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Show COMMITTEE IGNORED; CSGARETBILL PASSED Senate Supports Measure on Final Reading; Goes to House. In keeping with its action of the day before In ignoring an unfavorable committee com-mittee report and passing the Southwick South-wick anticlgarette bill on second reading, the senate yesterday passed the measure on final reading and sent it to the lower house for consideration by that body.. The .vote on final passage stood 11 for, with 6 against and 1 absent. The vote on second reading passage Thursday was 12 for, with 5 against and 1 absent. Senator Sanford waa the absent member In both instances, , and on the final passage vote Senator Iamph switched and voted against the bill. Those who voted for the final passage of the measure yesterday included Bevan, Bradley, Chez, Clyde, Hayward, Jones, Kimball, Knight. Olson, Southwick, Strlngham. Those against were Dern, Lamph, McKinney, Parker, Stevens, Funk. The vote on second reading passage the day before stood: For passage, Bevan, Bradley, Chez, Clyde, Hayward, Jones, Kimball. Knight, ILamph, Olson, Southwick, Stringham. Those against: Dern, McKinney, Parker, Stevens, Funk. The anticlgarette bill prohibits the manufacture, sale or giving away of any cigarette or cigarette papers or wrappers to any person in the state of Utah. Violation Vio-lation of the act is a misdemeanor, pun: ishable for the first offense by a fine of not lessithan $55 and for the second offense of-fense a fine of not less than 100 nor more than .$300, or imprisonment In the county jail for a period of not to exceed six months. The hill was not amended by the senate In any manner. It is an amendment to the present law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. It simply adds more to this law to provide pro-vide that "It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, keep for sale or otherwise dispose of any cigarette or cigarette papers or wrappers or other paper pa-per made or prepared for the purpose of making cigarettes or for the purpose of belnc Tilled with tobacco for smoking." The majority of the health, and labor committee, to which this bill was referred, re-ferred, reported recommending that the bill "do not pass." There was a minority report, signed by Senators Hayward and Stringham. recommending that tlie bill "do pas.1?," and a further report by Senator Sena-tor Stevens, chairman of the committee, who made the comment that the tobacco law relative to minors now on tfie books was not enforced and who thought that public sentiment did not call for nn antl-qigaret antl-qigaret te law ; hence it It were passed it would not he enforced. He further remarked re-marked that If the le;:!?;ature were going to force this sort of a law upon the public pub-lic he could see no occasion for discriminating discrim-inating against the cicarotte and not In-! In-! eluding all forms of tobacco and making ! the law apply to all classes and ages i alike. I With these various reports the Mil i slmplv went to the calendar for consld-i consld-i eration on its merits, and when it waa reached it was passed. |