Arizona republican., 1905-03-12
ENDING IN A RUSH
Close of the Last Full
 Legislative Week
An Avalanche in Both Houses of Eleventh Hour Billie House Auth prizes Buckley O'Neill Monument.

The legislature Is feeling the pres sure of the last days and an effort to make up for the days spent earlier in the term is going on. Both houses held long sessions yesterday, the house being continued into the early evening. There was a prospect that a night meeting would be held but the notion was abandoned. No doubt those noc- turnal sessions will be inaugurated on Monday night and kept up until the close.
 Yesterday was the last day when bills could be brought in except by unanimous consent. Many of the mem bers availed themselves of the feeting opportunity and some of the bills were hurried through to third reading under suspension of the rules.
 It was brought out in the house yes terday that the democratic members are opposed to railroads only in cam paign seasons. This was developed in the course of the slaughter of MT. Will sons bill making it a crime for any one except a bona fide employe to ac-
 
 feated after a debate in which the par ties were straightIy lined up. Speak CT Webb said that he was opposed to the measure for the reason that he did not think it would be right to take away from succeeding legislatures privilege which this and all preceding legislatures had enjoyed-that of rid ing on free passes. The speaker said that he knew of at least one member of the present legislature who had ac- cepted that courtesy from the rail- roads. Mir. Wilson replied that he knew of one who did not. He believed that the giving of a pass was preliminary bribe. MT. Neville did not take that severe view of 1t. Whatever the rail- road might have in mind in the giving, the member who accepted might be in nocent. As for him, the declared and consistent enemy of corporate power he believed 1t was the proper thing to avail ones self of the sustenance of the enemy.
 An unfavorable report on the bill was adopted by the following vote:
 Ayes-Bailey. Barker, Cobb, Collins, Gardiner. Hull, Heating. Krueger. New file, Patterson. Perkins. Pomeroy. Strong, Timmons and the speaker. all democrats. 15, three of the democratic members being out of the room.
 Nays-Anderson Bristol. Davis. Ken nedy. PickreH and Wilson. all republi- cans, 6.
 ROUGH RIDER MONUMENT.
 The house late in the day passed the bill. authorizing the appropriation of 1000 for the building of a Rough Rider monument in memory of Captain ". O. O'Neill at Prescott. The bill had been favorably reported and when it was called up for third reading MT. Wilson moved its reference to a com mittee in order that he might offer an amendment, He desired to say that he was opposed to any expression of the territorys regard for the memory of Buckley O'NeiiI. He had known him long and loved him. He would yield to no Arizonian in his admiration for that hero. But it seemed to him that noth- ing could be more nonsensica1 than the rearing of a column of stone to the heroic dead He would. however, amend the bill, substituting for the monument, a Buckey O'NeiII Home at Prescott for the destitute of the terri tory He believed that if the gener- ous soul of Buckley O'Neill could look down upon the world 1t would be af- forded greater qualification by the sight of a home around which little children were playing and in which the poor and homeless were sheltered. than at the sight of a meaningless pile of stone foolishly erected to his mem ory. The address of General Wilson drew wild applause from the floor and the galleries.
 MT. Anderson replied in a most elo- quent tribute to the memory of Ari- zona's most favorite and dead son. He implored the house not to cowardly destroy the bill, by strangling 1t in the committee of the whole. If those op- posed to it desired to kill it let them come out into the open as Bucl1ey O'Neill had done on fire swept San Juan hill, that fatal day.
 MT. Barker moved to amend the amendment of MT. Wilson by provi- sion that the monument contemplated in the bill should be erected on the capitol grounds. This motion was sec onded by the speaker, who said that Buckley O'Neill did not belong to Va yapai county alone; he was not Buckley O'NeiH of Prescott, but Buckley O'NeiH of Arizona. Other speakers in behalf of the bill as it had come from the committee were MT. Strong and MT. Taught.
 The Barker amendment was over defeated. So was the Will son amendment, and the roll call pro- ceeded on the bill. Not a vote was cast against it and when Mir. Wilson was reached he said that this was not the way he would have preferred to honor the memory of Buckley O'Neili but since there was no other way he would vote for the bill.
 SONORA REGISTRATION BILL.
 House bill No. 133, contrary to the expectation of some of the members of the council passed that body yesterday This is the bill which pro- vides that persons temporarily residing in a country foreign to the United States and adjoining the territory of and being qualified voters of this territory might return tO the near-