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Show 'RED FLAG' BILL HP TO SENATORS TODAY Committee's Report Recommends Rec-ommends Substitute Law. Representative Cardon's "red flag" bill, defining the red flag of I. W. W.-ism and Bolshevism as an anarchistic banner ban-ner and making the display of it a felony in the state of Utah, is the second measure mea-sure on the "expedition" calendar for consideration by the senate this morning. morn-ing. This bill was reached yesterday afternoon, after-noon, but on motion of Senator Knight it was put over until this morning to retain re-tain its place on the calendar, which place is second. There are two bills before the senate on this subject, one being the original bill by Cardon, which was passed by the house and which named the red flag and defined it as a banner of anarchy and made the hoisting, carrying or display of it a felony in this state. The other bill is a substitute submitted by the judiciary judi-ciary committee of the senate and which eliminates reference to the red flag, but provides that it shall be a felony for any person to "hoist, carry or display any banner, flag of emblem proclaiming or indicating disloyalty to the government of the United States, or a . belief in anarchy," and eliminating any definition of the red flag as a banner of this character. char-acter. The committee's report, signed by Senator Sena-tor Olson, simply ' recommended that the substitute bill be passed stating that it had been prepared and submitted with the consent of the author of the original bail. Senator Olson moved that the committee report be adopted. He explained that i the author of the original bill had con- the senalor explained was the . incon- i sislency of the original bill. Senator Knight moved that the bill go , over until morning, declaring that lie believed the original measure, which mentions men-tions the red flag, the flag of Bol-shevism, Bol-shevism, as a disloyal flag, was the one ' to be considered and passed. Senator Olson said that he would not oppose the motion, but he wanted to explain ex-plain the inconsistency of the original bill so the senators could think the matter mat-ter over between now and the time the bill is considered. "If you want to prevent the raising of any red flag," said Senator Olson, "then let's pass a law prohibiting the raising of any red flag. But the original bill is inconsistent; it specifies a red flag and says 'any other banner of disloyalty,' but it doesn't mention the black flag, which I understand is the adopted flag of anarchy. Let's make the law broad and apply to every anarchistic banner and not just specify oc color of ban- . ner. , - ! "Why, there are some lodges which i have red banners and our own national ; flag has red in it. Why soecify red in this bill? ! "I believe the Bull Moose at the Chi- cago convention adopted the red ban- j danna handkerchief as a banner. That j certainly was not any indication of an- : archy. Why legislate against red ban- j ners nart i eula rlv ? 1 ,et 's ma Ice it hrOM d and apply to all banners that indicate disloyalty, as the substitute bill does." The motion of Senator Knight to lay the bill over was carried. Many lawyers in Salt Lake believe that the senate substitute which Senator Olson Ol-son wants passed is too general in its construction nnd does not state the intent. in-tent. The sifbstitute, lawyers say, would permit the J. W. W. or Bolshevists to parade the streets, flaunt their red" fings, and if molested would contend that they were peaceful bodies and did not intpnd to violate the law, and, as a result, the , emblem of anarchism could be carried in : parades and by mobs without police in- j torference. |