Arizona republican., 1905-03-10
! JUDICIAL SYSTEM
The Legislature CIamOrS
 for Circuit Courts
The House Committee of the Whole Wading Through the Live Stock Is Stuck Fast.

The house in the committee of the whole got far enough along with the live stock bill to disclose a great var lety of opinion regarding the merits of the measure. The few amendments which had been offered had been adopted with a great deal of harmony until section A9 was reached. There was no great want of harmony at that juncture but there was a manifest dis position to wipe out the license feature of the measure. The trouble began with the next section the first of the butcher feature of the bill. It will be remembered that the bill provides that the owner of cattle may kill one q month, but the cattle must be range cattle. The beef may not be sold in villages or towns where there are re- gularly licensed butchers. The sue ceeding sections are on the same sub ject. MT. Barker moved that this one and all others relating to it be stricken out. He said t,at the bill had suffi- cIently provided for the protection of the stock interests, both against thieves and infection. The sections under discussion he asserted were on- iy a modification of the infamy of the present law which the members of the house had pledged themselves to wipe out. Mr. Barker was speaking of the democratic members whereupon MT. Perkins of Yavaoai and MT. Taught of Gila said that the: were under no such pledge. Nothing was finally de- cided regarding this part of the bill.
 In the course of the discussion Speaker Webb said that though the bill bore his name he knew very little of its provisions He reiterated that statement and near the close of the day suggested that the further Considera- of the measure be dispensed with and that the bill be indefinitely postponed That suggestion however did not pre- vail. The bill is still before the com mittee and several members said last night that they were hopeful of arriv- ing at a compromise.
 The notion of establishing more courts Tn the territory was somewhat unexpectedly revived yesterday after noon when MT. Bailey introduced bill for the establishing of circuit courts, one in each of the judicial districts. The judges of these courts are each to receive a salary of S3.500. The circuit court bill is quite different from the superior court bill. It wipes out the district court as a trial court except in federal cases and makes it in territor- ial cases 9 supreme court.
 This bill was advanced to its second reading under a suspension of the rules and General Wilson saying that he was always favorable to more courts moved 2 further suspension of the rules and that the bill be placed on it's final passage. MT. Bailey, the au- thor of the bill, opposed the motion, which was not pressed and the bill was sent to the judiciary committee. The same bill was also introduced into the council.
 It was the opinion of several of the members last night that the bill would pass. Some of them thought that it was needed to relieve the congestion of business which the new fifth dis trict, they said, would not wholly re- lieve. Others said they would support the bill for the purpose of getting rid of the anomalous condition under which trial judges sit as a supreme court.
 The Republican announced last Monday morning that the legislature would not redistrict the territory to