Arizona silver belt., 1891-08-08
TIE LIVE STOCK LAW.
CtLonr. A. T., Aug. 1.


 ogy have to offer for my appearance in the columns of your paper is that many inquiries have been made of me in regard 10 the strange history of m act said to have passed the 18th Legis- lative Assembly of Arizona, namely, Act No. l05, entitled, oAn act to pro- tect the interests of liSe stock produ. COTS. !"
 The second section reads as follows, ''No calf shaA be killed or offered for sale in this Territory before it has first been branded and the place branded hus healed over
 The bill passed the Council and won't to the House, and it was amended in tho House, but the bill as amended was not called up in the Council for their action while they were acting on meas ures as n legal body, and after the time had expired for them to net as legal body, exceps to receive messages from the Governor, it being in the morning immediately succeeding the last day of the session,
 left the Council chamber fora short time, and on my return I heard my name called by the president of the Council and answered in the usual way, The president, Frod G. Hughes, remarked that the bill had passed. I arose and demanded m explanation, and also to change my vote, stating that Twas not aware that any bill was being voted on, and slated that l had opposed the bill from the beginning, as the above second section l regarded as unconstitutional Tho president an- swered mo by saying that my name had been recorded and it could not be changed, but added that the time had passed for such action as body, and that the bill could not become law and would lie on the table.
 The explanation of the president be- ing satisfactory, l yielded the point taken, and l am unable to state how or in what way the bill reached the Gov. ernor, unless 1t was done fraudulently and without authority as explained in the communication of Hon. Fred. c. Hughes as appears over his signature Tn the Tucson Daily Star of the l2th day of July, 1891. The foregoing Is the history of the so-called net, No. 105, of the l6th Legislative Assembly.
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 We append Mr. Hughes explanation, referred to by Mr. Thurmond, as 1t ap- pears iu the Star:
 But there is a history attached tc this act, and very much doubt wheth- CT 1t is at present law of the Territo- ". The bill passed the Council long after midnight of the day of final ad- lournment oi the Legislature. IL was enrolled by Mr Brewster Cameron who was not sworn officer of the Legisla- ture It was not compared nor report ed upon by the chairman of the com mite on enrolled bills, whose duty it Is to compare and make such report be- fore they are submitted to the Cover nor, the Speaker and the President of the Council for their signatures It was taken to the Governor for his sig nature after he (the Governor had sent his final message to the Legislature segering his connection with them. The Governor was notified by the chair man of the committee on enrolled bills that he had not compared the bill aud ttat he did not think everything was exactly right Notwithstanding these facts the Governor at the ''almost dic- tation' of Mr, Cameron signed the bill without reading a single word in it. This was all done after the Governor had sent his final message to the Legis- lature seyering bis connection with us The message notifying the Council that he had signed this bill was sent to the Council just as we were completing the reading of the minutes for approval for final adjournment and after we had re- ceiyed his final message seyering his with us, and therefore has no record in the journals.