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Show SENATE BILL NOW HOLDING ATTENTION ... i. Senator Badger Proclaims Fair-Mindedness Substitute "Regulation' "Regula-tion' Bill Likely to Pass Senate Fate in the House Problematical Proble-matical Hulaniski and Kuchler Staunch Anti- Prohibi- , tionists Weber County Men Made Target of Some Very Acrimonious Remarks at Last Session. i It with a wry face and a few altcra-'. altcra-'. tlons. I Now that the Cannon state-wide prohibition pro-hibition bill, which made such a loud detonation In the lower house, ban been relegated to " the .morgue of the legislature by the senate, attention Is turned toward the - substitute bill, submitted Saturday by the majority or the committee on commerce and manufactures. manu-factures. In the upper branch of the legislature. For forty-one days the legislature ot Utah has been disturbed in all of its ramifications by the liquor question. To drink or not to drink, has been the all-absorbing topic. And if we do drink, to what extent, when, where and how? Senator Badger, one of the members mem-bers of the commerce and manufactures' manufac-tures' committee, and an avowed advocate ad-vocate of prohibition, proclaims his fair-mindedness when he says that prohibition, foisted upon the people of Utah in the precipitate manner involved in-volved by the Cannon bill, is unjust, unwise and un-American. "An Important matter of this kind," he says, "should be submitted to th'j people of this state, to be voted upon at a general election. It is true that we have received numerous petitions with thousands of signatures attached, praying that the legislature during Its present session shall pass a prohibition prohibi-tion bill. We have not had the time to ascertain whether all. of those who signed these documents are voters. The saloon men of Utah are, like those of other commonwealths', operating , primarily under the permission of the federal government, which authorizes the manufacture and salo of intoxicants. intoxi-cants. These men have immense sums of money Invested for that purpose in this state. It would not smack ot either good sense or Justice, to obllter ate their private fortunes or prospects, pros-pects, unless it be the will of the majority, ma-jority, so expressed by their ballots. The expressions of mass meetings ami v petitions do not constitute the true remedy In this case." From opinions expressed by leaders of both sides in the senate. It is likely that the substitute "Regulation" bill will pass that branch of the legislature. legisla-ture. But its fate in the house is problematical, inasmuch as that body has been so emphatic In its clamor for prohibition, pure and simple. Their attitude in the matter would indicate that they are In no mood, for a compromise. com-promise. It Is said, however, that Mr. Cannon may not be averse to giving ' away a point or two, in order to pave the way for the success of bis idea later on. and so It might happen that when, the senate substitute measure reaches the' house It will bo accepted by that body. ... The substitute "Regulation" measure meas-ure In Its present wording. Is about as near prohibition as can . be reached, without getting the real thing. It surrounds the liquor traffic with stilt restrictions, which, If minutely observed ob-served and enforced, will put the saloon sa-loon business and the indulgence ot the patrons upon a basis never before known In this state, or in the west. Statements made Saturday evening, after the adjournment of, the senate by members of that body,, were to the elfect that the committee on commerce com-merce and manufactures would likoly add a clause to the "Regulation" bill, providing for county unit local option, to be decided at the next general election elec-tion by tho voters of Utah. " Senator Hulaniski has. . remained staunch against prohibition, declaring that the property Interests of a number num-ber of his constituents would be paralyzed para-lyzed if such a measure were passed at this time. Furthermore, he . lu fitrongly averse to any action being taken on the liquor business by tho legislature, ina&much as it was not a feature embodied In any of the political politi-cal platforms of the last campaign. Senator Kuchler's stand in the matter mat-ter is well defined by .his rerusal.'aR chairman of the commerce and manufactures manu-factures committee, to. approve the "Regulation" bill. He was made the target in Saturday's debate of somes rather acrimonious remarks by Senator Sena-tor Wilson, the latter squabbling over the liquor question for some time, in an attempt to delay action la the senate sen-ate on the Cannon bill. . Kuchler remained re-mained cool under the rambling re marks pf the member from Wasatch, except at such times when Wilson over-stepped the mark of parliamentary parliamen-tary ethics, when the Ogden man had President Gardner tell Wilson where he was at. . Between now and the next sittlo;; of the senate, next Tuesday at 'I o'clock, it is expected that legislators on both sides of the liquor question will have conferences- which may' bring them tsomc kind of an agreement agree-ment on the "Regulation" bill, so that when It reaches the house, the members of that branch will swallow |