El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
arizona LEGISLATORS GETTING READY
To PUT THROUGH PET MEASURES
Many Have Hopes of Inducing the Governor to Submit
Their Plans to the Special Session Some Have
Gone to Their Homes For a Short Visits
mary of Work of Late Regular Session.

lands. came Up in the senate Inc
Graham bill originally PROVIDED ina
no school lands could ne sofa LOL -
years. but before passage by the HOySS
II was amended to make TINS enJolnueL
nerDetual When the measure came up
In the senate c. B. Wood, Of this coun-
ty. took charge OF the opposlLon 70
it, and in his fight was aided Dy J.
Lorenzo Hubbeu, leader OF the RepuD-
1fcsn minority Mr.. Wood IS eaSlly
the most skilled parliamentarian IN
either house; and in his fight ne re-
sorted to about every tactic Ano"h 70
legislative finesse. There was ma
Jority against him and If the Dill mao
come to a vote he would have Deen
beaten. but finally his dilatOry tactics
prevailed and the bill was RELOCATED TO
the limbo of forgotten things
Many Measures Buried.
IT may be mentioned here that some
schemes, of which much was heard IN
the beginning Of the session, never
even came 10 the surface Among those
may be mentioned the plan for gem
eral reform Of the educational system
and a plan for a general remodellns
of the health laws As to the ursI II
was proposed TO enact a general law
which should put the entire puDuo
school system on a new basis, with a
course of study leading from the pr1'
mary grade clear to the state unlVer-
sity. The educational bill which, al
this time, is still under consideration
posed legislation; but even II falls Tar
short OF what was originally IN
tended.
And as to the proposed health legis-
latiOn- almost nothing was done There
is a pure food bill which may be passed,
and there are some other minor mat
tiers. But the plan for reform, which
was discussed so enthusiastically at
first, never saw the light Of day.
Local Option Measures.
There is also another matter I'D
which there was never more than
merely perfunctOry effort to secure the
promised legislation This refers to a
remodeling of the local option laws.
There had been many promises by the
local option people but these promises
were in no sense carried out IL Is
true that, late in the session, there was
q bill introduced having for its object
the repeal OF the segregation feature
of the present. local potion statute, but
there was nothing more than 2, per-
functory fight for this bill and it was
killed q few days after being reported
from the committee
There was another bill by senator
Pace forbiddinS physicians TO give
prescriptions for medicines containing
more than eight percent alcOhol eX-
ceDt after personal examination Of the
patient; but this measure contained so
many odd features that ii was never
even reported from the committee
The Progressive" Measures.
The truth IS the legislature mas been
more concerned with the enactment OF
progressive measures, which, In large
mart has consisted in ''swatting" cor
porate business. that there was no
time for the consideration Of other
promised measures Almost every bill
relating to the regulation and taxation
or mines. railroads, telegraph and tel
ephOne and express companies has