Weekly journal-miner., 1915-06-30
ANOTHER JUDGE FOR
 MARICOPA COUNTY

PHOENIX, June 25.-The most
 important thing that happened in the
 legislature yesterday was unexpect-
 ed the final passage of the bill giv-
 ing to Maricopa county an additional
 Superior judge. Immediately there after it was stated on the authority of members that the bill would be promptly signed by Acting Governor
 Osborn. Following this, the news spread rapidly that County Attorney Frank H. Lyman would be named as superior judge.
 MT. Lyman was called by tele- phone. He said that he had had no conversation with any appointing power relative to the appointment, This legislation was part of the pro- gram of Governor Hunt in his call.
 The county court bill was passed by the house several days ago, but it was not then expected that it would be passed by the senate. So doubt ful was the result in the senate that the friends of the bill there advised the house to strike off the emergency clause, and that was done.
 When the bill was brought up in the senate it was found that some of the members who had been most pro nounced against the bill had changed their views, until it was evident that the emergency clause could be safely restored. That was done and the bill was returned to the house, where the change was ratified and the bill sent to the acting governor.
 A large delegation from the south side, especially from Mesa and vicin- ity, had been working against the bill, ostensibly on the ground that conditions did not warrant the ex- pense of maintaining another court, in this county, but it was understood that it was the belief of the members of this delegation and those repre- sented by them, that another court would make more difficult county di- vision, which it is understood will be attempted at the next session of the legislature.
 The Prohibition Fight.
 The time of the house was occu- pied for the most part yesterday with the consideration in the whole com mittee of prohibition legislation. The committee on judiciary had reported that Edwards house bill, a modified form of the ers-Drachman bill Of the regular session and senate bill No. l of the present session. The battle of last Monday was fought over again, and late in the afternoon, the bill having been recommended for third reading, went to final passage and was defeated by a vote of 15 to IS, as follows:
 Ayes-Acuf, Austin, Berry, Clay pool, Cook, Edwards, Farrell, Francis, Lee, Lines, McCIain, Pinkley, Pow CTS, Proctor, Vaughn-13.
 Nays-Briscoe, Buchanan, Christy, Doyle, Flanagan, Goodwin, Graham, Johns, Lanford, Leepcr, Marian, Mer- Till, Mahoney, Newbury, Reed, Rich Sweeney, the Speaker-18.
 After this, the senate bill No. was taken up. This is a proposed con struction of the prohibition constitu- tional amendment to permit the i'm portation by druggists of alcohol to be sold under strict regulation for mechanical and scientific purposes. The provision for the lat ter two purposes was stricken out, on the ground that the bill permitted already the introduction of alcohol for those purposes by the institutions that might need it. The idea was to prevent the purchase of it from the drug stores by misrepresentation. The bill provided that no drug store might keep more than sixty gallons of alcohol on hand at one time. Smaller drug stores could not keep so much, the amount being regulated by the value of their stocks as re- turned to the assessor the previous year. The maximum amount was re duced to 10 gallons. The discussion of the bill was interrupted by the re- turn from the house of the additional court bill and further consideration of the prohibition measure went over for the day.
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