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Show iSTlKE CKE" II HON BILL Committee Members Admit Commissioner Will Not Be Allowed. LEFT TO THE HOUSE Say They Will Place Responsibility Re-sponsibility on Lower Legislative Body. Mombcrs of the committee on manu- 1 factiires and commerce, in charge of the prohibition bill, admit that the measure will have to he redrafted and the prohibition prohibi-tion commissioner feature will have to be eliminated before the measure can get pa?t the house, hut the committee declares that it will place the responsibility responsi-bility of altering the bill upon the house itself. The committee held a session on the measure yesterday afternoon, and at 10 o'clock this morning it is to accord a hearing to the retail druggists in relation to a change in the measure that will place t fie handling of wlnea for sacramental sacra-mental purposes exclusively in the hands of wholesale druggists and take it out of the hands of the retail concerns. Chairman Wynn I-. Eddy of the committee com-mittee now considering the hill admitted yesterday that the prohibition commissioner commis-sioner feature of the measure will come out of the bill before it is ever passed by the house and before it is enacted into law, but he declared that his committee com-mittee was not prepared to make the change itself. Consults Constituents. Representative Eddy returned yesterday morning' from Boxelder county, his home, and he declared that his trip home had convinced him that the people are not keen for the commissioner feature of the bill as it now stands. In fact, he declared, de-clared, tliere is strenuous opposition among the people in general to the high-salaried high-salaried commissioner feature of the proposed pro-posed law, and he had found from consulting con-sulting other members of the house who spent Saturday and Sunday at home that their constituents had given them to understand that a prohibition bill with a high-salaried commissioner feature in it was not what is wanted in the way of a pichibitiun measure. He said: Tn find, from my investigations, that the people do not want to create any more offices or pay out salaries and additional operating expenses to enforce the law which should be enforced en-forced bv the regular officers of the stnte. They are opposed to the commissioner com-missioner feature of the present prohibition pro-hibition bill. I find, and I am inclined to believe tii at the bill will have to be amended in this respect before it is passed. Of course, the whole measure has been drawn around the commissioner commission-er idea and if that is eli ruinated it will necessitate the redrafting of the measure to eliminate the commissioner commission-er f a 1 1 1 re a nd to assign the duties Imposed upon him to some other official of-ficial or officials. The work that is provided for the commissioner must be done by someone and the bill will have to be so reconstructed as to impose im-pose those duties, upon someone else or upon others. Is Ordered Printed. The bill ha s been ordered printed and was p' need in the hands of the printer last Friday for printing in exactly the form in which it was introduced in the ho msp. The printed copies were ex-7oeted ex-7oeted to be ready for distribution among j house m pm hers yesterday afternoon, but they were not delivered by the printer. I Chairman Kddy expects to have the I printed copies on hand today. The hill as being printed does not Include In-clude the altera I ions In language airreed upon by the committee after the hearing! Inst week with representatives of the! Betterment Lencue of Utah and the bill will have to undergo correction and reprinting re-printing to incorporate these alterations, if nothing else, it is said. However, the committee. In view of the I opposition that has developed In the ; house to the commissioner feature, ex- 1 pects that the whole measure will have to he revamped to eliminate the objectionable objec-tionable feature and that all the changes and corrections may be made at one time, after the house has gotten Us pruning shears to work on the provisions of the measure. t Leave It to House. In Its goine- over the various provisions provi-sions of the bill yesterday afternoon the committee took the stand that as the opposition op-position to the commissioner feature of the bill is so strong In the house the whole matter might as well be put up to Hie house at once and the house charged with responsibility for making such alterations in the construction of the bill as It may decide to make. Some of the committee members themselves them-selves admit they are opposed to the commissioner feature, but the majority of the committee favors sending the bill back to the house practically as it is and leaving it tc the house to make the change, if any is to be made. The house then could alter the measure to suit Itself It-self and the committee would not only be relieved of the responsibility for alterations, al-terations, but would be saved much work that it would have to do were it to undertake, un-dertake, on Its own accord, a remodeling of the bill to meet the sentiment that Is known to exist among the house members. mem-bers. Members of the house are already clamoring for the bill to be reported back for its consideration this week. Chairman Eddy was not prepared last night to state whether the' committee could get through its consideration of the measure and its hearings with those who want to be heard in time to get the measure mea-sure back this week, but that it would strive to do so. Druggists Are Heard. The retail druggists made a special request re-quest for a hearing by the committee this morning. They have no objection, it is stated, to any portion of the bill save that which provides that ail wines for sacramental sacra-mental purposes shall be handled and disposed of through the retail druggists. They object to assuming this responsibility, responsi-bility, it is stated, and want to be relieved re-lieved of it. They are suggesting that the law be so changed as to provide that wines for church use shall be handled only by the wholesale druggists and that the retail dealers not- be permitted to handle it at all. The retailer does not want to be placed in the position or having hav-ing goods for sale and yet being compelled to decline to sell them except upon a limited lim-ited basis to a very limited few. They argue that better results would be achieved through handling of this wine by the wholesalers, and it is a change to bring this about that the druggists are planning to ask of the committee at the hearing today. |