Show prohibition SILL BILL PASSED BY HOUSE UTAH WILL BE A DRY STATE AFTER JULY 1 1916 IF SENATE APPROVES MEASURE forty members of lower house favor inauguration of df prohibition meas ure without submitting ques tion to the people utah will be a salo onless state after july 1 1916 the wootton statewide state wide prohibition bill passed the lower house ot of the utah legis alture on march barch 1 by a vote 0 of 40 to 5 the hii measure asure now goes back to the senate tot lot its approval oi of amendments to the bill 1111 and then to the governor when it vill become a law unless the go governor should veto the measure an attempt to have the question oi i statewide state wide prohibition submitted to the t he people was defeated forty members of the legislature deciding that they knew what the people needed those who voted in favor ot of the bill 1111 were aagard allen alien devan bevan blackett brinkerhoff browning 1 brown 3 rown christensen Chrls croft day en ants n Is fowles goodwin Goodw ln griffin hammond hawley hayward hunckley 11 horsley kelly mcshane mabey abey meeks morris oldham kneir page peterson pope redd sevy savy shields stewart taylor van wagoner warnick Warn lck wing Sp ealter anderson andersen total 40 those opposed were barker child fitch folkman lund total 6 5 absent wolstenholme joseph 11 II fowles of we weber ber voted for the bill and gave notice of recon eldera 1 I de ration Uon the vote by which the bill passed loth both the house and the senate preludes precludes c submission of the question of at statewide state ate wide prohibition to the voters 1 I ithe the state on a referendum the vote in the senate was 14 to 3 in favor of the measure and as ae both the senate a to and the house passed the bill by more than two thirds the constitutional provision on the initiative and referendum prohibits the submission to the people J james ames J barker and george D F Folk kman nian both of weber county led the fight against the bill both offered a large number of amendments all of which were voted down almost unanimously by viva voce votes the only two important amendments adopted on the floor of the h house ouse were one prohibiting the manu facture of wine for sacramental purposes and the other eliminating from the bill the tha provision requiring physicians to state the malady afflicting the tha patient for whom intoxicants might be prescribed five bills were passed by the senate to Zv monday londay three of them providing for transfer of duties from the office 11 14 athe secretary of state to the state bank commissioner who hereafter will have supervision of the hu business siness of building and loan associations one of the other bills passed amends the drainage district laws in a manner approved by the supreme court judges and the attorney general to make it conform to the constitution another bill from the house that was passed under suspension of rules was that providing lor for the transfer ot 01 county records to duchesne Du chesno the new county committee reports added several more bills to the senate calendar including the dern bill for regu regulating latin 9 the sale of liquor a bill to make it it a misdemeanor to substitute coal from one mine when another kind Is ordered a bill to permit special parking districts in cities a house bill amending the laws relative to collection of corporation taxes and the bill providing for the appointment of a commission to select a site on the capitol grounds for a monument to the mormon battalion the house passed three bills and ki killed lied eight at the session on february 26 the greater part of the time was taken up with reading of committee reports and introduction of new bills the bill by ira it browning which provides for an annual license tax to be paid the state by owners of automobiles and the licensing of chant fours was passed after being amended so that no one under 16 years of age may run an automobile or a motorcycle tor cycle chauffeurs must be 18 years of age the bill provides that all machines under forty horsepower shall pay 10 a year license and that all machines mac nines of more than forty horsepower shall pay 20 a year license motor trucks and other motor vehicles are taxed at 15 a year motorcycles pay 5 a year the number plates must be obtained from the secretary of state and this official also issues chauffeurs licenses the house suspended the rules and passed S J 31 no 5 by senator john W thornley which asks co congress ni aress to appropriate for th the eradication animals of wild and predatory animals the discussion on S B no 53 took up lip the greater part of the afternoon and resulted ted in the enacting clansa being stricken out which effectually killed the bill the bill provided that an assistant librarian be appointed to aid the justices of the supreme court parley P christensen Chrls only lawyer in the house to vote against the bill 11 il no by mrs elizabeth Jl ayward prohibiting children under the age of 16 from working in any gainful occupation more than nine hours a day also created extended argument exceptions to the law are domestic employment farming and packing of fruits and vegetables the ibell was passed there was an houra hones debate in the house bouse on february 24 on goodwins Goodw ma bill to appropriate 1000 for a commission corn to select a sit tor for u a monument to the mormon rmon liatta battalion llon but the bill was finally approved |