Show MOI IN I S IT IN NW NEW MA MEASURE against the sale PROHIBITION of patent medicines contain contain- more than 1 11 per cent of alcohol l is included jn in a bill billi i introduced Tuesday in the house ct representatives b by C. C M M. Croft or of organ by request The exception is Is made to the sale safe ot of medicines c containing more than the the stipulated i amount on a physicians physician's A limit Js is also placed on the pre pre- proposition it being stated in the bill that a person shall be limited to three prescriptions to in six m months unless special permission is granted for more by the county physician DEATH BLOW LIKELY By the terms ot of the bill the old familiar family remedies are likely to receive a death blow particularly since the issuance of prescriptions for forthe forthe the bottled products lies exclusively the inthe hands ot of the physicians who whom m may y not choose to issue prescriptions for them The bill further provides that applicants for prescriptions must solemnly swear to the physician that II lid has not had a prescription for v patent tent medicines within the past two months Notaries publIc are done out of considerable business by the bill which stipulates that the physician may administer the oath and that no fee is to be charged for this service T The e bill is somewhat similar in many respects to that Introduced several dl days ys ago by Representative Hinckley of of Sanpete county WAGE BILL A minimum wage for women workers work work- er ers is provided ill in a bill introduced In the house by Representative Anna T. T.- Piercey of Salt Lake It is provided pro pro- IO vided that for women workers less than 18 years of age the minimum shall be 90 cents a day for adult apprentices ap- ap pr prentices a day for experienced a adults 1 2 a day It is further pro pro- vied that no term of apprenticeship shall be more than one year A substitute for house bill No 44 introduced in the house by the edu- edu I I Ic c committee was submitted J Tie e substitute is less drastic than the original and is designed to qUiet I the storm of protest that arose over tile first bill The new bill provides i that tf medical and physical supervision c ot school children shall not be exercised exer- exer when parents object Passage o ot- ot the original bill was favored in I resolutions adopted at a mass meeting lii In the Third ward meeting housE the ther r resolutions stating that 25 per cent of 01 the men caned called In the first selective i draft were deficient physically BILL IS EXPLAINED The drainage district bills In the legislature which are the heaviest and lengthiest bills now in print were discussed at a meeting in the supper room of the Hotel Utah Senator Bradley Bradley Brad Brad- ley presiding over the joint committee committee session W. W V. V R R. Wallace Vallace and L. L R Martineau who were appointed two years ye rs ago to Investigate the drainage and irrigation question explained the i bill to the committeemen Several changes were made in the bill and an another ther meeting will be held to consider con con- eider sider further altera alterations before the bill goes to the the floor of the two I houses h uses Complaint that there are too many states state In these United States is contaIned contained con con- in a communication received by Representative L. L W. W Curry or of Vernal from Thomas II Gordner of Los Angeles Gordner suggests that the Utah legislature pass a bill of some sort and also memorialize congress congress con con- gress on the subject of rearranging the Union so that there will be but butten butten ten states arranged In five tiers of two each running from ocean to ocean the greatest dimension being from north to south or south to north whichever is handiest Mr 11 Currys Curry's comment is that Gordner certainly has imagination |