Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-03-11
GOVERNOR SIGNS
CIGARETTE BILL
MEASURE DESIGNED TO cURTAlL
USE OF TOBACCO IN UTAH
BECOMES A LAW:
Smoking In Public Faces and in State
and County Buildings is Prohibited.
Executive Fears Mt lsure
viii be imperative.

Governor Mabey signed the South
wick anti-Cigarette bill ON March :, and
at the same time made an announce
ment to the effect that he believed the
measure imperative and inefficac'ous
so far as its ability to bring the results
it's proponents desire is concerned. Mr..
Mabey minated that If the law is re-
pealed and n new bill, perhaps less
drastic passed In its stead, the move
would meet with general satisfaction.
The Southwick bill, as It was writ
ten into the statutes by Mr.. Mabey's
signature, will become effective ninety
days from March s. The law as APP
proved is an anti-tobbacco restriction
in Il sense, since the measure aims not
only to prohibit the sale irving away
or advertising of cigarettes, but makes
it unlawful to smoke tobacco in any
form in certain public places. and in
state, county and city buildings.
Appointments to state offices, which
requreahe confirmation of the senate,
were submitted to that body by Gov
ernor Mabey on March s. The list
contains most Of the appointments
which the governor does not make in
dependently.
Passage of the administration bill
creating the state department of ag-
riculture was the biggest bit of work
accomplished by the lower house on
March 8. Altogether six bills were
passed, all senate measures, and one
was killed The latter proposed a re-
duction in the salaries of bank exam
iners, and its enactlng clause was
stricken.
The bill providing for $250,000 state
bonds for soldier settlement work In
cooperation with possible plans of the
federal government, was passed down
to the house by the senate under sus-
pension of rules, ard the soldier set
Element fund act Of 1919 was repealed
with equal dispatch. The soldier set
Element act of the preceding leglsla
ture, however, providing the terms of
possible cooperation, remains on the
books, though IL will take federal laws
10 give it any real effect.
Five house bills passed and returned
TO the house, and three killed. sums NJ
| the work of the Utah state senate on
| March 8.
Killing of bills seems To have beer
| the favorite diversion of members o
| the house on March THE last da.
the house could consider its owl
! measures-the session being EXTENDED
| into the night, many measures beini
ruthlessly slaughtered.
Killing of bills was not confined {,
house measures, for five senate bill
| bearing the name of Peters were kille,
almost instantaneously when n repor
| of the sitting committee recommend
ing such action was adopted.
The house rejected Douglas measur
proposing uhat statements Of manu-
facturers and merchants of persona
property for .aXation purposes b.
made on n monthly basis and not IL
January, as is now provided.
Days bill calling for an appropri
alton of $4,000 for arteslan water OK
| perimentation, the appropriation il
which had been reduced to $4,000
was killed
The lengthy bill of Representative
Douglas, proposing soldier bonu
board and bond issue for bonuse
for soldiers, was lost when the en-
| acting clause was stricken.
House bill No. PIG, by Knight, pre-
posing the creation of state waite
storage board and appropriatng $3.50
10 cover the expenses of its invest
gatiOD had several narrow escape
from being chloroformed, but afte
several amendments 1t passed ayes x
nays Z, absent 10.
House bin 1870, by Jorgcnscn, seeh
ing IN appropriation Of $G3SS 10 rein
bursc Jewish agricultural colony o
the Pluto reservoir project, WA
killed.
House bin %, by Day, seeking an AZ
preparation Of $1,000 for a soil product
exposition to be held in Salt LAX,
was rejected on the ground q
economy.
In the senate on March Z the inter
esting feature of the session was tn
action on the measure proposing
new form OF government for Salt Lake
The bill met defeat.
The Sander joint resolution, propoS
ing constitutional amendment 4
permit county treasurers TO take OF
flee April l, instead of the first Mon
day in January, was defeated.
Five house bills were returned +
the house, and the senate killed a
many measures, one Of them being
resolution proposing a constitutions
amendment.
A synopsis OF the legislation per
formed by the senate of the fourteenth
Utah legislature up to March show
the present session to be PRACTICAL
up to date with no Instructions in tn