Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-03-05
PROHIBITION BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
UTAH WILL BE A DRY STATE
AFTER JULY I, 1916, If SENATE
APPROVES MEASURE.
Forty Members Of Lower House Favor
inauguration of Prohibition Meas
ure Without Submitting Cues.
ton TO the People.

P'O"'"itiOh WI passed the lower
mouse OF the Utah legislature on
March l, by vote of 40 to 5. The
measure now goes back to the senate
Tor its approval OF amendments to the
plll, and then to the governor, when it
VIII become law, unless the gov
ernor should veto the measure.
An attempt to have the question of
statewide prohibition submitted to
the people was defeated, forty mem
bers of the legislature deciding that
they knew what the people needed.
Those who voted in favor of the
Dill were; Aagard, Allen, Bevan,
Blackett, Brinkerhoff, Browning,
Brown, Christensen. Croft, Day, En-
mis-, Fowles, Goodwin. Griffin, Ham.
mond, Hawley, Hayward, Hinckley,
Horsley, Kelly, McShane, Mabey,
Meeks, Morris, Nebeker, Oldham,
O'Neil, Page, Peterson, Pope. Redd,
Sevy. Shields, Stewart, Taylor, Van
WAGNER, Warwick, Wing, Speaker
Anderson; total, 40.
Those opposed we're: Barker, Child,
Fitch, Folkman, Lund; total, 5.
Absent: Wolstenholme.
Joseph H. Fowles of Weber voted
Tor the bill and gave notice OF recon.
sideration.
The vote by which the bill passed
Doth the house and the senate pre-
cludes submission of the question of
statewide prohibition to the voters
OF the state on a referendum The
vote in the senate was IL to 3 in favor
or the measure, and as both the SEN
ate and the house passed the bill by
more than two-thirds, the constitu-
tional provision on the initiative and
referendum prohibits the submission
to the people.
James J. Barker and George ID.
Folkman, both of Weber county. led
the fight against the bill. Both offered
large number of amendments, all of
which were voted down almost unani-
mcusly by viva voce votes.
The only two important amend
ments adopted on the floor of the
house were one prohibiting the manu-
facture of wine for sacramental pur.
poses and the other eliminating from
the bill the provision requiring pny-
sicians to state the malady affecting
the patient for whom intoxicants
might be prescribed
Five bills were passed by the SEN
ate Monday, three of them providing
for transfer of duties from the Office
OF the secretary of state to the state
bank commissioner, who hereafter
will have supervision of the business
OF building and loan associations.
One OF the other bills passed amends
the drainage district laws In a man.
ner approved by the supreme court
judges and the attorney general to
make 1t conform to the constitution.
Another bill from the house that
was passed under suspension of rules
was that providing for the transfer OF
county records to Duchesne. the new
county.
Committee reports added several
more bills to the senate calendar, in
GLIDING the Dern bill for regulating
The sale OF liquor, bill to make It
misdemeanor to substitute coal from
one mine when another kind Is order
ed, bill to permit special parking
districts in cities, house bill amend
ing the laws relative to collection of
corporation taxes and the bill provid.
ing for the appointment of a commits
sion to select a site on the capitol
grounds for a monument to the Nor
mon battalion.
The house passed three bills and
killed eight at the session on Febru-
airy rs. The greater part of the time
was taken up with reading of commit
tee reports and introduction of new
bills.
The bill by Ira r. Browning, which
provides for an annual license tax to
be paid the state by owners of auto
mobiles and the licensing of chauf-
feurs, was passed after being amend
ed so that no one under 16 years of
age may run an automobile or a mo.
torcycle Chauffeurs must be IS years
of age.
The bill provides that all machines
under forty horsepower shall pay $40
year license and that all machines
of more than forty horsepower shall
pay $40 year license. Motor trucks
and other motor vehicles are taxed at
SIS year Motorcycles pay So a
year. The number plates must be
obtained from the secretary of state
and this official also issues chauffeurs'
licenses.
The house suspended the rules and
passed S. ]. NJ. No. 5, by Senator John
w Thornley,, which asks congress to
aPPAOpA ibAC YoVVJNNV Al bhO
ton of wild and predatory animals.
The discussion on 8. b. No. SO took
up the greater part of the afternoon
and resulted in the enacting clause
being stricken out, which effectual-
. ly killed the bill The bill provided
, that an assistant librarian be appoint
ed to aid the justices OF the supreme
court. Farley p. Christensen was the
only lawyer In the house to vote
against the bill.
II. n. No. 1875, by Mrs Elizabeth
Hayward, prohibiting children under
the age of 16 from working In any
galnful occupation more than nine
hours a day, also created extended ar
gument Exceptions to the law are
domestic employment, farming and
packing OF fruits and vegetables. The
bill was passed.
There was an hours debate In the
house on February "a on Goodwin's
bill to appropriate $1,000 for a COM
mission to select site for a monu-
ment 10 the Mormon battalion, but