Show VETOES BITi BILL MEASURE ADOPTED BY UTAH legislature NOT APPROVED BY GOVER OR SPRY executive declares member members of leg le were pledged to submit Quest question lOn of statewide state wide Pro prohibition hibl to the voters salt lake cuy city governor william spry has vetoed the statewide state wide ado pro bill which would have hurn placed utah in the dry column on july I 1 1916 Co governor vernor spry on thursday march match 18 filed senate bill 11 no GO G 0 knovs ns as the wootton bill 11 with the sec of state with a letter of disapproval which ht under the constitution or of butth amount to a veto the governor stated that no mem mern ber was as pledged to enact a prohibition law but that such pledges as were given were to the effect that the question should be sub submitted mitte d to a vote yoto of the people of the state the message also algo sets forth that there la Is on the statutes of the state at the prasert presort time a local option law which makes it possible for communities tc be dry it if the residents desire in addition the legislature just ad journea passed a bill which was sign cd ed by the governor go arnor which tho shipment of intoxicating liquors liquor into dry territory thereby strengthen ins ing the prohibition in those sections chich bae acted favorably under the local option law 0 in commenting on the bill the gov arnor said that the bill was hedged about by a support that turned a deal car to those who bould have amend ed it to meet various objections among whom was vas the governor who urged that provision provis loi be made for com bompensa pensa lion t on to those whose property would be rendered valueless ho he declares that he urged the leg Isla tors to incorporate such a clause and killing therein had requested that the time at which the bill would have become effective be extended the legislators also turned a deaf ear eat to this request he also said that he believes the people of the state have hae a right to express themselves on the question not through representation that has promised one thing and provides an other his lits concluding objection is that the bill abolishes the saloon and makes makee tho druggist the dispenser of alcohol and wine on the physicians per scrip tion with ith the generous al allowance loance ol 01 a maximum of one quart of liquor un der each prescription |