Arizona republican., 1918-06-02
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Contemplated Law to Check Imaginative Reporters Is Finally Construed to Have
 No Real War Meaning

What is and what is no. "germane" itook up part of the time of both houses of the legislature yesterday in the half-day session. The judi clary committee of the house reported favorably on house bill II which had been rejected by the printing ccm- mittee the day before on the ground that it had not come within the call of the governor for the special session.
 On that ground the judiciary con- mittee unfavorably reported the bill enlarging the scope of the contempt law so as to include imaginative re- porters and editors. MT. Eddy, the author of the bill. said that he could not oppose the finding of the con- mittee. He said that in drawing the bill he was hewing so close to the line that he was not sure that he had not got beyond it and he added that if he should be elected to an other legislature he would introduce such bill and endeavor to have it marked No. l.
 The chaplain in his morning prayer expressed a belief that the evil which MT. Eddy desired to regulate and hold in check had already been overcome. He said that the reporters had con- ducted themselves with circumspec- ton though he regretted that some of the editors were trying to make capital out of things that had TO existence.
 Argue Sabotage Bill
 The same kind Of a controversy arose over Mir. Carriages sabotage bill in the senate. The bill had been reported by the committee without recommendation. This is a measure defining sabotage with agricultural operations and fixing severe pun ishment for it. MT. Winsor moved the indefinite postponement of it on the ground that it was outside the call. He said that there was nothing | in the call that by any construction could be supposed to warrant it. MT. Claypool also expressed objection to it. Messrs. Wilkinson and Hall spoke in favor of the bill and said that the first part of the call could easily be construed as a warrant for the measure. Mir. Winsor's motion was defeated by vote of II to :. Later the committee of the whole rec commended the passage of the bill.
 There was a sitting of the soldiers | civil rights bill in the committee oi 1 the whole which recommended the 1 passage of the latest one, introduced 1 by President Claridge and that all 1 the others be indefinitely postponed ! The Claridge bill was held to be more
 specific than any of the others. Two More in House The house list of bills was in-
 creased by two. One of them is
 an AmericanizatiOn bill, a copy of the
 measure brought into the senate the | day before and the other was a bill | specifically recommended by the gov ernor to give to members of the
 national guard now serving in the national army, credit for continuou:
 service in the guard for the time they l serve in the federal army.
 ! In the committee of the whole there was a further discussion of the bill ! for the relief of the widows of the murdered Graham county officers, as ! it had been amended. Unexpected opposition arose, based on two gen 1 eral grounds. from the nature of tho | inquiries made. One was that at the ] time of the murder the officers wet on other business than that of tho national government. so that theil errand was not e a war errand an( ! the measure. therefore. could not b'
 a war measure. The other objection
 was that either the relief of thu
 widows was the business of thu
 county of Graham or the United States, and not of the state.
 But neither of these views wa numerously entertained for the pas
 sage of the bill was recommends
 by a vote of g to G.
 Both houses adjourned a little be forenoon to ten o'clock Monday morn ing.