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Show oo BANQUET WILL BE 1ST IMPORTANT MEETING Members of the state legislature will be the guests at 7 o'clock tonight of a committee of Ogden and Salt I ake business men at a banquet at the Commercial club in Salt Lake, which will be attended by about 200 prominent business men of the two cities. The business men will repre sent at the meeting a portion of the large class of business men and interests in-terests opposed to sfate-wide prohibition, prohibi-tion, as proposed in the Wootton bill, now under consideration in the senate. sen-ate. The committee in charge of the affair af-fair is composed of M. H. Walker, W. J. Halloran, W. S. McCornick, R. W. Salisbury and F. S. Murphy of Salt Lake, and A. P. Bigelow, M. S. Browning, D. C. Eccles. R. A. Hoag and George J. Kelly of Ogden. All of those on the committee represent large banking, manufacturing and commercial interests with investments invest-ments in Utah totaling many millions of dollars. At the banquet will be represented the heaviest taxpayers in the state. M. S. Browning of Ogden will be toastmaster. The banquet will be an informal one. Several of those at the meeting meet-ing will discuss the advisability of passing a prohibition measure at this time and the effect of such a measure will be discussed Informally |
