Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-15
Legislative Gossip

The Marsh bill, enormously reported
 killed one designed to keep booze from
 soldiers by confiscatiOn of the vehicles
 Of transportation, did not have exactly
 clear sailing in the senate, which final
 ly cut out the limitation of "400 miles
 from any military or naval camp" and
 made the act simply cover the state.
 The bill gave Senator 3uth4fold Op-
 portunity for a real speech, in which
 he threshed out bit of the old San
 Diego affair, and he said that certain
 unnamed state officials had been
 guilty of worse than bootlegging in
 furnishing liquor to Arizona soldiers.
 He had intended to offer d resolution
 of inquiry, but had found since cem-
 ing to Phoenix that such action would
 have exposed several more Arizona
 soldiers and made matters worse than
 before. It was not consideration for
 the offiicals that had tied his tongue mot at all. President Claridge also
 heartfeltedly slammed the booze pur-
 veyors, particularly in Tegatd 10 the
 short journey of the Arizona contin-
 gent to Deming, one not too sbcct to find many cases of intoxicatiou among the men. He regretted the evident
 desire of some Of the senators to make the bill less drastic. Claypool inti-
 mated a yearning af.er the wine jars
 of old in quoting from what he called the Book of Cohesion" 70 the effect
 that man who hath no mint julep
 under his vest is sub.ect for com passion. The bill appears safe for eventual passage, though in cutting out the military reference .t may be ad judged not exactly within the call.
 Adjutant General Harris has been | granted leave of absence flor the dura- tiOn of the war" action taken by some
 to mean that his job will be waiting for him at any time. There was sug. | gestiOn that the office now has been appropriated by the legislature as it's own, after the manner of the state reference librarian tenure. and that the 1 governor has no power in the selection of an officer generally considered as near to him as his private secretary. | Harris states he has a national com mission waiting for him., When not on the local job; he is not to draw the salary.
 Last night bets were about 5O-50 whether any Council of Defense bill would be passed. The senate had got | ten together on the subject and had passed bill, No. 17, that seemed satis- factory to all hands. But it was not satisfactory in the house, especially the leading sections. that gave the gov ernor power of appointment of nine members, who with himself and the at torney general should constitute the executive body of the council. The house is attached, however to the ''in | fant legislature' idea and so promptly proceeded to slap it's own leading 1 paragraphs back on the bill, by means of adoption of house bill 26. which calls tor a member from each of the fourteen counties. In addition, senate bin l7 was indefinitely postponed House bill 26 in the senate promptly was beheaded and given new features in the same old leading paragraphs oi the rejected senate bin. Members of the house assert they will adjourn without action before they alter the county representation. In the senate amendments is one that gives S3,OOO to the council for Americanization in- vestigation.
 Campbell's salary and expenses have gone glimmering in the summary de feat in the senate of Wilkinson's bill granting S11 600, including salary and the expenses of both sides of the late judicial encounter. There were re- marks by democratic members that enc salary should be paid and that, ! anyway, Campbell had seen fit to make public rejection of the salary, and enc rejection was enough.
 Speedy action was taken on a bill | introduced by Claypool. understood ! based upon some conditions in his l home town of Miami, making it unlaw ful to harbor slackers or deseI teTs ! from the military service. It passed i both houses in the afternoon session i
 Two eleventh-hour bills were offer | ed in the house. One by O'Neill was ' tor proper care of the eyes of new born children. The other by Green. | called for state control of the manu | fracture and marketing of by-products {. of grain and cotton.
 Possibly by a fluke. the vote of a member, who didn't get the motion l straight in his mind, Houser's l00-per | cent-American miners bill came out of the house committee of the whole l with favorable recommendation, the | vote standing F to 16. That it will | be killed in the house is evident, | though it would stand no ghost of @ | show in the senate. It is even more | drastic than the Kinney S0-per cent | bill that was found unconstitutional | But it gave a fine chance for debate, l along the same old lines of swatting | predatory wealth Johns told of the | difficulty that is being found in his | home county in getting men for rough | labor. in the quarries especially, even | where the English-speaking men are l preferred: This was merely the pre- Jude to a rousing. entertainingly un- grammatical assault upon the mining l companies and few of their maC agers by Mir Foster, who said that, fol ! lowing some unpleasantness at Bisbec l last JuIV hp had worked on the roads !