Bisbee daily review., 1903-03-07
CONAN BILL
 ON ITS MERITS
BELIEVED NOW THAT THIS JUST MEASURE WILL BECOME A
 LAW
Reported Friction in the Council Which
 May Impede the Passage of Many BiIIs-Woman Suffrage StiII Alive

Phoenix, Arizona, March 6.-(Spe- cial)-The council continues to take it's ease. while the house continues to lush old bills out of the way and new enc into the legislative hopper. The mine inspector bill was defeated in the house and there seems to be no hopes of the passage of a primary election law for the reason that hardly any two members can agree on what such a law should provide. There is practical ly no opposition to the principle inclu- ded in primary election law. but there are many stubborn and irreconcilable
 views about what the law should con tain. and unless concessions are made
 on all sides there will be no primary
 election law.
 The Cowan bill, providing for turn
 ing the large corporation fees
 from the office of the secretary of the territory into the territorial treas
 ury, seems to be growing in favor and ii is now believed that the bill will pass. The opponents of the bill have
 worked hard under the leadership of f Secretary Stoddard. and for time, 1t
 was doubtful if the bill would pass, but gradually the strong public sentiment which is behind the measure, is reach ! ing Phoenix and it is having an effect. | The proposition is simply to stop pay ! ing to the secretary of the territory. some $500 or s4,000 per month; no man should be allowed such princely 1 income in Arizona; it is more than the i salary of any public official, except that of President of the United States.
 Friends of Secretary Stoddard are try ! ing to create prejudice against the bill
 by charging that the measures comes direct from Ex-Gov Murphy and Ex- ] Secretary Akers. There is nothing to
 this; if Murphy and Akers endorse the
 measure. it is to their credit and in doing so they are certainly in line with nine-tenths of the people of Arizona, both democrats and republicans.
 The woman suffrage bill threatens i to come forth in the council any day.
 Many believe it will pass. The republi- leans in the council. it is said, will vote for it to a man, while two democrats Ashurst and Whitesides are said 10 be committed to it. It is believed that many votes were cast for this measure in the house by members who are op- posed to it; they voted for it probably
 as a joke on the council, thinking the
 members of that body would surely
 defeat it. But the council has shown
 no disposition to take any jokes from
 the house this session.
 The council is attracting much at tention now. because of its seeming disposition not to make any effort to . even consider many house measures which have been passed. There is some spark producing friction among
 some of the members.
 Tn the house things are easy; ? democratic majority are pushing meas ) ures through without much friction ? When a bill is introduced in that body 5 it's friends are not long in knowing ) its fate; if it meets the approbatioI
 of Will Webb, of Graham, N. W. Bern : ard of Pima. Roemer of Cochise, it :! r pretty certain to go through, while ! on the other hand opposition iron s these gentlemen is considered to D' l fatal.