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Show GOVERNOR VETOES PROHIBITION BILL ! MEASURE ADOPTED BY UTAH s LEGISLATURE NOT APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SPRY. Executive Declares Members of Legislature Leg-islature Were Pledced to Submit Question of State-Wide Prohibition Prohibi-tion to the Voters. k . Salt Lako City. Govornor William Spry hnB vetoed tho state-wide prohibition pro-hibition bill, which would havo placed Utah In tho "dry" column on July 1. U1G. Governor Spry on Thursday, March 18, filed senate bill No. 50, known as tho Wootton bill, with tho secretary of stato with a letter of disapproval, j which, under tho constitution of Utah, amounts to a veto. Tho governor stated thnt no mom- J her wnB pledged to enact a prohibition ' j law, but that 'such pledges as woro i given wero to tho effect that tho 1 question should bo submitted to a voto of the people of tlio Btate. Tho 9 messago also sets forth that thore Bj is on tho statutes of tho Btate at tho K present tlmo a local option law which Ij makes It possible for communities to I' bo "dry" If tho residents doslro. L In addition, tho legislature Just ad- II Journed passed a bill, which was sign- ed by tho governor, which prohibits I tho shlpmont of intoxicating liquors into dry territory, thereby strengthening strengthen-ing tho prohibition in those sections which havo acted favorably under the j local option law. In commenting on the bill, the governor gov-ernor said that tho bill was "hedged about by a support that turned a deaf ear to thoso who would have amend- j ed it to meet various objections, among whom was tho governor, who urged I that provision bo mado for compensation compensa-tion to thoso whoso property would be rondcred valueless." Ho declares that ho urged tho legislators leg-islators to Incorporate such a clauso ' and, falling therein, had requested that the time at which tho bill would' t havo becomo effective bo extended. The legislators also turned a deaf ear to this request. Ho also said that ho believes the 1 peoplo of the stato havo a right to j express themselves on tho question, ' "not through representation that has i promised ono thing and provides an- J other." . I His concluding objection is that tho 1 bill abolishes tho saloon and mnkos tho druggist tho dispenser of alcohol ' and wlno on tho physician's perscrlp- i tlon, "with tho generous allowance of I a maximum of ono quart of liquor un- p der each prescription. j |