Arizona republican., 1909-02-16
.EXEUNT THE RANGERS
 LIKEWISE THE EXAMINER
The Caucus Completes Its Work Of Destruction iT
 Spite of VGtOGS
Stirring Scene in the Council When Eugene Brady O'NeiPs Attack Upon Governor Kibbey Filled the Air With Disappearing Hisses-The Local Option Bill Has at Last Reached a Crisis in the House.

The Arizona rangers are no more. They will be joined in the shades on April 30. by the public examiner. The bills repeating this institution and this office yesterday passed the legislature over the governors veto, backed by strong and unanswerable reasons why they should not pass.
 There was little hope, however, that the veto in either case would be sustained. A careful examination of the caucus on Sunday night and again yesterday morning failed to disclose any point of weakness. The majority were still in mortal terror of the few. More than half the dem ocratic members dreaded the anger of the caucus more than they did the wrath of their constituents, whom perhaps they thought they could mol lify within the next two years.
 The messages were received in the council where both the repeating bills had originated a little after ten o'clock and as soon as the business, immediately in hand, had been dis posed of the ranger bill veto was considered and Oyerridden. The veto of the examiner bill quickly followed to the same fate. There was not large crowd in the galleries at the time as it had been thought that the field day exercises in both houses would be reserved until the after noon.
 The messages of the governor re- lating to both bills, along with record of the action of the council were transmitted to the assembly immediately after it convened at one o'clock By this time the galleries were filled to a greater extent than they had ever been. Some had come to see what action would be taken with regard to the veto, but the greater number had perhaps been drawn by the prospect of the final disposition in the assembly of the local option bill
 The messages were read at once, and one after the other the vetoes were overEidep.
 The exact status of the local option bill was not determined by the days proceedings. The bill was favoraOly reported from the committee on cleo tions and a motion to table the re- port and the bill indefinitely was lost by a vote of 13 to II and a subse quent motion to adopt the report was carried by a vote of IS to 6. The latter vote is of course of no sig nificance and the former may not be said to be fully significant.
 Under the rules the bill went over until today when it will come up for final passage. The friends of the bill last night professed confidence in the success of it, though they admitted that there were surer things in this world. It was thought when the ve- toes were overridden, when two dem ocratic votes would have sustained them, that the local option bill was lost. There was then no reason why three republicans who were not fav- orable to local option should ally themselves with the nine democrats who did favor it and half of whom in the bottom of their hearts hoped that the governors vetOes would be sustained, but lacked the courage to look the caucus sQuaTely in the face. For another reason it is possible that the local option bill will still hold the support of the republicans soIidly but there is nobody willing to place bets on that contingency.