Arizona republican., 1915-06-25

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 lin. Mahoney Newbury Reed. Rich
 ardson. Sweeney. the Speaker-1S
 After this. senate bill No. wa,
 taken up. This is a proposed con struction of the prohibitions constitu- 1 tional amendment to permit the i'm portation by druggists of alcohol to 1 be sold under strict regulation for | medicinal. 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 il. 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 regulat ted by the Volue of their stocks as re turned to the assessor the previous year The maximum amount was re duced to 40 gallons. The discussion of the bill was interrupted hy the re- turn from the house by the additional court bill and further consideration of the prohibition measure went over for the day.
 Semi Annual Payment of Taxes
 The conflict over the bill amend ing the law for the semi annual pay ment of taxes was resumed on the report of the judiciary committee returning the bill to the house with several amendments and also house bill looking to the same end. There was more or less of a jangle and the bill was laid over for the day The principal proposed the payment of the taxes not later than the first Monday of May and the first Mon day of November. the taxes to become payable in each case sixty days before the date when they should be- come delinquent.
 The Opening Session.
 When the house opened in the morning. Messrs. Baker of Gila and Doyle of Cochise were on the floor for the first time in some weeks MT Doyle had been seriously i'll and at one time his life was almost de- spaired of MT. Baker has been de- tained from the session by private business.
 In the course of the morning Chap lain Crutchfield secured the floor and.
 n behalf of the attaches of the house extended to the speaker. the mem bers. and the members of the press an invitation to q picnic to be given at Riverside Park this afternoon. be- ginning at o'clock
 Before the opening the members of the house manifested considerable excitement over an article in The Republican conveying the dismaying intelligence that calico was getting scarce in Phoenix Some of the members. the unmarried ones espec- iaIly. felt that in that event Phoenix was no place for them any longer and favored an immediate adjourn ment. Representative Johns. how ever. hoping that the situation was not as bad as the eXcitable reporter for The Republican had described suggested that the matter be made the subject of legislative inquiry No further action was taken.
 clash between Speaker Brooks and Representative Graham was pre- cipitated by a bill introduced by the former at the request of s. l.. Pattee of the code revision commission sug- gesting an amendment to paragraph 542 of the civil code to make it con form to decision of the supreme court in cases where equitable relief is sought and which requires that all questions of facts shall he submitted to the jury. The su- preme court held that all questions must be submitted in writing, the court having been obliged to return many cases for new trials. Mr. Ora ham objected to the introduction of the bill at this late day, and he es- pecially objected to the consideration of a matter of which the. members knew nothing The bill. which had been advanced through the first and second readings under suspension of the rules. was put on the calendar for the committee of the whole tomor row.
 The bill providing for the salaries of the members of the incorporating department of the corporation com mission was brought up. This bill was designed to supplement the gen eraI appropriation bill. which had cut this department off entirely, provid ing that the salaries of the employees should be paid out of the fund Of S30, 900 appropriated for the expenses of the commission. After a heated debate on the subject of government ed for passage.
 The Senate
 The senate. having disposed of all it's own work. proceeded in leisurely fashion to put away that which the