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Show HKMT BIUJEMTED Southwick Explains His Reasons Rea-sons for Fight: Sentiment Trends to Passage PAIr I.AKK, frab, 3 The Southwick South-wick antl-cigaret bill, according to Indications given yesterday, will pSJA the Utah senate wlih probably ii" change from us present form. This was marie apparent yesterday after an I hour and one-hilt of debate when several sev-eral senators offered testimony In Its favor and only one rose against the measure. DI5BAT1 iiv Further debate on lhe bill will be hi hi this moaning at 10 o'clock when a special meeting will he held. Il will be the first special session of the- present pres-ent legislature. Senator Harrison E. Jenkins moved an amendment to make ihe bill read that it would be unlawful for any person per-son "except a licensed tobacco dealer" deal-er" to sell, barter or give away, and other amendments to the same effect. "No one," he said, "has any doubts that those who want to purchase cigar-els cigar-els will purchase ihcm. and if you will make this amendment. I will Inlrodui o a bill that will provide for a license on traffic in tobacco. This will bring In a considerable revenue to the general gen-eral fund of thf state, and will permit per-mit people t do in the r.pen what till" i Mil will drive them to do under cov-jer." cov-jer." Senator Edward Southwick, author of the bill, hoped that the senators would "Consider what the amendment men np."' "It means killing the bill." he said. "I do r.ot desire to go into the matter In detail, but we cannot prevent advertising ad-vertising of any article of which we : permit the saie- This amendment I would prevent on- of the very objects of the bill. 1 truft the amendment i will not prevail. ' No standing vote was taken on the amendment, but It appeared as though ! senators Georce II brrn and Jenkins Of the Judiciary committee and POS-sibly POS-sibly Senator Standlsh were the only I persons who voted "aye.' l I ll K l PL HNS Senator Standlsh Invited Sehatoi SoUthWlck tO s'iy why IjC wanted the I bill put through. Fiom the standpoint! of the smoker the Sail Lake senator said he desired enlightenment When Senator Southwick arose fh( applause occurred which prompted the sharp rapping to order from the presideni of the senate. "i do not know of anything that a'lli affQrd me greater pleasure," sain Senator Sen-ator SOUthWIck, "than to enlighten the senate und the public as to why I want this bill put through." The I'tah county senator proposed to show psychological facts u!ij reasons for the necessity of the measure In Utah at this time. He said that the bill had been subject to misconception and misconstruction as to its purport. He sketched the terms of the measure. ' which lias already been printed, ami j dwelt ut some length on the Second ' section which prohibits advertising of 1 clgareis In :im Imiii He ass. -t . J ihai ' the Utah Hlllpostlng compan' has ' 140, ooo worth bl contracts unexpired to advertise clgarets, nnd spoke of1 what that means per capita to the ctt-M loan. ' "It Is not." he added, "those who'' have acquired tha oigarel habit, but I new material and victim. that this advertising seeks to find 'Therefore, it is necessary, to prohibit the sale of 1 clgarets in order to prevent the ad- 1 yartlslng of them." Section -I. he went on, would pro- ! hlblt the use of tobacco In any lonu 1 in certain places. Sehatoi4 Dew in- : t rrupted him long enough to ask him li the statement were unite true, und' Senator Southwick said It Would n0' ( l'i MMiuii mc v new iii u looaccu in sucn 1 places Senator Southwick wild there had been some unpleasantness and some' personalities at the public hearings on, j the bill which were not altogether pro-! per. lie thought thai the bill would do much good. He said thut cveiy effort ef-fort is now being made to tempt the young men and the young women to. , be users of the cig.;ret. This was being be-ing done in every concelvubie way 1m-laglned, 1m-laglned, he said. He referred to the I ndv.-rtlsi'nients on billboards und In ImagaSloeS, and said that they persuaded per-suaded the hoy to think that. In order to make a man of himself, he had to have a i igarc-t in hs mouth-DIM mouth-DIM I sM s PHftSOM VL I HI) Kl 1 "This bill," ho added, "will clear up' 'at least 76 per cent of the cigaret , smoking in the st.. i' He asserted tha: Ihe bill does not I prohibit smoking in hotel lobbies; and I he went into the iuer;.ou of "personal I liberty" ;,t some length. The right of the majority to rule, he said, was one1 o: the foundation stones of the Amcri-j can government.' aipl "I know of no, autocracy of the majority," nor of the r'abuse of majority rule. ' lie asserted th h-hei that the" people peo-ple of Utah are overwhelmingly In fa-Ivor fa-Ivor of "this antWdgaret measure" and' fir. answer t,. lhe assertions made by ! businessmen biro:- th- commltteel thai the bin would drive trade away from i b e state, he mere)) said he did not "believe In that kind of reason- lug.'! I ' Personal liberty." he added. "Is as i sacred to me as W. n:w man in t )-slate )-slate of Ftah."' "No mail." he continued, 'who has I had a Child born io him by u faithful woman, has a rlln to hamper thej j progress of that child." The L'tah County eiiiiior then es-j sayed to prove by science that tobac-j co smoke itself is a poison He re If erred at considerable length to car-bon car-bon monoxide, whlcli he declared to I I he one of the poisonous gases given 1 I off' In the burning of tobacco. He. spent but little time on the acrolln. which, he said, causes smokers to cough, especially earl) In the morn-ling, morn-ling, ami the nicotine, which he de-j kited to be a poison that will cause sudden death if taken in adequate quantities. He added that saltpeter is used in the preparation of tobacco, and in combustion is Injurious to th'-mucous th'-mucous membrane. oi III. It nil i s. In addition to holding a somewhat prolonged debate on the Southwick antl-cigaret lull yesterday, the Utah senate added five more bills to Its Second reading calendar, while it got rid of as many from rln- list a- n appeared ap-peared a: the opening of the session.; Still another measure the SeegmlUer concurrent memorial in support of Senator William II King's hill m provide pro-vide Jioo.non for survey of punii lands in Utah, came over from the i house, but was allowed io sta only long enough to he rend and pa4 d under suspension of the rules and without discussion. The senate committee on public it i lib a id labor had n ( w more trivial triv-ial correction; to mul e In a house bill Hou i.iii .j. 4r., which came up for Qnaldaratlon on the second reading alendar, bud the old phrase 'he and he same hereby Is" amended, and the committee recommended that the imergene) clause, making the bill ef-'ctKt- on approval, be stricken. Irtaa-liucb Irtaa-liucb as the bill Itself carried April I. 1021, as the date when it was to become be-come effective. Moreover, it was rec-immcndod rec-immcndod that the number of the I ipter in vvhlch a certain section to e repealed occurred be changed from 1 20 ' tO "1 1" " The amendments, while merely for-' nal. received more than ordinary at-i ' ntlOu from the senate on account of he raci that the house objects to cor- lioi - being nokde In its bills, accord-! ng to the Impression given the sen-: it or a oo |