Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1909-03-24

JectlohS.
The act for the segregation of white
and black pupils in the public schools
was passed over the governors veto
bv Is TO in the house and a two
thirds vote in the council. The law
has been a source of much agitation
among negroes. The governors OBJ
iections were that the law would les
sen the opportunity for education and
might result in poorer accommodations
and facilities for negro pupils as the
bill does not compel county directly
70 the employment of extra teachers
in school houses; also that the law vi
olated the civil rigats legislation en-
actedf by congress.
The governor signed the following
bills today: the anti-lottery act; the
bill providing extra deputies in eoun-
ty recorders Offices; an act providing
the use of typewriters as recording in
struments; an act making the closed
season for quail fifteen days earlier;
the act admitted to examination. per
sons who have studied law at home;
the act empowering district courts TO
/ find homes for children that came IN
Juvenile court; an act abolishing road
overseers and providing for the ap-
pointment of county road superinten-
dents; the act fixing one per cent
tax on gross earrings of telephone, tel
egraph and express companies; an act
providing a uniform course of study
in the normal schools; an act convey
ing certain streets to the city of Flor
ence; an act making the required depth
of mine location eight feet; an act
protecting power transmission lines;
ar act to license the sale of liquor on
trains; an act regulating collection Of
wages due deceased employees without
administration; an act requiring the
attachment of copy of the applica-
ton of the assured to a life insurance
policy issued.
, After a warm scrap the mouse in the
presence of about sixty Phoenix bust,
ness men passed the general bridge
bill providing for an election on the
petition of a hundred taxpayers with
minor amendments and the measure
was sent back to the council.
The territorial good roads bill was
considered, but was laid over fol-
f amendments. Its passage is probable
The bill for the employment of con
Wet labor is still in the air.
Merrill's anti-cigarette measure, Il
! be effective December 81, 1909, passed
| the house after a debate in the pres
ence of a gallery filed with schoO
childrn, who offered a petition in ia
I vor of the bill. As amended no cigar
5 cites may be manufacturer sold Of
I gievn away. For keeping them fol
e sale, any person may be punished foi
misdemeanOr and fined SO to ST
D for each Oense.
r The railroad taxation exemption bill
= under which a road Will be built from
Buckeye to Phoenix, when favorably
l reported by the federal relations com
e mittee, gained the support Of Hum
on the adoption of the report, break
r ing the tie count which hung the bill
a up for several days. Great demand
n for the passage of the bill by the bus
= mess interests of MaricOpa county ha
: been manifest, but some members fea
criticism. Speaker Webb will fore
j the measure through the house if tn
5 council ever released its grip.
e Bills passed by the council were: al
e anti-usury act fixing the highest rat
n at u per cent; an act making rebrand
o ing of stock a felony; an act prohibit
Y ing saloons within six hundred yard
i Of normal school; the anti-macquer
cal bill.
II In thu house bills passed were: a
r act providing for the collection Of de
a Iinquent taxes by suits through tn
;; district attorney; an act providin
re stenographers before grand juries; a
act requiring two-ffths of the reserv
IS Of deposits in the bank; an act prOvil
10 ing deputy clerks for the board Of 81
pervisors in counties Of the first class
e. an act fixing the salary of the chic
v clerk of the board at $500; the Weed
in irrigation acts following the Care
O. law; an act to prohibit drugs to pri
oners except by physicians, and is pun
a ishable as a felony; an act maxim
Sc Lincoln's birthday and St. Patrick
Sc day legal holidays.
r PHOENIX, March 18.-The closin
If scenes of the Twenty-ffth legislativ
assembly were interesting and witness
n ad b,- crowdpd galleries reDresentin