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Show PROHIBITION BILL PASSEDB SEN ATE UTAH WILL JOIN RANKS OF DRY STATES FIRST MONDAY IN JUNE, 1916. State-wide Prohibition Measure Approved Ap-proved by Vote of 15 to 2. Gambling Bill Passed by the Lower House. Utah will be a dry state after the first Monday in June, 1916, should the members of the house endorse the action ac-tion of the senate, which on February 11 passed the Wootton prohibition bill by a vote of 15 to 2. Those voting for the bill were Bradley, Brad-ley, Chez, Colton, Cotterill, Craig, Ec-kersley, Ec-kersley, Evans, Funk, Hansen, Reynolds, Rey-nolds, Rideout, Seegmiller, Thornley, Wright and Wootton. Those voting against it v ere Dern and Ferry. The bill, known as Senate Bill No. 50, introduced by Senator J. H. Wootton Woot-ton of Utah county, was drafted by the Utah Federation of Prohibition and Betterment Leagues and the Utah Municipal league. It was presented with no provision for submitting the question to the voters of the state, and has been considered by the senate sen-ate committee on agriculture and irrigation, ir-rigation, to which it was referred after the first contest in the present session of the legislature. The committee, com-mittee, after several public hearings, voted to report favorably with no amendments whatever excepting to correct a few typographical errors. It was in thi3 form that the bill passed the senate, except that one of a score or more amendments offered was adopted, making it mandatory that the state board of medical examiners ex-aminers and the state board of pharmacy phar-macy shall revoke the license of any physician or druggist who violates the provisions of the bill relative to giving giv-ing or filling prescriptions for liquor, and that after a license is revoked no other license shall be granted that person to practice medicine or pharmacy. phar-macy. The honor of making the first address ad-dress in Utah's new $2,500,000 capitol, fell to D. J. Palmer, commander in chief of the G. A. R. In a patriotic address he admonished the legislators to enact laws which will be for the best interests of the state. Commander Comman-der Palmer was received by both houses of the legislature in joint session ses-sion on February 11, held in the house chamber. The education and appropriation committees of the house and senate w-ere to have gone on Tuesday to Cedar City, but telegrams received stated the snow was too deep for automobiles a short distance south of Lund and the trip has been indefinitely indefinite-ly postponed. With but slight objection the house on February 11 passed the Burton gambling bill, making the presence of gambling paraphernalia prima facie evidence of the conduct of a gambling gamb-ling house. Several members objected object-ed to the bill on the ground that it was too drastic in its provisions. Representative J. Louis Brown, Democrat, of Salt Lake, has introduced intro-duced a bill providing that any person representing any political organization organiza-tion who uses vehicles for the carriage car-riage of voters to the polls on election day shall be guilty of a misdemeanor The house adjourned earlier than usual on February 10, in order that the small army of movers might start carrying the effects of the members from the house chamber, preparatory to moving them to the capitol. Utah's lawmakers are now at work in the new state capitol, and the remaining re-maining work of the present session will be accomplished in the new building build-ing on Capitol Hill. The last session of the house of representatives to be held in the City and County building was delayed delay-ed for more than an hour while a debate took place over H. J. M. No. a, by O. F. Mc-Sbane of Beaver. The memorial is addressed to the Arizona Ari-zona legislature and calls upon the state to join with Utah in completing complet-ing the Yellowstone Park-Grand canyon can-yon highway. A bill was passed in the house on February 10. making Duchesne county coun-ty a representative district and declaring de-claring it a part of the Fifth senatorial senator-ial district. In the senate a measure was approved ap-proved which will facilitate action for damages against estates while a joint resolution was adopted, providing for adjournment of the legislature to the new capitol and the holding there of all the remaining sittings of this session. ses-sion. Eight news bills were introduced in the senate and nine in the house, while one measure was killed in the senate, the Chez bill proposing to abolish use of voting machines in Utah. Thomas P. Page, representative of Salt Luke county, proposes to alter inheritance tax laws so that heirs of the blood shall be taxed at a less rate than heirs not of the blood. Charles L. Warnick, representative in the lower house of tho state legislature, legis-lature, was declared entitled to his seat on February 9 by a vote of 23 to 22. The members of the house debated debat-ed the right of Mr. Warnick to a seat in the house Tuesday afternoon for nearly three hours. |