Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-14
FOR COMMITTEE
ON TEMPERANCE
Demand Is 10 be Made Upon the
State Legis-
lature.
TO PREVENT DEATH OF BILLS
People Working for Bcttcrmcnt Of
Conditions VIII Ask That Liquor
Interests BE Not Represented.

on what lines viii the opponents Of
prohibition take up their battle? ln the
senate is Rudolph Kuchlcr rcputed to
be- % master of sagacity 10 the matter
OF things legislative. lilo is from Weber
county. and has served lu the house
Of representative. where he was "a
powerful member because the man OF
most ,ieor in forcing his points often
got ahead in a largo body Ike that
most OF whose members were new I'D
their positions,
As he was in the house. 80 Kuchler
g. I'm the senate. Backing up kuchler
from Weber De- Ilulanisk from weber
kuchlers business is making cigars,
and being active ln politics The husl-
moss OF Hulanlski is that Of "a lawyer.
Recently De appeared as an cmploye of
brewery aud saloon interests, acting
FOR them in distributing saloon litera-
ture. More recently still be D. now ap-
pearlng as the attorney for Belle Ion-
don ct al loo the Red Light case being
tired before Judge Morse in the district
court
A decided belief among those wen
informed in legislative circles is that
<uchler backed by Hulaniski, will lead
the saloon fight 90 no-action, or action
that viii not Poe effective.
kUCHLEKH COMMITTEES
Special interest therefore attaches 20
the committees on which Kuchler has
succeeded iu finding places. His best
point Of vantage Is as chairman Of the
manufactures and commerce commit
tee. This committee could receive
Temperance legislation under "a ruling
from the chair. Temperance legisla-
lion would then be IN the hands NJ ono
who is practsed in all the arts Of 81
lent death Tor undesirable bills.
A combination in whicl 4uchler and
temperance legislation come together In
committee can only mean that temper
ancc legislation VIII not be considered
in open session. and fought out frankly
on the floor with every senator stand
ing by the record he thus viii make for
himself
There Is therefore being discussed
way OF saving temperance legislation
from a committees private burial
ground. IL Is to have "a demand made
from the senate as "a whole for tho
naming of a special select committee
on temperance. into whose membership
VIII not enter representatives Of some
other interest than that Of tho people at
large. kuchler, as chairman VI the
committee on salaries. and as member
Of the committee on municipal corpora
lions. win have work To- do I'm which
he may find exercise for bis legisla-
tive talents. In case he falls TO have
The temperance legislation referred %
the committee on manufactures and
commerce
KUCHLER's ASSOCIATES.
The other members Of Kuchlers
committee are John g. Smith. Bullen.
Hyde, and Badger. Smith and Bullcn
are men who seldom allow themselves
to be- quoted as 10 their views Neither
have spoken word IN favor OF tenn
perancc legislation. and neither am
swered the letters from the News
asking how they stood on important
Issues before the people. Hyde am
swered TO the effect that his mind was
not made up, and Badger frankly Ia
yors some kind OF regulation. how Sc
we're he Is not ready 10 state. Strict
regulation, with saloons required TO
carry a glass front and no distractions
to a full view Of the bar from the
street is thing Of which he obtained
favorable impression while ON a re-
cent trip to Des Moincs.
People are writing in 10 the legisla-
turo giving their views on prohibition.
II the manufactures and COM
mcrce committee Is allowed TO receive
the matter. Il a. certain that the let
ters win have little effect. The matter
is therefore one In which a centering Of
public opinion, vigorously asserting IT,
SELF can do much Immediate good.