Arizona republican., 1909-02-18
HOUSE RAILROAD BILL.
A Partial Development of Test of Its
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The DeSouza railway commission bill was reported in the morning ses- sion of the house, and an attempt was made to hurry it through under a suspension of the rules. It failed by a vote of twelve ayes to ten noes. This indpates that the bill will pass the house by a still larger vote than twelve, several of the ten who op- posed seeing no need of hurry and be- sides the bill had had two amend ments. One provides that no two members of the commission shall be from the same judicial district. The other provides that the commission's attorney shall not be resident of q district from which any commissioner comes.
 The Sutter bill making justices of the peace in towns police judges was passed. So was the DeSouza bill ex- tending the provisions of the county immigration commissioner act to all classes of counties.
 Mir. Bailey's bill for the removal of party vignettes from election ballots was passed by a vote of 16 to r. MT. Doan saying he would never vote to ldht uOA II lllC <Ailltl ltdll llciS AAllt ANI publican emblem) from any position
 The council bill providing for the deposit of money in lieu of bonds was passed, and now awaits the governors signature
 bill by Mir. Duffy, amending the anti gambling law by stopping up all loopholes, was introduced and hurried through to passage under suspension of the rules, with three negative votes. The bill is very much the same as that of MT Day in the council.
 The Norton memorial, with reference to the relocation of the western end of the international boundary line was adopted. A memorial was introduced by MT. Morris protesting against the annexation to Utah of that part of Arizona lying northwest of the Grand Canyon.
 The following new bills were pre- scented:
 By MT. Bailey, to strike out of the act regulating admission to the bar the requirement that applicants shall have had three years of reading in a law office or a university. In lieu of that requirement three years of preparation elsewhere is provided.
 By Mir. Sutter, bill amending the law with relation to sheriffs' fees by a provision that all the money for the keeping of United States prisoners shall go to the county treasury, where as the sheriff now retains half. MT Sutter explained that this will increase the funds of Cochise county by s1,000 a year.
 By MT. Mccormick, two bills, one allowing supervisors additional clerks, and the other allowing county record CTS additional help.
 The rest of the morning session was spent in the whole committee consid- ering the Woolf and Haywood bills the game laws.
 An attempt was made to consider them together, but on account of the dates of open and close to conform to the climatologi- cal and geographical disparities of the territory this was uphill if not impos- sible work. and little progress was made.
 In the afternoon session house bill No. l, Mir. Baileys primary election bill was passed. Mir. Hightower of Yuma alone opposed it on the ground that it was undemoeratic. The only | objection the republican members of | the house had ever urged against it | was that it was too democratic
 The house passed Mir. O'Nein's bill | 'elative to the drawing of federal court | grand jurors, and adjourned until 10 | o'clock this morning.