Arizona republican., 1895-02-07
The House.

Bernard of Pima county presented a petition from the merchants Of his county praying for the repeal of the merchants license tax law. This was followed by remonstrance introduced by Mr. Crosby from residents of Apache county protesting against the division of that county and the formation of the proposed new county of Navajo.
 The reports of committees came on in regular order.
 The judiciary committee recom- mended the indefinite postponement of house bill No. 94, to amend chapter g.. section 765, article of the revised stat utes, but submitted another bill de- signed to cover the points aimed at in the former bill. It also recommended the printing of 100 copies of it.
 House bills Nos. 2 and and council bill No. 3, ali relating to the repeal of the merchants tax law, were all re- ported back with recommendation that they be referredeto the committee on ways and means.9
 A favorable report was returned upon house bill No. 5, an act taxing sleeping car companies.
 House bill No. 20, for the better main. tenance of the Territorial Normal school slightly amended was returned by the committee on education with recon mendation for it's passage.
 The same committee also favorably re- ported house bill No. 19. an act re- modelling the election laws and also house bill No. "A. prohibiting the carry ing on of certain kinds of business within the territory.
 Mr. Barnes gave notice of the In- troduction of bill to amend existing election laws and to provide for their enforcement; also of bill to amend the laws relative to exemptions and home steads.
 House bill No. 46 was introduced by MT. Marshall, an act creating road dis tricts and providing for the levy and collection of road tax for their main tenance.
 MT. Hinton introduced house bill No. AZ. an act to amend section q, chapter 7, of the revised statutes, authorizing treasurers to deposit public moneys in designated banks.
 Mir. Crosby introduced house bill No. AS, an act relating to eminent domain.
 House bill No. Il was put on its final passage and passed.
 Other bills were given second read ing and referred to appropriate com mIttees.
 House bill No. l5 was read third time and the rules being suspended was put on its second reading for amendments.
 A message was received from the council announcing the passage of council bill No. 5, and the speaker gave notice of his signing council bill No. 8
 The assent ply then went into a com mittee of the whole, MT. Moore in the chair to consider house bill No. 15, which, when the committee rose, was recommended to be referred to the committee on territorial affairs.
 House bill No. 16 was given a third reading and placed on it's final passage and was passed by a unanimous vote and the substitute by the committee on judiciary, for house bill No. 34 was given a first reading.
 At this point it was announced that an invitations had been extended to mem bers of the Territorial Medical Aa- sociation who had been invited to appear in the assembly and take part in the dis cussion of house bill No. 6, an act ere ating a board of health and vital statis- tics. The house accordingly went into a committee of the whole, Mir. Wild man in the chair. It was discovered that the bill had not yet found it's way to the clerks desk. The committee rose and formal inquiry was made for the bill. It having been presented, the committee went into session again with MT. Herrick in the chair.
 Dr. H. A. Hughes, Dr. Dameron, Dr. J. Miller of Prescott and Dr. Futile were invited to places on the floor. Addresses were made by the physicians upon the bill and when the committee rose the measure was referred in the usual course to the judiciary committee. Messages were received from the council announcing the return of house bill No 16 to the assembly to be prop erlv engrossed, and the passage of coun- cil joint resolution No. 3, awarding the contract of publishing the legislative proceedings to THE DAILY REPUBLICAN and the daily Gazette. This resolution and council bill No. were given first reading, after which the assembly ad- joIrned.