Arizona weekly republican., 1893-02-23
In the House.

m the FlOuSes
 Business in she house yesterday opened with committee reports on various measures which mad been con signed to them. The judiciary commit e. had naturally become the receptacle of more embryo laws. House bill No. l4 MT. Schumaker's measure for the dis trIbution of public offices as far as they would go by prohibiting the holding of two of them by the same person at the same tune, was UVertaken by sad late in the committee room. It was re- stored to the house with the suggestion thHs it do not pass by which It Is 10 be understood that the committee holds the doctrine that the American citizen Is enti led to whatever in the shape of d public office Is within reach. House bills Nos. 9, s and were favOrably reported upon.
 Day before yesterday MT. Rogers in troduced by request bill providing for l the publication and distribution Of Ari- zona supreme court reports. The mea- snre was referred to the committee on printing which returned an uniavorable report and the infant law was laid up- on the table.
 lut OCCU DdllOu AdA Dlll itpOSO, bC- side it. No discussion attended the | bill outside the committee room, but it | is said that the committee beleved its | ms were too sweeping.
 , 1ouse blll No. 4, an act by MT. Hunt , authorizing the governor to offer $5,OOO 1 reward for the capture ol the Kid, was advanced Co third reading and passed with it's amendment offering reward of $250 for the capture of each of the outlaws followers.
 ! House bill No. l6, hy MT. Mehan of Pima, to form the county of Santa Cruz, of which notice was given the previous ! day, was read the first time. The bill was a voluminOus document describing the boundaries 0! the new county to Ou l aken from rib of Pima, whether Pima be asleep or awake, providing for the transfer Of matters within the new rountv now in litigation, the appoint ment ol officers by he governor pend ! tug an election to be held on the second | Tuesday of May, at which time the ! county seat shall also be chosen. In fact the bill provides for everything the new county will need as soon as it lays aside it's swaddling clothes. Until the | | be the seat oi government. Referred tC the committee on counties and county boundaries.
 MT. Hurley introduced an act tc amend paragraph 800, section 10, re. vised statutes.
 An act providing ;or an increase oI salaries of supervisors clerk, the in crease graduated according to the classes of counties, was referred to the judiciary committee.
 MT. Graham of Pinal brought in 2 i bill for the exemption from taxation ot orchards and vineyards for a period O
 three years after being set out.
 Mir. Graham also introduced an act
 permitting only one justice of the peace
 and one constable in counties of pop ulatlon of less than ,5C0.
 MT. Hurley introduced bill relating
 to the compensation of county officers
 4 discussion of considerable length
 took place over Behan's bill, an act to
 establish liens for salaries and wages
 making them preferred claims. The
 judiciary committee reported favorably
 upon the measure and motion was
 made to suspend the rules, cause the
 bill to be read the second time by title
 and put it upon it's passage. Reilly
 moved to amend by substituting for the emergency clause the words "To take effect from and after sixty days after it's passage" In support of his motion
 he said the immediate effect of the law