Arizona republican., 1899-03-14
Legislature "SOt" on AbOIiShiug
 the Loan Commission.
SHEEP LICENSE BILL VETOED
Governor Believes if Was practically Special Legislation. Therefore IlIegaI-Santa Cruz County Bill Ordered Return 10 inc House by Enrolling Rights Bill Nof Reported.

The governor returned to the house
 yesterday morning, without his ap-
 proval, house bill 54-the "eow bill.''
 The message says: While the title of
 the bill indicates that the measure re-
 fers to salaries and compensation only.
 it's fourth section relates ito an entirely
 different subject--the licensing of live
 stock. This, however, is not a suffi-
 cient reason for disapproval. A li-
 cense is a tax, and all kinds of live 1 stock are taxed in every county of the
 territory and are subject to the general
 laws relating to assessment and equal
 ization. The bill, as worded, is in my | judgment, special legislation, which is prohibited iby the organic laws of the | territory. It was presumably the in
 tention of your honorable body to
 make the law general, but section four
 makes the law applicable only to
 fourth, fifth and sixth class counties,
 and not to all the counties of the terri
 tory. For that reason, in my judg-
 ment, the law would be imperative if the bill were signed"
 When the governors message veto | ing house bill 54 was read to the house, MT. Adams moved that the passage of the bill, the veto of the gov
 ernor to the contrary notwithstanding, be made a special order for o'clock.
 The chair ruled that the motion could
 not be entertained, the passage of the
 bill being the only question before the
 house. The bill failed to pass over the governors veto by a vote of 20
 nays to 3 ayes-Messrs. Etz, linus and Moore voting aye
 Following the defeat of the Dill MT. Moore moved that house bill 159 be made a special order for II o'clock, and the motion carried. This is an- ether "cow bill,' providing for a tax on transient herds of stock. It author izes the taxation of herds in any county where they may be found, and the county treasurer who receives the tax shall appoption it equitably among the counties in which the he:d has been during the year. The bill was taken up at once in committee of the whole, and as soon as it was read MT. Etz offered what he called an amend ment, but which developed to be net only a substitute, but house bill 54 re- ircarnated, in that it conferred upon supervisors the same taxing and regu- lating powers embraced in the vetoed house bill 54
 MT. Gonzales took the floor and de- clared the amendment the longest he had ever heard read. He denounced it as a trick, whereby new bill had been introduced without unanimous consent. Speaker Ashurst took the same view and urged the chairman not to entertain the new bill as an amendment. Had there been sheep man. in che chair the amendment would undoubtedly have been consid- cred new bill, but MT. Peterson is evidently not sheepman. On motion of MT. Benham the amendment was adopted, and the committee recom- mended that the bill ''as amended" pass. It will come up on third read ing today.
 The council committee on education, which was requested to report the wo- mans rights bill, reported vest erday that its members could not yet agree on an amendment to the bill, and asked for further time MT Finley moved that further time be granted. MT. Murphy opposed giving further time. He thought the gentlemen of the committee well qualified to report intelligently now. After the usual line of discussion for and against, which has accompanied every appearance of the woman's rights question:, the usual result was reached-further time was granted the committee by the fol- lowing vote: Ayes-Bunch, Carpen- ter, Finley, Goldberg, Hunt, Olney, Warner, Wolff, Goldwater-9. Nays Murphy, Udall, Wright-3.
 The council committee on territorial affairs. of which Mr Murphy is chair man, reported out bill 29, with the rec that it pass. This is the council wCman'S rights bill, being a copy of house bill 35.
 Council bill 3S, aboishing the loan commission, passed the h )use over the governors veto by the following vote: Ayes-Adams Bartleson, Donau. Etz, Evans, Gonzales, Gray, Hale. linus, Moore, Pace, Parr Peterson, Pusch, Sanders, Stevens, Williams, Ashurst-1S. Nays-Brown, Doan. Scott, Woods-4. The bill passed the council Saturday over the governors an opinion from the attorney-generala