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Show trol of beer licennea was tk-featcd in the senate today, ami the upper liou.se voted to give the slate liquor commission sole power to issue and revolt e beer vendors' licenses. The action came after the senate sen-ate had considered two bills, one giving- numicipiilitie.s the power to control sale of beer, and the other vesting licensing power in ihp stale commission. Tlie senate debated on which procedure would be the best, and chose to consider the bill giving" the state cent ral power of issu-unce. issu-unce. This automatically throws out the local option measure for at least another two years. Action came after the liquor j commission hud been severely criticized. Charges of graft were bandied freely about the floor of the senate with certain legislators legisla-tors holding that local option pre- 1 sented the only solution to a probkyn which was said to in-1 volve virtual sale by drink. Alleged failure of the com mis-I Won to control or close "blind1 pigs" in Ogden and Salt Lake, City was cited. Bitterest critic of the commis- j sion was Sen. Wendcl Grover, Salt Lake, who recalled a recent slaying slay-ing in a Salt Lake City beer parlor, and charged that the liquor commission had since done nothing to remedy conditions existing ex-isting in the same beer parlor. City Control of Bssr licsnsss h Killed in Senate SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Mar. i ?. MM!) Proposed municipul con- |
