Arizona republican., 1905-02-22

| siderable part of the voters of Cochise
 county. In the opinion of MT. Tim mons one fourth of the voters of Yuma county would be disfranchised. Messrs.
 Pickrell and Neville spoke in behalf of the measure and Mir. Anderson made
 an exceptionally strong plea for its passage. It might. he said, work
 hardship in some cases but most laws did that. The law was a useful law which served best the greatest num- ber Only by such a law as this could fraud and corruption at the polls be prevented. The bill was defeated by a
 vote of Is to 8, Messrs. Stanford and Neville voting with the republicans.
 Among other bills passed were the following: Concerning contempt in justices courts; relating to the right of eminent domain; providing for the teaching of physical culture in the schools.
 Mir Webb's bill to prevent poultry from running at large was brought up for final action. This is a companion piece of two other measures one to restrict the movements of dogs and the other to curtaiI the liberties of the hog. A deliate on the merits of the bill was precipitated and Messrs. Anderson and Timmons occupied the center of the stage. It was urged that this was not good legislation and would not stand the test to which it surely would be subjected in the courts The bill proposed to deprive poultry of rights which were guaranteed to feathered beasts under the constitution of the United States. Whoever heard of poultry being hemmed in? Who had ever known of an infringement upon the sacred prerOgative of a hen to dig up the neighbors' gardens? Such legis- lation as was proposed would have its proper place among Russian ukases and such mandatory and unreasonable things. The bill was re-referred for the purpose presumably of putting it on all fours with the fundamental law of the land.
 The bill amending the law for pay ing bounties on wild animals was brought up. This differs from the present law only in that it increases the bounty on lobo wolves from $10 to SEQ and includes the jack rabbit among the prescribed. For the hide of a jack rabbit the ruinous sum of five cents is allowed.
 MT. Wilson signified his objection to the jack rabbit clause. In his opinoin a territory that could not afford to pay witnesses in criminal trials could not afford to squander the hard earned money of the taxpayers in jack rabbit skins. MT. Neville of Cochise was not informed regarding the ferocity of the jack rabbit and he did not believe that his constituents required the protection l offered by this measure. The princi- l pal industries of Cochise county were | mining and stock raising and he had ! not been informed that either of them | had suffered at the hands of rapacious | jack rabbits. He could not therefore | cOnscientiOusly support this measure with the objectionable jack rabbit fea ture included
 Chairman Gardiner of the agricul- ! tural committee which had had charge | of the bill was asked by the speaker | to explain the merits of the measure. ! MT. Gardiner said that the author of | the bill as well as the committee had . something more i:l mind than the mere | protection of humanity from the rav- ages of jack rabbits. Back of it there | was an avaricious sentiment in behalf | of the territory. The skins would cost the territory only five cents and it would be a mighty worthless and in feriOr jack rabbit whose skin wouldn't | be worth double the money. There ! was that in the enterprise which would . make the profits of the Kansas oil refinery look mean and paltry. At the conclusion of the chairman's eX- planation the bill went to a vote and was carried by an overwhelming ma jority.