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Show BOTH HOUSES PASS REPEAL LEGISLATION Maw Declares Utilities Should Bear Part Of Relief Burden (Special to the Herald) SALT LAKE CITY,, July 20 A repeal election in Utah on November 7 of this year was practically assured today when the senate passed . a joint resolution providing for a vote on repeal of the state bone dry law at the next general gen-eral election. The measure passed 1 lie house yesterday. Legislation amending the state constitution to permit a general election this year already has passed both houses. The vole was 19 to 2 with two absent. The resolution provides that if adopted by the electorate the amendment shall become effective on the first of January next succeeding suc-ceeding a. determination by the board of state canvassers of the resxilt. Senators voting against repeal: C. C. Bowman, Republican, Kane; Hyrum B. Calder, Uintah. Absentees: William H. Griffin, Jr., Republican, ' Cache, and Clifford Clif-ford E. Young, Republican, Utah. After passing tho repeal measure the senate Indulged in a debacle of partisan oratory when the iitil- ity excise tax bill came up for 1! consideration. Hunt Opposes Hill j Senator Paul H. Hunt, (Repn. I Summit); charged that the Demo-j Demo-j crats would place the governor in a peculiar position if they passed ' the bill. He said a veto would be I inevitable. Charging that the public pub-lic utilities would he practically blackmailed Into paying the taxes, "Hunt asserted there was more behind be-hind the controversy than indicated indicat-ed on the surface. He called attention at-tention to the fact that Salt Lake City would soon float a $180,000 bond Issue and asserted there must be s:ome kind or politics behind the measure. Senator Herbert B. Maw, -Salt Lake Democrat who has led the (Continued on Page Four). BOTH HOUSES PASS REPEAL (.Continued from Page One) fight, for the utilities tax jumped to his feet to answer Hunt. Maw declared he represented the people and not the utilities and said he was going to see to it that others besides the poor people helped pay the expenses of the state. Maw Denies Politics "It would have been 100 times easier not to push this bill than to advocate its. passage," Maw declared, de-clared, "and I personally have lost many friends because of the stand I have taken on this measure." Maw denied there was any connection con-nection between the bill and political politi-cal machinery or bond issue. "If the poor people are called upon to pay a 2 percent sales tax why should the utilities be exempted from paying their share," he demanded. de-manded. The fiery Salt Laker ended his dramatic defense of the bill by asserting as-serting he would introduce a measure meas-ure for an investigation of utilities before the next session of the regular regu-lar legislature if the .utility tax bill fails. ' " ' SALT LAKE CITY, July 26 The lower 'house of the legislature, after a three hour debate Tuesday at.upted the resolution .calling for a vote of .the people , on outright repeal of Utah's bone-dry amendment. amend-ment. The vote was 53 to 5, well above the two-thirds majority required. re-quired. ' -. The five who voted against the resolution were Mrs. E,. E. Erick-sen Erick-sen (D., Salt Lake), . Emil Gam-meter. Gam-meter. (R., San Juan), W. J. Henderson Hen-derson (R., Garfield), J. E. Magle-by.(R., Magle-by.(R., Sevier), and William W. Adair (R., Kane). An amendment proposed by Will L. Hoyt (D., Juab) to submit to the people the proposal of raising the limitation of the constitution from 1-2 of one per cent to 3.2 per cent was defeated by a vote of 43 to 15. Among the. 15 who voted for Hoyt's were three out of Utah count y's f i v,e representatives, Frank M. Edman, Saliem; Elmer .Holdaway, Vineyard . and Jesse Hall, Payson." All three, of them, however, voted for the repeal resolution re-solution on final, passage as did Mr. Hoyt, sponsor of the modification modifica-tion amendment. . j The measure was sent immediately immedi-ately to the senate, Where it; was substituted for he 'senate resolution resolu-tion on the same subject which has already been passed. The house also passed the last of - three senate bids paving the way for an election November 7 on the repeal, question. , As soon as the senate acts the entire . prohibition question will be settled. When the people of Utah vote on repeal November 7, they will 'be voting for beer only. Even though they should repeal the constitutional constitu-tional amendment the state wou6d still have statutory prohibition against everything except 3.2. The so-called beer bill reenacts all tne present statutes prohibiting the manufacture and sale of . hard liquors. t This means that although the eighteenth amendment might be wiped away ths year, the people will have to wait until the legislature legisla-ture of 1935 to get hard liquors. Elimination of the bone dry amendment from the constitution would place the whole prohibition question in the hands of the legislature. |