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Show I VETOES REFERENDUM. j Governor of Utah Sets Seal of Disap- proval on Measure. Salt Lake City. On the grounds that th operation of the law would be too expensive, that it was unnecessary unneces-sary and that there was considerable doubt as to its constitutionality. Gov. William Srry sent the initiative and referendum bill to the secretary of j state on March 23 with his disap-I disap-I proval. The bill was one of the pet measures of the Democrats in the recent re-cent session of the legislature and was introduced by Representative Dan Shields of Salt Lake. It passed the house by a vote of 34 to 11 and the senate by a vote of 10 to 7, and iiivi iiiru uiai me initiative might he Invoked on petition to the legislature of 12 per cent of the qualified voters ot the state. |