Arizona republican., 1909-02-17
.EVER-PREsENT NUMBER '13"
Prospects of the Measure In the Council Clouded by Doubt--Hampton's Educa-
 tional Qualification Bill Lacks Governors Signature.

The local option bill passed the 13 to II. This is exactly the same vote cast by the same members throughout all the preliminary ballot ing since the first appearance of the bill from the committee. But it was never certain until yesterday morning that the alignment would last until the end.
 When the assembly convened yes terday morning, MT. Pace and his friends were confident and determin- ed that there should be no adjourn ment until a final vote had been had. The other side was as desirous of avoiding a vote. The reading of the long primary election law bill inter vened in the whole committee and lasted until after noon. As soon as the report of the whole committee had been presented there was mo- tion to take recess until two o'clock. That was defeated by a vote of 13 ot II. Then some other busi- ness was thrown in and disposed of to be followed by motion for a re- cess until 2:30. That was defeated by a vote of 13 to Il. Next came a motion to take a recess until 2:15. Again the fateful "13v prevailed, an unlucky number for the liquor busi- ness.
 Finding themselves in the unfast- ening grip of MT. Pace and his friends, the opponents of the bill sur rendered and MT. Sutter, one of the leaders of the opposition moved to shorten the agony by suspending the rules and taking up the local option bill There was no dissenting voice and the bill was put on its third reading, when it was passed by the following vote:
 Ayes, Bray, Coalter, De Souza, Doan, Gibbons, Merrill, Moore, Pace, Peterson, Reed, Shaw, Woolf and the speaker-13.
 Nays, Bailey, Bourne, Duffy, Hall, Hightower, Hogwood, Morris, M'COr- mick, Roberts, Suttef, Tobey-11
 The populace had not been inform ed that the bill would come up un- til the afternoon session, so there were not many spectators in the gall lery when the vote was taken. But among them were several of the local leaders of the temperance movement, among them Dr. H. A. Hughes, who joined in the joyous outburst, tossed his hat to the ceiling and shouted that the water wagon had at last got started.
 The passage of the bill at all was the result of a conference among the republican members, at least three of whom were not favorable to it. They had grown weary of the polit- fNa1 r1a af ba fr- ally they resolved to send the bill to the council where they knew that ten democrats were praying night and morn that they might never see it's face. Not, perhaps all of the ten, for there are some democratic members of the council who would slaughter the bill openly and without compunc- ton, but the majority of them wouldl much prefer to lay it's death at the door of the assembly.
 The republican members of the council are determined that the bur den of the dead body of the local op- ton bill, if it is to be killed, shall be borne back to their constituents by the democratic members alone.
 The bill will be transmitted to the council today. It is not thought that there will be early action upon it. The first thing that will probably be done to it will be to amend it by some sort of a segregation provision designed to preserve the incorporated towns from the temperance zeal of the rural communities. That will be no more satisfactory to the real friends of the bill than its defeat would be. They could have had that kind of a compromise in the assembly any day after the introduction of the bill and all this anxiety would have. been avoided. Thus the bill is destined to be a point of interest to spectators and a point of avoidance to members for some days to come.
 The Business of the House.
 After the prayer of the chaplain and the reading of the minutes the house became a committee of the whole for the consideration of the primary election bill. It was gone over section by section which were generally agreed to without extensive