Arizona state miner., 1927-02-05
WOMAN MEMBER
FROM YUMA KILLS /. {
MATRON BI..'..... !. !.
Mrs. Nellie T. Bush of Yuma Ccrx' :
Makes Personal Investig&t.o. -.l.i
Turns Down Bill.

A deep-dyed scandal sur~(1~
the conduct Of the female dopa s1a
Of the state prison at Flo o,9oe
been beautifully punctured u.
clusion reached that there Is no sc,
OF q special law appointing q m
to look after the morals of The We !.
prisoners.
These were the principal rcsy-..9
a spectacular session Of tslc
house held Wednesday aftaxae1
which certain bill Intro sl;.
Mrs. Vernettie O. Ivy Of l&a
county went down to deeeGe \.
mittee of the whole
The session was held bafoea
| leries overflowing with the z..
ship Of women's clubs frcrl t.
both far and near. They had c.. it.
support Mrs. Ivy in her de~l.,,.l ....
the state provide a matrcn ao
ence to guard against visita,.. ,
the women prisoners by pors0
had no business in the wor7-
ters.
But for the attitude os
/ VVO1-lStIl ~l2lCIlOCA. Tile OiIl
passed, but after. Mrs. Nellie +
OF Yuma, had given her vez5a
house decided that if a mace. .4-.y
really necessary it was az e
warden to appoint one-nct ~
lature.
The bill was killed on tic
that it was superfluous le3.s.e.-s
AS far as the limited scan0al 31
ence was concerned, mattec teao
Republican press had been
up, there was nothing or ve-y ce
nothing to it, Mrs. Busa d-e&
She had gone to Florence anG
an entire day investigating IL @
OF these rumors, she said Gao I'll
found of concrete natw1sc 80
statement from Mexica.l
serving time for murder tar
time the quarters had been v.f
colored man. Other prisoA 4,
ever, held that they knew sres''
such goings-on = that II aarr{
man had gained entrance b.
by night they had been
lected.
|
little incident which vergcd
theatrical. Mrs. Ivy, as . s5s~
the bill, was honored by ha~ 3d.
club women with a large hotg9s F.
flowers placed on her desk L.
midst of proceedings a zaach .ag
and handsome panier Of blos-es v.-.;
carried in and placed on tie
, Mrs. Bush, as sort of fatE4 g.
wish, perhaps, that she, tao. w5l
support the bill. But Ms z
wouldn't have it that way. 6
but firmly, she removed tie Es.ons
from her desk and placed t:a1zl u
speakers desk, saying tsaay -
better there than on Bssa.'
Mrs. Bush then outline
sons for opposing the bill. lie. s-s-.
to the prison, she said, hav -~1 the
women housed in cozy, c
quarters, with everything
make them happy. At th1 .sgsss5e:s
those quarters were sc c3@Sl
that it would be impossible roe Z ~
tron to prevent the ing-cs l.
man who wanted to force q 1-css
by reason of the fact che ss.s
tron's quarters would be aa o2e GIN
instead OF centrally loeate3.
more, the women thernselv
particularly interested 5.
n1atror.
| Mrs. Bush pointed ( ID.
that the prison owns g. rr *
land in scattered tracts aa
ed that a separate builJr.g- ~ IL.
these outside tracts was 1.ao .
needed than the bill before s.se.
Representative Abel :.
session as a hullabaloo o44. Hy
declaring that there were
fol stories of scandalous ne
culated for the purpose q. -
/ pubkc opinion.
Representative Lucy r.
Sa&ta Cruz favored the
grounds that though the -.
lntendent was kind an E.51
man he could never be I, :.4Js....
the Wemen and they couli y.os
to him with their persona :, 1 -
Pickett OF Cochise voicJ 1lss o-~
ion that the bill was Q sans. .7,:.
one, declaring that the gy.e.,3r a~.l
the prison superinterGc
sponsible for the cond-- Is
prison.
Coxson of Cochise +. 3.al
measure on the grounds IT,. ...s
principle was involved
Morgan of Cochise saw - aee4
sity, he said, for sp.t -
superintendent to care
women, pointing out that
also nave to be one OF tA. 5. -
CONTINUED on Page = @