Arizona republican., 1895-03-05
YUMA IN DANGER Proposition to Remove the Penitentiary Introduced in the Coun- cil Yesterday.
  The Upper House Defeats the Anti-Cigarette Bill. A Debate in the House Cumbers the
 
A Debate in the House Cumbers the Clerks Record With "Words
 Taken Down."

Taken Down.
 There is probably not a cigarette smoker in the council. There are sev- eral gentlemen in the house who in- dulge Tn this suicidal form of dissipa- tion, yet the lower branch passed the anti-cigarette bill with enthusiasm. The council killed it yesterday in cold blood.
 The board of control bill passed the council with amendments which only slightly altered the original draft.
 The bill providing for the introduc. tion of military training into the public schools was passed by the assembly by an easy majority.
 There was ripple in the lower house caused by an incident in a debate upon an amendment to postpone considera- tion of the bill for the removal of the Normal school. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Wildman took occasion to say that the bill had not been intro- duced in good faitll-did not represent sound educational ideas but was in. tended to influence other legislation, meaning thereby legislation looking to the better support of the Normal school. At the request of of Mir. Gaddis, the author of ths bill, Mir. Wildman's ords were taken down" and appear in the records enclosed in quotation marks and heavily underscored.
 The Counc'f
 In the council yesterday bills were introduced as follows:
 Council bill No. 52, by Mr. Bab bitt. repeating the law making the territorial auditor bank examiner; read first time.
 Council bill No. 63, by MT. Packard, to provide for the taxing of dogs; read first time.
 Council bill No. 64, by Mir. Jones, concerning the territorial prison, and re- moving it to Prescott; read first time, referred to committee on printing and 100 copies ordered printed.
 i Council bill No. 65, by Mr. Dunlap, relating to homesteads and mptions thereon; read first time.
 Council bill No. 66, by Mir. Dunlap, providing for the appointment of county examiners; read first time.
 Council bill No. 67. by MT. Nugent, relating to taxes; read first time; re-
 ferred 10 printing committee and 100 copies ordered printed
 Council blll No. by Mir. Doran, ere ating board of control, was taken up, read third time and placed on final passage. MT. Scott spoke in opposition and asked how much the promoters of the bill estimated would be annually saved. MT. Doran replied that the 7 amount in addition to what could be saved by economic management would
 be about $7000. Mir. Scott stated that
 he believed that by the provisions of another bill $l0,0O0 year could be
 saved to the prison alone. He believed
 that It was not reasonable to expect
 that the same men who had been prac. tically in control of the prison manage. ment and who had taken no steps to reduce salaries at the prison which was
 the greatest item of expense there
 would do so as members of the board ol control. He believed that the number of guards was too great and that thei1 salaries should be cut down 25 pen cent that the office of assistant superlntend ent should be abolished and that $300( year WAS far too much for the superin tendent.
 MT. Babbitt expressed himself as op- posed to the general idea of giving the institutions of the territory into the
 charge of any boards or commissions He believed the superintendents should be placed under heavy bonds ano 2 made responsible in order that the ex pense of mileage might be avoided.
 MT. Doran strongly urged the passage
 of the bill as being the most feasible
 move possible in the direction of econo i my and efficient management. It wat t passed by the following vote: Ayes 3 Aspinwall, Davis, Dunlap, Edwards <. Jones, Kemp. Nugent and Dorsn; nays t Babbitt, Packard and Scott absent 9 Lake.
 !, Council bill No. 5l, repeating the ac l of the last legislature, granting $5,00( y for the building of dormitory for tht 1 university, was passed in spite of tht l urgent protest of MT. Scott. who de 8 clared that while it was not his wish tt !, see the money go to Tucson, he did ob 8 ject to being a party to repeating al t act which was already a dead letter :, He denounced it as childish. Mir. Ed : wards referred to Chancellor Ford as be : ing child who had threatened : immediate suit 1 the money was no 0 forthcoming and 0aiS there were othel a children in Tucson who wanted tha
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