yesterday afternoon by a -vote of 16 to President Mont Ferry and Senator George II Dern of Palt Lake were the two to rote against the 1 1 Senator Charles pottrell Jr of bait Lake was re ognrzed b the chair as oon as the ote was announced and ga e not e that he would move to re ons dcr the act on As Senator Cot trell had oted n the affirmative bis d otion to recoos der would be in or der The senator from Salt Lake has until today to make his mot on to recon der In the event that he does not n ake the motion today any other sen ator who voted m the affirmative may move to reconsider . number of the senators who want the prohibit onques t on referred to the people and who therefore do not like the Wootton b 11 overmuch voted in the affirmative and mav give notice to reconsider Pending the motion to reconsider the bill cannot go to the committee on en gross ng and enrolling the bills which must prepare the measure for the sig natures of the president of the senate the speaker of the house and the gov ernor of the state Will Be Tooted Down. In the event that Senator Cottrell does actually make his mot on to re cone der today jt will be voted down The bill w 11 then go to the engrossing ajod enroll ng committee wh ch will probably take a day to prepare the b U for the signatures of the presiding of fleers of both houses These officers i must s gn the b 11 in the presence of the r re pective houses before it can go to the go ernor If the programme should go through t vould be featut day before the b 11 would go to the governor The governor has fi e days in wh ch to s gn or refuse to sign While the b 11 is rapidly reaching the end of its course there is no tell ng what quirk might come up desp te the charmed life it has led in the legislature thus far This statement is insp red by the lively jockeying over the b 11 in the senate yesterday At the end of the morn ng session t looked as if the drys had put one over but the other s de came up em ling in the after noon Before the noon recess was taken the Continued on Page Eleven ) V MEASURE AGAIN APPROVED BY SENATE (Continued, from Page One.) senate bad concurred in the amendments amend-ments to the bill made by the house of representatives "by a vote of 16 to 2. Upon fir?t call tlie vote was 10 to S for concurrence. Si x pen a tors then changed their voles to "ves." Concurrence Lineup. The, first line-up on concurrence in the house amendments was as follows: For concurrence Senators Bradley. Chez. Colton. Eckersley, Funk. Hansen, Reynolds, RJdeout, Seegmlller and Woot-ton. Woot-ton. Aga Inst concurrence Senators Cottrell. Craig, Dern, KdshelU, Evans, Thorn ley, Wight and Fern'. Senators Cnttretl. Dern. 75dghill. Evans. Thorn! ey and Wight then changed their vote?. Senator Coltrell then ros t- inquire of the riiatr if it would be proper to give police po-lice of muion to rc'-onMdr. Before President Frry could respond. Senator William SeK mtllnr, chairman f the committee com-mittee on agriculture und irrigation, which put the bill over, announced his intention to move for a reconsiders tfon. "If there is going to b- Bny shcxUlng." he remarked, with a dry smile, "I tant to have the gun in my hands." Thus was the situation when the senate took a receyp for luncheon. In the afternoon after-noon President Ferry expressed the belief that both Senators Seegmlller and Cottrell ha4 been out of order in that, while the senate had concurred in the house amendments amend-ments It had not enacted the bill as so amended. Protest Is Registered. Roll call on final passage of the bill as amended by the bouse was then called for. Narnps of the senators are celled in alphabetical alpha-betical order, except that the name of the president of the senate is called last. When the name of Cottrell was called, under un-der the "C's." the senator from Snlt Lake voted "yes," but at the same time gave notice that he would move for a reconsideration. recon-sideration. This precipitated a spirited protest from thf "drys.'" Senator Scg-miller, Scg-miller, floor lender of the "dry 5," and Senator J. H. "Woottnn, Introducer of the bill, protested earnestly that it wa clearly clear-ly out of order for a motion of this kind to be announced until the entire roll had been called, on the ground that "It would give the first senator on the roll call Absolute Ab-solute and arbitrary control of the situation." situa-tion." President Ferry held that Senator Cottrell Cot-trell was out of order, sustaining the contention con-tention of the "drys." Tho roll call then proceeded, all the senators voting for the bill except Dern and Ferry. Roll call over. Senators Cottrell and Seegmlller both sprang to their feet, the latter still mindful of his hunch about having tin- kuii in his own hnnd if ther VMM in In' any mhu"ilntr. M n r-i "'" ''d . hw-1 hw-1 vi r, tlutt S'-iut for 1 '"i 1 1 HI mm iu!