Bisbee daily review., 1903-03-17
Rn,LuWA LEGISLATURE
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ff-'f "fN d Sl Ctl NOiu III Nht AOhoN 1 C .ture Friday The Cowan | hin with its atmosphere of interest had. been transferred to the council, where, according to the rules, 1t went oa the table for a legislative day. That clothes its fate with great incertitude In he first ace the complexion of the council in respect of the bill is a mat ter of great doubt. If the committee to which it should happen to be re- Serred should be unfriendly to it it eDuld be recalled only by a miracle of q twothirds vote within five days. After five days there will be no legis- fatnre
 The newt most interesting thing of the day was the passing by the council of house bill No. 2, an amendment of the live stock legislation. This was a hili on which the live stock sanitary commission had labored to make it ap- 'plisable to the conditions in this terri tony. It is il its general form the fexas law and the commission had nade such alterations as to make it sceptable 10 the stockmen of Arizona.
 Al of the stockmen who have been seen were pleased with it and the bill passed without single dissenting vote sA the house and with little opposition 10 the council
 There was another bill affecting the stockmen in the house. There was some opposition to it for the reason that it had been prepared by lawyer. That fact was sufficient to enlist the active antagorism of Messrs. Rowe and St. Charles notwithstanding the assurance given them that it was one of the things that the stockmen want cd. T hese gentlemen seemed 10 be la boring under the notion that the fiji clustering was stil on and they eX- hausted the greater part of the after 'oOOn in the discussion of the measure. The bill related principally to actions for the recovery of stock killed at railway crossings. It provides that before action may be brought notice of ninety days must be given the com pany responsible for the killing of the ? stock. It was explained in the course of. the debate that such suits under Che present law usually resulted in the fayor of the companies which might iI they had an opportunity consent to q compromise, thus saving the expens- es of litigation. The bill was passed.
 The substitute for St Charles, pri- mary election bill passed the house. It differs from the original bill in that it does not GO away with the county con ventioa a-i # places the expense of fhe primaries on the polical parties in stead of upon the counties. It is a sort of compromise between the Craw ford county system and the present free and easy Arizona system. MT. IYebb's bill relating to court reporters vas passed ir the morning session. Other measures which became half laws were: The bill for the erection of land marks; a bill for the regulation of the practice of pharmacy, to which Mir. St. Charles raised the objection that it vas proposed capitalistic legis aton and intended the taking of the hand firg of drugs and poisons out of the hands of the masses and putting it in to the hands of the favored few. A bill xem0deling the law in the matter of pleas in abatement was also passed. The public printer bill came up in the House but was passed for investiga- tjon.
 New bills relating to the following subjects were introduced: By MT. Webb, relating 70 the election of mem- hets of the council and assembly; by Air. Parr toy requesD to create the attice of public administrator; by Mir. t4amO2t, fixing the salaries and pre- scribing the duties of clerks of school boards. =
 The bill providing for the combining Gf the duties of probate judge and county school sUperintendents in coun- ties having an assessed valuation of Jess than sS,O00,0OO was indefinitely postponed.
 A message was received from the governor announcing that he had affixed his signature to several bills introduced in the house for the amend ~nent of the statutes in several unim- .portant particulars. The attention of fhe house was called to serious omis- siOn in one of these measures, house fnn No g, in which the words, "The Revised Statutes" had been left out.
 be omission had passed the council ¬iced. A house concurrent resolu- IT1 70 recall the bill was adopted.
 The Council
 ;The morning session of the council
 as largely devoted to the receiving of 4mmttee reports and the acknowl- Agement of the receipt of house
 easures. The bill appropriating s10.- = 2G fer a monument to General w. o. 4Neill was laid on the table for a day. The bill for the appointing of rail .x>aad Doiicemeu was nassed and the hill