Arizona republican., 1891-03-20

EVENING SESSION.
 The House was called to order by Chief Clerk Hof at P. M., with absence of the Speaker. Mir. Cough was by vote selected as temporary chairman.
 The services of the Sergeant-at-Arms were called upon to drum up number of absentees.
 special order of business. After more deliberatiOn, Mir. Clark presented an amendment striking out the provision giving one Councilman jointly to all the counties of the Territory and granting that extra member to the counties of Pima, Cochise and Graham. Mir. Clark, of course, had a labored and wordy speech ready to inflict upon the Council. MT. Chalmers checked the Speaker for moment to ask a question. Mir. Clark replied: "If you are tired O. my talk l will stopW Mir Chalmers prevaricated, and the flood of talk went drearily on. The matter finally went to vote and was carried by II to 8.
 Mir. Parish moved that the bill be read third time. He said he didn't be- lieve the House wanted an apportion- ment at all, but he warned its members that an appeal to Congress would give to Maricopa her just dues. Hoff replied rather hotly that the members of the House were possessed of more manly character than Parish would credit them with.
 Mir. Fisher brought out a long argu- ment in favor of representation based upon the popular vote.
 MT. .HoH showed that Pima has twice the number of school children that Yavapai shows.
 The question to suspend the rules was then passed by the following vote: Ayes-Allen, Burr, Chalmers, Driscoll, Dunbar, Parish, Cough, Heyne, Hoh, Hart, Lesueur, Pusch, Suter, Samaniego, Tevis, Vail, Clark-l7. Noes--Brinley Copeland, Dougherty, Freeze, Fisher, Mott, Moore-7.
 The roll was then called upon the passage of the bill as amended and the measure passed by the following vote: Ayes-Allen, Burr, Chalmers, Driscoll, Dunbar, Parish, Cough, Heyne, Hoff, Hart, Lesueur, Moore, Pusch, Suter, Samaniego, Tevis, Vail, Clark-1S. Noes-Brinley, Copeland, Dougherty, Freeze, Fisher, Mott-6.
 The announcement of the vote was greeted with perfect tempest of ap- plause from both members and specta- tors. The bill was hurried over to the Council.
 Special committee recommended that Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 and on the table. Mir. Brinley asked leave to make minority report in favor of the first memorial. It asks that the Atlantic X Pacific land grant be sur veyed and subjected to taxation. The adverse majority report was discussed. Speaker Clark claimed that the grant had been, in fact, forfeited. Mir. Chalmers moved to appoint a conference committee of two to confer with a Council conference committee on House Bill No. 13S. Mir. Samaniego and Mir. Chalmers were appointed.
 Mir. Dennis and MT. Doran having been appointed a conference committee by the Council on Council Bill No. 1lS, the House appointed Speaker Clark and MT. Brinley to confer with them.
 Recess was then taken for fifteen min utes to await the report of these com mittees.
 House reconvened at II P. M., Mir. Cough in the chair.
 Conference committee on House Bill No. l3S reported that the House do re- cede from it's action in disallowing each Chief Clerk $l50 extra, and the Tue son CHizen appropriation and that the Council allow Mir. Mott s56. Report adopted. Conference committee on Council Bill No. 118 reported that the l joint committee were unable to agree. Mir. Brinley gave in the minority report that the House do sustain the Council amendment to have one Councilman at large. Passed, 12 to II.
 Then another recess was taken.
 Reassembled at Il :35 with the clock stopped.
 The Atlantic & Pacific memorial, Council Memorial No. l, was called up. Mir. Freeze reported House Bill No. l3l, the Ice bill, unfavorably. Mir. Hof moved to refer the bill to com mittee of three, consisting of Speaker Clark, Mir. Chalmers and J. L. B. Alex ander, chairman of the third house. Motion not sustained by the Chair. | The House then went into committee of the whole, with Mir. Brinley in the chair. MT. Cough moved to change the name of Arizona to Phoenix. Mir. Parish moved to amend to Phenixana. Further amended by Mir. Cough to Phenixana-Farish.
 | The committee then rose and reported that House Bill No. l3l be laid on the table till next Christmas.
 Mir. Brinley introduced resolution thanking Speaker Clark for his fairness