The copper era., 1909-03-04
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS

On last Saturday the members of the council and house took a recess for the purpose of accepting an in- vitatlOn for an automobile ride through the Salt river valley. The excursion consisted of twenty-two automobiles and a large number of Phoenix people also participated in the ride.
 The first bill introduced into the house in the present session was made ready last week to be sent to the Governor. It was Bailey's pri- mary election bill, 2 most compre- hensive measure.
 Bailey's bill relating to the print Ing of election ballots, in form of the Colorado law, was reported without recommendation.
 A long discussion ensued over the Peterson bill proposing to increase the road tax to B, and the bill was unfavorably recommended.
 The bill relating to the sales of dry goods in bulk was passed. The object of this measure is to prevent the defrauding of creditors by sell ing stocks of merchandise. The bill provides that when any one wishes to dispose of a stock, he must make publication of the fact.
 The council passed the bill trans ferring the duties of the assistant secretary, who is to be annihilated, to the private secretary of the gov ernor.
 MT. Morgan's bill for the protection of railway employees and the travel ing public was indefinitely postponed.
 O'Neill bill enlarging the powers of city councils in the matters of such
 municipal improvements as street grading, paving and sidewalk con- struction, was passed. So was the Finley bill providing for the assess ment of contiguous property for inn provements.
 MT. Morgan's bill including drift
 ing" cattle in the law for the taxing of transient herds of sheep and goats
 passed.
 Bill by Moore, appropriating B, 5,OOO for territorial exhibit at the
 Alaska ka-Yukon-Seattle exposition.
 This was indefinitely postponed.
 By DeSouza, bill esta bliShing m eight-hour day for employees in laun-
 dries.
 The O'Neill bill classifying the railroads for the purpose of fixing ; passenger fares, which it was thought would be indefinitely postponed, was l .. fx~,- Mir. Goodrich was reached, he ex- plained his vote in opposition to the
 bill. He was satisfied that the bill was in contravention of the He epburn law, whose authority over rates in the territory was exclusive and , supreme: that the only result of the proposed legislation would be annoy ing litigation for which the territory would ultimately have to pay. The
 law, he was sure, could never be en- forced. He believed that the legis- , lature had gone to the limit of its authority in the passage of the rail way commission bill. For the same reasons Mir. Hampton said he would 7 oppose the bill. It was more import l ant that the legislature should not do
 useless and expensive things than that it should indulge in grand sta nd plays. The vote was aves-Breen. , Burns, Day, Morgan, O'NeilI, St. Charles, Weedin, the president.
 Nays-Finley, Goodrich, Hampton.
 Norton. The following, council bills were passed: The bill for the relief . of Frank E. Murphy, former sheriff $ Pima county. for whom an appropria- tion of S225 15 had been asked for to
 cover the expenses of a trip to Cali fornia after a criminal. There was a6APA fn his in 10 mi taa 112 DO The house memorial of MT. McCor mick asking for a change of the regu- latiOrs for the disposition of grazing fees was adopted The memorial prayS that none of the fees be turned
 into the county where the reserves . lie, but that the fee he reduced to the >tockmen by the amount heretofore
 turned over to the county. Weedin's bill permitting owners of
 cattle to butcher them and dispose of the meat without going to towns butchers. So was the house bill in . creasing the rate of interest to two
 per cent that banks shall pay on county or territorial funds on deposit. So also was the house bill tor the tax
 ing of branch banks in the county where they are located.
 A substitute for the council bill for the taxation of express companies
 and the bill in relation to the sale of intoxicating liquors on trains were re-
 ferred to the committee of the whole. ' The latter was amended in the stan nd : ing committee, raising the license the railroad companies shall pay from S200 to $500.
 The following bills were introduced in the council:
 O'Neill-In relation to the flooding
 NOTICE OF ELECTION.