Arizona republican., 1905-03-16
Much Legislative Business
 to Be Left Unfinished
RESTING ON ITS OARS
Council Held Short Session - PrOba- bility of no Live Stock Law-An Ap- prOpriatiOn Bill of Generous Pro. portions and Getting Bigger.

Neither branch of the legislature moved yesterday with ' the celerity which might have been expected on the last day but one of the session with the committees full of bills. Members, especially in the house, indulged in oratory without proper provocation and on all occasions. It became evil dent that some of them were engaged ] in consuming time for some purpose which was not clear, since it was be- lieved that certain of the orators had bills pending which it was supposed : they were desirOus of passing.
 It was, however, brought out in the afternoon that there were designs against the general appropriation bill and that it was the purpose of the orators to hold it up as long as pos sible and then send it to the council when it should be too late to make an adjustment of differences of opinions if any should be found to exist It was | also discussed whether the house could not after passing the bill adjourn sine | die without waiting for the action of l the council.
 Late in the afternoon, however. the house moved more rapidly, getting down to earnest work after four ] o'clock. Several other measures hav- i ing been disposed of Tn the committee 1 of the whole, the general appropriation 1 bill was taken up, violently amended,
 and passed.
 The printed copies of the bill were not received until yesterday morning 1 That was the first that most of the
 members had seen of the measure. The l bill originally carried for the general 1 conduct of the government for the 1 next two years the sum of $70,450; l miscellaneous items in the nature of l relief, $1.S40.95; salary of attaches of g the house. $6.360; attaches of the coun- l cil, $6,360; the salaries of chaplainS, 1 janitors, watchmen, etc, $540; four 1 clerks whose services were dispensed l with at the end of the first week of the 1 session, $25 each, a total for the bill of ] $S5,550.95. In the course of warm 1 discussion of the bill the only item cut out of it was $500. the salary of L. Quinlan, one os the. clerks of the house. 1 But that was considerably more than ] offset by many items which were add cd to the measure, some of them being 1 the amounts of appropriation bills l which the council had rejected. There ! is for instance an item of $5, 600 for the development of artesian water at the
 reform school; $20,000 for the school
 in place of the bond provision for $6O,- GOO; $5,000 for the protection of the capitol building against the flood wat CTS of Cave creek. Altogether these additions amounted to $34472. making
 a total for the bill as it now stands of
 $119,O37.95.
 The bill originally allowed the Phoe-
 nix Enterprise $500 for publishing the
 proceedings of the legislature Under
 a caucus agreement of the day before l
 ty-five cents an inch.
 LIVE STOCK LEGISLATION.
 Late in the afternoon a conference
 was held on the live stock bill which
 the council had the day before radi- cally recommended reducing to it's
 original terms. The house conferees I later reported, recommending concur
 renee in the council amendments Then
 a storm arose. A motion was made to reject the report of the conferees and a general discussion of the merits of
 the bill in its then form was precipftat- 1, ed. Especial objection was made to : the council amendment limiting the
 number of cattle which an owner not engaged in the butchering business might kill to three in a year; also to ! the restoration of the provision for the introduction of cattle from Sonora. It was urged that it would be bet ter to have no live stock legislation at all; that this bill while iniuuitous as 5 the present law, cured some of the de- fleets of the law without affording any relief to the ranchmen. The present law 1t was contended could be beaten in the courts while it might not be so 4 easy to beat this if it should become a law. The friends of the bill at first q confident of their strength desired a $ test but as the debate proceeded they grew less sure of it and when a motion
 was made to lay the bill over until this morning several of its supporters voted q in the affirmative.
 dI Judge Neville and Mir Barker are a heading the fight against the bill. The q former lays special stress on the So- nora provision, saying that it was in serted for the benefit of Col w. c Greene and B. A. Packard. The friends of the bill point out that it could not be of benefit to them or to other cattle owners in Mexico. They say that the a clause simply provides for an open sea s son coincident with that or other states : and territories, that in any event cat tie could not be brought across the line
 against the government regulations. II
 is also shown that there is such a pro- vision in the present law which states
 that the rigid sanitary precautions
 shall not apply to cattle from Mexico
 This provision has been in the law foI , ten years yet Mexican cattle owners have never prof1ted by it.
 CONGRESSIONAL AID ASKED.
 MT. Bailey introduced a joint memo
 rial in the house in the morning ask l ing congress to increase the salary o1
 the governor to $6,0OO; also a memorial |. praying for an appropriation of $1O,-
 900 for the San Xavier Mission. Bott
 were adopted and sent to the council
 The house defeated the two election
 bills of the council and passed the fol.
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