The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-27
Joint Committee Proposes to
Build Up Measure to Suit
Legislature.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM TO
BE BASIS OF AGREEMENT
Decided to Take Up in Detail
Various Phases Of Ques-
ton.

After a long discussion the members OF
the committee on manufactures and COM
merce Of the senate and the members OF
the committee on Judiciary OF the house
in joint session Thursday forenoon finally
agreed on a plan OF procedure in the dis
cussion OF the proposed liquor legislation
now before the state legislature.
Under the plan adopted the members
of the committees VIII meet In Informal
joint session and draft a bill upon which
the majority Of the members OF each
committee can agree. the bill 10 be along
the lines suggested by the Republican
mittcd to each house and ii the plans OF
the members OF the committee are cur
ried out this bill will be the one which
will be the law enacted by the present
What is known as skeleton bill
has been adopted and along the outline in
the skeleton bill will be built the
the framing of this bill the principal fea
lures OF both the Badger bill and the
Hayes and Gardner bills will be consld-
cred and drawn upon.
Every member OF each OF the two COM
mittees were present when the joint COM
mittee meeting was called to order in
the senate committee rooms on Thurs
day forenoon. There are nine members
of the house committee and seven of the
senate committee. OF the sixteen MEM
bers OF the two committees only one. Rep
resentative David Fl. Morris. Washing ton
| county, is a Democrat. The members Of
the two committees are Senator's Kuchler.
Badger. Hyde. Wilson. Marks. Stookey
and sevy; and Representatives Holman
Smith. Pope, Woolley, Funk. Wootton, AL
| lison, Morris and Russell,
Kuchler Is Chairman.
On motion of Senator Badger, Senator
| Rudolph Kuchler of Weber was made
permanent chairman OF the joint COM
mittee He will preside at all OF the
considering the liquor legislation. SEN
ator Wilson moved that j. l.. May. Jr..
| clerk to the house judiciary committee.
| be permanent secretary. This was cur
| ried- Senator Wilson also, moved that the
| committee hold open session and this
| was agreed to.
Senator Marks moved that the com
mittee make the Hayes bill and the Bad
ger bill the nucleus OF the consideration
and discussion of the liquor legislation
proposed. After considerable discussion
| this course was adopted.
Quite a heated argument resulted from
| the discussion OF the manner In which
the members OF the committees should
vote. Some of the senators felt that the
| house committee. having nine members,
could outvote the seven members on the
senate committee Holman. chairman of
| The house committee. resented. this sug-
gestion and once or twice appeared TO
| be the point of Withdrawing his COM
| mittee from the joint session.
Vote Not Binding.
| Some one suggested that the house COM
mlttee be allowed but one vote and the
senate committee but one vote, Finally
| IL was decided that each member should
| have one vote, that the sessions should
| be informal and that the vote taken
| should not be binding.
Representative Morris said he was the
| solution of the question. In case the
seven members OF the senate committee
voted against the eight Republican mem
| bers OF the house committee he would
vote with the seven from the senate and
| create a deadlock. Mr.. Morris also sug
| gested what he termed simple solution
| OF the problem. That was a favorable
| report on the official Democratic state
wide prohibition bill,
Senator Bsager moved that the COM
mittee take up the different bills and
discuss them In brief before determining
upon the phraseology Of the proposed
measure. that the two committees vote
| separately and that the results be re-
ported by caucus to the members OF the
| legislature. Then Holman moved as a
| substitute that the sessions be informal
| and that no official action be taken. Then
| both motions were withdrawn.
Another motion by Badger was that
| the Joint committee frame bill. TO be
| introduced by the Joint committee and