Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-13
LegislutiUe Gossip

Another council of defense bill wen
 through the senate yesterday just a
 the close of the days session. It wal
 numbered 17 and was assumed to com,
 from the committee on appropriations
 It was pretty close to being copy O.
 council bill 5, which had just beer
 killed in the house, yet had a couple
 of very different clauses. The counci
 is to consist of nine members appoint
 ed by the governor, by and with tn;
 advice and consent of the supervisors
 of their home counties. The governor
 and attorney general are ex-officiC
 members. The council shall choose its
 own chairman, vice-chairman and sec
 retaTy. Provision is made of county
 councils and for their support. Claridgt rlet an official cat out of the bag by
 stating that word had been received
 from Washington that the plan of hay
 ing a member from each county was
 considered savoring too much of area
 representation, not representation by
 industries, as is desired by the govern
 ment As another member made ex
 pressiOn, The council proposed would
 be nothing but another legislature.
 Wilkinson delayed the rush to jam the bill through by securing insertion of paragraph giving the council au- thoTity to initiate work toward the AmericaniZation of aliens and apprO- priating S10,000 toward the initial ex- penses. He favored the new measure, but tried unsuccessfully to have strick- en the provision that not more than two members should be from the same county, passing his action on an ex- pression of the governors that there should be three members from Mari copa county. When the matter finally came to a vote there was not an ad- verse voice. The house had slouched along the whole afternoon, waiting for the bill to come over, even though Walton, possibly the greatest orator ical offender of the body, implored his colleagues in a half hour address to "Cut out the talking and get busy"
 After days of weary disputation, the house finally passed the anti-vagabond- age bill by a vote of g to 9. The Hunt coterie stood by their opposition to the last, though deserted for the time being by Walton and Vaughn, who had helped to place in the mea- sure an extraordinary section refe-- ring to the operations of corporations, called upon to operate at full speed. The votethat favored free continuance of loafing included, Eddy, Edwards, Flake. Foster, Francis, Houser, Marsh and Mckay The Interpolation is de- clared by lawyers absolutely unconsti- | optional. So to the bill has been add i ed a provision providing that if any i section of the measure be found uncon- | stitutional in the courts the action shall not affect the rest of the act. Representative Marsh's bill confis- eating vehicles used in the transpor- ] tation of intoxicants went down as soon as it was presented to the sen ate. The judiciary committee had re- | ported it outside of the governors call and so it was killed-11 to 6. | There was some post mortem argu- ment, in which Sutter averTed that no salaried lobbyist shall influence my vote" In the gallery at the time, an interested spectator, was T. K. Mar shall of Tucson, who was understood to have had some interest in the mea- sure. Mrs. Marsh, however, stated the bill was based purely upon protests ! received from the war department that soldiers had been getting far too much smuggled booze in her home town of Nogales
 The senate also killed the bill for i creation of an orphanage commission, something that had been passed by the house after a season of oratory and of feminine lobbying. It also seemed outside the call.
 Both bodies passed a memorial ask ing that the Grand Canyon be created national park on lines suggested by bill lately introduced in congress by Senator Ashurst.
 Inc Vaughn bill, that abolished the necessity for umerOusly-signed n0mi- nation petitions. passed the house, but died as soon as it struck the senate. l-Concerning it's origin is an interesting story, interesting whether true or oth- erwise It is to the effect that the measure was evolved by members of the Hunt clan who were fearful their chief might determine to go once more with his pitcher to the gubernatorial we'll It is thoroughly understood that Hunt and his immediate court have determined he shall not run. NBut here | has appeared a strong probability that the labor element would nominate him, willy nilly, and that the petitions would come to the state house in such strength that the gratified one honOred ! finally would consent, in the belief he was indeed the true choice of the peO- pie. But this study in psychology has Jailed in it's object and no bread will be taken this fall from the mouths of | the petition circulatOrs. Whether the inner circle fears are to assume real | ity probably will be determined large | ly by the extent of the pro-lIunt reso- lutions expected to emanate from the Arizona Federation of Labor session at Miami next month.
 The coluncil of the Salt River Valley | Water Users association has offered the legislative expression of an opin- | ion that the enforcement Of an anti vagrancy law should be left with the county officers, in cooperation with the state council of defense and the employment service of the federal 0e- pertinent of labor. It is believed that | good law on the subject would drive