Arizona republican., 1899-02-18
Assembly Passes Bill to EnCOur-
 age Wafer Storage.
BENHAM'S EYES OPENED
He ASCerfained al Last Thai People of His County Were IntereSfSd d. Adams Joins inc "TaxIeSS ToOt" PariY-Bofh Houses Take Lay- Off Until Monday Afternoon. Another Parliamentary TangIe.

| The legislature adjourned yesterday
 until Monday, when the house will
 meet at o'clock in the afternoon and | the council at 2 o'clock It was not
 on account of the coming of the Pres
 cctt Elks. It was to give the commit
 tees an opportunity to catch up. The l harvest Of bills has been in excess of
 the committees ability to thrash them
 out. There is now in the house cam-
 mittees fifty of the ninety five bills pre-
 sented, and the council committees on | judiciary and territorial affairs have
 between them above thirty bills to
 consider. The special committees who
 visited the territorial institutions have
 not reported, and will work today on
 those reports, which are due for sub
 mission next week.
 The house yesterday passed the board of supervisors absolute mon-
 a~chy'' bill by a vote of 16 to ', MT.
 Parr being absent.
 This is MT. Etz's bill 54, which was discussed in the house committee of
 the whole Thursday. The joker in
 the bill lies in section 4, which gives
 the county boards power to license all
 sorts of business not now prohibited by law. The section is designed to
 solve the sheep problem, and while it
 gives the supervisors power to regulate
 the sheep grazing nuisance, it con- stitutes each board a law-making
 power, with no organic law nor gov
 ernor's vote to restrain it.
 Yesterday morning the bill was on Crder of engrossment and final read l ing, and was subject-to amendmerre.A
 When MT. Adams moved that the bill
 be placed on passage, Speaker Ashurst
 offered an amendment to the effect that supervisors would have no power to regulate the mining, farming or live stock business. This amendment practically struck out the enacting clause of the bill, and the friends of the measure were eager to head it off. To effect this the insanity, which seems chronic with this legislature, was per petratedzcf moving to lay the amend ment on the table. This, of course, was what the father of the amendment desired. next to its adoption, and the motion was sadioptSd by rising vote of 10 to ,. The chair smiled with satis- facticn and announced that the amend ment, together with the bill, lay on the table and that under the rules a two-thirds vote would be necessary to bring the measure before the house during tho present legislative day. Then the parliamentarians among the friends of the bill reared back on their launches and paved the air MT Adams eyes gleamed as he appealed from the decision of the chair. Mir Peterson arose, thrust his hands deep into his brooches pockets, and with a firm gIfp on his jack-knife in one hand and six bits in the other he pro ceeded to prove to the satisfaction of the majority who had work on hand that while the amendment was alive and on the table, the bill was alive and before the house.
 MT. Adams argued to the same eff feet, and on viva voc evote the speak CT declared his decision overruled, and that the bill with his amendment was before the house. MT. Peterson moved that the bill be put on it's passage. What are you going to do with the inquired the speaker.
 ''Thes'e isn't any amendment" re- tortCd MT. Peterson. We laid that on the table,
 Then the speaker took an ax and cleaved away the brush and stumps, so that the freight wagons could pro ceed. He explained that if the major fty wanted to kill his amendment they muzs move it's adoption and vote it down. This was regarded with sus- picion, but the speakers honesty was relied upon and the experiment was tried. The amendment was then prop erly killed and the bill passed.
 Each branch of the legislature has now wrestled with and overcome this monster, and in the line of working wonders they can give the ancient aIchemists seven cards every deal and then outhold them. The Savior of mankind had power to turn water into wine, but He never pre- tended t1 have sufficient ability to table the amendment without carrying the main question with it. The Ari- zona legislature has twice demon strated it's ability to successfully con tove-t this fixed law of nature and never draw a long breath in the effort vice within a month the Arizona leg stature has mixed water with it's whisky, poured the mixture upon the