Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-23
FOOL BILLS
 INTRODUCED
 BY DWELL
GOVERNOR KIBBEY WILL NOT SIGN SEGREGATION AMEND
 MENT TO PAGE BILL
FIGHT ON GRAHAM DIVISION
NORTON BECOMING REcoNcnED TO CONFERENCES COMMISSION
 BILL WILL PROBABLY PASS

PHOENIX, Ariz., February 92.-The probabilities are that Governor kibbey will not sign the segregation amendment even in the event that it passes both houses. This measure may go through the council by two.thirds vote, but 1t is very unlikely that it will receive enough support in the house to pass 1t over veto. This fact may have some weight in deciding the democratic mem bers in the action they will take on final passage. Some argue tbat the democrats will come off second best by trying to force segregation, and that the republicans together with the gov ernor by consistently opposing it, will gain prestige with the temperance crowd which is gaining in strength and is factor in all elections, especially m Maricopa county. The republicans force the Pace bill on the council, but the vote of St. Charles saved the democratic party from bearing the burden of blame for defeating it.
 The effort to make two counties of Graham, one to be called Lincoln, IS likely to meet with some opposition in both houses. The bill which MT. Hamp ton has framed is a very long one, and it will take several hours in the commit tee of the whole to consider it section by section. The bill will not name the county seat, states Mir. Hampton, but Clifton will doubtless be the favored spot.
 O'Neill has introduced number of freak bills which will cause the eoun- eil and house to take a part of day of for. another frolic. One is to pre- vent chickens running at large, and makes it fnable offense, on the owner, not the chickens. A poultry man who allows his hens to bother his neighbors is precluded from asking damages in the event that person coniscates the said chicken and kills the offending fowl. By inference, the bill provides that the chicken man shall hobble the inmates of his poultry yard, if he has no tight fence. O'Neill further wants it made trespass for-any person to walk across his promises, and has in. trodueed n bill to that effect which will of course serve as goodslaw for every one. Then he wants the man who all lows Johnson grass, sunfiowers, kuckel- burrs, and other obnoxious weeds to grow on the place, jcrked up and fined anywhere from s25 to S300. O'Neiil must have some bad neighbors that he intends to get even with. Some of the legislators think, in that event, 1t would be better for him to move, than to litter up tho statutes with fool laws that will start rows in the most peace able communities. However there is serious side to one question, and that is in relating to Johnson grass, which has taken many of the best ranches in the valley, and is spreading rapidly. It is serious menace to the agricul- tural resources, for where Johnson grass fourishes nothing else has much of show. Alfalfa is crowded out and smothered, and it is next to impossible to kill the grass when once it has start. This problem has to be faced now. while it is small. Other irrigated sections have experienced the serious ness of delay in attacking this enemy in plant life.
 The placing of the DeSou2a railway commission bill in the hands of tho judiciary committee was very satisfac- tory to the author of the bill, as there is some chance of it being brought out favorably, though Burns and Finley, both corporation men, are on the com mittee. O'Neill is the chairman. An other secret meeting was held in the Fleming block Saturday with the rail road officials, and the outlook for the passage of commission bill is still good. If the members of tho council fail to pass q good measure censure will be severe and the cry 'HSold' will go up in the land. Why the employees of the railroads should be grillcd in the open, but the brass collars listened to behind closed doors, is q question no one seems able to answer Norton ap pears to be less belligcrent than he was in the beginning over the secret meet ing, though he still does not like the idea. He went in the conference Sat urday just the same. It illustrates how a man without the strength of his con victions will froth at the mouth about something, and then fall in line with out a murmur.