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Show NEW LIQUOR BILL IN UTAH SENATE FOLLOWS CLOSELY THE PRESENT PRES-ENT LAW, BUT PROVIDES MORE STRICT REGULATIONS. License for Retail Saloons Placed at $600 to $2,000 and for Druggists the License Is the Same as for Saloons. Senator George H. Dern introduced another liquor bill in the Utah sen, ate on February 16. In general, the ibill follows the present laws, but provides pro-vides more strict regulations. License for retail saloons is placed at ?t00 tt $2,000 and for druggists in cities of the first and second class in "wet' territory the license is the same as for saloons. The license for clubs is placed at $200 to $2,000 and a cluli to get a license must be organized for business or social purposes and must occupy its own building. Cabarets are placed under the ban. 'but liquor may be sold in hotel dining rooms with regular meals only and a hotel is classified as a place having twenty-five rooms for guests. There is also a provision that clubs may not sell on days on which saloons are prohibited pro-hibited from selling. A clause of the bill forbids display of liquors in any show window. Closing Clos-ing hours are fixed at 10 p. m., except in cities of the first and second class, where the time may ibe set .by city ordinances. The house passed four bills on February Feb-ruary 16 and killed four. Some of the bills killed affected the laboring men. The bill by Senator L. B. Wright providing pro-viding that workmen in mills where the "wet" process is used might work ten hours instead of eight, was reported re-ported unfavorably 'by the labor committee com-mittee of the house and the report was adopted without a dissenting vote. The miners' unions of Park City, Bingham Bing-ham and Eureka protested against the bill. Dan B. Shields of Salt Lake made a fight for H. B. No. 39 providing for increasing the number of judges on the supreme bench from three to five, tout the hill was killed 'by a large vote. The bill providing for an appropriation appropria-tion of $100,000 for the grading of the capitol grounds was killed in accordance accord-ance with the report of the appropriations appropria-tions committee. The same action was taken in the case of H. B. No. SI by Emil S. Lund. This bill provided that -women might be employed in stores, mercantile establishments, -wholesale houses, canneries and other places nine hours a day, or a total of fifty-four hours a week. D. H. Morris' bill providing that any person who deposits drugs within access ac-cess of a convict road camp or sends it into the penitentiary in newspapers, magazines or postcards or who leaves any weapon or any article within a cell or on the grounds of a camp or prison, which a convict might use to attempt an escape, is guilty of a felony, fel-ony, passed without a dissenting voice. If the senate takes favorable action on the common law assignment ibil-1 introduced by Dan B. Shields, all assignments as-signments for the benefit of creditors must be in writing and recorded in the county where the property is located. lo-cated. It passed the house. The "wiretapping" bill, which was the outgrowth of a case in Salt Iake courts, passed without debate. The ibill is the same as the old law. tout makes those who conspire to "tap" wires as guilty as if they had carried out the conspiracy. The bill by F. B. Hammond of Grand county providing that a full year's tax be exacted on transient live stock brought into Utah for either summer or winter range, caused much discussion, dis-cussion, hut was passed. Two bills were passed hy the senate sen-ate on February 1G and ten were introduced. in-troduced. The bills passed were the one by Senator Joseph Eckersley providing pro-viding for appointment of an architect for the state commission on school buildings and sites and one by Senator Sena-tor J. R. Edgehill. providing that when a child goes away from home to attend at-tend another public school the district wherein the child lives shall pay a pro rata of school funds to the district the child attends. The senate on February 15 passed Senator Rideout's bill doing away with the law relative to the appointment appoint-ment and duties of the board of park commissi' ners, which was actually abolished when the commission form of government was adopted. A bill permitting towns to enter the third class of cities. Introduced by Senator George Dern of Salt Uilte, was passed after being amended to suit the Ogden senators so as to place the dividing line between first and second class cities at 40.000. One bill was passed in Ihe house, the O'.dham bill regarding collection of corporation license tax from building build-ing and loan companies. Reconsideration of the Wootton prohibition 1,111 In the senile went by defautl Monday, for It happened that when a I'rovo citizen called Sen ator L. B. Wight ou'side lor a moment, mo-ment, a motion to adjourn was carried car-ried and the prohibition bill, follow ing the parliamentary course, proceed, ed to the house without being called up. Senator Wight's bill, permitting workers in ore mills using the so-called so-called "wet process" to work ten hours a day. If they elect, where their extra work means that the mining underground un-derground may go ahead unintertupt ed, was passed by the senate on Feb ruary 3. A bill amending existing state laws so as to require all state ins: itutions commissions, offcers and iKards to turn over mcnthly to the state treas urer all feeB collected, has been intro duced In the house by Iiepresentativ T. T. Burton of Halt Lake. By a bill introduced In the house Representative Fitch proposes as i penalty for the crime of wlfe-beatlnj a sentence of from five to ten years it the state piison. In addition to this ! he would give the offender in aggra i vated cases from thirty to fifty lushe: on the back. A commisison of seven members t select a site and approve a design foi a monument to the Mormon battalion to be erected on the capitol grounds Is proposed by a bill introduced ii the house February 9 by George F Goodwin of Salt Lake, |