Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-02-11
OUR LEGISLATURE
The Railway Employees Rest Bill, Labor Measure, Was
 Put to Rest.
Rowe Introduces Bill Asking For Ten Thousand 0ollar Appropriation For
 0'Neill Monument.

The Republican in it's report of tn,
 legislative proceedings says that al
 yesterdays session one of the so called
 labor bills was disposed of by defeat
 and the grand larceny bill which has
 been before successive legislatures to
 no purpose was passed.
 House Bill No. 21, known as the
 railway employees rest bill was set for
 final hearing at half past two o'clock.
 The friends of the measure were fearful of its fate and desired post ponement of proceedings until this morning A call of the house was moved and when it was dispensed with an adjournment was attempted. That was defeated and a motion by Mir Parr one of the friends of the bill, that it go over until ten o'clock this morning failed by vote of 9 to II in- dicating the end of the bill.
 Roemer moved its final passage and the matter was before the house. St. Charles spoke briefly in behalf of the measure. He recalled that another bill, the eight hour bill, had passed by the unanimous vote of the house. It was incomprehensible to him why any member who had supported that measure could not support this one which proposed ten hours rest for employees who had been on duty six teen hours. He desired to go on rec ord as the friend of the laboring man.
 Parr and Rowe spoke for the bill and Roemer and Webb against it. Messrs. Parr and Rowe spoke for the bill and Mir. Roemer against it.
 A motion for the previous question was not opposed and the bill went to vote with the following result: Ayes 10, nays 13. The bill not only contemplated rest for employees but prohibited the running of light en- zine for more than forty miles with out two competent men in charge and regulated the crossing of grades of more than ninety feet to the mile.
 Webb's poll tax bill was considered in cOmmitte of the whole which rec commended its passage. During the morning the governor submitted a re- port from the secretary of the terri tory showing the receipts of his office during his eighteen months incum- bency and the cost of maintaining the office. The report shows that in eigh- teen months the office has received fees amounting to s15, 900 and that the cost of conducting the office has been in the same time a, GOO.
 New bills were introduced as fol lows:
 By Woolf, declaring all section lines on public lands public highways; by | Williams, to restrain dogs from run ming at large; by Rowe, to appropri- ate BIO, 900 for monument to Captain William O. O'Neill; by Roemer, pro viding a clerk for the territorial audi tor at salary of s125 month.
 In the council Corbett's bill remov- ing from justices of the peace the functions of the coroner and invest ing them in probate judges was or dered engrossed after an unsuccessful effort was made to pass it.
 Joel H. Johnson and D. H. Morris of the Utah legislature, who were appointed commissioners by that body to meet the Arizona legislature and endeavor to secure its cooper atiOn in persuading congress to segre- gate from this territory that strip north of the Colorado and attach it to Utah were present as visitors.