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Show STATE SALE LIQUOR BILL IS REJECTED Utah House Judiciary Body Disapproves Rum Control Measure , WET, DRY FORCES CLASH Committee Takes No Stand on Beer Manufacture Charges that prohibition hat driven minor girla to seek and drink liquor fell on deaf ears at the Capitol Tuesday Tues-day as the house judiciary committee voted against a proposal to put the i state In the liquor business, i The charges were made before the i committee by M. M. Otton, Salt Laki i shoemaker, during a public hearini 1 on the joint resolution by Represen tatlve J. R. Newman (D., Salt Lake) to amend the state constitution to per , mit state control of sale and manu lacture of intoxicating liquor. Ths i committee reported the resolution un t favorably. i The committee reported wlthou' recommendation the Greenhagen bil to sllow msnufscture of S OS per cent beer In Utah for sale In wet territory in the event the eighteenth amendment amend-ment Is repealed and the state remains re-mains dry. The Newman resolution drew a barrage ot opposition from dry lead-era lead-era and charges against prohibition from wets who urged its adoption. AMPLIFIES CBAKOIS Mr. Otton, amplifying his charges, told the committee he bed seen girls from IS to 20 years old carrying flasks at danca halls. He also told .of a member of the W. C. T. U., who, "when she had parUes, went to the pantry on several occasions." He urged that the "state take over control of liquor to cut the bootleg-ger'a bootleg-ger'a throat." Mr. Greenhagen and Mr. Newman also appeared before the committee charging that unwholesome conditions condi-tions will exist as long as prohibition is on the statute books. Mr. Green-hsgen Green-hsgen opposed the Newman resolution resolu-tion In part, declaring he favored re-(Continued re-(Continued on Pass Three) STATE SALE LIQUOR BILL IS REJECTED (Continued Frost pass Onal submission as against th provisions of th Newmsn measure. Drys were well represented at the hearing. "Utah should not take this backward back-ward step," Mrs. D. W. Jenkins of Tremonton. representing the W. C. T. U., declared. "The state has enough officers to enforce the dry laws." J. F. Fife of Cedar City testified there wss "ten times" as much drinking drink-ing before prohibition as there is at present and denied that dry laws hsve brought Increased consumption of liquor. Mrs. Annie W. Cannon, Salt Lake social worker, characterized the Newman New-man resolution as "merely a wedge for the liquor interests." "A saloon Is still a saloon, no matter mat-ter how gaudy and beautiful it may be," she said. "We should not bsck down from tha splendid laws that now exist." K. C. Tanner.' Salt Lake attorney. , told the committee an education cem-' cem-' palgn would be necessary if the constitution con-stitution is chsnged. "We would be faced with the prob-' prob-' lent of explaining to the children that 1 the state is in the liquor business," he declared. ' Representative Darrell T. Lane (D.. . Salt Lake), chairman of the commit-, commit-, tee. Joined the wet side of the argument argu-ment when he remarked that he vis-ited vis-ited a rosdhouse Mnndsy night and . observed, by count, 72 persons under s the Influence of liquor. ' Tacks Amendments ' To Repeal Measure Senator Knox Patterson, militant Grand county wet, who fondly hopes to boot prohibition out of the stste. busied himself Tuesday with tacklni amendments on his repeal resolution with the idea of attracting a two- uiiiu majuruy vow on (ne measure. Nineteen senstors voted to advance ; tha resolution to third reading Monday, Mon-day, but three or four of them an-; an-; nounced they voted favorably only ' to bring the measure up for final disposition, dis-position, indicsting it would be lulled in its present form. Determined to present the measure In favorable form. Senator Patterson conferred with Senator Herbert B. I Maw, ardent and notorious dry from Salt Lake county, to fashion sn amend-1 amend-1 ment which would specifically abolish the saloon. i Even in Its revised form ther are four senstors who will oppose the resolution: Senators W. D. Csndland (R., Sanpete), A. E. Holmgren (R., Box Elder). H. B. Cslder (D.. Uintah), and C. E, Young (R. Utah). SPECIAL ORDER WEDNESDAY After a brief discussion, reconsider- , stion of the Fennell bills was set for specisl order of business for Wednesday Wednes-day on motion of Senator Ira A. Hug-gins Hug-gins ID., Weber). The Fennell bills would place stringent restrictions on municipal bond issues. The bill relating to the contract practice of medicine was ordered recommitted re-committed on motion of Senator John M. Wallace (D , Salt Lake), after the banking committee had reported it unfavorably. The Neslen kidnaping bill also was recommitted. ' The Hunt measure for payment of public payrolls ln gold was passed to the house after it had been amended to provide that amounts less than S might be paid otherwise. Difficulties of municipal financing were related to the senate committee on state and municipal affairs by Msyor Louis Marcus during a pisslic hearing on the Booth bill to allow municipal authorities to raise revenue reve-nue by license from any form of occupation occu-pation they Vnay desire, regsrdless of provisions of another section of the law, which permit regulations of certain cer-tain forms of business. Revision of the Utah criminsl code is provided in a bill Introduced in the house by the Judiciary committee at the request of the Utah Stat Bar association. Representative Wsrwlck Lamoreaux Lamo-reaux D., Salt Lake) introduced a bill providing that the state may "so j quire, own, maintain and operate: steam electric power plant and sys- terms for furnishing electricity," and authorizing the state to construct the I necessary plants. The bill Is designed to dovetail with the Great Salt lake fresh water basin project I Restriction of activities of agricultural agricul-tural cooperating associations is sought in a bill introduced by Senator Sena-tor Patterson. Senstor C. C. Neslen (D.. Salt Lake) , introduced two bills, one to require, licenses from persons using hydrocyanic hydro-cyanic acid or other cyanides for fumigation fumi-gation purposes; the other to clarify th stat tax laws regarding payment pay-ment of delinquent taxes, Public hearing on the bill before both houses regulating public bank deposits waa conducted Tuesday before be-fore the joint banking committee. After hearing objections from L. John Nuttal Jr., superintendent of Salt Lake City schools, and George King, clerk of the Salt Lake board of education, edu-cation, thst the bill would prevent public Institutions from choosing their depositaries, the committee voted to rephrase the measure. The committee also amended the bill to fix the salaries of two civilian members of a board of supervision to not more thsn S2000 annually. The bill as originally drawn provided salaries sal-aries of $10 per day. |
