Arizona republican., 1915-02-17

in charg eOf the show.
 | final settlement of the question would entail an expense upon the state of l Tot less than $10,000.
 Another attempt at q recess failed after which Speaker Brooks took the floor, first replying to the argument | that it was the duty of the legislature to enact law for the further carry | ing out of the provisions of the amendment No mandate was bind l ing, he said, upon the legislature ] whether it came from the constitu- | ton or the supreme court. But con- | ceding that it was the duty of the 1 legislature to heed the mandate, it was not binding upon it to pass this particular bill which he proceeded | to show in detail was quite objection able and calculated to oppress the people on mere suspicion. The clause relating to the informer he especially attacked. Ire informer was always the instrument of the tyrant. The speaker created a laugh on the floor when he described the power with which the bill invested the attorney general as prohibition commission CT" He became not only the com mander in chief of the military forces 1 of the state but the admiral of the the navy if Arizona had one could | be called out to discover bottle of liquor hidden away in a cellar. MT. Powers replied, saying that the l drastic features of the bill to which | the speaker had referred were no more drastic than the provisions of the live stock law and many other member of the first legislature had assisted in framing. The very argu- nlent of the speaker, MT Powers said, proved the effectiveness of the bill which it was proposed would would make Arizona dry. That was what the constitutional amendment was adopted for.
 | The debate. altogether covered an hour and then the vote was taken. | The Cause of the Defeat | In many well informed quarters it had been predicted. since the pass age of the Kinney Claypool bill, that the prohibition bill would fail This prediction was based upon the un- derstanding that a combine had been formed between the so-called labor representatives and those from the | agricultural counties, embracing all the members from this county ex- cent MT. Goodwin. It was alleged that the passage of the prohibition bill. the Kinney Claypool bill and the defeat of the mine tax bill constituted tfe program.
 l The labor representatives were con- | cerned intimately only in the fate Of l the Kinney Claypool hill. They would have divided on the other measures l Even before the Kinney Claypool bill was passed, there were rumors of a ] schism in the combine. It was con siderably widened when at the third reading of that bill, Mr Powers was not in his seat and did not enter the chamber until some minutes after it had passed. It was stated by an at tache that there was really nothing to detain Mir. Powers, that he Was in the vicinity of the chamber all the time.
 The first outward sign, however of breaking up of the combine came last Saturday afternoon wher | Messrs. Francis and Reed, represent atives of labor after having voted with the opponents of the mine tax bill on preliminary motions changed their votes on the vital question G1
 recommending the indefinite post ponement of the bill and also voted against an unfavorable report con
 corning it.
 The Senate Probe
 The mystery regarding the Gold
 water resolution for the appointment
 of a committee to investigate the conduct of certain state officers was
 removed yesterday when the resolu.
 tion came up in the morning in re-
 gular order It had somehow beer
 understood that it related to a cer-
 tain officer rather than to several O.
 them. It was stated that the officia
 aimed at was Warden Sims of tho
 penitentiary and that the offens,
 complained of was his refusal t,
 hang Villalobo whose execution haC
 been ordered on January 8. Objec-
 tion to the resolution was offered by
 President Sims, who by the way i:
 rot Q relative of the warden and by
 Messrs. Drachman, Martin and Col.
 ter. It was argued that the newspa.
 pers had printed much that was fals,
 concerning the conduct of state off
 cers and that to follow up all these
 accusations would bring officials into
 disrepute. Mr Stapley took the very
 sensible ground that the best way t, serve an honest official would be tt
 investigate his conduct and give hin
 a clean bill of health. A motion t,
 table the resolution was lost A mo ton to refer it to a committee me the same fate and motion 10 con