Arizona republican., 1921-02-04

divorce by requiring that only inter locutory decrees in divorce cases may be entered, not to be made final until after the lapse of year from the filing of the action Judge Phillips. the intro ducer of this bill, at some length ex- plained the need of it as a remedy for the abuses that had brought the pres ent divorce law into disrepute.
 Mrs. Bushs bin giving to women the privilege of acting as jurors was frowned upon by the committee not withstanding an eloquent plea by her in its behalf. That privilege, she said, would be a part of woman's educatior for citizenship. She herself had served as a justice of the peace and surely women were as capable of filling the minor role of jurors.
 The bill making more rigid the law against dog poisoning by increasing the penalty and adding the punishment of imprisonment was fayorably recom- mended.
 The bill apportioning the expense of erecting division fences was recom- mended for defeat, and % was the measure providing for an amendment of the law relating to the foreclosure of chattel mortgages, on the ground 1 that it proposed an abrogation of a contract.
 The last two bills considered were favorably reported. One provides for the dissolution of special road districts; the other was the bill for the suppress sion of prostitution.
 A Correction
 | It is here proper to make a correc- l ton of an error of names in an ac- count day before yesterday of the ap-
 pearance before the house committee 1 of the whole of an advocate of the Sunday observance bill and an advo-
 cate of the anti dancing bill. It was | st hn yCq {.nr
 Mead It was. in fact, Rev. Mir. Benton of the Seventh Day Adventists who appeared against the Sunday bill and 1 Gordon Mead of the Gospel Army who spoke for the latter bill.
 The following new bills were brought | into the senate:
 Senate bill Fl, by MT. Hedricl1, abol-
 ishing professional boxing in Arizona 1 but permitting amateur bouts in which
 no prizes are hung up
 Senate bill 72, by MT. Hedrick, re- quiring that checks accompanying bids
 for public work shall be certified by
 cashiers of local banks.
 Three bills were brought in by the
 committee on appropriations: An emer- | gency appropriation of $500 for the of flee of the state auditor; an appropria- tion of $2.sS7.50 to pay the salaries oi attaches of the state fair for the year l 1919, and an appropriation of $6,32S fol
 
 reason of the enlarged facilities at the home for the care of additiona pioneers. =s |
 Senate bill IS, by Mr. Morgan. ap-
 propriating S75,000 for the construction of a road from Williams to Clarkdale | Senate bill 79. by MT. Lines, approp' riating $1,075.s0 to pay the balance O the salary of Peder Benson as state apiarist.
 ! Senate bill so. by Mir. Saunders
 amending the water code.
 Senate bill S1, by MT Saunders, pro
 viding for county high schools il counties of the fourth class. | Substitute for senate bill by MT Burton, ''offenses against stock raisers Compromise Stock Measure Senate bill threatens to disturb th'
 harmony between sheep and cattlemen
 It placed particularly drastic restric tions upon moving bands of sheep an' a great deal of feeling between thu representatives of the two industrie had been worked up. But for nor than a week concessions have beel } passing and finally a bill was evolved , that it is thought the senate can b l brought together upon. Sheep will no
 be allowed in so-called cattle countr. Z to finger about waterholes, but mus be moved as eXpeditiously as possibl along trails through such country Tn rate of speed fixed is three milse day The following bills were passed b, r the senate: s House bill 16, removing from mem
 bers of the legislature the disabilit,