| Show aill BY HOUSE HO USE UTAH WILL BE A DRY stai STATE E AFTER JULY 1 1916 IF SENATE APPROVES 0 MEASURE port fort member of L lower 0 House favor inauguration of prohibition measure without submitting clues 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 oc or the utah legis alture on march 1 by a v ote of 40 to 5 the measure now goes wick to the senate senate for its approval no of amendments to the bill and thon to tho governor when it will become a law unless the gov arnor should aeto the measure an attempt to have the question of statewide state wide prohibition submitted to tho the people was defeated forty mem here bers of the legislature deciding that they know what hat the people needed those who voted in favor of the bill iv ere aagard alca beian Dl blackett ackett brinkerhoff browning brown christensen Chrls croft day en nis boies Good goodwin ln griffin ham mond gawle lla wie hayward hinckley horsley kelly mcshane mabey meeks 31 morrs orrs oldham oneil page peterson pope redd shields Ste stewart wirt taylor van wagoner warnick wing speaker andorson anderson total 40 those opposed were ere barker child fitch folkman lund total 5 absent wolstenholme hoime joseph IL 11 fowles of weber voted for the bill and gave gae notice of 0 recon sider atlon the vote by aich the bill passed both the house and the senate precludes submission of the question of statewide state wide ide prohibition to the voters otera of the state on a referendum the vote 1 ote in the senate was as 14 to 3 in favor of the measure and ae ar both the sen ate and the house passel the bill by more than to thirds the consal cons titu tu lional provision on the initiative and referendum prohibits the submission to the people james J barker and george D folkman both of weber county led the fight ac last the bill both offered a large number of amend memi all ot of which were ere voted noted down don almost knaul by viva iva voce votes otes the only two to important amend ments adopted on the floor of the house were one prohibiting the manufacture of wine for sacramental pur poses and the other eliminating from the bill the provision requiring physicians to state the malady afflicting the tle patient for whom intoxicants might be prescribed five vive bills nere were passed by the senate monday three of them providing for transfer of duties from the effite of the secretary of state to the state bank commissioner who he hereafter will have supervision of the business of building and loan associations one of the other balla paused amends the drainage district laws in a man ner approved bv by the supreme court judges and the attorney general to make it conform to the constitution another bill from the house that was as passed under suspension of rules was that providing for the transfer of county records to duchesne Due besne the new county committee reports added several more bills to the senate calendar including the dern derp bili for regulating the sale of liquor a bill to mua M j a it a 3 misdemeanor to substitute coal from one mine ahen w hen another kind is ordered a bill to permit special parking districts in cities titles a hoise holse bill amend ing the law relative to collection coil act I 1 0 a of corporation taxes and the bill providing for the appointment of a commission to select a site on the capitol grounds for monument to the mormon battalion the house passed three bills and killed eight at tt the session on february 26 the greater part of the line wai taken up with reading of commit tee reports and introduction of new bills the bill by ira R browning brow aing which provides for an annual license tax to be paid the state by onen of automobiles and the licensing of chauffeurs was pissed 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 ears of age the bill provides that all machines under forty horsepower shall pay 10 a year license and that all macul noe of rame thai forty horsepower shall pay 20 a year license botor ator trucks aud and other motor vehicles are taxed at 15 a 5 ear motorcycles pay 5 a year the number plates must be obtained from the tho secretary of state and this official also issues chauffeurs licenses the house suspended the rules and passed S J M R no 5 by benator to john W V thornley which aska asks congress con gresa to appropriate for the erL dica tion of wild and predatory animals the discussion dis curlon on S BL IL no 53 look took up the greater part ot of the afternoon and resulted in the enacting clause being stricken out aich which effectually killed the bill the bill provided that an assistant librarian be ap appointed to aid the justices of the supreme court parley P christensen Chrls only lawyer in the house to vote against the bill |
