Arizona republican., 1905-03-04
PARTING OF FINAL
Pima Reaches Out for a
 Slice of 1t
A Second Anti Gambling Bill-An At- tempt Today to Resurrect Its Pre-. deCeSsor.


 gavel in the morning until the an- nouncement of the adjournment in the evening there was something continu- ally doing. Several bills were introduce ed of which much will yet be heard if they can get out of the committees to which they were referred.
 MT Bristol brought in another anti gambling bill. It went the way of its predecessor-back to the mines. In the course of the afternoon two peti- tions were received from residents of Coconino county praying for the pass | age of the Davis bill which has been | in the mines and mining committee for nearly two weeks. It was given out yesterday that an effort would be made
 to resurrect it today. There are var ious theories regarding the ability of the friends of the bill to muster the
 necessary strength.
 Pima county yesterday reached out after a slice of Pinal a move which has been in contemplation for months. A bill for the partition of Pinal was l introduced by MT. Kennedy. The de- scription of the coveted territory is very 1 comprehensive and not easily under | stood except by those familiar with the surveyors lines but in general way | it includes about one-third of the county embraced in the eastern and
 southeastern portion, with Gila on the north and Graham on the east. MT. | Kennedy offered with the bill peti- | tfon signed by several residents of | Pinal living within the strip desired.
 MT. Barker of Pinal had something | to say about this bill when MT. Ken
 nedy moved that it be sent to the committee on printing. He delivered
 a strong plea for the integrity of his i county. He alluded to the prosperity
 V nich is now coming to Pinal county | 1T the development of the mines and
 the building of railroads. Much of i this added wealth will lie within the ] property proposed to cut off. The bill 1 would take away one-third of the tax
 able wealth of the county. The pro
 ject he said had been ripening in Pima | county for the last fifteen years and he urged the legislature to prevent the 1 consumation of it at this session. Talk ing the petitions presented by MT. Kennedy Mir. Barker showed that | many of the signers were without any financial interest in the county and did not represent the sentiment of their
 neighbors. He moved that the bill be
 sent to the committee on agriculture.
 Mir. Barker was asked what the com
 mittee on counties and county bound
 aries was for. He replied that his
 colleague MT. Heating was the chair
 man of that committee and would be
 embarrassed by the presence of the
 bill. The bill was left on the table.
 LEGISLATIVE PROSPECTING.
 Mir. Davis introduced a bill redis-
 tricting the territory for legislative
 purposes. The bill proposes to give
 each Pima and Santa Cruz a council
 man and to make Apache and Maya
 jo 9 joint council district It is un
 derstood that this has been in con
 temptation for some time but it is on-
 ly lately that enough support was se-
 cured to make 1t worth while to make
 the attempt. This support it is under } stood will come from the cattle inter
 ests. Pima has been histing with the
 live stock men and that is said to be
 why the live stock bill has not been
 reported from the committee. The cattlemen are said to have pledged
 their support to the redistricting bill in exchange for influence in favor oi
 the stock bill.
 The afternoon session of the house 1, was devoted to the passage of bills and as on the afternoon before to ar
 Gument MT. Bailey's bill which was
 facetiously termed yesterday "An act
 for the benefit of the voters of Son.
 ora" was finally disposed of. It had
 been amended the day before in the
 committee of the whole by changing the words "any citizen of the United 5 States" to "any qualified voter of the territory of Arizona descriptive o those who might avail themselves oi the opportunity which the bill offers l to persons temporarily residing ir l Sonora to come to the nearest precinct l in Arizona to vote.
 ? The bill had originally described
 Sonora as a foreign country" In tn, debate the day before Utah, New Mex : leo and California, for the purposes O : this bill were construed by many O : the members of the house to be foreigl | countries. Mir. Bailey accordingly
 moved an amendment using the words 7 "any country foreign to the United 7 States and adjacent to the territor. ,. of Arizona"
 The amendment was made in tn s whole committee where efforts wer' l unavailingly made to further amend t the bill. In this shape it was reporte' 7 favorably and was later passed by tn Q following vote:
 t Ayes-Bailey. Barker. Cobb. Collins :. | Gardiner, Taught, Heating, Kruger $ Perkins Pomeroy, Strong, Wilson-1z I Nays-Anderson, Bristol Davis
 Hull, Kennedy Neal, Neville, Patter O son. Pickrell. Stanford. the speker-11 . The debate was given over largel r, to the affairs of Cochise county. Nil . Neville in his opposition to the bi e said that 1t was intended for the ben Q eft of the corporations; that if ther ]: had been such law last fall Mar = Smith would have been defeated. MI
 Bailey replied that the assertion c 1t his colleague was not based on fact
 ho soid +h1+ I10 himself had been d resident Of the territory for fiftee l. years while MT. Neville was a new I conner. Therefore he thought he lkne' h more of the temper of his people tha d MT. Neville could know. Moreover n y had made very thorough campaig -e last fall and had been brought int ,t contact with the voters while MT. Ne g vile had made no canvass at all; Ina " met nobody and had had no oppol