Williams news., 1909-03-13
THE ARIZONA LEGISLATURE

LdSI MOuudy was the nDal Qdy TOT
 the introduction of new bills, except
 appropriation, unless a suspension
 of the rules is secured.
 The segregation amendment to
 the local option measure is now in
 the hands of the governor. He
 may sign or veto it or may hold 1t
 for ten days, by which time the
 legislature will have adjourned. It
 is predicted that the governor will
 make "pocket veto" of the bill.
 Governor Kibbey has signed the
 bill creating a territorial railway commission; other bills signed by
 the governor are the bill creating
 Greenlee county; Morgan's meas
 ure removing the $5OO0 limit upon suits for personal injury; Weedin's S-houlr law for furnace men and
 hoisting engineers, and the bill au-
 thorizing Mohave county to issue $3O,00O in bonds to build court house.
 The council passed the following
 measures: By Hunt, creating the office of territorial historian with a salary of $25OO year and $500 for travelling expenses; prohibiting the sale of opium except to persons
 having physicians prescriptions;
 making the buying or trading of
 votes penitentiary offense.
 Following were among the last
 measures introduced: Creating the
 county of Wickenburg out of parts
 of Maricopa, Yuma and Yatapai,
 with Wickenburg as the county
 seat; creating the county of Orange
 by taking from Marieopa county
 that strip of land south and east of
 Salt river. The new county would
 include in its borders Tempe and
 Mesa City, with the latter town as
 the county seat.
 The educational qualification bill
 was second time vetoed by the
 governor, a clerical error in the first
 bill invalidatlng it. By a strict party vote the measure was passed over his veto and is now a law. Both houses also passed over the governors objections the bill to reimburse two clerks of former legislature for extra work claimed to have been performed.
 O'Neill introduced a bill to con vert the Flagstaff Normal into a . school of technology and mines; by Hunt, creating commission to collect data and advance the cause of statehood; by Reed, providing for free text books in the schools; , by Doan. an amendment to the law , for the selection of grand juries by , providing that there shall be list of 300 na ames from which the selec- , tione are to be made; by Bailey, a bill prohibiting saloons and inn moral places within 700 yards of normal school. The tendency of this bill is supposed to be to save the expense of local option elections . in the towns of Tempe and Flag staff; the Morris bill shortening the time for probating wills from one . year to three months was passed. . A bill providing punishment for . those who desert their families or neglect to support them was passed. . The punishment may be fine of $500 or six months in the county . jail, or both. The bill amending the law for the selection of election . boards was passed. It takes out oi the hands of the supervisors the . appointment of the judges, though . they still name the inspectors. . The Day substitute to the Duffy : anti gambling bill passed the house . it prohibits all games of cards or : dice shaking for drinks. in saloons . but permits gambling in clubs. : The good roads movement is oc. ] cupying the attention of both houses . and the passage of bill for a ter. ]. ritorial system of highways and a !. territorial road engineer is now . 1 1 1