Arizona republican., 1909-02-21
LOCAL OPTION
 BECOMES LAW Governor Signs Both Pace and
 ARtiGamb|ing Bill THE ANTEPROH|BIT|ON|STS
Make Another Attempt to Capture Lost Ground--A Proposal to Remove the Territorial Fair to Tempe. Two Days Adjournment.

The Pace local option bill and the Duffy anti-gambling bill are now both laws. They were signed yester- day morning by Governor Kibbey on their presentation. It had not been thought to be the purpose to trans init the Duffy bill at once, but that it had been intended to hold it back until after Wash ington's birthday in order that gen. tlemen on whom fortune had not smiled at solo and pan and bridge might have another show for their money. It was the general wish that all who had lost money might win it back But it is now too late.
 The opposition to local option, that is. to general and synchronous local option has not yet abandoned hope. Mir. Weedin yesterday introduced in to the council d bill authorizing boards of supervisors to call local option elections in cities and towns, but it makes no clear provision for such elections elsewhere. It con- taias the provision that a prepond- erating vote in one precinct shall not be used to effect a general average of sthe vote on the same side throughout the entire election district. Those who have hastily examined the bill are not sure whether it is intended to make law of the amendment which the saloon people tried to have made to the Pace bill or whether it in effect, reDeals it entirely.
 The indications are that the bill will pass one of the houses if not both by a small majority, for the reasons why, some of the members in each house supported the Pace bill are said to have ceased to exist. At any rate its course will be watched with an in terest hardly second to that which attended the Pace bill.
 A Crack in the Caucus
 The first break in the caucus came yesterday, though there had been a sign of it the day before when President Hunt of the council offered an objection to a favorable report on the bill to abolish the of flee of assistant secretary on the ground that it was not a good busi- ness policy.
 
 reading yesterday the president took the floor and amplified his original objection. The friends of the bill stated that the objection of the president would be met with anoth CT bill empowering some other terri torial officer to perform the urgent duties of the assistant secretary such as the signing of public documents ~ar-rag ar and the secretary and a as matter of fact such a bill was later intro duced. MT. Hunt however voted with Messrs. Day and Breen against the bill This was one of the caucus measures, but one of the members of the caucus said afterward that he believed the president had for gotten that this was one of them there had been so many.
 Railway Legislation
 There was another meeting yes terday afternoon between two sub committees of the council corpora tions committee and two committees of representatives of the railroads in the matter of legislation on fares and other proposed legislation. While nothing was definitely agreed upon the railroad men made a showing that there could not be reduction of fare; that the business of the roads would not stand it. As to a commission bill nothing was agreed upon. Some of the railroad men said they had little or no objection to the De Souza bill in its present form. In fact there is said to be greater objection to it among the members of the legislature than any where else.
 There will probably be further consideration of the matter between now and next Tuesday when some thing definite will begin to be done.
 An Educational Compromise
 An agreement has been entered into by which the old dispute con- corning the Tempe normal training school will be settled. For some years an anomalous condition ex- isted in the relations between that school and the normal. The pupils of the school belonged for the most part to the Tempe district and as