Arizona republican., 1905-02-25

that it proposed as clear a case of local special Legislation as had ever been brought to his notice. If it should become a law it would undoubtedly be tested in the courts and he did not be- lieve that it would withstand the test. In his opinion the wording of the bill might be changed so as not to des- ignate any particular university The bill went over.
 A spirited and acrimonious debate was precipitated between Mir. Neville and MT. Collins when an unfavorable report was brought in on MT. Nev files bill prohibiting the use of punch outs, checks and similar evidences of Indebtedness unless they should be made redeemable in cash at their full face value. A motion to adopt the re- port of the committee was amended by Mir. Neville striking out the word not of the report. MT. Neville declared that the practice of the company stores in the southern part of the territory was in restraint of trade and this bill was designed to break up a practice which was Russian rather than Amer ican. He believed also that this was a democratic measure in as much as the democratic party had taken upon itself the correction of such evils as this one. He described at considerable length the working of the punch out system in Bisbee.
 MT Collins replying said that that part of the address of the gentleman 1 from Cochise in which it was stated that this was a party measure was l gulf. He did not think the gentleman from Cochise was at all times a worker in the interest of the democratic par | ty. He recalled that a few days be- l fore when it was attempted to pre- vent voters from registering and vot- i ing wherever they felt like it the gentle man from Cochise had voted to deprive 1 them of that privilege. When MT. Ne- vile in reply sought to inform the ' gentleman from Yavapai of the work l ings of the bill the gentleman from Yavapai reminded him that the prof i ferred information was unsolicited and then he said something about the pro- priety of lawyers getting off the earth and about the unwisdom of their ever 1 having been allowed to find footing on this mundane ball.
 MT. Neville then entered upon an extended defense of the legal profess sion. In the course of the debate on | the amendment MT. Neville took occa- sion to refer to the persistency of the assaults which had been made upon him by the Bisbee Review, whose edi- tor and proprietor he held up to scorn. Mir. Neville's amendment was adopted by a vote of Is to ,.
 ] A message das received from Acting Governor Nichols informing the house that he had signed house joint resoIu- tiOn No. f and house bill 29. The for mer is the resolution authorizing the | purchase of a sword for Governor Brodie. The latter is an act relating to writs of mandamus.
 The first business of the council was to provide for a clearer atmos- phere in the chamber. A resolution was presented prohibiting smoking during sessions. There was no serious opposition though there was so much | make-believe antagonism that a par liamentary tangle resulted. requiring something like a half dozen roll calls before the anti smoking resolution went through.
 The most important business of the council was the consideration of the Bark registration bill which now ap- pears to have reached a final stage. The bill originally provided that the registering should be done for each precinct by the justice or justices of that precinct. The main idea of this provision was to take the business out ] of the hands of county recorders. That proposition was opposed in a variety of ways and many amendments were offered. Among the amendments was one by MT. Bark himself relating to an educational qualification. That, however. was not pressed at the last moment.
 The bill was once before in the com mittee of the whole and was sent back to the judiciary committee by which it was referred again to the whole committee. The only amendment of importance which after all was adopted was one which does not greatly pervert the purpose of the author. It provides that the justices shall be registering officers but that
 boards of supervisors may designate two other registering officers in each precinct, one for each of the great par ties.
 II Another effort was made on behalf of the county recorders and a motion was made to again send the bill back to the judiciary committee. The motion failed and a motion passed recom- mending the passage of the bill as
 amended.
 The only bill passed in the course of the day was one providing for the care of neglected children
 Both houses adjourned until eleven
 o'clock this morning and when the leg
 islature adjourns today it will be until next Thursday in order to give the
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