The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-08
EFFORT TO DELAY
FINAL ACTION
The Opponents of Prohibition
Would Defeat Bill Through
Indefinite PoStponement.
ADMIT PASSAGE BY HOUSE
SENATE MAY BLOCK TEMPER
ANcE LEGISLATION.

ing as hard as possible TO have the
Cannon measure held up in the judi
ciary committee Of the house, at least
until the end IT the week During that
time 1t f. probable that other measures
bearing on the liquor question viii be
introduced. and the resulting compii-
cation will retsrd the passage of any
prohibitory legislation or laws for the
regulation Of the liquor traffic.
Petitions signed by hundreds OF prom
inent business men of the state, all Of
whom are opposed TO prohibition, will
be presented To the legislature during
tho week. and these petitions il is ex-
pected. will be given enough Consid-
Grafton to delay the report Of the COM
miti &c having in charge the Cannon
measure
The report Of the committee which
was sent into the house on Friday
failed OF adoption. and the measure
WAS returned to the judiciary commit
ter The minority OF the committee
VIII probably be given another hear
dtF, and the opportunity to discuss the
amendments TO the bill the more in de-
tail viii be afforded.
when the report is again submitted
10 the senate the ma iority report viii
favor the passage Of the bill and the
minority report viii oppose. This. I'M
less ncrchance some measure should be
introduced bearing on the liquor ques-
ton that would meet with so much
favor that the Cannon bill viii be dis
cared.
Bill viii Pass House.
The Observation-Disclosures have con-
Ceded the fact that a prohibition bill
will pass the house. Several of the
members who are really opposed to
prohibition will vote for the measure
because they want to put the blame for
defeating the b.ll On the senate. If the
federal bunch is able to delay the pas
sage of the bill by the house for two or
three weeks. its death is certain. They
are referring. and with some reason. to
an apparent change of sentiment that
is coming over not only the Legislators
but Over the people. An effort is being
made to prove to the legislature thai
what the people want is strict reguls-
ton OF the liquor traffic and not pro-
hibit'on. If this change OF sentim@at
continues to grow, The defeat of the
bill Is certain. The last hope of the
prohibitiOuists is apparently the de-
mand for quick action.
in the senate the prohibitionists have
apparently only two staunch friends.
These are Senator James B. Wilson
and Senator Christopher Burton. jr.
These two men are the only ones to be
counted on as regular first. last and
ali the time prohibitionists." IN group
ing the senator's. six have been placed
in TIE Misrepresentation" column
THESE senator's are not prohibit lnists.
but would vote for the measure in q
pinch Their preference is for an ex-
tremely strict regulation law. a law
that would put the brewers out of the
retail business. that would provide q
penalty for treating, that would limit
the sale Of liquor TO a single room, and
make the view from the street 10 this
room so plain that every one who took
2 drink would be seen from the street.
These senator's might be termed ''radi-
cal regule tionists"
Ia this group are Senators Marks.
Badger Horsley, BrinkeThoff, Williams
and Bullen.
For Moderate Regulation.
Less radical in their views on regula-
lion. but at the same time sincere in
their efforts for a correction of the
fqucr traffic, is another group OF six
senators. It is probable that all of
these senator's are opposed to the bill
drawn at the Cullen hotel and intro
dueed by order of the federal bunch.
but they are for other methods of sa-
loon regulation that would put the dives
The liquor traffic to the minimum In
this group have been placed Senators
Mhsr. Seely, Sevy, Stookey. Hyde and
John Y Smith.
-Four senators. the lobbyists on both
sides are absolutely agreed. are IN
qualifiedly opposed to any measure for
either prohibition or regulation. The
defense FOR these is that the present
laws. were they enforced. are amply
adequate to limit the evil produced by
The liquor traffic. The four senators
whom the critics have placed in this
sroup are Senator's Gardner. Kuchler.
Benner y. smith and Huisnish.
Comparative Senatorial Influence.
In guessing at the likelihood of the
passage of any measure either for reg
ulation or prohibition. the personnel
II these groups and the relative in1u-
ence os the senator's should be consid-
cred. The strongest Of these groups is.
by all odds. the last named group. In
It are included the president of the
senate. the chairman and vice chair
man of the committee on judiciary aud
the chairman OF the committee on man
fractures and commerce. To the COM