-k-r on the trigger thnn he bud l'-cn hi I he forenoon. fore-noon. (In was rcc'jftiiize.d by the chair and sened notice thui he would moe to reconsider the action. Vote on Measure. Roll rail on final pa.-.sage was as fol-lows fol-lows : Ayes Senators Tu'udley. "hez. Colt on. Cotlrcll. ruin, Kckerfi1v, Edgheilt, Kvann, -"iinU, T IunH.cn, Kviiolds, 1 ttdout, Seeg-itilller, Seeg-itilller, Thornioy, Wight, and 'ootton. Nays ! crn and Kero'. When the Wootlon bill came brick from the hou.Mo in tlin morning, various unnuc-ccHsfuI unnuc-ccHsfuI efforts were mode to amend it. The "dryt" would hav.i none of this, but thc.y hud n narrow squejik "ii one proposed pro-posed jiiiiPiidment. TImh wus over uiv ex-ten!'"-! of the time wh-n the bill becomes, operative to Junum y 1 . UU7, a hd it re-sulted re-sulted in a tic vote to S. An amendment amend-ment Iniln on A tie vutc. ilelI the bill was reported from the house, Senator Funk uf the "dryM" nto'ei to concur In the house a mend -nu-niH. Senator U. ft. WigliL, of the op-, position, moved as n substitute that tlie hill ho referred back to tlie committee on agriculture und irrigation. Tills motion wan defen t-d, whereupon Senator Joseph Chez of Weber county proposed to amend the bill bv making it opera tlvc January 1 1, 1017. instead f Jnlv. lfllfi. Hennior f'hz and other m'.-mbers urgf;d ' thin, in order to give lUpior inicresis having t!ie larger ln ewtincnts time in which to wind up their affaJrH. Senator1 ,1. R. Fdgheiil of .luab county, who whs out of the -city when the Woot ton bid was up In the imte before, spoke in favor of this amendment, though stating 1 that he wan In favor of the bill that hl const Kucnts favored it. Tie Vote Is Result. Tho tie vote was on the Chec amendment. amend-ment. It was as follows: For Chez. Cottrell, Cralg, Pern, Edg-hell). Edg-hell). Evann, Thornley Wight and Ferry. Against Bradley, Colton. Eckersley, Funk, Hansen, Reynolds, iftldeout, Seegmlller Seeg-mlller and Wootton. Senators Evans and Reeginlller had a brief passage over the reuolui ion Intro- duced by fcenator Cottrell. proposing an amendment to the constitution prohibit- ' lng the manufacture and sale of liquors, "Where if thut t evolution ?" anked Mr. I E'h n of tiie cha irms i of the agriculture agricul-ture and irrigation committee. "J do not 1 link the question Is germane," ger-mane," replied Mr. Kefiguiltler. "but I will say that it is still in the hands of the committee." Tn reply to another question. Air. He.cgmiMer said the resolution resolu-tion had not been considered. Calls for a vote 011 tho Chec amendment interrupted inter-rupted this debate. Wight Is Sarcastic. Senator I B. V.Tght Informed the senate sen-ate that, points in the Towa prohibition law, after which he a?sumed the Wootton Woot-ton bill to b modeled, had been declared de-clared unconstitutional by the supreme court of that elate. lie said he had some amendment!! uorrecting those flaws, but remarked, with considerable sarcasm, that friendB of the Wootton bill would not be fair enough to consider them. Call for the previous question confirmed, to the senator's mind, this contention. Senator "Wight obsrvd, with more sarcasm, sar-casm, that the senators were not as lair as the "aut hor of tie bill, who Is not, by the way, a member of this senate." Other Actions Taken. In the hodse yesterday the committee on manufactures and commerce recommended recom-mended for parage the Goodwin resolution resolu-tion proposing state-wide prohibition by honstitutlonal amendment. After the report re-port recommending the resolution had been read, Representative George F. . Goodwin of Salt Eeke author of the resolution, reso-lution, announced that it was the under-i standing of the committee that no action would be taken by the house on the resolution reso-lution until the Wootton prohibition bill whs finally disposed of. To pas.s the resolution proposing the constitutional amend ment will require a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature leg-islature and before it can become a part of the constitution it must b adopted by the people at the next general election. The committee on manufactures and commerce also recommended for passaee the Wolstenholme regulation bill, restricting restrict-ing the eale of liquor. If this bill and the Wootton bill both become laws the terms of the Wolfatenholme bill will apply to the liquor traffic up to the time that the Wootton prohibition bill becomes effective, a year from next July. The committee reported adversely the prohibition bill presented by Representatives Mabev and Croft. This bill was a duplicate of the Wootton bill and therefore unnecessary. It was killed without objection. |