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Show PROHIBITION BILL PHDj UTAH WILL JOIN RANKS OF DRY STATES FIR8T MONDAY IN JUNE, 1910. Statewide Prohibition Measure Approved Ap-proved by Vote of 15 to 2. Gambling Bill Passed by the Lower House. Utah will bo a dry stnto aftor tho first Monday In Juno, 1D1C, should tho mombcrs of tho Iioubo ondorso tho action ac-tion of tho senato, which on Foh'runry 11 passed tho Wootton prohibition bill by a veto of 15 to 2. Thoso voting for tho bill wero Bradley, Brad-ley, Chez, Colton, , jttorlll, Craig, Ec-kersloy, Ec-kersloy, Evans, Funk, Hanson, Hoy-nolds, Hoy-nolds, nidoout, Seegmillor, Thomlcy, Wright and Wootton. Thoso voting against It wore Dern nud Ferry. Tho bill, known as Sonnto Bill No. CO, introduced by Senator J. II. Wootton Woot-ton of Utah county, was dratted by tho Utah Federation or Prohibition nnd Bottorment Leagues and the Utah Municipal league It was presented with no provision for submitting tho question to tho voters of the stnte, and has been considered by tho senato sen-ato commltteo on agriculture and Irrigation, Ir-rigation, to which It wns roforred after tho first contest In thp present Besslon of tho legislature. Tho committee, com-mittee, after sovornl public hearings, voted to-roport favorably with no amendments whatever excepting to correct a fow typographical errors. It was In this rorm that tho bill passed tho senate, except that ono ot a Bcoro or moro amendments offered was adopted, making It mandatory that the stuto board of medical examiners ex-aminers and tho stato board of pliar-mncy pliar-mncy shall revoke tho llconso of any physician or druggist who violates tho provisions of tho bill rolatlvo to giving giv-ing or filling proscriptions for liquor, and that after a llconso 1 revoked no other license shall bo granted that person to practlco medicine or pharmacy. phar-macy. Tho honor of making tho first ad-dress ad-dress In Utah's now $2,500,000 cupltol, fell to D. J. Palmer, commander in chief of tho G. A. It. In a patriotic address he admonished tho legislators to enact laws which will bo for tho best Interests of the state. Common-dor Common-dor Palmer was received by both houseB or tho legislature In Joint session ses-sion on Fobruary 11, held in tho house chamber. Tho education nnd appropriation committees of tho house nnd senato wcro to havo gono on Tuesday to Cedar City, but tolegranu recolvod stated tho snow was too deop for automobiles a short distance south ot o.und and tho trip has boon Indefinitely Indefinite-ly postponed. With but slight objection tho houso on Fohrunry 11 passed tho Burton gumbllng bill, making tho presence of gambling paraphernalia prima facie evidence of tho conduct of a gambling gamb-ling house. Sovornl mombors objected object-ed to tho bill on the ground that It wob too drastic In Its provisions. Representative J. Louis Brown, Democrat, of Salt Lako, has Intro-ducqd Intro-ducqd a bill providing that any person representing any political organization organiza-tion who uses vehicles ror tho carriage car-riage of voters to the poIIb on election day shull bo guilty of a misdemeanor. Tho senate on Fobruary 15 passed Senator Hideout's bill doing away with tho law relative to tho appoint-ment appoint-ment nnd duties of the board of park commissioners, which was actually abolished when tho commission form of government waa adopted. A" bill permitting towns to enter-tho enter-tho third class of cities, Introduced by Senator Georgo Dern or Salt Lako, was passed after being amended to suit the Ogden senators bo as to placft tho dividing line between first and second class cltleB at 40,000. Ono 1)1H was passed in tho houso, tho Oldham bill regarding collection of corporation Hcenso tax from building build-ing and loan companies. Reconsideration or tho Wootton prohibition bill In tho senate went by dorautl .Monday, ror It hnpponed that when a Provo citizen called Senator Sen-ator L, B. Wight outside Tor a moment, mo-ment, a motion to adjourn wns carried car-ried and tho prohibition bill, following follow-ing tho parliamentary course, proceed, ed to tho houso without bolng called up. . Tho committee voted to report unfavorably un-favorably on tho bill by Emll S. Lund to npproprlnto $100,000 to grade tho capltol grounds by day labor. J. Alox. Bovan of Tooelo believe that the United States civil sorvlco commissioners and head3 of departments depart-ments under civil service nro too hasty in issuing peremptory orders warning civil servlco omployeoB from talking polItlcB, Ho introduced a resolution to memorialize congress for remedial action. A bill Introduced by Dan B. Shields of Salt Lako proposes that tho clerk of the county Bhall raako ah alphabetical alphabet-ical list, of all voting at tho last election elec-tion nnd that tho list bo (urnlshod to registrars at least thirty dayB prior to election. Names would bo added to this list by registrars, and Instead or having three registration days thcro would bo only ono, The bill was Introduced In-troduced In 1911 and was killed. Senator Wight's bill, permitting workers In ore mills uslug tho so-called so-called "wet proccB8" to work ton hourB a duy, If thoy elect, whoro tholi extra work moanH that the mining underground un-derground may go nhoad uninterrupted, uninterrupt-ed, was passed by tho senato on February Feb-ruary 9. A bill amending oxlBting state laws so as to require all stato institutions, commissions, officers and boards to turn over monthly to tho stato treasurer treas-urer nil fees collected, haa been Introduced Intro-duced In the house by Representative T, T. Burton of Salt Luke. |