Bisbee daily review., 1903-03-14
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE.

Next Thursday will witness the c'osing of the Twenty-second legislative assem- bly. New bills continue to be intro duced in both houses and the indica- tions now are that night sessions will be the order. It will occupy the time of the legislature pretty thoroughly to cean up the calendar and transact all the business that will be necessary before the closing.
 | The council held energetic sessions during the day and much business was disposed of. The dog bill was put to sleep without much persuasion. and I that bated question is now settled to the peace of mind of everybody and his dog The barber's Sunday closing bill. having for its purpose the closing of all barber shops on Sundays and holidays. was defeated by a substantial majority. The bill passed the house | last week but could not summon strength enough to overcome the oppo- sition in the upper house.
 | Several house bills were indefinitely postponed and others slaughtered by a more roundabout way,
 ! The bil introduced by Mir. Burson the day previous, increasing the salary of the territorial treasurer to $2,500 per year, was brought around to a third reading and placed on final pass age by a suspension of the rules. The measure had no difficulty in passing ! ;kZ Su | house today or tomorrow.
 1 Several new bills were introduced and will be recognized herefater as the following: Council bill No. 59. Morehead, relating to the Qualifiica- ton of jurors; No 160. Burson, re- garding the appointment of a com mission to draft revenue law; No. 62, Kibbey, relating to tax assessments. M-. Rice submitted a reapportionment bill which takes one member of the legislature from Pinal county and credits one more to Graham county. The bill was referred and will come up cary during the coming session.
 Judge Kibbey introduced the follow ing resolution, which was adopted:
 Be it resolved That it be stand ing rule of this house that all bills pur- porting to be bills for amendments or o.her acts shall set out in full the sec ton. act or law as it is proposed to have the same read when amended.
 The balance of the day was con stunned in routine work, and the first reading of house bills. | Senator Ives is yet too ill to take par. in the proceedings. and MT. Ash urst continues to preside. As soon as Senator Ives Is able to be out the council will hold night session, deyot- ing the day time to committee work A half dozen new bills were intro duced in the house. the first being NO. 1S7. by MT. Gonzales, to provide for recording notices and bonds of notar- ies; No. 1SS, Morrison, to regulate the number of hours constituting a day s labor for smelter men. This is new eight-hour bill, but judging from the rocky road travelled by Bill No. 2, the last bill will find it hard to survive. MT. St. Charles introduced bill No. 1s9. appropriating $10000 to be ex- | pended in prospecting for arteslan water in Mohave county. MT St. Charles unteered the information that his bill was no joke and that Mohave county was emitted to some Appropriation at the hands of the leg Iislalure.
 A resolution was adopted that after t1s1 ivatv dxTnx would not be submitted to the printer. House bill No 10S by MT. Gonzales providing for the repeal of the pres ent local option .aw created consid, erable discussion during the morning session MT. Gonzales was the es- pecial champion of the measure. MT St. Charles couldn't understand what difference local option or no local op, tion would make to the gentleman from Apache, as in that county one wasn't supposed to dTilk anything stronger than goats milk. The bi.l was killed by tie vooe.
 Some argument was precipitated by reports of amended bills. One of MT St. Charles bills was amended in such manner that it bore no resmeblance to .he original and prompted that gen tleman to remark that he had few amendments up his sleeve and would use them in the future.
 Among the bifs passed in the house were house bill No. 115, relating to coroner's inquests; house bill No. 114 regulating practice in justice courts house bill No. 93, amending the revised statutes and creating a regimental band; house bill No. 94, to encourage the erection of beet sugar factories exempting the same for a period of six years; house bill No. 146. authoriz- ing the county of Yuma to issue bonds in the sum of s50,O00 for the erection of court house and jan; house bill No. 128, to prevent the maintenance of barbed wire fences within the cor porate limits of cities; house bill No 19. 8 comprehensive game law; house bill No. 91, amending the revised