Arizona republican., 1905-03-14
THEFEVERISH HASTE
Manifested in the Law
 Making Chambers
Last Of the New Bills Will Be Brought in TOday-SOme Of the Accomplish ments of Yesterday.


 the business before it will never be finished. Both houses devoted some time to the appropriation bills. The house had the general appropriation measure up and the council in the af- | ternoOn began consideration of the bills carrying appropriations. MT. Roemer made the statement that the expen- ditures already provided for exceeded ] the general fund by about $S5.OOO. Thereupon the members began looking l about to see where they could lop off to the best advantage.
 There was not a good place in sight
 to begin cutting at but some changes were made. The s45,OO0 which it was
 intended to raise for the Tempe normal school was not interfered with as to 1 the amount but it was decided to let it run over a period of two years. There will be raised the first year only S25, ,OOO I and the balance the second year. Three small items were cut out of the uni I versity bill and the rate of taxation for the northern normal school fund 1 was reduced from two cents to one and a half. MT. Page stated that he be- l lieved that the latter rate would pro duce as much as the school would ac- tally need just now
 THE O'NEILL MONUMENT BILL l4C matter Ol tItCllIlS d 1IOuRn Rider monument at Prescott in memory of Captain W. O. O'NeiI now rests with the governor. The bill appropriating $1G,O00 for that purpose was passed by ! the house on Saturday. No time was | lost in taking it up in the council. Mir. Ruiz paid an eloquent tribute to Buck ey O'Neill and the bill was passed without a dissenting vote.
 ] The substitute for house bill 59 will not after all become a law. This is the bill which allows boards of supervisors ! to make settlement with property own CTS for the payment of their taxes and virtually repeals the Andrews law. The i bill having been passed by the house was passed on Saturday by the council. l returned to the house and sent to the enrolling and expressing committed It ! transpired that most of the members of l the house were unaware of the full effect of the bill and accordingly on the motion of Judge Neville it was ordered recalled from the committee for the purpose of taking away from the boards of supervisors a part of the power conferred upon them by the bill. 1.-THE STATEHOOD SITUATION. Delegate Wilson who had just re- turned from Washington appeared by request before the house in the morn
  joint statehood and the exciting fight 1 in congress which had resulted in the defeat of the jointure bill Col. Will said that the joint statehood had been prevented with great difficulty and for a time it seemed that the bill would pass as it had been passed by the house MT. Wilson stated that to F. NJ | Murphy more than any other man was l due the failure of the bill He said that previous to the arrival of Mir Murphy | Tn Washington jointure seemed to be al- l most an accomplished fact Soon after | MT. Murphy's arrival it was observed | that things began to move. and senators | took a more friendly interest in Ari- 1 zona.
 Col. Wilson paid especial tribute to l Senator FOraker and others who stood 1 stubbornly against joint statehood | though it was regarded as a part of the party policy In the opinion of Col. | Wilson the danger of jointure though not wholly removed is greatly lessened. There will be in the next session three. republican senators friendly to Ari--i zona and who will take the places of | men who supported the statehood bill II He believes it possible that a bill may II be put through with a provision similar Il to the Foraker amendment but that II will no doubt be the most that the sup |, porters of joint statehood can accomp- II fish.
 THE LIVE STOCK BILL.
 The house in the afternoon session II took up the livestock bill and passed it. il Only four votes were passed against II the measure but many of those who II voted for it did so after having ex- blamed their votes or apolOgized for them. It was the opinion of MT New ille that the measure was unconstitu- tional but it was so much better than the present law that he felt constrained to support it since there was no other live stock legislation in sight
 The house passed a bill for the re- lief of the residents of the town of Woodruff in Navajo county. A bill had been introduced by Mir. Gardiner apropriating $2,OOO to assist the peo- pie there in rebuilding dam which had been destroyed It had almost bankrupted the community He said : that he had not asked for so much money, the people of Woodruff having informed him that $1,OOO would be suf- hctent But the attorney who drew the bill made a mistake in inserting the amount. MT. Gardiner accordingly asked that the amount be reduced to S100O
 Two other relief bills were passed. F One was for the benefit of Scott White E formerly sheriff of Cochise county to recover certain fees which had been 1isallOwed by the board of supervisors of the county. The beneficiary of the s other was Mrs. F. c. Stein of Yuma. B the widow of J. J. Stein formerly sec retary of the territorial prison and )ne of the hold over officials whose sal try for four months was withheld. Other bills passed were an act provid- ss ng for the reduction of county indebt- ,dness by applying surplus funds to E he payments of warrants and bonds; k m act providing for the involuntary E dissolution of corporations. It provides E hat in case a corporation does not file @