Arizona republican., 1905-02-18

bill requiring that probate judges shall be lawyers was defeated.
 A bill was introduced by MT. Roemer restricting the granting of franchises for public utilities in municipalities.
 The rest of the day was devoted to the consideration of MT. Bark's bill No. r in committee of the whole Numer- ous amendments were offered and some of them were adopted One of them relating to registration provides that only those who can read the organic act with more or less idea of it's mean ing shall be allowed to register. A re- gisteTing officer who takes the name of person not so qualified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. That amend ment is now part of the bill. The chief contest of the day came up on an amendment offered by MT. Rice. Originally the bill provided that only justices of the peace should be regis tering officers and they were not eX- pected to canvass their precincts. One could register only in the precinct in which he lived and he could vote only where he was registered. MT. Rices amendment proposed that each of the two great political parties might have two registering officers in each pre- cinct. That matter was still before the committee when it rose. The jul dietary committee had made several amendments but they were knocked out by the committee. One Of them made the county recorder a registering officer.
 The house in the whole committee concluded the consideration of the su- perior court bill and it's passage with it's numerous amendments which per haps not a member of the house has distinct notiap of was recommended. As in previous sittings of the commit- tee a great deal of time was devoted to the syntaX of the bill. A part of the work of the day before was undone and that was the amendment of section 17 which cut off from the compensation of the clerk of the court all fees except those for probate business. That amendment was reconsidered for the reason that it was pointed out and be- HeVed by most of the members that if a probate judge should refuse to ac- Cept the position of clerk of the su- perior court as the law provides and should make a test the law might be found to be unconstitutional in that it had partially at least put him out of office before the expiration of his term.
 A ludicrous error was narrowly avoided. There is a clause in the bill allowing counties of the lower classes to vote themselves into the provisions of the bill. The same clause similarly affects counties having a valuation for taxable purposes of more than S9,000,- 0O0, meaning the county of MaricOpa. It was presumed when this clause was put in that the poorer counties did not need judges having so much erudition so that their salaries were fixed at S1 ,SGO and that of their clerks at S1,200 a year. The same salaries therefore applied to a superior court that might be established in this the largest and richest of counties. That was discov- cred yesterday by a sort of an accident and the error was renedied.
 As the bill was drawn it consisted of thirty-two sections. What with the changes made in the judiciary com mittee, and those in the committee Of the whole there are now nearly fifty.
 The live stock bill recommended by the cattlemen's association was intro duced by Mir Webb. It consists of ninety-eight sections. Much of the present law is reenacted but there is one clause which is designed to be a compromise between the bill introduc ed by Mir. Barker a few days ago and the present law relating to the butch CTS license. The Barker bill permits the killing by their owner of not more than two cattle a month for purposes of sale or barter. The bill of yesterday limits the number to three in a year.
 It was charged by some of the mem bers that there was a prevalent pur- pose to keep the public in the dark about the bill. It was resolved that there should be no printed copies. On the demand of some of the members for a look at the bill it was finally or dered that, type written copies should be made for all the members. It is probable that there will be a further insistence on the printing of the bill.
 Among the other bills introduced i was one for the creation of a board of Such a board is urged l in the bill as necessary for sanitary reasons, for instance, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
 Another bill appropriates $30,000 for improvements at the university.
 Both houses adjourned until the us- hi