Arizona republican., 1899-02-16
ReappOrtiOnment Bill Killed in
 the House.
OPPOSE PRECINCT LIMITS
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l MT. Adams house bill, reapportion- ing the legislative representation, was
 put beyond further consideration in
 the house, after a fight. in " hich the
 chief weapons were motions to com
 init and adjourn and call the house.
 The bill was reported out of the judi
 ciary committee in the morning with
 out recommendation byathe majority,
 Chairman Williams submitting mln-
 ority report that the bill pass. An
 effort was made during the morning to i suspend the rules and bring the bill before the house, but Adams and linus
 being absent, it's was made special or
 der for the afternoon. It then came
 before the committee of the whole, and
 MT. Gray put it in moticn by moving
 that it do pass Mr. Scott offered as
 a substitute, what he believes to b9
 absolute equality as to representation.
 His scheme divides the territory into
 eight districts for the purpose of rep
 resentation in the council, appordonsd
 as follows: No. Apache, Navajo
 and Coconino counties-two members;
 No. 2-Yavapai county-two members;
 No. 3-Cochise county-one member;
 No. 4-Gila and Graham counties
 two members; No. 5-Maricopa county two members; No 6-Maricopa and Pinal counties-one member; No. r.
 MohaYe and Yuma counties-one member; No. S-Pima county-one
 member.
 This division into eight districts has
 more the appearance of seven, Mari copa and Pinal counties being evil dently one district, with three mem bers. Mir. Scott's scheme divides the territory into eleven districts for rep resentation in the house, apportioned as follows: No. Apache county. one member; No. 2-Coconlno county one; No. 3-Navajo county-one; No. 4-Yavapai county-four; No. 5- Pima county-three; No. 6-PinaI county-one; No. 7-Cochise county two; No. S-Gila and Graham counties four; No. 9-Yuma county-one; No 10-Maricopa county-five; No. Il -Mohave county-one.
 Upon the reading of the substitute, Speaker Ashurst moved to amend by giving Maricopa county ten members. Chairman Sanders paid no attention to the facetious youth, and MT. Moore Of fered an amendment which changed the Adams apportionment by taking one member-each from Pima and Pinal counties, and adding one each to Yavapai and Maricopa
 At this juncture a motion was mada to arise, and Chairman Sanders arti- trarily declared the motion carried, The bill was now before the houss without recommendation MT. Gray moved to put the bill on final passage. A storm of motions followed, to ad- journ and to recommit, but the pre- vious question, to indefinitely post pone consideration, was put by a vote of 16 to 8, and the motion carried by 8 vote of IA to 10. The finishing touch was then added by laying on the table a motion to reconsider.
 MT. Goldwater's council bill, requir- ing voters to vote in the precinct where they reside, failed to pass the council by a vote of to 5. The ccun- cil committee on judiciary was unani- nous in the recommendation that this bill do pass. MT. Goldwater explained that this law would prevent much it. legal voting, possible under existing law; that under existing law a train load of men might be carried through a county and voted at every precinct.
 MT. Bunch replied that he had made such charges when he had been de- 'eated for office. He called attention Q the fact that the gentleman from Yavapai had been elected by larger majority than any man in the council md that three railroads operated in lis county. It was granted that the proposed law would work well in Mar copa and Yavapai counties but in other counties it would disfranchise he vote of freighters and cattlemen. who might be away from their voting precincts on election day.
 MT. Murphy opposed the bill with lis usual vigor, and expressed the hope hat ''every democrat and every gentleman" on the floor would vote .gainst it. Had MT. Murphy's desire een gratified, the roll call would have hown the negative votes of but four entlemen.
 The house bill recognizing osteop thy as a legitimate brother of alo- athy and homeopathy, was defeated y tie vote Of s to 6.
 MT. Hunts council bill, to abolish he loan commission passed.
 MT. Finley's bill repeating act 34 or