Arizona republican., 1915-02-09
House Will Resume It's Con sidei'ation Today-Doyle Springs Another Prohi- bitiOn Bill of Greater Leniencv
KJNNEY-CLAYPOOI
 FAVORABLE REPORT
Change of Heart in House. Public Land Bill Brought Before Legislature, Con sidered of the Greatest Import

Contrary to expectations The pro- hibition question was brought up in the house yesterday Though House Bill No. ? had been placed upon the calendar of the committee of the whole, there seemed to be q general understanding on Saturday night that it would go over again until the decision of the supreme court in the Tucson case had been handed down. But when the bill was reached in it's order, Mr Pow CTS, in charge of the bill insisted upon it's consideration. Replying to an objection by MT. Graham that the legislature would be better guid- ed by the pronOuncement of the supreme court. MT. Powers said that there could be nothing in the deci- sion that shorld influence the legis iature. It was not proposed, he said, to go farther than the prohibit ton amendment had gone and that had been sustained by a higher tri- bunal than the supreme court. The amendment, he said, was self exc cutting; it was only proposed to add facility to it's execution and not to add anything to it's provisions.
 The consideration of the bill pro- Veedel with remarks by Messrs. Powers, Graham. Christy and Fran cis, the three latter in opposition to the bill Mr. Lines joined in the defense of it. At the end ef every section the debate was renewed with the same result, and in much the same language. Several amendments were. offered. most of them by the friends of the bill, to correct re gently discovered errors. the most important of which described the crime of felony for the second vio- lation of the amendment. which it was found had put every offense on the same basis. Late in the afternoon when the reading of the , bill by sections had been half com peted. the committee rose and re- ported progress The consideration of the bill will be resumed today
 Notwithstanding there was little probability that the matter would he brought up yesterday, the gal i'l l'S Ntlt tlONuths DiDDdDiN Ilioi ' in anticipation of a fight over the Kinney -Claypool bill The votes on inc prohibition measure, or on var ious phases of it indicated ma jor- ity in favor of the bill.
 But that was not all that was heard of prohibition legislation yes to-day, MT. Doyle of Cochise in froln6ad hi in ha in he afternoon. The bill is designed to place a construction upon the am endment quite different from that given it by the Powers -Drachman bill. It would give to any person the right to ship liquor of any kind into the state for the use of himself and his family. It would define in toxicating liquor to be any beverage that should contain more than per cent alcohol It would permit any druggist to make any use of it that any practicing physician may prescribe. It rather modifies the penalty for the violation of the law and gives justices courts exclusive jurisdiction in cases of it's alleged violation.
 The Kinney ClaypoI Bill
 The committee had undergone q reversal of opinion with respect to the Kinney Claypool bill since Sa turday afternoon when. against the efforts of it's friends, the considera = tion of the measure had been post = poned until yesterday afternoon by vote of r to IA. It was then thought that was practically the end of it but it emerged firm the commit tee with a favorable report
 The argument against the bill was begun by Mir. Goodwin who said that it proposed discrimination against American citizens in favor of a certain class of foreigners, that is English or Canadian citizens MT Christy also spoke at length against the bill which he said he believed was unconstitutional and ir violation of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which guaranteed to the