The Arizona sentinel., 1901-03-20

of the conduct of the auditors
 office, which the bill was design
 ed to get at in speech of half an hour or more. MT. Perkins,
 republican, from Apache county,
 replied in equally warm terms,
 and then the question went to vote. Riordan, republican, of Coconino county, voted with the democrats to override the veto,
 and Findley of Tucson voted
 with his party on the measure
 under protest, remarking that he was bound by caucus in the premises, but considered the bill a matter of political buncomb.
 So that bill also passed the coun
 cil, the governors veto notwith
 standing. By that time the speaker had adjourned the house for want of quorum, and the report of the passage Of the bill in the council did not get into the house till the next forenoon, when a parliamentary contest ensued till noon and resumed on convening in the afternoon and kept up for an hour and a half. There were charges and counter charges, retreats and and advan- ces, and flank movements by the right flank and by the left flank; there were ambushes secreted and mines laid; but the minority party with the assistance of sev- eral of the majority party kept the thing from going to vote, which required two-thirds of the house. Finally the friends of the bill, of both bills, in sheer exhaustion were compelled to allow both bills to be laid on the table. To get them up again will require the same two-thirds vote necessary to pass them over the governors veto, and unless some very important matter comes up that can be used for leverage to raise them, they will remain where they are to the end of time. But it was a pretty political and parliamentary fight, and the resultpracticallya a draw.
 Another matter of much i'm portance to the public and of considerable warm work, and es- specially in the house, is House Bill 165, known as the irrigation bill. (There are several of them, but this is the irrigation bill the contest over which continued two days, with several odd spells at other times. The bill stuck on the priority of right" busi- ness, question that probably nothing short of plenty of water for everybody in the territory, or the supreme court of the United States, will ever settle. At any rate the bill called forth an immense amount of oratory and little parliamentary tao tics, but nothing to speak of as the sentiment of both houses was evidently against it, and the bill went down on it's final passage by a vote of fifteen nays to eight ayes, one member being absent. A day or two later a council bill bearing the same great bur- den, priority" and making ca
 nal companies common carriers and giving the water user vested rights after five years of use of water, was passed by the council under some sort of arrangement, and failed to pass the house by about the same vote. Other bills on the same subject were indefinitely postponed. The ori- giual code law will probably re- main about as it is. The irriga- tion subject, however, showed enough of itself in this legisla- ture to indicate that it will be the one great subject of legisla- tion by the time the next legisla- ture comes along, and from that time on almost interminably. The bullion tax proposition will come up and be settled by some legislature long before the irri- gation proposition can be settled; the prison question will have gone to roost for all time and freights and fares will have be- come gray-headed subjects, and