Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-27
provides for Special Election on
Prohibition Question
Next June.
pIspsNsARlES IN COUNTIES.
commissioners Empowered to
license Dealers in Incorporate
ed Cities or Towns.
ne of Alcohol for Other Than Dcvcr-
aecs Is Permitted Under Safe
guards Providing Penalties.

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ages Is Permitted Under Safe
guards Providing Penalties
senator Hyde this afternoon intro
auo,d senate Joint Resolution No. 6
asking Utah's delegation I'm Congress
10 seek am amendment TO the inter
state commerce net which viii prevent
railroads. shipping into any state which
prohibits lis use. alcohol In any form
HAT may be used as a beverage.
The fight Tor statewide prohibition
in Utah was put on a new footing in
the legislature OF Utah this afternoon.
The Cannon bill. thought 20 be dead
when President Gardner Of the Senate
and senator Kuchler OF the committee
ON manufactures and commerce gave IL
their finishing touches, is substantially
alive in the new measure. 1t calls for
Am election OF tho people 70 decide
whether they want statewide prohibit
ton. this election to be held in June.
1903. and the bill to become effective
sc passed Jan. /, 1910.
The presence OF this new bill ia the
iegislature Is due to the activity Of the
Republican Prohibition league, who's,
executive committee held a long meet
ing this morning. At the close Of that
Meeting Joseph J. Cannon left for the
house OF representatives., carrying with
him, the new bill, which II is now pro
n,sed will become the basis OF a second
legislative battle for temperance re-
form.
The bill is entitled "an act 70 pro-
hiblt the manufacture, sale, barter, CAV
.rq away or otherwise furnishing Of
alcoholic Hquor.T An Important change
rom the plan Of the Cannon bili is IN
me insertion OF clause allowing
ounties 70 establish county dispen-
slhes where Il IS deemed by the COM
missioncrs to be desirable. This clause
is in part as follows;
County commissioners may at tholr
discretion create or license In any
Incorporated city OF town one dispen-
sary 70 sell alcoholic liquor for med
iclual purposes only upon the prescrip-
ton OF any regular practising physi-
,an Of this state which prescription
shall name the ailment FOR which the
aicohoHc nquoi IS % be used; provid-
"a, that not more than one quart shall
be prescribed, that no prescription shall
De Allied except upon the day upon
which Il is dated and issued or upon
"a Htff 1lfa
shau be rehlled and that all prescrip-
Ions shall be hled In a separate rec
urd and be at all times open 10 pub
Hc Inspection. Any Willful error In
the monthly statement provided for
shall be cause for revocation Of the
dspenser's license. Any person who
shall obtain alcoholic liquor from such
dspensary and shall convert the same
TO any other use than that for which
It was prescribed, shall be guilty Of a
nisdomeanor.
VINEGAR PROTECTED.
Tho use OF alcohol is safcguarded by
clauses preventing the Interpretation
being laced upon them by unscrupu-
lous persons 20 the effect that the bin
is radical" TO these degrees OF eX-
fHomity.
Section 4 provides that nothing M the
act shall prohibit the manufacture and
sale OF wood alcohol for art, scientific,
Mechanical or medicinal purposes, or
grain alcohol for bacteriologists. Tho
uauufacture and sale of vinegar under
such process and conditions as are per-
mitted without special tax by the Unit
ai states internal revenu laws Is per-
mItted In this now bill.
PROHIBITS SOCIAL" CLUBS.
The club room for social" purposes
when such social purposes consist Of
promoting lnebrity, "a brought under
Che ban. Section 5. on this subject. de-
uidres:
Every person who shall keep any club
room IN which any alcoholic liquor is
rereiyed or kept for the purpose OF sel-
Ing. bartering. giving away or other
wise furnishing, or for distributing or
division among The members Of any
club or association by any means
whatsoever. and every person who shan
f.u barter. give away or otherwise fur
H.sh distribute or divide any such al
0Hholc liquor so received or Kept shan
guilty OF a misdemeanor
section six provides that "a magistrate
may Issue a warrant 20 a county sheriff
uH any showing made 10 him that all
Dnhouc liquor rs being sold OF manu-
featured IN the county contrary 10
Iaw and that the sheriff shall seize all
such LIQUOR found. and arrest those Tn
whose possession Il D. found keplevin
HrlcoedinFs are especially forbidden ior
iHr recovery of articles seized in TINS
way
owners OF real estate used for sa-
Boom purposes are outlawed by the Dill
section " provides that II shan ps
unlawful for the owner OF any te AZ
estate building structure, or room lo
rent. lease or permit the same q"
used for the purpose of violating
HHF provision OF this act Any p rt'u
Who shall Wilfuny violate ina p ofl-
Hns 0f this section shall De guilty of
mIslemeanor, and upon conN'ei ln
thereof shall Boz punished ny nn' in
amy sum not loss than $50. ana not
moro than $1,000
h0HIdes outlawing the business. me
NN declares boz section - mat aH
DcH are 90 be- public nuisanccs who're
alcohol is handled or manufactured
contrary 10 tho law.
APPLIED TO RAILROADS
Railroads are made the subject of "a
1l clause aa follnWa 10 SHAH
unlawful f0r nuy railroad or other
''Innn cauler Or agent 0f oin.I
ln 40 ship, receive. transport Gag
handle 0r deliver ans alcoholic
'isor the sale OF which is prohibited