Arizona republican., 1909-02-25

fixing the fares as follows: Those
 whose yearly earnings are $7,500 mile, three cents; those whose earnings are
 less than s7,5OO a mile, four cents;
 those whose annual earnings are less
 than $5,500 a mile, five cents. The 1 object of the amendments. in brief, was ito establish a three-cent fare on the main lines.
 There was a minority report recom-
 mending the indefinite postponement of the bill. The majority report was
 adopted, whereupon MT. Burns moved a suspension of the rules and the i'm
 mediate passage of the bill. This was
 met by a demand by MT. Finley for a call of the house. MT Hampton was absent, engaged in an informal confer
 ence on the Graham county division
 matter. A motion to dispense with
 the call was defeated by the following vote: Ayes-Burns, Morgan, St. 1 Charles, O'Neill, Weedin and the presi
 dent. Nays-Breen, Day, Norton, Fin
 ley and Goodrich.
 This vote also disclosed that it would
 be impossible to suspend the rules, so that when MT. Hampton appeared half | an hour later, MT. Burns withdrew his motion, and the bill went on it's regu- lar course. What will ultimately be- come of it rests with Mir Hampton. An interesting development was the purpose of the council to take part in ! the controversy between the governor and the fair commission. MT. Burns presented a concurrent esolution for ! the appointment of a joint committee of the council and the assembly to look into the matter and to investigate all things in connection with the man. agement of the fair.
 MT. Breen inquired whether the leg islature had a right to investigate the dispute between the governor and the members of the commission. In the opinion of the president, there was no subject beyond the range of a legisla- tive investigation.
 The right to appropriate money for the establishment and maintenance of the fair, Mir. Burns believed, gave the legislature the right to inquire into its innermost workings. The resolution was adopted and sent to the assembly, which returned it to the council with request to make it definite as to the number of members of the committee from each house, and as to the time and place for the investigation. substitute for MT Norton's bill of the day before, compelling street rail- way companies in towns having a pop ulation of 5000 to equip their cars with air-brakes and to have Q conductor and motorman on each car. was report ed with a recommendation for it's pas sage The substitute merely allows the street railway companies until Jan l, 1910. to put on the air-brakes. The provision with respect to manning the cars applies immediately. The report was adopted.
 A communication was received from an organization of live stockmen, call ing attention to the number of wild horses of the ranges and suggesting legislation by which they might be re- garded as outlaws and destroyed.
 Hon. F.. M. Dickernan, joint coun- cilman from Pima and Santa Cruz, in the Twenty-fourth session, was a vis- itor on the floor. John Robinson, chief clerk, was reported critically i'll of ap- pendicitis. His duties meanwhile are performed by his assistant, Mulford winsor, who is being assisted by Thomas Peyton.
 lncipient Laws.
 In the afternoon session of the coun- cil several new bills were brought in. One by MT. Goodrich is designed to amend the statute with reference to fraudulent conveyarces.
 Mir Weedin introduced one relative to the fixing of fees for assaying at the territorial university. No change is made in the prevent fee list, but pro- vision is made for the making free of charge qualitative tests of ore. This is intended for the benefit of prospec- tors who may be in doubt as to the character of the ore.
 Another bill by MT. Weedfn permits owners of cattle to butcher them for their own use ands to dispose of the meat, but they are not permitted to peddle it in cities and towns where there are licensed butchers.
 still another bill by MT. Weedin, of a curative character, is for the vali- dating of mining locations. Previous to March 12, 1907, when it was re- pealed, there was a law requiring re- Iocators of mining claims to state in the notice of location that the claim had been abandoned. Many prospec- tors and other locators unaware of this law neglected to make such state ment. and their titles afterward, when it was found that the property was of value, were contested. The object of the bill, therefore, IS to validate To- cations made under the old law prev ious to the date of its repeal.
 The council bill for the relief Of Frank E. Murphy, former sheriff or Pima county, was passed, While sher- if. Murphy was sent to California after A noted diamond operator, who was confined for some time afterward in iail at Tucson. The case against him was subsequently dismissed, and no provision was made for the payment bv the county of the expenses of the sheriff, which amounted to S222-25. This amount is appropriated to the use of the former sheriff.
 Word having been received from the assembly of it's disagreement to the council amendments to the Woolf bounty bill, and request for confer ence having come over, Messrs. Breen, Morgan and Norton wre appointed con- ferrees.
 In the course of the afternoon, MT. O'Nein rose to a question of personal nrivilege to allude to certain stric- t,,rar ,vbicb the Globe Silver Belt and