Arizona republican., 1891-03-15

ported from committee with minor amendment. Amendment adopted Put on final passage and passed.
 Council Bill No. 96, providing for the further maintenance of the Territorial University, was reported from commit tee with minor amendment. Amend ment adopted and bill put upon final passage. Passed, Il to l, MT. Vickers voting in the negative.
 A message was received from the Gov. ernor announcing that he had signed Council Bills Nos. 2S and 30.
 A message from the House asked the consent of the Council for the admission of Joint Resolution No. 3, relating to the employment of convicts upon levee for the protection of the town of Yuma. Consent granted unanimously.
 Council Bill No. 100, to promote edu- cation was reported favorably.
 Council Bill No. IF, to protect the interests of live stock producers, was reported favorably.
 Council Bill No. l3l, relative to a fish and game commission, was reported iavorably.
 House Bill No. 97, to promote the raising of beets and the manufacture of sugar therefrom, was reported favorably from committee. Passed.
 Council Bill No. l07 was reported favorably from committee.
 Council Bill No. III was reported favorably from committee.
 Council Bill No. 130 was reported favorably from committee.
 House Bill No. 72 was indefinitely postponed.
 House Bill No. 75, to create Terri torial Board of Equalization composed of the Governor, Secretary and Treas urer, was reported uniayorably from committee. MT. Hughes opposed and the bill went to third reading.
 Council Bill No. l2l, relative to roads and highways, was reported uniavorably from committee. Laid upon the table.
 Council Bill No. 70, concerning official stenographers,w was reported with substi- ute from committee. Substitute adopted.
 Council Bill No. l22, to establish the of Clerks of Boards of Supervi- sors, was reported from committee and re-reierred to Committee on Territorial Affairs.
 Council Bill No. 63, was returned from with substitute. Substitute adopted.
 Council Bill No. 70, concerning Supreme and District Court rules, as amended by the House, was concurred in.
 Council Bill No. ll0, concerning text books, was returned with amendment from the House. Amendment con cured in.
 House Memorial No. ?, asking for the erection of levees and breakwaters along the Gila and Salt rivers by the National was read. Mir. Herndon moved to include the Colorado. MT, Simpson tackled on the Ligtle Color ado and Silver creek. Mr. Vickers the San Pedro. Mir. Zulick brought in Granite Creek. Mir. Herndon thought Bitter Creek should be included. Referred to Con- mittee on Petitions and Memorials.
 House Bill No. l29, establishing a Board of Railroad Commissioners was read first time. Under suspension of rules, referred to Committee on Corpor- .ions.
 A motion to adjourn until Monday was lost, 6 to 6.
 House Bill No. l3 was returned to the House for further information as to what had been done with it.
 Another motion by Mir. Brady to ad- iourn to Monday was knocked out.
 Mir. Zulick demanded q call of the House. Messrs. Brady, Baldwin and Frank were found absent and had to be hunted up by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
 The Council then went into com nittee of the whole upon the Fees and Salaries bill, Mir. Doran in the chair. MT. Hughes moved that the committee rise, report progress and beg leave to sit again. Carried.
 Adjourned to z 80 P. NJ.
 EVENING SESSION.
 Council called to order at 7:30 P. M., President Hughes in the chair.
 Roll call showed all members present.
 4 large representation of the ladies of Phoenix filled the row of seats within the rail and the benches without were crowded to their utmost capacity. There were not few of the sterner sex, .oo, who appeared intensely interested Tn the fate of the measure, jammed into the limited standing room.
 House Bill No. 70, an act to create q Territorial Board of Equalization, came lp under special order of business on third reading. Lost by the following vote: Ayes-Simpson. Noes--Bald- win, Brady, Dennis, Doran, Frank, Peter, Thurmond, Vickers, lulick, Hughes-l1. Mir. Hughes gave notice of a motion to reconsider.
 Mir. Zulick moved that House Bill No. )l, the Woman's Suffrage Bill, be taken lp.
 Mir. Hughes then moved postpone nent until Tuesday next.
 MT. Simpson moved as an amendment that the measure be indefinitely post poned.
 Mir. Doran assumed the chair.
 Mir. Zulick and Mir. Hughes opposed he motion warmly. Mir. Simpson ex- pressed himself as tired of the bill and demanded that it be disposed of at once md be gotten out of the way. The lobby got boisterous at this point and were 'apped to order.
 Mir. Vickers, while opposing the mo- ion to indefinitely postpone, also op- posed any postponement of the bill.
 Mir. Zulick then moved that final ac- jon be taken up next Tuesday at 2:3O P. NJ. Carried, to 5.
 Those of the audience who had come for an evening of rhetorical and parliamentary con .ention. signilied emphatically their dis approval of the course tine measure had taken and recess of fifteen minutes was declared to allow the disgusted throng to file out.
 The postponement was engineered by the supporters of the bill, who, on count ing noses had found their strength to be but five against an opposition of seven.