Arizona republican., 1915-06-26
FAINT GLIMMER
 OF PROHIBITION
House Has So Amended the Senate Bill That Upper House Will Almost Ger tainly Recognize It as a Stranger

There is proba bility :!iat the second extra session of the legis- latUre will adjourn today. There will he no obstacle in the senate and only unforeseen incidents in the house will prevent the clearing of the decks there. The senate yes terday transacted all the business before it so that it will have d clean slate for this morning.
 The public land bill was sent to the acting governor last night. Though it had been passed by the house week ago it had not yet re- ceived the signature of Speaker Brooks who desired to go over it carefully It was sent to the senate with his signature yesterday after noon and a couple of hours later President Sims in open session af- fixed his signature.
 It is almost certain that there will he no prohibition legislation. The house having defeated it's own bill took up the senate bill and so amen ded it yesterday that not only will the senate refuse to concur in the amendments but will probably not give them the courtesy of a consid eration. The amendments have tot
 
 which was meant only so to construe the prohibition amendment as to per init the introduction of grain alcohol into the state for medicinal. mechani cal and scientific purposes, and wine for sacramental purposes. Perhaps this can be done under the amend ment but in such a case there would probably have to be a construction of the amendment by the courts instead of the legislature.
 The House
 The first proceeding in the house yesterday morning after the opening was an apology offered by MT. Ma honey of Mohave county for having lost his temper in a little debate with Represe ntative Goodwin the evening before. MT. Goodwin thereupOn apol- ogized to MT. Mahoney for any af- front he might have offered him and which he said was unintentional
 The claim of 4. w. Gregg. the con tractor who built the territorial prison. was taken up on the report of the appropriation committee to which the matter had been referred the day before. This claim. now amounting to more than s15.O0O was for extra work done on the prison at the request of the board of con trol. Tn order to accomplish it MT. Gregg raised the money by mOrtgag ing his home. The justice of the claim was never denied but it was never paid and finally he was com pelled to bring suit against the state. Last spring he was awarded judg- ment in the superior court of this county and notice of appeal was Errf taIx Mir Gregg did not ask for an approp- riatiOn, only for an endorsement of his claim. He thought that with that. together with his judgment. he would be able to raise money on the judgment to meet pressing obliga- tions
 The appropriations committee rec commended that no action be taken and the matter became the subject of discussion throughout the day, the principal champion being MT. Christy The appropriation committee. it was explained by MT. Powers. offered it's recommendation on the theory that the justice of the claim already had been established in court and that no action by the legislature could add to the strength of it. MT. Graham believed that favorable action by the legislature would tend to prove that he state of Arizona was not a dead beat.
 The county division bill was re- ceived from the senate with several amendments. all of which were agreed to. The only important amendment was a change in the percentage of the vote that should be cast in the old part of the county in favor of -1. L
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