Arizona republican., 1907-02-01

ollI he was not moved by prejudice
against a class Of men or against any
individual He was moved against a
practice which the territory had long
since outgrown and any further induI-
sence In il meant a retarding ,r our
growth.
one bad feature of gambling in this
community and one OF its most danger
GUS features was that it had come 10
assume the dignity of a business n
was important that the growing gen
Grafton should be relieved of cont,c,
win H. All territories and new states
had gone through this struggle and all
or them had emerged from ii il, "A net
Ter growth. There was nothing TO be
said In favor OF gambling from a moral
point OF view and al that had been
sdid or II from financial point was
that Il was a great aid to the schools
MI. Crenshaw pointed out thrt its aid
was insignificant for while the school
fund of the territory last vaa- y-as
S51s'SSs. only $4,000 had come from
gambling licenses. Even il no more
money could be raised for school pur-
poses 1t would be better that the terms
of the schools should be shortened
by month rather than that he games
sholud be licensed by the year. At the
close of his speech Mr.. Crenshaw was
loudly cheered.
Mr.. Pace who had spoken on the bin
at the time Of its receipt from the
council the day before again briefly
addressed the house. He said he was
moved against gambling both by sem
timent and by a desire for profit. He
was proud to be a member Of the Ari-
zona Legislature which was about to
put an end to IL. Speaking of the
arguments which had been made
against the bill or for a postpOnement
of the operation of II, he said that one
afflicted with a cancer might as well
protest against the immediate removal
OF 1t or be trying to find the good
points OF the cancer and try to excuse
it.
Mr. Williams said he was i'm favor of
the bill but he was desirous Of putting
the legislature on record as unanimous
~ opposed to gambling. He believed
that most of the members were and
would pass any kind Of an anti-gam-
bling bill. But he said there were
some who thought that the gamblers
ought to be given time to close up
their affairs and that it had been sug-
gested that the bill should be made
operative oR July 1. He believed that
IL the bill were so amended every mem
Der would vote for il.
Mr.. Bell replying said that there were
several objections to the amendment
For one thing, it meant delay and then
the principle OF gambling was involved
II gambling were to be permitted for
three months it might as well be per-
mitted for three years and forever. He
did not believe from the nature of the
business that the gamblers would re-
quire any time to quit and wind up
their affairs. They could do so with
the facility OF a settler once described
by Lincoln who in moving had only to
pick up his saddle bags and whistle
for the pup. After another effort by
Mr.. Davidson to secure an amendment
the bill went to roll call with the fol-
lowing result:
Ayes-Bail, Bell. Bunch Burke Cole
man, Crenshaw, Davidson. Day. Gros-
eta, Guild, Hampton, Hull. Krook.
Mccormick. Morgan. w. Muir
ply, Pace. Slaughter. Wallace. White
sides, Williams. the speaker, %.
Absent. David Morgan.
Mr.. Grosetta desired to announce Mr..