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Show PROHIBITION BILL, LIKE A CAT WITH NINE LIVES, IS AGAIN BACK IN THE HOUSE (Special to The Standard ) Statehouse, Salt Lake. Feb. 13 Governor Simon Bamberger and tho legislators still are tinkering with tho prohibition bill Today It was dragged back to the house on suspicion that it contained a vital defect in the failure of the house to place it on final passage pas-sage after accepting the amputation of the commissioner feature. This alleged al-leged defect was discovered by Governor Gover-nor Bamberger after he had signed it and sent it to the secretary of state Today it came back, like the cat of nine lives. Warned ot Its coming and the cause of it, the house appointed a committee commit-tee composed of Richard W. Young, Jr., Edward Southwick and Mrs. Grace Stratton Airey to diagnose the document and be ready with a remedy. rem-edy. It is expected to arrive late this afternoon. It will probably be passed finally and returned to the governor. As far as anyone knows, the bill isn't open to further amendment and there is no chance of slipping any joker into it. Governor Kills Bill. House bill 55, by Southwick, providing provid-ing $25,000 for extension of the work of the Agricultural college, died today and was cast into the limbo of forgot-J ten measures when the commit-j tee reported unfavorably aud the house accepted the report. Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger has expressed h is i disapproval of tho bill, to all kinds' of continuous appropriations, calling I illnnlinn in tVi., fifl that lha Airri. cultural college's work was fairly taken tak-en care of in the general appropriations. appropria-tions. The bill provided for a continuous appropriation of $2,500 a year until the college had expended the maximum of $26,000. Now for the Debate. There's an air of expectancy today in the senate. This committee Is expected ex-pected to report the public utilities bill. Convictions which have been forming for the last month in the minds of the legislators are expected to dissolve and burst into argument. Fierce debate is imminent and likely to continue for threo or four days. Forecasters of the senate confidently predict that one eye tooth of the bill will be sustained despite all efforts at senatorial dentistry, this being the schedule fixing maximum freight rates on coal within the state. The rate fixed in the schedulo of most importance import-ance to Salt Lake and Ogden is $1.15 per ton instead of the present rate of $160. .Many of the legislators are in favor of a dollar rate, but the senate I- ep. el,-d lu approve of $1.15. Tile Utah Fuel trust and its railroad defenders de-fenders are doing their utmost to pull this tooth, or somehow to fix It to retain their present advantage. There is yel no answer to Governor Bamberger's challenger to the legislature legisla-ture to provide $25,000 for the investigation investi-gation of the coal problem, despite his assurance thai he would guarantee to save the state many times ihat amount in the results of the investigation. Druggists Protest Bill House bill 5S, by Allen, which, its author admitted, was framed by tho retail merchants of Salt Lake, designed to control mercantile conditions in Salt Lake, but actually involving every drug store In the state, raised a small hornet's nest in the house today. The druggists heard from fiercely de termined to kill the bill, which provides pro-vides that druggists shall be permitted to sell only drugs and soda water on the Sabbath day. Indications promise the death of the bill late this afternoon. nn |
