The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-28
ANTI-CIGARETTE
BILL is KNITTED
MRS. Coulter Withdraws it to
Save it From Death.
JABBED FROM ALL SIDES
MEMBERS SAY IT IS TOO sTRIN-
GENT IN ITS PROVISIONS.

Like the woman who few days
ago snatched her child from the midst
of flames, Mrs. c. E. Coulter dashed
In among the battle-axes. knives.
oroadswords. rapiers and bludgeons of
the other members of the house, seized
her anti-cigarette bill and bore it away
10 die a natural death. If she had
delayed any longer, the aforesaid in
struments of warfare would surely
have murdered her legislative child.
1t was sad affair and for while
some of those who watched Mrs. CoUl-
ter's face momentarily expected her to
burst into tears. AS soon as the bill
came up. Wilson moved that the enact
ing clause be striker out. Mrs. Coulter
read speech for the measure, in
which she spoke Of the ''pallid, weak
ened and understood boys" and the
w1ckedness of cigarette smoking.
IietJen thought the bill too stringent.
II punished with fine or Imprisonment
any boy having tobacco in his pos
session, and prevented a man send
Ing his son to a store for tobacco. J.
r. Johnson thought the idea all right,
but wanted the bill amended.
BY this time Mrs. Coulter had caught
the drift and she tried to save the bill
by moving that it be made a special
order for $3.50 p. III. Tuesday. CahOon
and Wilson opposed this. DR.. Condor
tried to help his woman colleague.
Quantity and Quality.
Z can put up six times as many
children as the Trainer of this meas
ure and DR.. Condon," announced VIII
son in the course of his remarks.
You speak of quantity" put in DIR.
Condor. What's the quality?"
Wilson said they claimed him for
their father and that was enough.
Spry spoke for the bill. White de-
clared there was too much procras-
tination, and that the measure ought
TO be settled then and there. SO did
Stone. The motion to postpone was
lost. Fishburn talked for the bill.
Any parent who sends his child to
the store to get any of these things"
cigarettes. cigars or tobacco in any
form), declared Fishburn, ought TO be
punished"
Under the present wording of this
bill" said White "a year-old infant,
sitting on his fathers lap and pluck
ing a cigar from. his lips, would be
subject to having the patrol wagon
drawn up and to be taken to the bas-
tile A maiden who might pluck a
warm cigarette from her sweetheart's
mouth would be subject to the same
penalty"
He also called attention to the fact
that homeless Waif arrested on this
charge would be sent to Jail. while a
boy with weather. parents would have
his fine paid and escape.
Withdrew the Bill.
An attempt to take a recess failed |
Then Mrs. Coulter asked permission TO
withdraw the bill TO save it from the
fate. But the members
were inf1amed with a thirst for blood
and they would not have it so at
first.
McRae pleaded for Mrs. Coulter, on
the ground that she was a woman and |
should be entitled to every courtesy.
I'm not here to ask any special
rights and privileges on account of be- |
ing a woman" snapped Mrs Coulter
This is business proposition"
And Bishop Mcftae subsidized.
Spry leaped into the breach and de- |
clared that Mrs. Coulter was entitled |
10 the same courtesy as every other |
member-the privilege of withdrawing 4
her bill to save it from death His re- |
marks on this line were so vigorous that |
they called forth a heated reply from /
White. When the motion was put Civ |
ing Mrs. Coulter the privilege of with !
drawing her bill it was carried unani- /
mously. 1T is not believed that she
Will introduce it again.
Draws Down Anti-billiad Bill.
After her antt-cigarette bill had been
so mauled and man-handled by the 1
members, Mrs. Coulter slipped over to
the clerks desks and asked that house