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Show DRASTIC DRY BILL PASSEDBY HOUSE MEASURE HAS SMOOTH SAILING IN LOWER HOUSE, BUT MAY FAIL IN SENATE. Governor Has Intimated That He Will Veto the Bill Should the Senate Approve Measure Which Provides Pro-vides for Commissioner. Salt Lake City. The Young statewide state-wide prohibition bill was passed by the lower house ot the Utah legislature legisla-ture on January 23, but one member, J. T. Raleigh of Salt Lake, voting against it, he being opposed to the prohibition commissioner provision. This is the drastic measure which Governor Bamberger has declared he will veto, and which the senate intimates in-timates will never receive approval in that body, so that tbe governor will not get a chance to veto it. The bill as passed by the house is the measure as reported back to the house by the committee on manufactures manufac-tures and commerce without change in any of its consequential provisions. The nrovision of the bill Providing for personal search and seizure, without with-out warrant of court, known as the anti-bootleggers' section, was assailed most vigorously as unconstitutional and as a vicious menace to personal rights, but, while it was admitted by Mr. Young and the majority in general gen-eral that this provision is likely to be challenged in the courts, they insisted in-sisted that the end to be accomplished accom-plished Justified the means to be used, and this section was retained in the bill unchanged. In rebuke to the lower house for assuming as-suming to sponsor the cast off public pub-lic utilities bill, the senate on January Janu-ary 23 entered upon its record the introduction of a prohibition bill minus the commissioner feature, a modified public utilities bill and added the proposed pro-posed workmen's compensation and Clayton anti-trust bills for good measure. meas-ure. Twelve measures were introduced in the senate on January 23, while but four new bills appeared in the house. The new compensation bill differs from the Colton bill in that the. observance ob-servance of the act is not elective on the part of the employers or the employees. em-ployees. Its provisions, except as to compensation in case of death from injury, are compulsory. The enforcement enforce-ment of acceptance of a stipulated compensation in case of death from injury is prohibited by the constitution constitu-tion of the state. Representative L. W. Curry of Uinta county made his first appearance appear-ance in the house of representatives on January 23, he having been confined con-fined to his bed by illnes ever since the legislative session commenced. rar, iurry was lmrouucea 10 int? house by the speaker and took his Beat. Utah took the .lead of other states in the Union in a movement to bring about direct election of president and vice-president of the United States, through action by the house of representatives repre-sentatives in passing house joint memorial No. 2, by Representative J. W. McKinney of Salt Lake, calling upon congress to submit to the states of the Union a proposed federal constitution con-stitution amendment providing for such direct election. The house on January 23 adopted by unanimous vote senate Joint resolution reso-lution providing for the appointment of a Joint committee to make a thorough thor-ough Investigation of the so-called coal famine situation in the state of Utah. The adoption of the resoution followed fol-lowed a spirited discussion. Salt Lake City. At the end of the first two weeks of the twelfth session, ses-sion, January 20, the legislature was three days behind the record set by other legislatures. In the lower house the activity of the members during the two weeks had been curbed curb-ed on account of the senate caucus and the house members were being urged by the leaders to hold back bills until party measures were in. During the second week the statewide state-wide prohibition bill which was drawn by the Democratic steering committee, commit-tee, was reported out of committee and, as had been planned, was the the first bill on the calendar. But thirty-three bills had been introduced in the house during the two weeks of the session. This is said to be the smallest number of bills ever Introduced In-troduced in the first twelve days of s house session. Seven house joint resolutions had been introduced, two bouse resolutions and two house Joint memorials. One bill had been passed and one Joint resolution adopted. The bill which passed is tbe McKinney amendment amend-ment to the garnishment laws of the state and the resolution was directed to the secretary of agriculture protesting protest-ing against the increase in the grazing graz-ing rates in national forests. There were twelve bills on the calendar. During the first two weeks of the twelfth session, ending January 20. forty-one bills were introduced in the senate. Otherwise, however, things had not moved any too rapidly in the senate. Just two hills had been passed by the upper house. More than $150,000 is expected to be added to the general fund ot the state through placing a transient live stock tax in effect under the terms of the bill which was drawn by F. B. Hammond of Grand county. The initiative and referendum measure meas-ure is to be introduced in the legislature legis-lature as soon as the Democratic steering committee in charge of the bill can agree upon whether petitions should be circulated or whether signers sign-ers must go to a registration office or to the office of a notary to sign :he petitions. J |