Arizona republican., 1909-02-16
THE REAL SHOW
The Local Option Bill Brought Into
 the Open.

According to program, the com mittee on elections reported the local option bill and recommended its pas sage. The fight began at once, though in the regular course the bill would lie over until today. MT. Sut- ter moved that the report and the bill lie on the table indefinitely. There was some question of the par liamentary regularity of this proceed ing, but the question was brushed aside by the speaker and the motion went to a vote with the following result:
 Ayes, Bailey, Bourne, Duffy, Hall, Hightower, Hogwood, Morris, MCor- mick, Roberts, Sutter, Tobey-11.
 Nays, Bray, Coalter, De SOuza, Doan, Gibbons, Merrill. Moore, Pace, Peterson. Reed, Shaw, Woolf, and the speaker-13. The announcement of the result provoked the galleries to loud applause. Then the motion to adopt the report was carried by a vote of IS to $. Mir. Doan tried in effectually to call up his memorial of Ia few days ago, being a tribute to the passing rangers.
 The greater part of the rest of the session was given to the hearing of committee reports, to the discovery of defects in bills on third reading and the re-reference of them to com mittees.
 The following new bills were in troduced:
 By MT Doan, amending the marri- age and divorce laws prohibiting males under eighteen years of age and females under fourteen from marrying.
 By Mir. Doan, amending the law with relation to garnishments and providing for changes of venue in such proceedings.
 By MT Moore, a bill requiring that clubs where liquor is dispensed shall have licenses.
 By MT. Peterson. for the abolition of the live stock inspection law.
 By MT. Peterson. requiring that trains shall stop at county seats.
 By MT. De Souza, a bill similar to that of the O'Neill bill in the coun- cil extending the power of city coun- cils to make improvements in grad ing. street paving and sidewalks.
 By MT. Woolf, for amending the school laws so that the normal train ing school at Tempe may participate in the public school fund which it was found last spring it could not do-
 The embalming board bill came up for third reading, when 1t was found that it bristled with the word part ment," whatever that might mean. Some thought it meant 'apartment'S and others were of the opinion that it might be a technical expression of the undertakers to mean something about parting" or cutting up cadav- CTS. It was the preponderance Of opinion, however, that somebody had made a typographical or an ortho- graphical mistake and the bill was re-referred to the expressing com mittee when it was pointed out that that committee was not authorized to make changes in bills.
 Among the council business which was brought over, was MT. Days bill for the repeal of the act Of the last legislature authorizing Apache county to bond itself to build a new court house. That bill had hurriedly gone through the council under suspen- sion of the rules. But the house was suspicious. After the Dll ndu Dtell advanced to a second reading, mem bers desired to know more about IL In vain Mir. Gibbons explained that it could affect no other county than Apache, which did not want to build a courthouse and did not want to bond itself He said that the passage of the bill had been secured by former representative of the county without the knowledge of his consti- tuents. and when they heard of it they petitioned the governor to veto it. But he had approved it before the petition reached him.
 Along with all other bills of the same character it had gone to con- gress for approval and had lately been approved in the territorial om- nibus bill. Thus an interesting ques- tion is brought up. That is, can bill having the force of a congressional statute. can 1t be set aside by an act of the legislature? The repeating bill went over for a day and House Bill No. l, Bailey's primary election bill was read after which the house ad- journed until ten o'clock this morn ing.