Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-02-16
.bAMBERGER SIGNS
PROHIBITION BILL
SALOONS WILL BE BARRED FROM
. STATE or UTAH AFTER
AUGUST FIRST.
FIFTY Minutes After House Decline,
to Change Language Of Dry Bill
the Governor Signs Measure
40 Originally Adopted.

Salt Lake City.-The end is in sight
for the saloon in Utah. Booze of all
kinds will be on the undesirable
list after August 1.
BY vote of 80 to the house OF
representatives OF the Utah legisla.
ture went on record on February 8
as refusing to make any change what.
ever In the provisions or language OF
the Young statewide prohibition bill
and returned 1t to the governor.
Just fifty minutes later Governor
Simon Hamburger, in the presence of
only his private secretary, Francis v.
Fitz Gerald. affixed his signature to
the bill. Notice Of the governors ac-
ton was received by the chief clerk
/ IF the house just after that body had
adjourned.
| The governor declined to have any
autographs taken of himself in the
act OF signing the measure and per
formed the action without any for
mality Of ceremony. He mixed the
pen with which he signed the bill with
number OF others on his desk to
shut on the clamor of token seekers.
Later the pen was identified and pre-
sented to Mathonihah Thomas, chair
man of the Democratic state commit
tee.
The governor had nothing to say in
regard to the action of the house In
declining to make the amendment
suggested by him except that he
thought the change would not have
impaired the bill in any way and
might as well have been made, but
as The house had not seen fit to agree
to 1t. he was. perfectly willing to sign
| the measure as 1t stood.
Discussion Of the alterations in the
prohibition bill proposed by Governor
Bamberger occupied most of the time
Of the lower house on February 8.
AS result of the senates activity
two bills were sent to the governor,
four senate bills were passed and
| sent to the house. two memorials and
one bill were received from the house
and referred to the proper commit
tees, one bill was withdrawn, two bills
were referred back to committees az
ter they came near to death at the
hands of the members. eleven bills
were reported favorably and placed on
the calendar for consideration. Two
bills were reported ON unfavorably,
but were placed on the calendar for
consideration OF the members and one
bill from the house was referred to
the proper committee.
Eight new measures appeared in
the house on February 8.
Petitions presented to the lower
house of the legislature ask that the
legislature pass the Mckinney bill,
which changes the commission form
OF government so that the commits
sioners are elected from municipal
wards instead OF from the city at
large, the mayor to be selected by the
commissioners.
Representative r. w. Young, Jr, OF
Salt Lake. delivered eulogy on
Abraham Lincoln In the house cham.
Der at the capitol on February IL. Mr..
Young's address and a serio-comic
reading by Speaker Tolton immedi-
ately following comprised the state
legislatures formal observance of Lin.
coin day. Members of the senate and
the general public were invited to the
house function.
Governor Simon Bamberger brought
300 Progressives to their feet with
cheers that rocked the Newhouse no
tel to its foundations Monday night
when he promised that IL the legisla-
ture would grant him an appropria,
ton Of $4,000 for investigation pur.
poses he would return the money ten
fold to the state treasury or he would
walk back to Wyoming
What appears to be a technical err
ror in the handling of the Young pro-
hibition bill may be responsible for
the return of the measure to the leg
islature for further action. Governor
Simon Bamberger has addressed let
ter to the lower house calling atten-
ton to the matter and will be gov
erned entirely by the pleasure of that
body as to further disposition of the
bill.
An S-hour day in surface mines.
mining, smelter and reduction shops,
sugar factories, cement. gas and pow
der works, flour mills and railroad
shops was established. so far as the
house is concerned.
Bills were also passed establishing
municipal courts In cities OF 1900;
shortening time In which estates may
be closed; reconveying land to st.
George and Washington Canal Co.;
doing away with concurrent sentences
In certain cases; appropriating $4,000
to Children's Aid society; prohibiting
sale OF narcotic drugs; appropriating
$4,000 to Salt Lake free kindergarten.
Full paid stock in corporations In
Utah is not assessable ACCORDING to a
bill introduced in the senate by Sen.
ator Olson. He would amend the pres
ent laws pertaining TO assessments OF
the capital stock OF corporations and
to that end has introduced a bill In
the senate.
Lobbyists again were ordered from
the floor OF the house on February
by Speaker J., f. Tolton when he
called attention 10 the rules and also
lat