The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-10
LIQUOR DEBATE
ENDS AbRUP TLY
Joint Committee Regards Itself
Insulted by House, and Is
Resentful.
W00TT0N MAKES BITTER
ATTACK on PARTY ORGAN
Utah County Member Emphati-
calIy Declares Newspaper Has
Made False Charges.


senate and the house 10 draft meas
ure for the prohibition or regulation OF
the liquor traffic suddenly dissolved
Thursday afternoon. following the re-
ceipt of information that the house had
passed resolution ordering the commit
tee to report not later than next Tues
day.
The committee promptly returned re-
port TO the house that it took the vote
OF the house as lack Of confidence In
the committee and that 1t therefore re-
turned the matters referred to 1t with
out recommendation.
The members of the committee with
one accord, assigned the action Of the
front page editorial In the party organ
Thursday morning which declared that
conelliables" who were playing for de-
lay. 1t described one member OF the
committee as a "rabid prohibitionist" and
another as representative of Interests
whose business would be vitality affected
by the passage of a liquor BILL
When the report of the committee was
II. wootton Of Utah county, member
OF the joint committee. took the floor
and In n powerful speech bitterly de
nounced the party organ. He waved it
ishment that "the house could be stam-
peded by such rag" He referred to
to say whether its attitude did not prove
that 1t represented the whisky party
rather than the Republican party. He
truth in It's utterances.
Regarded as Insult.
Mr.. Wootton voiced the indignation
that the committee felt first at the pub
lication OF the .'reprimand'' on the first
resolution passed by the house asking
for report OF the committee next Tues
day Representative Pope. another mem
Der OF the committee. declared that TIE
members OF the committee took the reeo-
luton as an insult
The resolution which caused the up
roar was introduced in the house early
In the afternoon by Representative s. s.
Sanderson OF Sanpete and passed with
out much comment When the report OF
and Mr.. Pope rebuked the members
of the house for their attitude that they
were glad to reverse themselves and the
resolution was promptly reconsidered and
killed.
sanderson remained true to the rcso-
luton and insisted that the committee
the liquor interests were influencing the
Interpretation given the platform by GER
tain members Pope Immediately de-
meant for him il was a lie.
In the Senate.
In the senate Senator C. a. Iverson OF
Carbon gave notice that on next Tues
day he would move that the committee
the proposed bill. He said that he did
not do so in criticism OF the committee.
but because he wished 10 urge upon the
committee the need Of expedition. Sem
ator Badger replied. telling OF the work
OF the committee and explaining that the
work was being prosecuted as diligently
scarcely a tremor of excitement in the
senate.
The committee had been In session NIL
morning and at the suggestion OF Presi-
dent Gardner OF the senate continued In
session in the afternoon. Senator Badger
attended the senate session and in the
absence OF President Gardner presided
at the session and the other members
remained at work. The session OF the
senate was short and Senator Badger
had just returned TO the committee
X. Smith in the Judge building, when a
special messenger from Speaker E. W.
Robinson brought the information that
the Sanderson resolution. calling for u
report from the committee by next Tues
day or the alternative OF removing the
question from the hands OF the commit
tee. had been passed by the house,
The members of the committee at once
agreed that the committee had been in
suited and that the resolution. showed a
lack of confidence In IL by the house.
They also agreed that the resolution was
prompted by the article In the party or
gan and that there was nothing left to
The following report was then drawn
for submission 10 the senate and house;
Committee Is Rsentful.
salt Lake City Utah. Feb. o. 1911.
Your joint special committee. appoint
cd by authority of the joint resolution OF
legislation, beg leave TO report that they
organized and on the morning OF the 9Th
day OF February commenced their SEES
sion and have hecn daily in session UP
IN
agreed upon and drafted numerous pro-
visions Of a proposed bin and that your
committee has under consideration and
provisions OF said bill Your committee
has. during NIL of its deliberations. dill
gently and conscientousy attempted 10
discharee its full duty In the premises.
There has been no disposition on the
rart OF the committee or any member
Il viii he impossible for your committee
to renort bin hy Tuesday. the 18th
day of February. Your committee is just
advised that ny unanimous vote Of ihe
house. that This committee Is required
10 report bin on the 18th inst. or that
the committee Will hc recalled. That
resolution is apparently based upon an
unfouudcd run;or and statement In the
public press that The members of the
committee are 'irrcconci'ahlcs. and that
they cannot agree that tie members of
the committee nrc PLAYING for delay and
trying 10 wear each other out. ana In
view OF inc 1'SplNlltn Whltu nus ptt1
passed ny the house. which shows u lack
OF confidence In the action or the COM
n1ittee, and In View Of the impossibilty
of the committees ability to comply
with the resolution by reporting n bin
within the time provided therein, YOUR
committee respectfully reports hack to
the senate and housc the matters re-
ferred to II for consideration without rec
ommcnda ton"
II was signed by all of the members
OF the Joint committee. Senators Smith.
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