Arizona weekly republican., 1893-02-23

pai. Miss Ida Spalding, of Coconino, was chosen committee clerk, and John Troops joint janitor.
 Field, of Yuma, moved an adjourn ment, but the resolution was lost.
 Mir. Ross moved that council joint | resolution No. 2 be removed from the hands of the committee on public ex- to which it had been re- ferred. The speaker requested the to refer it back to the house, whereupon it was proposed by Reilly and adopted.
 Graham, of Pinal, introduced bill providing for a maximum irrigation charge of $1.25 per acre and holding irrigation com panies liable for damages arising from failure to supply water to contiguous lands. Referred to the com mittee on irrigation.
 House bill No. 8, to compel canal companies to remove suntiowers aud other obnoxious plants found along the course of their canals, was referred to the same committee.
 Behan, of Yavapai, introduced an act compelling the office of probate judge and county school superintendent and other offices tn be kept open at stated hours, under penalty of S25 for each violation of the act.
 Speaker Baxter brought in an act en- tranchising the women of Arizona. Referred to the committee on cleo tions.
 Mir. Hurley introduced a bill amend ing paragraph 1902 R. s. by the strilS- ing out of the clause, "If it be q misde- meanor an arrest can not be made at night except upon the direction oi mag is trate."
 The report of the committee on mile- age was received.
 On reconvening at ? o'clock the com mittee on rules reported that the rules adopted are quite similar to those which governed the Sixteenth leg islature.
 Committees to which the following ! measures had been referred rep~red favorably upon them.
 1 Resolution No. 2. House bill No. 2 and House bill No. 8. House bill No. 4 was recommended as amended and No. 3 was recommended with amendment attached.
 A message was received from the council announcing the passage of con 1 current resolution NO. l.
 Mir. Rogers introduced an act for the impounding and disposal ot animals for trespass and damages. Referred to the live stock committee.
 MT. Schumacher introduced an act tC prohibit the holding by the same person at the same time two offices of trust or profit either elective or ap pointIve. Referred.
 MT. Schumaker also brought in a measure for the levy of an occupation tax, affecting liquor dealers and mer- chants of different classess; UhotOgra- pheTs, auCtioneers, commission mer' chants. Land and mining agents, not including attorneys when acting in the capacity of sucu agents, attorneys, physicians, dentists, shooting galleries, bagatelle and other games, pool sellers, merry-go.rounds, pedlere, theatrlcaI tronpes, circuses and other shows, in' surance companies, express companies. The bill provides that the tax on rail road, steamboat and stage companies shall be one per cent of the amount derived from carriage of passengers in the territory, and one per cent from each message sent by telegraph com. l pdllltS IlOl llNluhlllE lltHsdStS NOilbtNbtN with railroad business.
 MT. Grav's resolution to draft bill relating to fees of territorial and county officers was passed tO the third reading
 House bill'No. introduced by Rps- providing for the assessment of stock on ranges which had not been prcvi ously assessed in another county had been flvorably reported by the judlci ary committee. Under suspension oI the rules it was put on its final passage by a vote of l9 to 5.
 House bill No. ,, also by MT. Ross providing for a just division of taxes or stock was advanced to thlrd reading Mir. Hunts bill authorizing the offer of reward of $5, 900 for the capture ot the Kid had been amended by providing that no person connected with the United States army should be entitled to the reward. With this amendment the committee had recommended its pas age.
 Reilly of CoChise, proposed further the amendment tU strike out the wOrd' "dead or alive" which he explained should be done in the interest of z Humanitarian sentiment" prevailing among lot of eastern Indian loving ig noramuses. The speaker portrayed tho injury this territory had already sui fered in having lost the regard of those seti same humanitarians by having adopted heroic measures against tho Apaches and white outlaws. MT Reilly therefore believed that the meas ur,. should he soflrntd.
 Messrs. Behan and Graham very sensibly hoped that the folly suggested by MT. Reilly would not prevail anC Dr. Wright, colleague of the pleadel for humauitarian methods of effectlns the Kids capture, said that the bi should not be changed. On the con trary, it should be made as explicit a, possible, and what could make it more explicit than the words so objectionable to Mir. Reilly? The amendment wal not made, though one by Mir. Gray ad ding reward of $250 for the taking ir the most convenient manner possible O each of the Kids followers was adopted and the bill was advanced to its thrc reading.
 House bill No. ,, by MT. Hurley, tC allow boards of supervisors in first | II ,,,i