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Show Legislators Take Day Off For Logan junket iicccss is Called Wednesday; Patterson Wins First Skirmish in Fight For State liepeal of Utah Prohibition Laws. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7 Fresh from a junket to Cedar City and St. George, members of the Utah legislature mailo plans Tuesday for a foray to Logan for the annual inspection in-spection of the Utah State Agricultural college. Senators and representatives prepared to leave luesday aflornoon, after deciding to adjourn both houses over Wednesday. The decision, although passed without debate, is contrary to the rule established by the senate early in the session, that the junkets to state institutions would be under the ban this year. Although many of the senators hulked lit the proposed trip, opposition oppo-sition wiis withdrawn later. President Presi-dent J. Krnncis Fowles explained there would be no expense to the ns the chamber of commerce ;it I.ok;im is to foot the bills. Sixty members of the senate and hnuse vhn formed the junketing party to tho Branch Agricultural' rulletfn at. Cedar City, returned from the three-day trip Monday ji I't.rrnoon. J-c;inxe of the heavy calendars in both houses, some senators and representatives believe the junketing junket-ing should be abandoned and left entirely to visitations by members of tho appropriate committees.. i) . selling liquor or condoning' the traffic within their walls. Patterson Victory The favorable committee vote was in the nature of a personal victory for florid-faced, chunky Senator Knox Patterson, militant and effective pleader of the wet, cause in the state legislature. Patterson, who is from Grand county, introduced the wet proposal. It provides for nothing more nor less than an bpportunity for the electorate to vote on the prohibition prohibi-tion ' question. If the Patterson proposal wo-ild be approved by the electorate, the state prohibition law would be repealed from the statute books. t S A I r LAKE CTTV, Feb. 7 U.k - Weiri scored n major victory Monday Mon-day when the senate judiciary committee com-mittee reporlod favorably the Patterson Pat-terson hill for resubmission of the Ml al l- prohibition repeal issue to i Ihe fleelocate. - j The vole w:ik four to one. Sensational hearings were held liilu last 'week on prohibition as jn ejiehed, practiced and enforced in Ulah. Wet witnesses labelled the dry law as not only futile bu! dangerous. Many hotels in tin Mtale were charged with either |
