Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-16
ADVANTAGE FOR THE SALOONS
In Membership Of KuchIer'S SEN
ate Committee They Take
Hope for the Future.
Question Of Pressing importance Now
Is Whether senate win Concur
In Plan of maction.

With the first week Of It's career be-
hind to the Eighth legislative assembly
OF Utah IS today resting on its oars.
Good residents of the states villages
and towns who left their homes
week ago as plain citizens arc back
again today basldng in the titles Of
senator and Representative
Ia this week important things have
been accomplished. that win set the
pace In legislative achievement Tor the
whole session Chief among them per-
hans Is the achievement Of a position
as Chairman OF the senate's commit
tee on manufacture and commerce by
Rudolph Kuchler Senator Kuchler has
established himself In a suite In the
Wilson hotel, and so far as reported
none Of the liquor men have raised
wall Of disappointment over his APP
pointment
The importance 90 hts position on
this committee does not DE fla what
ne viii do aggressively on the floor. bu,
rather in the various plausible explain
ations that are 10 be expected as to
why his committee finds il impractic-
able to act on temperance legislation.
Many men, well informed an the ways
OF LEGISLATURES feel that the decisive
battle for prohibition Is to be fought
out on the point of whether or not his
committee Is 10 secure grip upon the
ollls presented on that subject II Is
senator kuchlers expectation thar the
bills viii come before him. and me
leading question now Is as to whether
we senate as a whole viii concur I'm
this plan
President Gardner of the senate when
asked what rule would be followed I'M
signing bills TO committees, said that
amy member presenting a bill could ask
thdt n go 10 any committee he especiai-
ly wished IL TO go 60. and that he was
not certain where any particular MA
would be in advance Of its being pre-
scented.
FAvORs SPECIAL JURY.
senator Carl Barger. member az
the kuchler committee. said thar hi,
did not feel that committee was a
proper one to receive the Temperance
legislation, and that he favored creating
a special committee 20 consider II
Senator Kuchler when doubt was ex-
pressed in the News" as 10 the abn-
ity Of temperance bills e. escape alive
from the private grave yards that Is
AIAkENu
the criticism was based on false
statement. This false statement was
that he was a cigar maker and he
offers the correction that late In 1907
ne sold out his interest in the cle~,r
business A correction therefore h
cheerfully made.
LOOK TO THE SENATE.
The senate seems to be the place IN
HrH
their interests conserved Ia the house
the judiciary committee has the bills
on temperance. and as one has already
been introduced 70 seems that the de-
bate on this subject may possibly be
precipitated before enough other mat
ters are introduced % make Il possible
70 shelvo the question IN the closing
jam.
no BIG MEASURES YET.
Outside Of the temperance bill no i'm.
portant measures are yet before either
house. In the house six bills have been
brought in. and I'm the senate the total
has reached eight most N them bv
Badger One, by Eulanisk, seeks 10
appropriate $500 for money spent In
the Irrigation congress last summer,
ana one. by kuchler, asks for an ap-
preparation Of 81 900 for the wife OF a
deputy sheriff shot dead while on duty.
IL Is customary Ia appropriate some
amount for such cases, and IN the last
session a number OF such bills were
passed
When the Legislature meets Monday
afternoon the good roads bills may pos
slbly be ready and these. 90 Is expected.
win prove another source or lively de.
bate. When they have been entered.
and the capitol building juvenile court.
and remaining temperance measures
are In the big problems OF the legisla-
ture viii be- ready FOR It's attack
The session n as generally conceded
VIII be one Of the most interesting in
the states history and may accomplish
more in the shape OF decisive legisia-
ton.