Arizona republican., 1912-06-04
It Is Almost Certain That Bill Permitting Boxing Matches of Limited Rounds Will Be Put Up to Governor.
FIGHT BILL IN SENATE
 EDUCATION IN HOUSE
G a h am's Constitutional Amendment Forever Pro hibiting Sale of School Lands Will Come Before Voters by Initiative.

It really looks as though prize .fighting-nO, not prize fighting, sci entific boxing is a better term-is to be legaliZed in Arizona That so far as the senate and the house are con- cerned. The senate has already voted for bill, somewhat on the order of the LOvin measure that fell by the Wayside at the regular session, and it is confidently expected it will pass the house. But what his excelIency. MT. Hunt. will do to this bill remains 10 be seen.
 We just thought we'd pass it up l to the governor and see how he would perform said one of the sen ators after the bill had been passed by the committee of the whole The consideration of this bill pro- voked great deal of mer.iment in the senate yesterday. And it devel- Oped in the course of the debate that some of the senators-staid old Pres byterians. some of them, too-had been getting first hand information on the subject by attending a boxing match the night before where Pro lessor SO-and-So and Professor Whats His Name had diligently tried to make mince meat of each other When a man. who is a Presbyterian deacon and 2 lawmaker gets in the habit of attending prize fights on Sunday it looks as though it is about time to reform the legislature. The Honorable MT Davis spoke on behalf of the bin when it came up in committee of the whole. He said he thought it a good thing but be- lieved 25 rounds were a mite too many. He though 20 would be about right
 That didn't appeal to MT Pace, who 1 is the Mark Twain of the senate He l said Arizona isn't in the prize fight 1 ing class and he didn't want to see us adopt any such wild and woolly | proposition as the bill proposes. 1 MT. Lovin said he thought the sen atOr was drawing on his imagination
 Pace didn't say if he was or not. Then Mir. Pace suggested that they go the limit. He thought if 20 rounds would be good that 100 rounds would be better and he proposed that the bill provide for that number
 Senator Wood, of Maricopa. offered an amendment limiting the fights-no the boxing matches-to ten rounds. He said he was opposed to prize fights but does favor boxing matches The senator didn't explain what is
 a prize fight and what is a boxing match.
 Davis then offered to compromise on IS rounds.
 It must be explained here that the bill prohibits the use of deadly wea- pons" in these scientific exhibitions. Roberts moved that those words be stricken out. He said he thought q much more scientific contest could be given if the men were allowed to use knives and guns. Also. he remarked. it would have tendency to raise the Icasualty list, which he thought would
 be a good thing.
 Davis then got his 20 round amend
 ment through and also proposed that
 the jurisdiction of the clubs father ling the fights-no. the boxing matches should be vested in the boards of supervisors.
 Pace said he thought the bill a
 mighty good thing as first aid to the
 urs8ft movement. He declared a prize
 fight to be just as elevating as a
 saloon dance. Then some inquiring
 member wanted to know where he
 got his knowledge of saloon dances and MT Pace blushed like a school
 girl. Pace also moved that an emer- gency clause be attached to the bill
 but this was altogether too frivolous land the senate treated it with dis
 dain. The bill was finally ordered to take its regular course and it is said it is certain to pass finally. i It is not to be taken as an illustration
 of the real difference between the two
 houses but it is a noteworthy fact that
 while the senate expended the most of it's energy yesterday discussing the
 considering the educational needs of the state. But maybe the conditions
 win be reversed one of these days. 1 The educational question came up in
 the house through the consideration of
 w. J. Graham's bill providing for an amendment to the constitution for
 bidding for all time the sale of the
 school lands. This is duplicate of the bill which passed the house at the reg ular session and which was killed in 1 the senate.
 There were some exciting times in the house while this measure was un-
 der consideration. The arguments were the same as have been heard be-
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