Arizona republican., 1899-02-25
Flood of New Bills to Cease on
 March '.
HOUSE SHUTS OFF ORATORY
No MembSr 10 Speak Longer Than Five Minutes on the Same Sub. jeCt-BiII AboIlShing inc Loan Commission Has Passed Both HouseS-LitfIe Miss Parr Elected House Page.

The legislature continues to discuss bills in committee of the whole with the usual result of sending them back to committee. Legislation in the form of new bills, continues to go into the machine faster than it comes out, but the end of this condition is in sight
 MT. Adams presented a concurrent resolution in the house yesterday stop ping the introduction of bills March 2. The council concurred. After that date bills will be introduced only by unanimous consent.
 MT. Adams presented another time saving resolution, the primary object of which is to prevent MT. Scott from finishing his speech on gambling. which he began Thursday and which was to have been received in further installments. The resolution provides ''that no member shall speak longer 1 than five minutes on the same sub ject," and it was adopted. In this form it means that the total time during which a member may speak, not to a question, but on a subject, between to- day and the 17th of March, is five min utes. To enforce the provisions of this resolution a clerk will have to be employed to keep books on the mem bers under the heads of subjects" and time"
 MT. Carpenter, one of the many members of the council who has been 'frittering away" time, and who has 1 been guilty of much "tomfoolery, arose yesterday and moved that when the council adjourn it adjourn until Monday. Then arose Task-Master Murphy, who believes in working when he is not asleep, and he poured forth q vial of wrath that would have filled q demi-john. He protested at length against this persistent waste of valu- able time He said he was convinced that no attention whatever would be paid to his remarks on the subject, but nevertheless, he wished to protest, and and he wanted his protest spread upon the minutes.
 The president put the question. There was feeble, timid number of ayes" and one decided mo- The president cooked his eye over at MT. Murphy and said, "The ayes seem to have it. The ayes have it, and it is so ordered;" and the gavel fell gently, so as not to further agitate the gentle man from Mohave.
 Four measures were finally disposed of yesterday. MT Hunts council bill 38, abolishing the loan commission, passed the house by a unanimous vote MT. Paris house bill 40, providing that corporations refusing to pay taxes shall not receive the protection of peace officers, was indefinitely post pond in the house by vote of 16 to 6. MT. Scott's cruelty to animals bill was lost on final passage in the house by a vote of 13 to II.
 Consideration of the maximum freight rate bill was completed in the council whole committee and it was recommended to pass as amended No further amendments were offerd yes terday, the bill having arrived at that point, in it's various stages of ''prc- i. gress,' where it's future is assured. Notwithstanding the recommendation of the whole committee the indications are that the bill will fail to pass.
 MT. Murphy's Scent passenger rail road bill, was amended, on motion Of MT. Goldwater, to cents per mile, and was recommended to pass.
 MT. Goldwater's bill, creating board of public affairs,'' as it is now called, will be further considered next Monday. At the same time MT. Gold waters apportionment bill will be taken up by the whole committed
 Mir. Hunt reported to the council that the special committee to visit the nor nal school had received S35 for ex- penses, had spent $6 in carriage hire, and had returned to the treasury $29. When the report was read those mem bers who. are always moving to ad- journ looked at MT. Hunt reproach- fully.
 The house, in committee of the whole, sent back to the territorial af- fairs committee the bills creating bureau of archaeology. The cattleEen's bill, defining larceny, was recommend- ed to pass and sent to the expressing committee, and the same action was taken on the bill sentencing jail pris- oners to hard labor The prison re- moval bill was sent back to the judi ciary committee. The following bills we're recommended to pass: House bill S8, requiring insurance comps nies to file articles of incorporation with the territorial secretary; house bill 6S, giving marriage license fees to pro bate judges house bill S3, establishing