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Show SDIWED OVER BILL ON PUBLOTIUTIES Many Leading1 Democrats Believe Tentative Draft Is Too Drastic. Radical pro'-'isivns in the tentative dra't of the proposed public utilities p.ieasuie ave hron-'iv, disunity in tome of the leading lead-ing Lemo.-iuts in vaiious par La of the Mate. Nij oi;!y tin the. p'oviidons of the tentative draft tend to direct the destinies desti-nies of those 'voui-f.-rris generally recognized recog-nized as p'i i -I i - utilities, hut they propose pro-pose to include practically ovpry corporation corpora-tion within the i.o;ifi:tos of the state with the possible excepaon. of ranks. The njn who ;iv? drafting the bill pro-ro&e pro-ro&e that il'ie public utilises commission, if ir be creat'ed. shrill designate the capitalization capi-talization of . r.rporations. that it shall reirnlate the expenditures and oversee the distribution of dividends. In fact the corporations' business u'dl practically be tf-ken out of their own hands. That is, i he majority of the men who are drafting draft-ing the bill are reported to favor these radical departures. Some are said to have voiced their disapproval, but they, so far. have been in the minority. It is rr reported that some of the d'-astic provisions pro-visions have not as yet been decide- upon rs a part of the permanent draft, but the preponderance of weight in committee commit-tee meetings has been in their favor. AM the Deo-raric leaders favor a pub-utilities pub-utilities bill, but many believed tha t the Evans 'f.ill. introduced by Representative Repre-sentative Charles Ph Ma hey at the last legislature, vas scfficiecitlv stringent to meet the imme lia:e demands of the peo-p!e peo-p!e of T'tah. They were tree to admit f ha t a few changes might nbt be out of place, but they are ?iot willing to stand sponsor for the radical provisions as contained con-tained in the tentative draft of the proposed pro-posed hill. Tn t he first pia.ee. some have declared that they do not favor such drastic measures unless There is more cause: they also fear that if such a radical radi-cal bill is presume "1 to the legislature the party will be unahie lo carry out the pledge in its party plat form of enacting a public utilities measure. The probable action on such a Nil In the lower house is difficult to forecast be-anso of so manv new faces. Rut in the senate there already s a question in 1 the minds of some of the leading mern-i mern-i b?rs of the party as to whether such a bill can he forced through. On the strength of expressions already made by members of the upper house, it appears that at least half a dozen -members will oppose the extreme provisions and t hero a re four or five 4ho ma y be placed in the. doubtful class. Nine votes in the negative in the senate will mean tiie failure fail-ure of the measure. The economy and efficiency subcommittee subcom-mittee of the Democratic steering committee com-mittee met yesterday afternoon at the Xewhouse hotel and sent notification to Governor-elect :-fimon Bamberger that they were read' to confer with him. The governor-elect was busy all day meeting with the hoard of pardons at the state piison, huL probably will give his, reply this morni ng. A committee composed of Senator 1 1. T. Reynolds, representatives Alma Greenwood and .1. Alex J3evan was appointed by Chairman vv. W. Armstrong to wait upon the governor-elect. A motion also was adopted for presentation presen-tation to the governor suggesting that tile realignment" of the various "boards of the state with a view to efficiency and economy was a big job and that the ? legislature be authorized to appoint a commission to go into the matter very carefully and report at 1 the end of six weeks. It is proposed in the motion that the commission be composed of efficiency experts. u The committee on Taxation also met last night, but adjourned until next Wednesdav night on account of some of its members being members of the Inauguration- committee, which met also last night. The Manufacturers' Association of Utah yesterday indorsed a proposed bill making the misbranding of goods a serious offense. of-fense. The proposed measure is directed against the practice of outside manufacturers manufac-turers of labeling their products "made in L'ta.h." |