Arizona republican., 1919-01-29
WOMEN'S 5 WAGE
 BILL LOSES OUT IN LOWER HOUSE
Measure Indefinitely Post poned After Amendment to s16Is Offered In Effort
 to Save It from Wreckage

The minimum wage bill, which it was apurcheuded would cause more or less friction in the legislature, went off the calendar yesterday in circumstances that leave no doubt that whatever source ol contention it might have .con. has been definitely and perma ueuuy removed. By the decisive vote m the house of l5 to q, a motion tU end Che bill to he enrolling and en- .rossrg committee and 10 order it for hrd reading was defeated.
 This action followed recommenda- ! pn in the committee Of the whole fuI tH. indefinite postponement of the bih .E a vote of 70 to II. II was the first blll taken mp in the committee at the morning session. Its author, Mrs. Nc Kay. moved recommendation that .te bin pass She spoke very hrierlS Ia ts favor
 There was a silence on the other ldc so ominous that MT. Eddy one or tho supporters of the bill, moved an mcndWcut to substitute SIS for S20 he bin having originally provided that he minimum wage for women should be S20 a week Mir Eddy said that ne was inclined to think that that figure Aas too high, It was significant thal MT, Sealey. another supporter of the measure. seconded the amendment: ~dll nothing from the other side Int amendment was defeated hy a vote of [ to 70.
 Fate Was Settled
 IT there had been any doubt in any quarter regarding the fate of the bill, here should have been none after that. 'J was settled That the house by de- .idod majority had determined that there should be no minimum wage bill his session.
 Mr7. Mckay sent to the clerks desh several documents, among them letters rom women in different parts of the tate USSlns the passage of the bill. There Was also quotation from Ed ward A. Filcne in favor of minimum wage These were read. It was then that NIr. Lines moved a recommenda- uon for indefinite poStponement
 When the bill was called up after the committee rose Mir. Nyne spoke strong Iv and ably in it's behalf He had heen surprised, he said, by the proposal td 'educe the minimum wage and by the acceptance by the friends of the bill of ho proposal, He was again surprised when that amendment was defeated md he was thereby convinced that the opposition wanted to defeat the bill as whole. He entered upon an eloquent tribute to women for what they had done in the war and the capacity they Lad shown in all walks of life.
 Resent Computation
 Mir Kimbal, in opposing the bill said that he was speaking for the wonI. n whom it was designed to benefit. Ht had taken pains on his recent visit tC tucson to inquire of working girls anC women, and without exception they had toped that the bin would not be passed And he said that they had especiallS resented tho imputation against work ing girls as q class in the statement by he advocates of the bill that it wa! intended to guard them against temp, '1tion 10 fall into prostitution.
 Mrs. Mckay spoke for the bill anC dr. Barrows voiced an objection against it on constitutional grounds in earnest address for the bill wa made by Mir Delbridge in the cours ul which he said that there had been n, .lmputatiOn against the morals of tn working girls.
 NIT. LillyWhite took new ground sainst the bill He said it had beel demonstrated in the course of castin, 1out tO bring the nations of the worl, together 10 standardiZe wages an, NVihlnG conditions But labor leader Lad found that impossible by reason O '.c vast differences of conditions i dIlierent country, Here was an attemp '' s,andardize wages ii Arizona. Ad H1t,lns that the plan might be success 1I n some parts of the state it woul uc hardship in other parts
 Demands Explanation
 While the roll was being called o tho last motion, Mir, Galhraith desire To explain his vote against the bill an
 did so under eleven heads, embFau 'E all the arguments that had been or
 ed against the measure. His las
 son was Because l refuse to yiel Jinute to Inc Barbary pirates"
 Mr. DeIoridge was at once on his fet % demand an explanation of this pal ol hc eNplanatiOn Did the .gentlema rom MaricOpa mean that the advc '4tos of inc bill were pirates? Mr Ga caith meant nothing of the sort. Il Lad in mind only the remarks of one the advocates of the bill who said ths he dread of bolshevism was an argl wcut In favor of the passage of the bi Mr. Galbraith meant that he woul ield nothing to the l. W. ".
 Mir. Eddy renewed the amendment | lad made in the committee Of u whole to substitute Sl6 for s26, and ( 10ll call that was defeated by a vote i1 10 3.. By a Vote of l3 to T. Mir Nckay's motion to send the bill 10 Il nill to the committee on enrolled ar
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