Arizona republican., 1893-03-24
A STIRRING DAY. The Demi-monde Must
 Emigrate. The MorallBeso House
 Bill No. 66, Has Swept Sin Out of Three SOO-Yard Circles.
The House Considering an Act to Legalize In Arizona the Principle
 of GravItation.

The last hope of the houses of prosti- tuition vanished yesterday when sub stitute for house bill No. 66 was resur- rected from the committee on educa- ton in which it had been in condition of hibernation so long that it began to be feared it would never come forth. The committee recommended its pas sage, The fight against it was not postpone it's consideration was defeated by a unanimous vote. The only verbal objection to the bill was that on account of the peculiar location of the school houses, the immortality of the town would most likely be concentrated in the fourth ward, to the great disgust of the citizens of that ward and the de- terioration in value of property. The bill was finally put on it's passage with single vote Tn the negative, that of Mir. Nugent.
 The entire afternoon in the house was taken up in the consideration of house bill No. 37, Mir. Fields irrigation act. This measure which on It's introduction had created so great consternation had passed three committees and had been shorn not only of it's most offensive features, but of nearly everything else 60 that in It's multiamended form it ap- pears to be an act to legalize the prin- Ciple of gravitation a proceeding which had never occurred to any other leg slative body since that historical and scientific apple took Sir Isaac Newton one in the right optic many years ago; and winch while t perhaps closed that eye tenn porarily, resulted in the or en ng of both eyes of that famous dreamer to the fact that thin. 6 will fall if not properly supported. That is to say, that house bill No. 37 Tn its present emasculated form makes It lawful for water to run down hill and also makes it lawful for citizens of Ari- zona to organize districts and construct dams and reservoirs to arrest it in it's downward and wasteiul course, pro- vided only they do not interfere with the affairs of any body else, right which nobody but the Apaches ever con reverted. These are the most important points of the bill, though there are enough other features to make 1t, next to one, the most voluminous document yet before the legislature and at the same time leave it the most harmless and imperative.
 When the bill was finally brought be- fore the house, after the last committee could find no further excuse for mutt lation, the members took turn at lt. A hack was taken at it here, there a thrust was received. The dishgure- ment was willingly agreed to by the friends of the bill, who perhaps caught by the spirit of the thing, took a hand in it themselves and only objected to a proposition to cut it in two. There was strength enough at any time to pass it. or rather there were none who cared enough about 1t to oppose 1t. Notions to indefinitely postpone 1t We're easily defeated, though at last by common consent it was laid over until this morning.
 Mir. Marshall is preparing bold at tack against the saloons. He has for mulated bill which will probably be presented today, the title of which IS An act to prohibit gambling and the sale of liquors on Sundays and election days" The bill is directed against players, those who keep saloons or gambling houses open or are in any way responsible for violation Of the provisions of the act. The penalty at tached is fine of not less than S25 nor more than s2O0, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both line and imprisonment.