Show Maw otters Offers Warehouse a Plan to End Bootlegging Sales By Drinks Are Restored in Utah Liquor Bill 1 s I a 11 mi o. o fJ I SENATOR HERBERT B B. B MAW asks for lor state slate warehouse plan i Trades Committee e t to toI 0 1 I Use State Store Stor Bill Bin as Basis While Thile the senate senale trade re regulations committee Saturday was restoring drink sales provisions to the state store liquor bill President Herbert B. B Maw offered the group a state tate warehouse plan to end bootlegging and graft Incentives The committee meeting in an allday allday all all- day day- session at the capitol voted to consider house howe bill 41 the state store bill prohibiting sales by drinks as the basis of ot a new liberalized measure measure meas ure that would reinstate most of the recommendations of the governors governor's committee of ot 49 which drafted the original measure Senator George M M. Miller CD D. D Carbon Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon explained his his his' plan to rewrite the bill to provide a home rule system tem under which municipalities could allow drink sales package Ul sales s private vate licensing city stores or prohibit liquor entirely Sounds Sound Warning A 4 m motion tion to consider his Ms plan lost and the committee began considering house bill 41 The action followed a warning by Senator Miller that i Jt- state control is too drastic municipalities might go ahead r regardless and handle liquor as they see fit y fi u un under der the recent h home rne rule amendment to the state constitution The Miller motion lost not because of opposition opp to private licensing but because of a fear that If U an entirely new liquor measure i is brou brought ht out delay will be caused that might find the session ending with no liquor nO-liquor liquor bill passed By the time th the group recessed ed at noon it had listened most favorably to President Maws Maw's plan and had reinstated reinstated re re- instated sales by drinks by hotels clubs and restaurants It also reinstated reinstated rein rein- stated the committee of 49 definition of bona fide hotels clubs clubs' and res- res res Tells Tell of ot Study President Maw told the committee he had talked to 10 representatives of distillers and wholesalers house howe and senate ate members member and other persons persons and that all except pe persons ons w wanting drink sales over cou counters t rs had approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved his plan Proposing that drink sales sale be r re restored restored re- re stored to the house howe bill he said he believed legitimate hotels restaurants rants and clubs would not tolerate drunk- drunk Continued on Pare Face Two o MAW PROPOSES WAREHOUSING Continued from Pare Pan One enness and would enforce th the law themselves Referring to license fees President Maw said some municipalities might row now want drink sales For that reason let the state charge e a 25 25 license fee iee to clubs hotels and restaurants he suggested Municipalities not desiring drink sales could levy prohibitive fees Their minimum fee ice could be 25 Points Pont Out Evils EUs President Maw charged the biggest evil of house bill 41 which delegates to a three man commission all powers of ot buying stocks for state stores is js the possibility of ot graft If It you gave three people the right to purchase n millions mOll of ol dollars worth wort of liquor a 1 per pcr cent would woul make them aU all wealthy he said He then described his warehouse plan which in theory parallels that tha of Representative Will R. R Holmes D D. Box Elder whose common sense sense ense plan calls for private licensing dealers dealers deal deal- ers rs to withdraw stocks from state warehouse where liquor would be received received re re- re- re on consignment Costs Are Kept Down Any distiller or wholesaler could send fiend liquor to state warehouses paying paying paying pay pay- ing fees and taxes on consignment to supply state stores and clubs hotels hotels ho ho- and restaurants he explained Distillers and wholesalers would f re receive e cehe payment as s the liquor was sold sole and md in that way the state would no not have nave to layout a penny to set up the system There would be no appropriation tion necessary All distillers would be on the same name basis and wo would ld have equal opportunities opportunities opportunities op op- op- op to dispose of ot their prod nets This would remove the biggest Incentive to bootlegging of liquor that had hadnot not been purchased ed b by the liquor commission Says Revenue Necessary President Maw said revenue from liquor is necessary As k liquor was consigned to warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses state stamps would be affixed affixed af at of or 5 cents a fixed he said A tax pint say would not affect prices and would bring in to the state tate annually Questioned as to this figure re President President President dent Maw said he had queried seven wholesalers and had been informed that a tax of 10 cents a pint would return a minimum of or a year based on per capita consumption consumption consumption tion in Wyoming a state with a similar simi lar population Liquor would be sold to state stores and to clubs restaurants and hotels through through these warehouses he said It would all be delivered in instate instate state tate trucks I want to remove power from any comm commission slon to sa say what wha liquor shall be sold and what shall not Sub Carries Senator John M M. Wallace CD D. D Salt Luke Lake ke moved that President Maws Maw's amendment be accepted for stud study but after a debate a substitute motion motion motion mo mo- tion to consider house bill 41 carried However various senators spoke favorably fa of President Maws Maw's plan an and he was to return in the afternoon and speak further The first act in considering house bill 41 was to 10 restore the sales by dr drinks provision of the committee of ot 45 49 and its definition of clubs restaurants restaurants res res- res- res and hotels The committee approved one house amendment to the original committee commit tee of 49 40 bill bUl The amendment makes the liquor commission appointive by bythe bythe bythe the governor instead of the governor gover gover- nor nor chief justice of the supreme court and president of the University University sity ity of Utah President Maw assailed individual permit provisions of the bill permit lists were to be open to the public but the house amended the measure to make them secret Jilts Hits Permits The president criticised permits in any manner calling caIling them silly and persons would woul rather buy in a neighboring state requiring no permits The committee struck a house amendment providing a board of revIew review re re- view to hear appeals from decisions of the liquor commission A house amendment calling for examination examination ex ex- by state school officials of liquor store was criticised but not stricken The committee struck the house appropriation ap ap- ap of at to set up the store system and restored the committee com corn of 49 figure of Shortly before recessing the committee com corn heard Frank Page Stewart manager of the state alcohol warehouse ware ware- house explain how industrial alcohol should be handled under the act The meeting was free from irom bickering bickering bicker bicker- ing that characterized floor Ioor debates Senator J. J Francis Fowles D. D Weber We We- ber her chairman sped consideration and by noon the committee was half halfway way ray ay through the bill |