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Show o VOTERS URGED TO STUDY NEW AMENDMENT During the past week the advertisments for the proposed constitutional amendment on which the voters will pass judgment in November, appeared in the newspapers over the state. The amendment proposes that cities or towns of Utah may select charters, instead' of depending as they do now, entirely on legislative legis-lative enactment. It is commonly known as the "home rule in cities" amendment, amend-ment, its supporters maintaining that the people of cities in one part of the state should be allowed to have complete say as to how they will be governed locally, with, of course, full state pow---s being reserved to the legislature, without having to ask ad-;re ad-;re of representatives or senators from other parts of the state .-re entirely different conditions would undoubtedly prevail. The proposal provides that the city or town council or com-! com-! v.ssion by a two thirds vote, supplemented by a petition signed 'y 15 per cent of the number of voters at the preceding election, :ay have submitted to the people at the next regular municipal Section the question: "Shall a commission be chosen to frame a charter." If the vote is in the affirmative a commission of 15 persons is chosen at the same election to frame a charter. When the corrtmission has completed its work, it must submit sub-mit to the voters the proposed charter, with alternative sections, if desired, within from 60 days to a year after the report is completed. com-pleted. In addition to specifying certain powers which the charter chart-er is to give to the city or two, the amendment would give the cities or town "the authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal affairs, and to adopt and enforce within its limits local police, sanitary and similar regulations not in conflict with the general law," but this grant of authority "shall not include the power to regulate public utilities not municipally owned, if such regulation of public utilities is provided for by general law, nor be deemed to limit or restrict the power of the legislature in matters relating to state affairs, to enact general laws applicable alike to all cities of the state." All voters are urged to read the amendment, which appears in another column of this issue of this paper, and study it thoroughly thor-oughly before going to the polls to vote on the question. r |