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Show '15;22CIill CLUB BUBIOUS 0VE5: '" :; ' :. PASSAGE' OF WATER BILL-IN SENATE If ricasurc Dies Salt Lake Will Be Two Years Behind Be-hind Time In Securing an Adequate Water Supply The members of the Commercial club who have.labored zealously for-the passage pas-sage of. the water commission bill Introduced In-troduced In the Senate by Senator Bamberger Bam-berger afc the request of the Commercial club, feel that there Is small chance of the bill being passed by. this session of the Legislature. '. , . The bill was prepared by the Commercial Commer-cial club at the request of citizens of every class, and at first it was believed thsjA It would: go through without auop- i slngvote. ' ' ? - f Opposition was raised at first by the tr mbers of the Council' vho saw In; the ll the end of their power In dealing yvlth the water problem. Their contention conten-tion was afterward taken up by other city officials and art organ, with the result re-sult that the framer of the measure asked yesterday that It be recommitted In order. to give him a chance to. remodel re-model the measure, and thus meet the principal -contentions of .. the. opposition. Its "Work at an End. . . .Judge . Powers, who drafted the bill for. the club, said this, moralmr that nothing more could be done by the Commercial Com-mercial club to further the passage of the bULHe said: . 'The Commercial club has done all It can do to secure the passage of the bill in Its original form. The bill would better be killed than amended so as to subvert Its powers. "One of the amendments proposed In the committee meeting was to strike out the clause granting the commission the right of eminent drnain. The Mrlklr.g out of that clause would render the bill, to a large extent. Inoperative, as the right of eminent domain is essential to the commission. Suppose It-were de- sired to run- a main across certain land and the owners refused to grant permission permis-sion and refused also to sell the land. "What could the commission' do? "With the eminent domain clause In force, the land) could be condemned and purchased at a reasonable price. With--out that right the only recourse would be through expensive litigation in our courts. - " ' ' . Indorsed by the People. - , "The bill was submitted at the request of people from every class, and with apparently no opposition. Every one seemed In favor of the bill, but opposl-t'Jn opposl-t'Jn has arisen from a most unexpected vfd unanticipated source. ' - ., "The greatest opponents of the bin are the employee of the waterworks and the Deseret News. That organ and the employees referred to do not want the matter taken from the hands of the Council, and are doing all In the lr tiower to secure the defeat of the DHL |