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Show years. Then these local option laws provide that' there shall be another election. Members of the legislature who are firm in their conviction that the question of saloons or no saloons should'be settled by tho will of the people In the aeparate districts of the state contend that under the bill any rparaely Bettled district or Utah will be permitted to vote on the question of "local option" within the next few months and. although with a vast Increase In-crease In population In future years and an entire change or sentiment, the people of that district would still be boilud by the vote of former years. Grave doubts as to the constitutionality constitution-ality of the measure aro expressed. WHAT DOES THE LIQUOR BILL MEAN. The Joker In the liquor bill which passed the house has been discovered, discover-ed, if reports from Salt Lake aro to be accepted. The Kuchler amendment to the Cadger bill Is as follows: "Provided, however, tndl the provision pro-vision thall apply to cities containing more than 12,000 inhabitants, when the legal voters of such cities shall have voted In favor of prohibition aa a separate unit" Prohibitionists claim that, owing to the wording of that paragraph, t.ho 1 regulation features of the bill could not apply in Ogden or Salt Lake until after the legal voters of either city had voted in favor of tne city going "dry." A further careful reading of the "joker" says "when the Tegal voters of such cities shall bave voted Tor prohibition as a separate unit." Tho bill does not say a majority of tho voters, or a two-thirds vote, and tho friends of prohibition are asserting that It would require tho vole of every legal voter la either of the two cities to vote tho city "dry." "The objectionable features," says the Republican, "were overlooked by members of the Senato who have been working for a local option bill with strict regulation features as the beat solution of the problem In Utah. The amendment In question was offered of-fered by Senator Kuchler and advocated advo-cated by Senator Hulanlskl, and was refused by the Senate at first and then later It was accepted and the final vote In the Senate was practically unanimous." Another Important reature of tho bill as It now stands Is Uat Instead of being a local option bill In the accepted accept-ed meaning of the term. It Is In reality real-ity a "sectional. prohibition bill," giving giv-ing each voting district of the state the risht to vote lo abolish the saloon for all time. The local option bills lor which the Anti Saloon league has worked with more or less success In the cities of the East bave provided that when a county or other voting unit voles "dry" the district shall bave no saloons for a definite period. ' which Is, In most cases, placed at two |
