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Show PLIKS BILL FOR ELECTRIC CHI (Speeinl D la patch i SALT LAKE. Jan. IS. Royal J. Douglas, representaln e to the Utah legislature from Weber rount. today let it be known that he will introduce a bill which will provide Hint death ln the electric chair shall be the punishment pun-ishment for tirst degree murderers convicted ln Utah Under the present laws a condemned man in I'tah is given his choice of banging or shooting, and In tho lat ; fifteen or Jwenty years they have all selected shooling The house Judiciary committee g,i-notice g,i-notice it would report ouu favorably tho bill to permit counties to borrow money In emergencies at the prevailing prevail-ing legal rate of Interest. The senate this .afternoon was scheduled sched-uled to listen (o an address on the proposed Mormon battalion and there was also to be a plea made in connection connec-tion with the Hoover campaign to feed starving children ln Europe. OO |