Arizona republican., 1905-02-24
IT'S AT REST NOW
Anti-GambIing Bill Hidden
 From Human Eyes
The House Passes a Bill Creating the Office of Public Examiner Bark Registration Bill Today.

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 time. The end came earlier than had
 been expected. When it was reached
 in the order of the second reading. MT.
 KrUeger moved that it be referred to 1 the committee on mines and mining | saying in explanation of this unusual disposition of the bill that that com
 mittee had so little to do that it did not feel like taking the money. MT Davis in charge of the bill amended the motion by asking that the bill be referred to the committee on educa- ton. The amendment appeared to be
 lost by an overwhelming vote but a demand for a roll call was made. It
 was urged in behalf of the amendment by members who said that they had
 no special interest in the bill that it had been the practice of the house to
 refer bills at the request of gentlemen
 who introduced them. The amendment
 was lost by vote of to 13. The members of the committee on | mines and mining are Messrs. Collins. Strong, Hull, Bristol and Cobb. The members of the committee on educa- ton are Messrs. Stanford, Neville Kennedy. Patterson and Davis The members of the Pima county 1 delegation all voted for the amend
 1ent while the members of the Mari copa county delegation voted soIidly against it. The Graham county dele gation was divided. the members of
 the upper Gila valley supporting the amendment while those of the mining district were opposed. The northern part of the territory was almost solid ly against the amendment.
 Immediately after this proceeding a petition signed by a hundred citizens of Graham county asking for anti gambling legislation was read and thrown into the nav of the committee on mines and mining.
 A measure of considerable import ance but of which little has been heard was passed by the house by the over whelming vote of IS to f. That was the bill of MT. Anderson providing for the creation of the office of public ex- aminer. The bill descriptive of his duties is long one. But it may be said that he is to be the supervisor of public offices in which money is handled, of territorial banks and loan associations and other organizations which handle the money of other peo- pie. As the examiner of banks and loan associations the public examiner will assume one of the present func- tions of the territorial auditor and the emoluments of that office will be re- duced by just that much. The salary of the examiner will be $2,4OO a year and he will be allowed S1,200 a year for contingent expenses.
 House bill No. 64 relating to com munity property was indefinitely post poned. This came about by the re- cent discovery of the lawyers of the house that all that that bill provided for was already on the statute books There was a favorable report on the council bill requiring that district at torneys shall be lawyers.
 The house bill providing for the payment of interest on teachers war rants against an empty fund was pass ed by a vote of 13 to 10. This mea- sure as originally drawn proposed a rate of six per cent. The judiciary committee raised the rate to ten per cent. That and other features of the DiIl met with so much opposition that the bill was withdrawn and a substi- ute providing for a rate of eight per cent was put in. That is the bill which was passed
 A report was received from the committee appointed to visit the Tempe normal in which it was stated among other things that the institu- ton would require at the hands of the legislature $51.OOO for the various needed improvements.
 Several new bills were introduced. Among them were: An act relative to evidence of title to real estate in ac- tions involving the right to use of water; an act relating to practice in such cases; an act remodeling the present no-fence law and defining that barrier known as a fence; an act con- ferring additional powers on incorpor- ! ated cities; an act limiting the right | of corporations to borrow money; an | act relating to actions for the recov- | cry of property.
 A substitute for a bill granting | court commissioners power to issue writs of habeas corpus was favorably | Originally the bill permitted | to issue and hear such writs in the cases of persons restrain ed of their liberty but not convicted of any crime.
 The judiciary committee did not be- lieve that the average commissioner was competent to pass on such mat ters. The substitute therefore pro- vides that in the above described cases the commissioner may issue writs but they must be made returnable before the nearest judge.
 THE COUNCIL.
 There was heard in the council yes -erday afternoon the first low rumble of the again rising war cry Mark Smith and statehood" which has echoed through the hills and canyons and which has swept over the deserts If Arizona for the last sixteen years. It came in the shape Of a letter by MT. Smith acknowledging the receipt of the legislative memorial protesting against jointure with New Mexico. MT. Smith jOcularly stated that the mem- 1rial had come too late for the state hood bill was ''as dead as Julius Cae- sar." The concluding paragraph of he letter however held out a hope of ts reanimation. It was, MT. Smith said the full purpose of the president md the republican leaders in both houses to join New Mexico and Ari- .ona That fact would be a very con l ;tant threat during the next two years