Arizona republican., 1909-03-05
A BRIDGE FOR YUMA.
And Other Things StriVen After in
 the Council

VI
 the Council.
 Mr. Goodrich made an effort in the council to bring the woman suffrage bill out of the federal relations com mittee. which he began to suspect to be unfriendly. Chairman Finley ob- jected on the ground that the ten days allowed the committee since the bin had been referred on February 26 had not expired. That is where MT. Good rich said he had him. and began count ing off the elapsed ten days: "Febru- ary 26. 27. 2s, %. 30. 31-" Here he was reminded that there were only twenty eight days in the month.
 Mir. Day offered the suggestion that the bill might be transferred to an other committee by a majority vote. It was held that that would amount to suspension of the rules, which would require a twO-thirds vote.
 MT. Goodrich offered a bill appro- priating S4.000 to reimburse Treasurer E. A. Packard of the territorial fair commission for expenditures made by him in the erection of a building and other improvements on the territorial fair grounds.
 This bill was followed by a report by a special committee appointed to investigate the fair grounds. in which the circumstances regarding the ex- penditure by MT. Packard were inves tigated.
 A memorial by MT. Norton. pray ing congress to construct a s2O0.000 bridge across the Colorado river at Yuma, was adopted.
 Mir. Finley introduced a bill amend ing the militia code. bringing the strength of the national guard to a regiment of infantry and a squadron of cavalry, in conformity with the national regulations.
 MT. Burns procured an amendment to his bill for the protection of under ground workers in mines and the Weedin mine inspection bill by ex- empting from their operations mines in which fewer than twenty-five men are employed
 The council concurred in the house amendment to the bill creating a hor- ticultural board. providing for the pub lication of lists of states and districts afflicted by the, pests which the bill is designed to keep out of Arizona.
 Tn the committee of the whole the following measures were considered:
 bill by MT. O'Neill appropriating $500 for the purchase of a natural his tory collection owned by Mrs. Bren- ninger. Considerable opposition was developed. mainly on the ground that there was no place to keep the col faly
 The committee amended Mir O'Neill's bill to suppress noxious weeds by removing the minimum pen alty for violations of the proposed law and by striking out from the list of prescribed weeds "sunflowers'' and "cookleburrs" and adding a new i'm portation known as nut grass" brought in from Florida with ship ments of orange trees.
 No one knew the scientific name of this new plant, but MT. Weedin sup posed that it was called nut grass" from the circumstance that it made on their domains. As amended the bill was favorably reported.
 The O'Neill bill in relation to tres pass was amended and agreed upon, and the bill by Mir. O'Neill making it a misdemeanor to pluck feathers from an ostrich without the consent of the owner was favorably reported and subsequently, passed.
 The Bailey bill separating white and colored children in the schools was passed after an amendment. The bill originally gave the trustees power to order such a separation when there. were as many as ten colored pupils. This number was reduced to eight.
 President Hunt rose to a question of personal privilege and alluded to the publication by the Arizona Silver Belt of dispatches sent by its legislative correspondent. R. M. Dawson, misin- terrreting the actions of the legisla- tors and maligning their motives in the late railroad conferences.
 MT. Hunt moved that the correspon- dent be excluded from the chamber