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Show PROIM BILL MEASURE ADOPTED BY UTAH LEGISLATURE NOT APPROVED BY GOVER..OR SPRY. Executive Declares Members of Legislature Leg-islature Were Pledged to Submit Question of State-Wide Prohibition Prohibi-tion to the Voters. Salt Lake City. Governor William Spry has vetoed the state-wide prohibition pro-hibition bill, which would have placed Utah in the "dry" column on July 1, 1916. Governor Spry on Thursday, March 18, filed senate bill No. 50, known as the Wootton bill, with the secretary of state with a letter of disapproval, which, under the constitution of Utah, amounts to a veto. The governor stated that no member mem-ber was pledged to enact a prohibition law, but that such pledges as were given were to Bile effect that the question should be submitted to a vote of the people of the state. The message also sets forth that there is on the statutes of the state at the present time a local opt'en law which makes it possible for communities to be "dry" if the residents desire. In addition, the legislature just adjourned ad-journed passed a bill, which was signed sign-ed by the governor, which prohibits the shipment of intoxicating liquors into dry territory, thereby strengthening strengthen-ing the prohibition in those sections which have acted favorably under the local option law. In commenting on the bill, the governor gov-ernor said that the bill was "hedged about by a support that turned a deaf ear to those who would have amended amend-ed it to meet various objections, among whom was the governor, who urged that provision be made for compensation compensa-tion to those whose property would be rendered valueless." He declares that he urged the legislators leg-islators to incorporate such a clause and, failing thttein, had requested that the time at which the bill would have become effective be extended. The legislators also turned a deaf ear to this request. He also said that he believes the people of the state have a right to express themselves on the question, "not through representation that has promised one thing and provides another." an-other." His concluding objection is that the bill abolishes the saloon and makes ihe druggist the dispenser of alcohol and wine on the physician's perscrip-tion. perscrip-tion. "with the generous allowance of a maximum of one quart of liquor under un-der each prescription. |