The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19
PURPLE INK NOW
THE VITAL ISSUE
IN LEGISLATURE
Senate Fails to Recognize
hameIeSS Child MaSquerad-
ing as the Badger Bill.
FOUNDING THEN ADOPTED
BY HANSEN OF BOX ELDER
IN THE MEANTIME WHERE, OH
WHERE is SENATE
BILL NO. 1892

The problem Of How old is Ann"
having been satisfactorily settled like
wise an answer having been given to the
/ interrogation, why is an egg" the
question, Mr.. Speaker and Mr.. President,
now reveTts back to the original PROPOSE
ton:
Has senate hill No. 14S been passed by
both houses Of the Eighth legislative as
sembly?
If not, where is senate bill No. 1g. aud
If 1t is where it is. why7 In other
words, did the Badger bill commit haTi-
kari or was it showed off the dock2
Every one by this time knows that
senate bill No, 14S is-OT, perhaps, was
the Badger liquor bill. 1t passed the
senate. Wednesday night, after hours OF
talk, it passed the house in what was
declared to be amended form. Yesterday
/ it went back to the senate with a commu-
nicatiOn from the house to this effect:
Inc house has this day passed senate
/ bill No 14S as amended"
A Matter of Ink.
Now then. the senate received the com
munication from the house and duly noted
/ 1t IN the record Furthermore, the sen
I ate received back the original draft OF
I the senate bill, with the notation on the
/ back that it had passed the house.
But where were the amendments?
a large bundle of printed matter alleged
/ to be amendments to senate bill No. las,
| and in reality the text of the new bill
dictated by Governor Spry, came to the
senate, but, so far as the senate was Of
| ficially aware, they were not amendments
+ 10 senate bill No. 14S. for the reason that
ILe aLnsndnents: II any there We're were
! not made according TO the rules. The rule
bearing particularly on this point is
+ house rule No. g. which reads:
All reports and amendments by any
/ committee shall be made tNOn separate
/ sheets for submission to the house, ana
/ the final changes adopted thereby shall
/ De indicated in purple ink, and each mem
/ Der shall be provided with a copy of the
/ amendments proposed by said commit
[ tee"
ciamor for Purple Ink.
Inasmueh as there was no purple ink
/ apparent on the original draft of the bill
it could take no official notice of the
thing which came from the house. alleged
TO nave been adopted in the form Of
amendments Wednesday night. and there
/ fore the secretary of the senate was in
| stTucted TO inform the house that It had
received notification of the passage Of
senate bill No las, with amendments but
/ that the amendments did not appear upOE
/ the scenario
In due time this communication reached
the house, and there was more trouble.
Is Brand New Bill.
A broad smile passed over the counte-
nance of Mr.. Holman when he heard the
communication read. 1t meant a new
ton question.
.Clegg moved to make the record show
that the matter that went to the senate
was a substitute bill
Ashton said a bill could not be intro
duced in the house. which was already a
body.
Cannon moved that the matter passed
Wednesday night be incorporated under
the name Of Hansen, and under the num-
per of Z4O- He paid compliment to Mr.
/ Hansen. who, he said. had worked dill
gently for the best measure he could get
short of absolute prohibition. He had
been sent to the legislature on a TEN
perance" platform There being not SUI
one-third being necessary. the bill was
declared introduced.
How About the Reeord7
Mr.. Morris moved that the record show
that the bill had been read a first ana
second time and that it be referred to the
sitting committee. The motion was lost
{ What are You going to do with senate
bill 1872 asked Mr. Holman. so far as
the record shows it has been passed by
/ this house"
Il move you, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr..
I HeuTie, that all reference TO senate bill
lzS be stricken from the record
Mr.. Ashton opposed the motion
MT thompson opposed the motion also.
I am opposed to this motion" said he
/ for the reason that 7 want the record
to show where 1 stood last night when the
vote was tai ken in this house. I am not
AFRAID TO nave my name recorded in the
journal of this body
=. The motion to exnunge prevailed
1 No More Badger Bill.
rs the bill on its third reading open
for discussion?" asked Mr. Holman.
The chair holds that it is"
There were calls for the previous ques-
ton, which was the. roll call on the bill
and the demand prevailed.
L ask for information, Mr.. Speaker, -
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