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Show UTAH VETS FEEL SURE OF SUCCESS Claim Resubmission; Measure Will Pass Despite Defeat of Beer Act TWO-THIRDS VOTE SEEN Some Brew Bill Opponents May Support Vote Move Resubmission of th prohibition amendment to th Utah state constitution constitu-tion It virtually assured, "wtts" In th hous announced Saturday after counting nose of their colleagues. Th announcement was made in the face of defeat of the Green ha gen bill to el low the manufacture of 1 06 Kr cent beer In Utah, defeated in the use late Friday by a vot ot 28 to 14 after a five-hour debet. Although th Patterson resolution providing for resubmission which passed the senata Thursday requires a two-thirds majority vol in th nous, wets predicted It could be pushed through, for a number who voted against the beer bill hav announced an-nounced they would support th re submission revolution. The beer bill was defeated in spite of a recommendation from Senator Reed Smoot and an opinion from th lOeathnM' Oa Fase Tee) UTAH WETS FEEL SURE OF SUCCESS iCooUoutd Pteai Pass Onsi slate attorney general that the proposed pro-posed act would be constitutional. HOW HOUSE VOTED Three of . the five women In the house voted for the beer bill and the final poll showed: For Adams, Anderson, ArnoviU, Ashton, Mrs. Boson, Calne, Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, Clark, Cornwall, Doty, Eastman, East-man, Granger, Greenhagen, Grossen-bach. Grossen-bach. Hammond. Mrs. Harris, Holley, Jarvia, Lane, McKinnon, Miles, Mon- , son, Peterson, Pope, Mrs. Rich, Royle, Well, Young 2. Against Allen. Creer, Edman, Mra. Ericksen, Frischknecht Gammeter, Hall, Henderson, Holbrook, Hold-away, Hold-away, Hopkin, Hoyt, Keddington, Kil-lian, Kil-lian, Lamoreaux. Low, Mra. Lund, Magleby, Maw, Mendenhall, Mitchell, Newman, Nicholes, Paxton, Pectol, Thatcher. Vernon, Wayman, Speaker 5 moo I 29. The Greenhagen bill came to the house, modeled after the Collier bill which has passed the United States senate and was designed to permit the Becker Brewing company of Ogden to manufacture beer for sale in wet territory in the event the national Brohibitlon laws are repealed and tah remains dry. Proponents of the measure argued it would provide a market for Utah farmers' barley and other products and would relieve unemployment materially. ma-terially. TWO KEPOBTS The bill came out of commute with a majority and minority report. The minority report, opposing the measure, meas-ure, was signed by Representatives Will L. Hoyt and Lyle B. Nicholes. The debate on the floor of the house, before the measure was detested, de-tested, rsn from opposition on purely moral grounds to support on economic eco-nomic grounds. Highlight of the debste was the introduction in-troduction a letter from Senator Smoot whicnVecommended the measure. meas-ure. The letter was written by the senator last December to Gus Becker, hesd of the Becker Brewing compsny, and was read by Representative Chris Greenhsgen. The letter said: "This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of December ID. 1832, aug-gesting aug-gesting that if the Collier bill is to be finslly ected upon at this session of congress, a provision should be made for the manufacture In dry territory for shipments in bond out of dry stat into a wet stste. "I see no reason why such a provision provi-sion should not be adopted. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing if Utah Is dry, I do not see why Utsh should not be allowed to manufacture beer to ship to a state uuct muw me saie oi Deer, rne proposition seems ressonsble to me." Faced with the necessity of providing provid-ing legislation to effect economies and to provide unemployment relief, the senste Friday extended the deadline dead-line for introducing bills. In extending the deadline, however, the senate specifically provided that only bills relstlng to the report of . the governor's committee of nine and ' to unemployment shall be introduced. The upper house Saturday had before be-fore it six resolutions or memorials snd 26 bills which had been thrown into the hopper Friday more then a third as msny as hsve been offered during the 39 preceding dsys of the" session. Sens tor Herbert B. Msw's resolution resolu-tion which virtually discards recommendations recom-mendations of the committee of nine and sets up a new plan for balancing the stste budget was msde a apecisl order of business for Mondsy at 3:30 p. m. Meanwhile the joint steering committee com-mittee to devise ways snd means of considering the committee of nine's recommendations, was at work on an agenda Saturday. |