Show y lEGISLATORS PASS t PROHIBITION Bill if v UTAH WILL BE A A SALOON LESS Ji STATE AFTER JULY 1 1 OF I NE NEXT YEAR YEAR The he Vote i in i Senate Was 16 to 2 In Favor of Dry State While In the Lower House It Was r 40 to 5 Utah will be a state after f July 1 1916 The Wootton statewIde statewide state- state wIde prohibition bill passed the lower lowerhouse i house of the Utah l legislature ony on I I I y March 1 by a vote of 40 to 5 5 Banker Bank Bank- n f er el Child Fitch Folkman and Lund ww L t. t voted against the bill in fn the house f The house amendments to the Wootton prohibition bill were accepted accept accept- 4 i ed d by the sen senate te on March 3 after s. further lurther amendments seeking to extend It r the time until January 1 I 1917 and to t. t eliminate the 1 i search and seizure J 1 clause had been voted down The i vote was 16 10 to 2 2 President W. W Mont I. I Ferry and Senator Georges George H. H Dern of ot c Salt Lake were the two to vote yote i. i 17 t j against the bill bilI i An attempt to have the question oi ot t- t wide state-wide prohibition submitted to V i the people w was s defeated in the ho house se forty members of tha the legislature deciding dei de de- i tiding that they knew what the people needed The vote yote b by which the bill passed i J f both the house and the senate precludes pre pre- 4 eludes submission of the question of wide state-wide prohibition to the voters o othe of f the state on a referendum Tile The vote I in the senate was 14 to 3 in favor ot of 1 the measure and as both the senate and the house passed sassed the bill by more than two two thirds thirds the constitutional constitutional r k provision on the initiative and 1 referendum prohibits the submission to the people James ames J J. J Barker and George D. D Folkman both of Weber county led s a the fight against the bill in the house Sr Both offered a large number of amend amena- l meats ments all of which were voted down almost unanimously by viva voce votes Seven bills were passed 1 by 1 the kc house on March 3 all of the bills being being be be- ing lug fee bills and passed by unanimous r t vote The house decided that no co committee commit s tee bills would be he her hereafter after received until the house votes to receive them United States Senator Reed Smoot was waS' tendered a vote of ot thanks by the house for his work in in obtaining an appropriation of from the federal federal federal fed fed- eral government for the construction of a wagon road through the Kaibab t ti Indian reservation I The only two important amendments amendments amendments amend amend- ments adopted on the floor of the SL house were th the one prohibiting manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of wine for sacramental purposes purposes pur pur- purposes poses and the other eliminating from the bill the provision requiring physicians phy puy- sl ians to state the malady afflicting the patient for whom intoxicants might b be prescribed prescribed Five bills were passed by the senate senate sen sea ate Monday three of them providing for transfer of duties from the office of the secretarY of state to the the state 44 bank commissioner who hereafter t will vill ha have hate e supervision of the business tip of building and loan associations One of the other bills passed amends I j the drainage district la laws ws in a manner man man- manner ner approved by t the e supreme court man man-I judges up s and and the he j attorn attorney y gen general ral to Lu maKe ute H It to 10 LU the me LAC constitution Another bill from the house that was passed under suspension of rules was that providing for the t transfer of county records to Duchesne the new new county r Committee reports added several more bills to the senate calendar in in including chiding the Dern bill bilI for regulating the sale of liquor a bill to make it a misdemeanor to substitute coal from one mine when another kind is ordered order order- order order-I 1 ed a bill to permit special parking t districts in cities a house bill amendIng amending amend amend- I t ing the laws relative to collection of corporation taxes and the bill providing provid ing for tOl the tae appointment of a commission commission commis commis- r sion to select a site on the Ithe capitol grounds for a monument t to the Mor Mor- Moro Mormon mon battalion The house passed three bills and killed eight at the session on February February b ary 26 The greater part part of the time 4 was taken up with reading of commit committee tee reports and introduction of new bills The bill bili by Ira R. R Browning which provides for tor an annual license tax tobe to tobe tobe be paid the state by owners of automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles and the licensing of chauffeurs chauffeurs feurs was passed after being amended amend amend- ed so that no one under 16 years of age may run an aut automobile mobile or a motorcycle mo mo- Chauffeurs must be 18 years Year s of f age The bill provides that all mach machines machine nes s under forty horsepower shall pay 1 10 0 a r a year license and that all s of more than forty horsepower shall shah 1 pay 20 a year yeal license Motor trucks truck s M and other motor vehicles are taxed at 15 a year Motorcycles pay 5 5 a aye ye year r. r The number plates must b bit be e it obtained from the secretary of state stat e w and this official also issues chauffeurs chauffeurs' urs' urs licenses y The discussion on on S. S B B. No 53 55 took too k r up up the greater part if if f the afternoon tt I and resulted in the enacting clause claus e being stricken out which effectually effectual effectual- ly killed the bill bUt The bill provided provide d I I that an assistant librarian be appointed appoint appoint- ed to aid the justices of the supreme I I court Parley P. P Christensen was th the e I only lawyer in t the e house to vote y ag against the bill bUt Request will be made that the fe fel federal federal fed fed- d l eral government t turn rn the Fort D Duehesne Duchesne Du Du- u chesne military reservation over t to o the state of Utah for h a school for th the e r feeble minded feeble or a state reformatory in the event that the senate and an d lionise bause adopt the memorial to congress s I now w jl in ip tb the upper branch 1 The general taxation bill prepared d ia io the house and passed by that bod body y Mk and now lOW on the senate calendar i increases in In- n t. ft creases creases the levies 6 to o 8 mills wit with h the idea o of oI adding to th the e revenues s of the state It is d o the senate enat avid pass ilie ibe he measure 1 o f J I l |