Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-03-13

Williams.
 Finally Hampton secured promises from enough m,mhcr. to give him thc
 necessary twothirds vote to pa.s h.
 new bill to second reading. This was done hv promising Morgan ot Say aio that the House would go into % committee of thc whole immediately upon rccouvcniug. Mr. Williams abe soncc notwithstanding. and amcnj thc bill, making thc tax to be upon 22 per cent of thc gross output of tho mines. The House members had their lunch sent ou, from town and were tired with thc wait and very cross when the call of inc House was dispensed with. The bill was read second time and inc House went into committee of inc whole and made the amendment llamp. ton had promised.
 Just following thc rising of tho com mittcc of the whole Williams entered the House. Davidson made a motion to further suspend inc rules and place th" bill up0n its final passage. This motion was nftcrward withdrawn and q motion was made calling upon Will jams to produce the bill. He refused the request of the Speaker and later refused thc request of inc House for the bill. saying he did not have it.
 Al this iuncturc DAVIDSON moved that Williams bc suspended from the House membership. his motion being seconded by HULL. Several mem. bcrs were on the floor at once, clam. bring for recognition. Half of them wanted to give Williams timo to fur thcr explain and the other half wanted the motion withdrawn altogether. Still others loudly supported the motion.
 An opportunity was finally given Williams to explain his conduct. He had placed the bill in other hands for safckccping, he said. but would be glad to % for it. That hc might do so. recess for one hour was taken. Upon his return hc produced the bill. and in doing so said that hc had no apologies tO make for his acts or the position he had taken. but if it were possible for him to use any further honorable means io rctard the progress of the hin he would do So.
 On suspension of tho rules inc bin was referred to a committee of the whole. where it was amended to read that 2j per cent of the gross outpu, should bc taxed. The committee arose and by further suspension of the rules passed inc Council substitute bv the following vote:
 Ayes Bail, BURKE. Coleman. DAVIDSON. Grossctta. Hampton, HULL, krook, Martin. Mccormack. Morgan of Pima. Morgan of Navajo. Murphy. Pace, Slaughter. Whitcsidcs and Speaker Bailey.
 Nays Bell, Bunch. Crcnshaw. Drv. Guild. Wallace and Williams.
 H' 'ii NhN bl NUff Nff' 'u Inc Council. ana during the wait for nc. lion by that body on amendment. the House passed the Crcnshaw rate bill with the Bell railroad commission rider by the following vote:
 Ayes Bell, Bunch. Coleman. Crcn. shaw, Guild, Hull, Mccormack. Morgan of Navajo, Murphy, Pace, Slaughter. Wallace, Whitesidcs and Williams.
 Nays Bail, BURKE, DAVIDSON. Day, Grossetia. Hampton, Krook, Mar tin, Morgan of Pima and Speaker Bailey.
 Guild broke his pledge to the com bination formed to defeat the bill, after | losing the fight against the Doran sub ! stitute. and Hull voted for the bill only | after he had seen that the bin woul., pass, no matter how he voted. The House also passed tho bill giving to Clifton school house to replace the one destroyed by the recent flood. The House then adjourned.
 A pretty compliment was paid to Captain IIoguc by the Council this morning, the occasion being his 72d birthday. The clerks of tho Council had decorated his desk with flowers. and shortly after converting resolu. ton was adopted congratulating him.
 The O'Ncill bill for working prison. PTS on county roads passed. as did the Melntyrc bill, providing deputy dis trict attorneys in second and third class and the Mccormack bill. pro. 'iding for exemption of only one half of mnn E salary. The Council killed the O'Ncill railroad commission bill. and the Blakcly bin that majority vote was only necessary for local op. ton districts.