Show 1 I 1 ap ahl ill 1 letl IT RE ith fhi legislature 1 h a adjourned this nes neis was nas mck received mil with a mix tuil mil of fL feelings elings the eighth legislature of thi chii state will vo eai down lit in history as the stormi stormiest cst one in the life of the state up until the present timi the storms arose and blat beat about the th question I 1 he legislators many of then them tit at least claimed tha they thay y were not aware thit that the temperance question was a vital one in the affairs of the state they were acre somewhat justified in this assumption because the governor did not deem the muter matter m uter of sufficient tin importance por tince to mention it in hii message me saige to the solons scions Hov evet it became a clr vital isaul and there is a whole lot of LX e oue the people ol of the tate state for the f to accede to the tie de mands fur for reform legislation along temperance lines the cannon prohibition measure was wab killed bl the senate enate ahe cullen hotel lull bill achi achieved eNed some prominence then came the badger bill with its mixture of strength and weakness and its questionable constitutionality this was passed by the senate during the lait das dabs of the session and after the special message of governor spry then the house took the badger bill band and ripped it all to pieces substituting the cullen hotel bill and this the senate refused to co concur in the whole thing resolved into the pa sage sige of the badger bill with its strange mixture of good and bad and this is generally acknowledged to lie be a 2 sop to the fists and a bone to the liquor interests it is far from satis satisfactory factor to either side deila with the liquor interests were charged whether there is truth in these charges we will not attempt to sas si we believe that had gov governor anor mpr recommended decisive legislation for either prohibition or docil option the legislature would have passed it th there re ire many matters of vital importance to the state which the legislature failed to take action upon which will ail always cling as objectionable features of the eighth legislative assembly if the state of utah the wa was hailed as the best beat legislature utah ever had when it first went into re session dision it ill IB doubtful if one so poor a as to do it such re rev prance verance now can be found in wide domain the members of the legislature asa as a body were honest but they sadly needed a joshua to stand forth and lead them in the paths of right ind and justice the prohibition question is far from being dead when next net a legislature in utah assemble there will be ri question as to whit the people will demand whether there w is a deal tho the past year with the liquor interests or not two years hence de del il or no deal the people N vill ill send men to the legislature with very verv clear instructions as to prohibition and there will be no such ruch excuses possible of not knowing what was wanted |