The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-03
PROHIBITION QUES- TON BRINGS OUT
 SPIRITED DEBATES
Little Progress Made in State Wide PrOhibitiOn-SuppOrters of Mea- sure Fail Get Rule Suspend
 ed. Mine Act Debated.


 tant subjects were touched upon by the Senate in the Tuesday afternoon session, and it is useless to say that one of them was prohibition. The other two were the repeal of mine run and state aid to high school. The pro- hlbltion issue was the same as many of the preliminary bouts which have preceded, being dog fall, for little progress was made by it. On the others motions for indefinite postpone ment were defeated. The prohibition question brought out one of the most spirited and most earnest debates of the session for there was fire in the eyes of two members who usually are very calm in their deliberations, Sena tors Calvert and Going, who arose to refute statements made by Senator Greenhouse in protest to what he term ed the "dallying tactics of the oppo- sition to prohibition.
 It was just before the close of the afternoon session, which had evidently been drawn for this purpose, that the assistant secretary of the Senate be- gan reading H B. 22S, by Newberry and others. providing for stautatory prohibition. The bill evidently came from no where, and crawled onto the desk of the secretary of it's own ini- tiative. No one called for the bill, which was supposed to be well down in pile of House bills, reported dur ing the day. It was read one time and motion was made to suspend the rules to read it second time This was lost on a roll cal:-
 Aye-Bush, Cabiness, Carter, Dav- enport, Futrell, Garrett. Greenhouse, Kendall, Overman, Ruff, Sims, SIaugh- ter Toler, Nann, Wagoner, White, MT. Presidential.
 Nay-Adamson, Ashley, Burgess, Calvert, Collins, Duty, Edmondson, Ferguson, Going, Hamilton, Harris, Jones, Moore, Mccall, Owens, Smith, Smith, Wasse0-1S.
 It would have required two thirds vote to place the bill on it's second reading and when the vote was an nounced Senator Greenhouse arose to point of personal privilege and asked that it be placed on the journal that he protested against the dallying tao tics of the opposition of the minority which opposed prohibition measures.
 Senator Calvert instantly was on his feet and declared that the Senator from Washington was misstating the question when he referred to those voting against the second reading as the minority for it was a fundamen- tai principle of parliamentary practi- ces that the majority rule, and the majority had spoken in this case.
 Senator Going asserted that the statment of Senator Greenhouse was unfair and unjust inasmuch as it re- ferred to the majority as eighteen had voted for the poStponement of the second reading.
 President Lundy then ended the de bate by declaring all the discussion as we'll as the personal privilege to be out of order.
 After the noon hour Senator Bur gess concluded his remarks in opposi- tion to motion to indefinitely post bone the Cazort bill which repeals the mine run act so far as Johnson and a part of Logan county is concerned He was followed by Senator Wagoner. who told of conditions at mines, and said he had gained his opposition to a repeal of the Mine run law at first hand Senator Calvert closed the de bate and declared that if this act passed it meant that the mine run law governing the balance of the state would be inactive, for it could not be made unlawful to mine coal cer- tain way in one section of the state, and not so in another, under the class legislation clause. Senator Burgess appealed to Ae Senat'rS to permit the operators to male opCi al contracts with the miners, statin whetI "" not they would operate nder line run act. The vote again. indefinite postponement of the Cazort bill, so that it may come up on it's merits was;
 Aye-Bush, Cabiness, Calvert, Fer guson, Garrett, Going, Harris, Toler, Wagner. White. Mr. President-11.