Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1909-03-24


The segregation issue through the
passage of the new bill was a foregone
conclusion, and the keenest interest /
centered in the appointments of the
railway commission.
At ) O'Clock in the afternoon a mo- |
ton was carried to postpone indefinite
" all bills on the clerks desk. These
included two statewide prohibition
measures, two woman suffrage bills,
the railroad fare bills, an act empow-
ering city councils to regulate water
rates. the initiative and referendum
measure, the plumbing inspector bill,
the county division of Marieopa, and
creating Wickenburg as county seat,
and minor measures.
The night session stood at recess
awaiting the call of the speakers CAV
ell TO hear the reports of the confer
ence committees on appropriation bills
over which a long wrangle has occur
red. The first report was unsatisfae-
tory to the mouse and new committees
were appointed for further eonsidera-
ton of the measures.
The council wanted to cut down the
appropriations. of maintenance, and all
told upwards of $4,000 were taken
of, $4,000 each from several institu-
tions. But the house committee stood
squarely against a decrease in the gen
eral fund appropriation bill and passed
a measure that cuts none of the terri
torial officials > salaries or judges sal
aries. except one-half the insurance
fees of the secretary. These are di-
yerted to the territory but salary Is
given an assistant secretary of $500
provided for as a concession to the
house friends of John Page.
The new segregation amendment
rider was attached TO the Day license
bill by a joint conference. The com
mittee report and that adopted by
both houses were carried in the bill.
The governors veto of the Hightower
measure was then sustained.
All other amendments had proved
wholly inadequate TO meet the gov
ernor's objections relative to gerry
handing precincts and laying arbitra-
~ lines for elections.
Bills passed by both houses were;
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DeSouza's bill providing for deputy
county school commissioners; Duffy s
bin for taking dispositions by officers
of other states; Hunts bill increasing
the Jury list; Weedin's indeterminate
sentence act; Woolf's bill for the ap'
pointment of truant officers; Weedin' 3
railroad taxation exemption bill; the
territorial good roads bills; an act ap
propriating $4,000 for reimbursing B
A. Packard for expenditures on the
fair grounds; O'Neill's chicken bill
an act to purchase the territorial fan
grounds.
Norton g bill for using convict labor
on highways was killed in the hous'
by an overwhelming vote.
The house sutained the governor Z
veto of the anti-boletta bill, though
the council had passed it over the veto
Governor Kibbey tonight signed thu
following bills: the territorial road'
bills, appointing James B. Grand, Of
Prescott, engineer; an act for the pay
ment of lease money for schoO land
to the county instead of the territory
an act for vital statistics; an act pro
viding a stepographer before gran'
juries.
He vetoed the personal liability bill
on the ground it was an etreme meas
ure of special legislation, not inelud
ing other employers of labor beside
corporations. \ great effort was made
in behalf of the bill to secure its pas
sage over the veto by Hunt, Burns an'
Morgan, but they failed to line up ;
two-thirds and it was lost by a til
vote, Breen, Finley, Goodrich, Hamp
ton, Day and Norton against.
The appropriations were final.
agreed upon by the conference commit
tees and were adopted by both houses
; II included maintenance for the asy
r lum, $4,000; for industrial school
z S44 600; for the Tempe Normal School
: $50 600: for the prison $4,000; 70
the Flagstaff Normal, $4,000; for tn
l University, $1,000.
2 The house accepted the eounei
amendments cutting down $4,000 o
maintenance.
; The bill exempting new railroad
b from taxation for ten years was pass
ed by both houses today and supporte
0 by the entire Yavapai delegation.
= \ surprise came when Hall, who's
e record has been against corporations