Williams news., 1905-03-25
EXPIRED IN HANDS
 OF THE GOVERNOR

UlliS WlliCll 0iiC So'OiHO NOVoSN from time to time there were twen tv.one which failed to receive his approval Many of them were sent to him at the last moment and few of them had been in his hands long enough to enable him to give them proper consideration.
 Among the bills which were neither vetoed nor approved was house bill No. 146 for the sanitary protection of sheep, over which great deal of time had been spent in both houses and which was ire quently described as "compro- mise" between the sheepmen and the caltlemen. The bill provided that sheep brought into Arizona from beyond it's borders should be subject to inspection by the nearest inspector at ten cents a head. The inspector should receive two cents and the balance should be turned into the territorial school fund.
 It does not seem to have occur. red to the members of the legisla- ture that they were providing for the levying of an impost duty, a function of Uncle Sam of which he is very jealous. It is true that New Mexico and other states inspect sheep coming into them and make the owners of the sheep pay for the inspection, but the amount paid is regarded as an inspection fee and is supposed to cover only the cost of inspection.
 But bill 146 advertised the fact that the cost of inspection would be only two cents head and that the rest of the ten cents was for revenue.
 This is supposed to be the first time in the history of the govern ment within the last fifty years that a democratic legislative body passed a protective tariff measure.
 Other bills which the governor retained without affixing his sigma ture to were the following: House bill 27, amendatory of paragraph 2944; house bill, 35, providing pun ishment for false and malicious statements regarding title to prop erty; house bill 133, Bailey's regis tration bill, sometimes called an act for enfranchising the voters of Sonora; house bill 137, for the sup pression of foul brood among bees
 Among the bills which failed was house bill 1855, providing for the employment of territorial prisoners on the public highways. The gov ernor did not disapprove of the purpose of the bill, but he could see in the provision for the trans portation of the prisoners to the different counties of the territory a heavy drain on territorial re- sources.
 Another was house bill 59, or rather the substitute for that meas ure, amending the law with refer ence to the collection of delinquent taxes. This is the bill which the house discovered too late, repealed the Andrews delinquent tax law. The house passed a concurrent res olution for the recalling of the bill which had in the meantime passed the council, which refused to con- cur.
 The rest of the bills which failed of the governors signature were: House bill 8S, for the relief of the Florence Crlttenton Home; house bill 121, relating to pleadings; house bill 1S4, for the relief of the residents of Woodruff, Navajo county; house bill 1O5, relating to foreign insurance companies; house bill 177, or the reduc- tion of county indebtedness; house bill 52, regulating the practice of optometry; house bill 199, for the relief of Mrs. Hunt of Apache county; house bill ITO, providing for the sale of property stored in warehouses; house bill 148, amend ing the charter of the city of Phoe-