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Show DRAWBRIDGE ON THE L AKE Senate joint memorial No., t, to nie-morallze nie-morallze Congress to compel the Southern South-ern Pacfflc Railway company .to pace suitable drawbridges in the Lucin cutoff cut-off across Great Salt lake was severely handled before the Railroad committee of the Senate this morning. Appearing to protest against its passage pas-sage were Fred J.' Kiesel and Angus T. Wright of Ogden, . Attorney Marshall of the Southern Pacific company, S. T. "Whittaker and a number of others. . v Capt. Milton Barratt, ' who has at times kept a yacht on the lake, advo-catbd advo-catbd the drawbridge plan, saying' that while there was no necessity for one at present, there would be in future years as navigation increased. Mr. Kiesel declared that to . pass the memorial wouid be the height of folly, as it would interfere with the completion comple-tion of an enterprise that meant millions mil-lions of dollars for Utah and that there was no benefit to be derjved from the drawbridge if it was constructed. Angus An-gus Wright expressed similar views. Judge Marshall said that if at any future fu-ture time necessity for such a drawbridge draw-bridge should appear the Secretary of War could compel the railway company com-pany to construct it without delay. From the questions asked by several members of thecommittee, it is clear that the memorial will be reported adversely. ad-versely. The report upon the measure was deferred de-ferred pending the . consideration of Senator Gardner's bill making the killing kill-ing of stock by railroad companies prima facie evidence of negligence in the act. |