Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-07
STILL BORN.
The ACCOMPLISHMENT of
House Bill No. 80
Destroys the Hope of a
Prospective Parent.
The Santa Cruz County bill
Finally Defeated.
The Council Passes Mehan's Mis-
demeanor bill After Fight of
More than two Weeks.

Yesterday in the house will not pass
into history by reason of the amount
accomplished, so much as on account Of
the difficulty that attended what was
done, and the warmth of feeling which
pervaded the session.
House bill No. so, begotten by Mr..
Skinner who looked forward with plea
SAINT anticipation to the date OF its
birth came forth dead, but it will live
again only in the memory OF the I'M
happy parent who had fondly hoped
that he might take 1t back to Graham
county as little pledge Of his useful
ness and ability.
When the hour OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
drew near Mr.. Skinner incoherently
implored the accoucheurs to be careful.
Mr.. Skinner, the father, stood boldly
ND and pointed to himself as martyr
assailed by the press from one end OF
the territory to the other which same
papers he afterward described as worms
and preying things upon the substance
of other worms. II all the substance,
said he, was given up in the
payment of taxes for public print
ing there would be nothing left
wherewith to privately support the
aforesaid preying worms which had
become fat and ill formed from over
nutrition.
He described combine which the
three Phoenix worms had once formed
for the purpose OF relieving each other
in a speculative effort to eat their way
into the treasury vault where they would
have gorged themselves beyond recog-
milton, a combine happily broken up
by an observing board OF supervisors.
Mr.. Skinner abandoned the worm as
a rhetorical figure and talked prose !;
not the best prose, but prose so sui.
ficiently plain that those who knew
what he meant could readily under
stand him.
Describing the agony which the news
papers had undergone in apprehension
OF the passage of the bill, he said ::
"They are suffering 'scrutinizing'
pain" This was a ''corker" for a
moment, or until someone detected a
slight orthoepical similarity between
"scrutinzing" and "excruciating"
Then Mr.. Nkinner's meaning pervaded
the whole house and hung out of the
windows.
The argument by Mr.. Skinner, not
30 much in favor OF his bill as against
newspapers, was that since only about
one person in six reads newspapers it
was wrong and improper to compel the
other five to assist in the paying.
In bright contrast with the remarks
of Mr. Skinner were the observations of
Mr.. Ross and Mr.. Marshall who said
that while they did not know whether
ha Ia itu
they believed on good authority that it
was not. They had been told that the
cost OF public printing was no greater
than that of private advertising in
which case it was certainly not un-
reasonable.
They recounted the valuable service
to the territory of the newspapers, rem
dered without money and without price.
The bill was put upon its passage and
defeated by q vote OF 10 to-
The Santa Cruz county bill was also
mbered with the fallen. Two days
ago it would have passed easily; the
day following it had lost strength, but
its opponents still avoided a cinch.
The detection went on steadily until
yesterday when the test came it re-
ceived only five ont OF twenty-five votes.
In the council the substitute for house
bill No. "a, Mr.. Mehan's bill defining
the theft OF any animal OF smaller value
than $50 to be a misdemeanOr, was pas
sed. Probably no measure before either
house has created greater dissension
and its strength at all times has been so
uncertain that both sides have been I'M
willing to bring it to an issue. The
vote by which it was carried was yeas,