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Show L QUOR QUESTION BOBS UP IN SENATE COMMITTEE -HEARING Th senate Judiciary committee spent ths forenoon In a hearing on senate bill No. IIS, In relation to the Incorporation of towt.a, which la fathered b the committer com-mitter on judielery. the quoetlou being an amendment propoeed tht at leaat one-thlnl one-thlnl of th. persona voting for tncorpo- atlon uf towna muat be freeholdera. The oppoalng forcea were Mark P. Uruffett. attorney for the I'lah Fuel com pa ay. and Ferdinand Erlckson. a forte- district Judgs. on one side, and Attorney At-torney Stanley Price, formerly of Salt I .ike. but now of Price Ths proposition to incorporats small towns waa advocated advo-cated by liiafr.lt and Erlckson. and the demand for ths amendment we mad by I'rlce The situation as outlined by Mr. Prtc. i .'presenting the county commissioners of Carbon county, wsa that Mr. Braffslt had been reported aa boasting that a soon a he procured th enactment of th. law he would proceed Immediately to vote tTarbon county dry, and than to Incorporate those towns of Castle Oate and Sunny. Ids. which are owned by the Ctah Fuel company, and vote them wet. in these towns. It wa explained, every foot of ground le owned outright by ths I'tah Fuel company, and the Magnolia liquor l,ntrets. Identical with the Utah Fuel company, would thereby be given an absolute monopoly on tbe trade In Carbon county. Tbe committee was unable to reach a decision as to a recommendation on tha hill, which will be taken up again Monday. |