Show WAREHOUSE USE PLAN PLA DEFEATED Senate Considers Report Favoring Sales by Drink Maw Mav Takes Floor to Defend Measure Which Would Permit Wholesale Consignment Consignment Consignment Consign Consign- ment but Foes Triumph By a vote of 21 to 2 the state senate voted to fo provide pro pro- T ide vide for sales by drinks at clubs restaurants and hotels under the state store liquor control bill Senators Woodward and voted against the sales The state senate Tuesday afternoon killed t the e warehouse warehouse ware ware- house plan as part of a Utah liquor control system despite despite- pleas by President Herbert B. B Maw that the plan would eliminate the bootlegger The action was taken on a motion by Senator Ward Vard C. C Holbrook D. D Davis to strike a series of amendments to effect the plan The Holbrook motion carried 17 to 6 The Thc vote followed debate that began began began be be- gan after the senate enate had gone sone to work on the state tate store liquor bill by ac a report of the senate trade trader regulations committee 1 t The report Included the amend ments for the warehouse plan an and i sales by drinks but acceptance did not place the amendments in th the bill bilI- finally It had the effe effect t of giving the senators a basis to work on Senators voting to r ret t in inthe the warehouse warehouse ware ware- hou house e amendments were Griffin Griffin- Hammond Hopkin Huggin Miller and Ma Maw Ma After th the tho vote vole on the warehouse plan the senate took look up committee amendments to provide for sales by by- at cubs clubs i restaurant and hotels When the ho house boue e p passed sed the bill it deleted such sales President Maw w took the senate floor to u urge ge adoption of the warehouse ware ware- warehouse house hous amendments Three reasons why the liquor Control con control on system that Utah adopts should include the warehouse provision were offered by the president of the senate enate as he defended his idea and upheld the motion of Sen Senator tor George M. M Miller Miller Mil Mu- ler D. D Carbon that the committee amendment be approved They were verC I. I Such a plan would eliminate the bootlegger by removing the incentive for such method of selling liquor 2 Eliminate the expense e that the state would have to bear if it went Vent into the liquor business under the original measure 3 3 Remove Remo the temptation that would otherwise be placed before members of the liquor control system to r reap ap pr profits fits from graft and remove remove also the members from the influence of political pressure Proponents of the system have held that j if all distillers are allowed t to 16 i iship ship liquor to state warehouses on orf oi consignment none will b be mated against and no liquor will be bootlegged Distillers would be paid as their thel stocks are sold by retail stores and licensed drink places so the state stale would not have to expend funds for forb b buying liquor proponents have ar ar- ar gued President Maw Mai opened his defense of his warehouseman by stating that strict he was in favor of prohibition prohibition But you cannot legislate peoples people's morals morals' he declared and the people are not ready for lor prohibition Report of a Canadian who was in Salt Lake City in October made President Maw interested in lithe n the system system ays- ays tem tern of liquor r control that might adopt President Maw said He Hd declared that the visitor told I him that he hoped Utah would not adopt the Can Canadian dian system of liquor control which is the system the original committee of 49 9 bill w vs was was' s bas d. d He termed the prohibition law as asa S a 1 silly law Jaw ai and I declared that it Jt Is such uch silly laws that cause cause violations viola for lor individuals will not respect them Citing instances of the Washington state stale store system not fulfilling the predictions of its sponsors when it was passed that it would r the first year into the old age pension fund and that the Iowa state store liquor commissioner had been convicted of graft President Maw said that the state store system would woul l leave administrators ts open to graft t tHe He declared that he did not know who would be appointed to adminis adminis' ter the state store stor plan if it were wei adopted and whether such m-e m men would have the strength to resist such temptation from liquor sellers eller who desired their product to be b pushed B But t I am In iD favor of a 3 system n th that t does not place the opening for lor or such temptation before the men wh must administer the law hedared he d de declared dared rather than trying to find tl the e men who will not resist the tein temptation temp tein tation to profit A state store system would cost the state to establish state stat stores s President Maw declared while white not one cent would be spent t If the warehouse plan were adopted Answering charges of Senator maLor Holbrook Holbrook Holbrook Hol Hol- brook that under the warehouse plan wholesalers rs could raise raLe the price o of ot liquor President Maw pointed ol out that prices of standard brands brand of Continued oa P Pu Iaz TW Tea a i t i WAREHOUSING Ii PLAN IS LOST i I ter i from rue Page One ot liquor are the same throughout the United States Competition win will take hike care of or the argument that th the price would be beo o raised The The people will find their favorite brand and their choice will wm keep the price down for the wholesalers wholesalers wholesalers whole whole- salers who are not selling must try to he said Glad to Amend However i if senators fear competition competition tion will not keep the price down he will be glad to amend the bill to provide that the liquor comm commission ion purchase se stock in the open market he said sid Then if the wholesalers were pegging peg ring ging ing the price and such pegging allowing allowing allowing al al- al- al lowing the bootleggers ers to flour flourish h. h as rome some claim would result the commission commission commis commis- sion ion could throw its purchase on the market and the others would have to lo meet those pr prices ces or they would lose their bus business he said Senator Paul H. H Ra Ray Bay D. D Salt Lake opposed the warehouse plan Called Thin Veil I r regard it the warehouse plan a as a R thin veil ell to destroy the theory Cf of control he declared He said that if liquor was shipped Into the state and did not sell sail it would not be shipped out out out-it it would seep out implying that the product would be bootlegged President Maw asked him how it would seep out if it the commission AS us provided in the bill performed its duty Senator Ray could not answer r how it would seep out but still contended contended con con- tended it U would Senator Miller who moved acceptance accept ante ance of the Maw warehouse plan said aid in its defense that we need a practical scheme one that will produce produce pro pro- duce money and control Senator Hyrum B. B Older Calder D D D. Duchesne Du Du- chesne supported Senator Holbrook He said he did not believe the plan would work and said aid he did not believe bc be lieve the trades and regulation committee committee com which offered the warehouse amendment had c given ven it su sufficient consideration |