| Show REFERENDUM P PROHIBITION ON I The national economic league ot 0 which Charl Charles s E Hughes Da IDa- David David vid Starr Jordan John Hays Has Ham flam- flam flammond Ham mond mond Roger W Dabson Babson AlbertJ Albert J Beveridge J 3 R n Angell and Frank 0 O Lowden are the tha executive executive tive Uve council has ta taken a referendum referendum dum dma vote on prohibition prohibition with th following result Vote on eighteenth amendment as follows In favor ot of o retaining 2 per cent In favor of or repealing H 44 per cent not voting 4 r 4 per cent Vote on act as ae follows In favor of or retaining as It is S 9 Ser Jer er cent In favor of or reinforcing by more effective provisions 34 per cent In III favor or of modifying so AS s to permit or allow greater alcoholic contents In beverages 22 per cent jn In favor of or repealing 30 SOper per cent cent cen t not yoUng voting 5 P per cent Total per cent Total number I or of ballots cast 1904 Favors a vors federal rather than state control of liquor traffic in event I of or repeal of of tho th eighteenth amendment meat ment Proposal to establish dispensaries saries or other means of providing federal control of ot sale pt pr Alcoholic beverages It if ac act Is mod iCed supported by following vote ote Yes Ves IS per cent no 28 per cent not voting 24 per cent Sale of alcoholic beverages In 1 l public drinking drilling places in even event that act Is la modified op- op opposed opposed posed by overwhelming g majority but 47 per cent with 21 per cent ten not cot voting would allow sale In hotel hotels I and restaurants If it served with food Majority vote ote fa favors VOlS VOl'S Greater effort and expenditure of more mon money It if necessary by ky the fed fed- federal eral oral government for Putting prohibition officers under civil service rules Federal corn com commIssIon mission to ascertain and report facts as to operation or Uon laws Consensus on percentage ot of al at coholic content permissible undEr the eighteenth amendment gives a average of or 4 per cent for tor beer and 9 per cent for wino 0 or Of tour four other questions dealing with ith alcoholic contents in event ot of modification of or the act largest vote favors proposal that congress should define the words Intoxicating liquor for tor beverage purposes In the eighteenth amen amendment ment so as to apply to dis die distilled distilled tilled liquor only and not to fer fer- fermented fermented beverages such as beer and wine This proposal however appealed to only 31 per cent ot of the voters Seven Sven hundred bundred and six forty-six as against of the members with not voting oUng think modification ot of act would make en- en enforcement en enforcement ot of o the prohibition amendment more difficult The purpose of ot the national economic league is to create through Its national council an Informed and disinterested leader leadership ship for tor public opinion The na- na na national council is made mace up of ot men and women who are nominated as the best Informed and most public spirited citizens of or the country They are elected separately from each state tat by preferential ballot The Tho Utah members ot of the league are as follows L R B Anderson S F Ballif Jr G Howard Beard John F Ben Ben- Bennett Bennett Ben nett nett Adam Bennion I P A Bige- Bige Bigelow Bigelow low Bige-low low George Geore E Browning James JamesJ J 7 Burke J G Bywater Wallace Calder Fred P Champ John C Cutler J 0 O Douglas E P Elli Ell Ellson Ellison son son I L H lJ Farnsworth Alfred I Frank Heber Heber J I Grant arant John J hn l I Hardy W H 11 Harris J E B man Hick Hick man Ei E S Hinckley Robert HI Hinckley Charles R R B Hollings worth worth E B 0 O Howard John C CHoward Howard Edward E B Jenkins Lin- Lin Lin Lincoln coIn coln G C Kelley George D Keyser M I A Keser Ke ser JC Richard R Lyman Is M J Mac Mac- MacFarlane MacFarlane Mao Mao-Farlane Farlane Louis Marcus Marcul Wilson McCarthy Albert Merrill D- D D DD D Mull Muir A A- AL A L Neff Nett Elmer George Peterson Alice L Reynolds HH H If H Edward Edard H J Sheffield John M lii Wallace W v H I-f Wattle G M if Whitmore |
