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Show PROHIBITION BILL PASSES THE LOWER HOUSE BY 40 TO 5 Salt Lake March 2 The Wootton state-wide prohibition bill passed the house of representatives yesterda afternoon by a vote of 40 to 6. The bill 1s now held up for a day on a motion for reconsideration. The bill as passed by the house yesterday Is altered in a number of respect?. Some sixty or seventy amendments were made in the house to the senate bill. However, most of tbese are minor amendments. Tn three or four important particulars i lie bill, as it passed the house, differs dif-fers from the bill as it passed the senate. An attempt was made by the Progressives Pro-gressives and Democrats, after the roll had beer called, to induce enough of Its members to change their vote in order that the bill might not receive re-ceive a two-thirds vote Under the terms of the initiative and referendum act. the referendum may not be in voked unless the bill passes each house by less than two-thirds of its membership. Half a dozen Progres- elves and Democrats changed their votes, but this did not prop enough to bring it within the provisions of the initiative and referendum bill, so they changed their votes back again. Vote on Final Passage. The vote on the final passage of the measure follows: AYES. Aagard, McShane, Allen, Mabey, Bevan, Meeks, Blackett. Morris, Brlnkerhoff, Nebeker, Browning, Oldham, Bnrton, O'Neil, Chrlstensen, Page, Croft, Peterson, Day. Pope, Ennis R.-dd. Fowles, Sevy, Goodwin, Shields. Qriffln. Stewart, Hammond, Taylor, Hawley, Van Wagoner, Hay-ward Warnlck. ' Hinckley. Wing. Horsley Speaker Anderson Kelly. Total, 40. NAYS Barker. Folkraan, Child, Lund Fitch. Total, 6 ABSENT. Wolstpnholme. Most of the amendments presented on the floor of the house yesterday were rather summarily rejected, a procedure which called for the pro tests of the "wets" and also of a number on the prohibition side of the qurouon several times attempts were made to defer action on the measure until today and several mo tlons to adjourn were made, but each was rejected, enough of the "dry's" staying together for a vote on the measure to prevent all efforts at postponement. post-ponement. Amendments Accepted. The house committee on manufactures manufac-tures and commerce had previously adopted a number of amendments to the bill, and all of these were accepted accept-ed by the house with little protest Among the committee amendments placed in tbe bill were alterations to make the enforcement of the measure largely the duty of district attorneys, eliminating from this duty the town and city attorneys. Another committee amendment adopted makes it necessary to describe de-scribe the premises to be searched under the search and seizure law Still another committee amendment eliminated the permission given for the manufacture of wine for domes tic purposes. The fourth committee amendment extends the date on which the bill will become effective from the first Monday in June, 1916, to July 1. 1916. The only two important amendments amend-ments adopted on the floor of the house were one prohibiting the manufacture manu-facture of wine for sacramental purposes pur-poses and the other eliminating from the bill the provision requiring physi clans to state tbe malady afflicting the patient for whom intoxicants might be prescribed. Any number of other amendments were presented and as promptly voted vot-ed down. Important among the amendments was one by Representa tive Christensen of Salt Lake, which provided for attaching the referendum I clause to the bill, under which the people would have the opportunity to vote on the bill before it became a law. Thi6 amendment was defeated. 34 to 9 Tbe detailed vote on the amendment follows: For the referendum Barker, Bevan Chrlstensen, Child, Fitch, Folkmau, Fowles, Lund, Stewart 9 Against the referendum Aagard, Allen, Brinkerhoff, Browning, Brown Burton, Croft. Day. Enuis, Goodwin,! Griffin, Hammond, Hawley, Hay ward, Hinckley Horsley. Kelly, Lund, McShane. Mc-Shane. Mabey. Meeks, Morris, Nebe- |