Arizona republican., 1899-03-03
Council FaVOrS a Board of Pub
 lie Affairs"
ABOLISHES PRESENT BOARDS
Affer ManY Days Was Finally Drawn to Suit inc Democratic eioritV. Passenger Fare Bill Killed in inc Council - Another New County BIlI Considered by inc House. Contested Election Expenses.

According to democratic agreement, signed and sealed in party caucus, the Board of Control, as it exists, is to be
 superseded by the Board of Public Affairs which board retains all the powers of the board of control, with the additional power now exercised by the capitol commission and the terri
 torial board of equalization. It ex- cludes the governor and auditor from it's membership, and reduces the num- Der of gubernatorial appointments by two The bill creating the new board was introduced in the council yester- day morning as a substitute or amend ment for MT. Goldwater's bill 40, on the same subject, and under suspension of the rules it was put through all nec- essary stages and passed within thirty minutes time. Although the bill is the creature of the democratic caucus of Wednesday, MT. Finley voted with the opposition, and had it not been for the support of Mr. Udall, republican, it could not have been put through un- der suspension of the rules. The intro
  of the bill in the council follows the death of MT. Scouts house bill 5, on the same subject, consideration of which was indefinitely postponed in the house Wednesday evening At that time MT. Adams promised that a democratic measure would be passed.
 MT. Goldwater's council bill 40, ere atiO0 Esa hoard Of n,1h1io IOrlxc nd equalization was the outgrowth of the democratic caucus, although it devel- oped that the bill as introduced had not met the approval of the caucus In committee of the whole it was amended by democratic members to a point where MT Goldwater proposed to withdraw it, because it did not seem to meet the approval of the party. The bill has remained in the whole commit tee from that time, while the substitute or amendment, was in process of in cubation. When the bill came up on special order yesterday morning MT. Goldwater offered the amendment, the full text of which appears in another column of this issue
 , The opposition tried to have the amendment sent to the printing com mfttee, but MT. Goldwater said he would take no chances with it, as he had with the original, and no copies were ordered printed MT. Goldwater promised to have printed copies of the substitute on the members desks this morning.
 Under suspension of the rules the bill was considered engrossed and consid- cred read a third time, and passed by the following vote: Ayes-Bunch, Goldberg, Hunt, Murphy, Olney, Wolff. Udall, Goldwater-S. Nays Carpen- ter, Finley, Warner, Wright-4
 MT. Murphy's scent passenger fare bill, which was amended for some un- eAplainable reason to cents per mile, failed on final passage in the council, by the following vote: Ayes-Gold- berg, Hunt, Murphy, Olney, Wolff, Goldwater-6. Nays-Bunch, Carpen- ter, Finley, Warner, Wright, Udall-6.
 The bill introduced by MT Bunch at Wednesday evenings session Of the house. appropriating $2OO to pay the election contest expenses of Members Benham, Brown and Scott, came up on second reading yesterday morning. It is evidently the purpose of the demo- crats to pass the bill, notwithstanding the fact that each beneficiary named in the bill withdrew his name from it when it was introduced, and requested that no record of fa be made in the minutes. A motion to postpone con sideration of the bill was lost, and MT. Adams moved that it be put on final passage.
 MT. Scott said that nearly every time he has appeared on the street somebody has asked him if a bill was going to be introduced to pay contest expenses. It seemed to be the general desire that Justice Kincaid receive the fee due him. MT Adams asked MT. Pusch where he got the bill. MT. Pusch replied that MT. Scott gave it to him and asked him to introduce it. This raised a democratic laugh a@ the expense of the chaplain" whose po- sition up to this point had been that the bill came into the house without his knowledge.
 The house refused to put the bill on passage and it was sent to committee, where it will be amended so as to in clude the expenses of the three dem ccrats who were defeated in the contest The 3hree republican members from Maricopa appear to be willing to have their contest expenses paid, but they want to be forced by the democrats.