Arizona republican., 1893-03-30
LEGISLATURE. House Bill No. 32 Goes
 Over the Veto. An Act Creating a Board
 of Health Meets With Sarcastic Opposi-
 ton in the House. Mir. Day Wants It Made a Law But Laid Away for the Use of Future Generations.

The most interesting feature of legis- lative proceedings yesterday was a de- bate on house bill No. 70, by Dr. Dry. den arranging for the establishment of a territorial board of health and a medium for the collection of vital statistics. The committee had reported the bill back with multitudinous amendments, the chief of which was a change in the location of the embryonic board from Phoenix to Prescott.
 The amendments were punched and adopted when MT. Day, of Pinal, pro- posed another amendment which pre- cipitated disaster. This amendment was to substitute for the words Ion and after its passage" the words Ion and alter July l, 1913. In explanation of his purpose to entail this blll upon pos terity, unblemished by previous usage, MT. Day said that in the first place there was no consuming and immediate demand for such board as medical gentlemen had proposed to create. It was therefore an unnecessary luxury which the straiteDed resources of the territory could not at present afford to sustain. The chief argument in its favor had been the somewhat remote possibility of cholera invasion. The speaker admitting that cholera might come, said Arizonians from the earliest times had established reputation for ability to meet emergencies in such manner as to cover themselves with glory. In the rather improbable event of the appearance of cholera within the next twenty years, when under his amendment the law would become operative Mir. Day believed that the emergency would be ably and promptly met. The territory could not afford to borrow future and uncertain trouble at an annual outlay of the estimated cost of the board of health and the medium for the collection of vital statistics.
 Dr. Dryden inc author of the bill re- piled rather bitterly and accused the gentleman from Pinal with being person of immature judgement. The amendment was supported by Mr. bill would be Islam" on Ari- zona as health resort What need had she for board of
 
 within her borders was SO precarious that they were always liable to arrest under the statute and municipal ordi- nances regulating the ofense of va grancy? The bill, the speaker believed, had been introduced at the instance of the physicians of the territory with the hope that the money appropriated for the support of the board, would thus render their lot as a profession less un- certain. That much they could be absolutely sure of.
 ,Dr. Wright in an impassioned speech of considerable length pit ad that the death of the bill ii it's enemies were bent upon it, might be accomplished with dignity and not with ridicule. He entered upon the general usefulness of a board of health in case of cholera which is always imminent in a commu- nity lying along the Mexican border.
 Mir. Mehan thereupon moved since the greatest danger was from the Mexican side, an amendment that the place of location of the headquarters of the board be changed from Prescott to Tucson; MT. Hurley, still more con sistent, suggested NOgales because 1t was the port of entry from Mexico.
 The blll was in a desperate condition and was threatened with extinction by amotiOn to postpone indefinitely. It was saved by a motion 10 lay it on the table.
 House bill No. 32 was passed over the governors veto. Later the house con cured m the senate's action in over riding the veto of council bill No. 52.