Arizona republican., 1905-02-26
A DAY OF BATTLE
The First Spirited Fight in
 the House
Ends in Passage of the Anti Punch. out Bill-The Growing Development of Personal Antipathy. L

The legislative house yesterday ac- cepted the invitation of the represent atives from Yavapai county to visit Prescott today and tomorrow and ac- cordingly an adjournment was taken until Tuesday. A similar invitation was extended to the members of the council but was not accepted to such an extent and adjournment was taken only to the usual time on Monday. It is understood that those who go north are doing so partly on legislative busi- ness, towit: to examine nice level sites suitable for the building thereon of branch territorial prisons.
 Yesterday was the most spirited in the history of the present session and indications were given out that there will be many more like it from now to the end. Many of the members show signs of having recently discovered unbeautiful characteristics in other members. At the end of a long ses- sion of the house and after an attempt at filbustering which could not have been very long successful, Judge Ne vile of Cochise succeeded in pushing through his bill designed to break up the system of punch store orders and due bills used by many of the mining companies. The longer the parliamentary battle continued the greater the development of strength of the bill which seemed only the day be- fore to be doomed to defeat.
 On Friday after the bill had been unfavorably reported by the committee having charge of it it was put into the committee of the whole and by a nar- row margin it's passage was recOm- mended It was still apparently far from safe for it did not appear that 1t would carry the support in the house that it had had in the whole com mittee.
 Speaker Webb himself was opposed to it and it was at his request that Judge Neville permitted it yesterday to go back into the committee. Mir Webb said he did not wish to defeat the bill but he desired to amend it in such way that it would still be pleasing to it's author. The amendment proposed by MT. Webb prohibited the use of due bills payable in merchandise by any one As the bill was drawn the prohi- bition applied only to corporations like the big mining companies of this ter ritory which have stores in connection with their mining operations. After a good deal of debate the amendment was adopted. Judge Neville believed that the amendment would make the law imperative and when the commit tee had reported in favor of the amendment he moved to amend the re- port by striking out of 1t all reference to the amendment.
 That was done by a close vote the report was amended and when Judge Neville moved to put the bill on it's final passage. This was met by amendatory motions to postpone, to return the bill to its original commit tee, to let the committee of the whole have another chance at it; to adjourn to take a recess. All these motions were defeated by time consuming roll calls but each time by an increased majority. A good deal of debate at times personal was sandwiched in be- tween roll calls. MT. Collins one of the most active opponents of the bill and a consistent opponent of the legal ele- ment in the house sarcastically turn ed to General Wilson and asked for information from a man who knew all about the bill. The general replied that while he probably knew more about it than the gentleman from Mo have he had not been heard to say nearly so much.
 The opponents or Ine Dlll at i0SI 5Oe into the last ditch and midway in the reading of the bill demanded call or the house. It disclosed that Messrs. Tiu1mons and Pickrell were not in their seats. The sergeant at arms was sent after them The chair decided thaht no business could be transacted while the call was pending. He would not even allow an effort to appeal from his ruling for such an appeal would be business of the house.
 Judge Neville signified that he in- tended to remain until the sergeant at arms had made a report if it took all night His following stayed with him on every roll call and the opposi- ton seeing the hopelessness of further resistance finally desisted from the de- mand for a call of the house and the hin was allowed to go to a vote. After