Show ALCOHOL BEVERAGES BE OF TWO PER CENT SOUGHT 4 of or Salt SaIL Lake and arid Ogden breweries appeared before the senate te committee on commerce and Industry in industry In- In this morning and made a plea for tor an amendment to tho the Young prohibition prohibition pro pro- bill permitting tho the manufacture turo ture and und f sale f of malt beverages containing con con- taming n not t. t more than 2 per cr cent al alcohol alcohol al- al cohol cobol content Tho The principal argument ment mont for Cor or the breweries was wag made l h by Joaeph Lippman of ot th the Salt Lake City Brewing company who said We Ve are content that you ou shall hall close the tho saloons and cabarets ts and other places where ere strong alcoholic drinks are sold nold but ask for or a law which will permit the manufacture of or malt beverages beverages bever bever- aC ages s which are healthful and which do tIo donot donot not contain more than 2 per cent com alcoholic alcoholic alco alco- holic content In all probability the bill be re reported reported reported re- re ported to the tho senate today with the amendment eliminating the commissioner commis feature and making the provision provision provi provi- sion sian for the tho governor to employ special agents for tor Its enforcement should ho he hosee see seo fit The Tho committee however al also o will recommend that tho the bill In its present form oral IB bi not entirely satisfactory satisfactory tOt tory and will ask that it again be re referred re- re erred for tor rewriting and making stron stronger er in several points In his opening remarks Mr 1 LIppman Lippman Lipp LIpp- man said that the matter of prohibition prohibition prohibition LiPP-j LiPP tion in Utah Involved property owned b by the breweries valued at l and the means of or living of r f some BOO families I Tho The people have hao demanded that there ther shall be lie enacted a prohibition law In some ome form he hc said aid and we e have concluded that you men mu must t keep keel your our party pledges pledge Wo We a. a ask k however that you ou carr carry out these pledges in a fair minded way and anti not in a n vindictive manner Lippman took especial exception to section 2 of or tho the bill which provides that no malt beverages be whether intoxicating eating cating or not shall be he manufactured or OJ otter offered l for tor or sale alc and declared that It would be bo possible under tho the provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of this section to stop tho the sale salo of oC malted milk at al soda fountains He contended that by including this section th the framers of or the were going goin- beyond wh what t had halt been intended 1 by those men wh who drew tho the party part plat pint form torm In that the they made mado reference only to intoxicating liquors and find beverages It was the contention of the representative n- n of the breweries that 2 per cent malt beverages aro not Intoxicating liquors liquor It Il was vas further contended b by Lippman that b by permitting the manufacture of or ofa ofa a n. beverage e of ot low how alcoholic content that it would be to the Interest of or the brewers to keep out all bootleggers and he pointed out that it would be Impossible since the Webb Webb-Kenyon law had become operative e for 01 persons to substitute te 1 real al beer for or the product of or lower r alcoholic content The information al also o was given that th product would woul l not nut be bo sold Bold In places where people con congregate alc and anti get drunk but would find salo sale direct to tho the homes The argument was put forth that beverages boy bev of ot lower than 2 per cent alcohol would not keep but hut would spoil read read- III ily H R. R A. A McBroom counsel for tor the brewers pointed to several defects In Inthe Inthe inthe the bill hill and contended that under its pro provisions It would be bo possible to bring claret Into the tho state having a content of or 2 per cent alcohol whereas a product manufactured here and of or the tho same game content would he be barred Ve We are not asking favors h he lie said but only that the brewers be treated Heated fair and as arc aro other men McBroom l maintained that the thc very ery point he had raised d had b been en decided by the tho Idaho court and that the general provisions of or the law did not apply In instances where a specific specific article was mentioned d in the tho law The committee made a tentative ap appointment appointment tip tip- to again meet with the brewers on Thursday at nt 1030 |