H. B. No. 178 read second time by title and referred to Judiciary Committee. H. B. No. 174 read third time. Call of house demanded. Roll call. Absent-Aspinwall, Kemp, Packard-3. Upon motion, further proceedings under call of the house were dispensed with. The bill was placed upon its final passage, and passed Coun. cil by the following vote: Ayes-Edwards. Jones, Kemp, Lake, Nugent, Scott, Mr. President-6. Noes-Aspinwall, Babbitt, Dunlap, Lake, Packard-5. REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEES. Mr. President-Your Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills beg leave to report that they have examined C. B. 29, 95, 9, 62, 80, and find same correctly enrolled and now in the hands of the Governor. F. T. ASPINWALL, Chairman. Mr. President-Your Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed bills beg leave to report that they have examined C. B. No. 83, and find same correctly engrossed. F. T. ASPINWALL, Mr. President-Your Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills beg leave to report that they have examined C. B. 78, 89 and find same correctly engrossed. F. T. ASPINWALL, Chairman. C. B. No. 89 read third time, blanks filled in, placed upon its final passage. Call of house demanded. Roll call. Absent-Kemp and Nugent-2. Further proceeding under call of house were dispensed with. The bill was placed upon its final passage, and defeated by the following vote: Ayes-Aspinwall, Davis, Dunlap, Edwards, Mr. Presi dent-5. Noes-Babbitt, Jones, Kemp, Lake, Nugent, Packard, Scott-7. C. B. No. 83 was read third time, placed upon its final passage, and was defeated by the following vote: Ayes-Edwards, Lake, Nugent, Scott-4. Noes-Aspinwall, Babbitt, Davis, Dunlap, Jones, Kemp, Packard, Mr. President-8. C. B. No. 78 was read third time, and upon motion, the further consideration was indefinitely postponed. C. B. No. 17. the motion to suspend rules to consider engrossed, was lost by the following vote: Ayes-Aspinwall, Babbitt, Edwards, Kemp, Lake, Nugent, Packard-7. Noes- Davis, Dunlap, Jones, Scott, Mr. President-5. C. B. No. 77 read third time, placed upon its final passage, and defeated by the following vote: Ayes-Aspinwall, Babbitt, Edwards, Jones, Kemp, Lake---6. Noes-Davis, Dunlap, Nugent, Packard, Scott, Mr. Presi dent-6. Call of the house demanded.. Roll call. Absent-Jones and Kemp. Absentees reported present. Further proceedings under call of the house dispensed with. H. B. No. 71 was taken up, and the vote by which same was defeated was reconsidered. The bill again placed on its final passage, and passed by the following vote: Ayes-Aspinwall, Babbitt, Davis, Dunlap, Edwards, Jones, Kemp, Lake, Nugent, Packard, Scott, Mr. President-12. REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEES. Mr. President--Your Committee on Roads and Ferries beg leave to report that they have examined House Bill No. 94, and respectfully recommend that it do not pass. WILLIAM H. LAKE, Chairman of Committee. Mr. President-A majority of your Committee on Judiciary beg leave to report that they have examined H. B. No. 92, and respectfully recommend that it do pass. B. A. PACKARD, Mr. President--Your Committee on Agriculture beg leave to report that they have examined C. B. No. 60, and respectfully recommend that it do pass. HENRY E. KEMP. Chairman of Committee. Mr. President-Your Committee on Irrigation beg leave to report that they have examined H. B. No. 114, and return same without recommendation. THOS. DAVIS, Chairman of Committee. H. B. No. 71 ordered to have a third reading, read third time, placed upon its final passage and passed Council by the following vote: Ayes Babbitt, Davis, Dunlap, Edwards, Jones, Kemp, Lake, Nugent, Packard, Scott, Mr. President—11. Message from the Governor. Territory of Arizona, Executive Office. PHOENIX, Arizona, March 21, 1895. To the Honorable the Legislative Council: I have this day signed and approved Substitute Council Bill No. 20, an Act to protect the interests of live stock producers. Council Bill No. 29, an Act to prescribe the manner of selecting and summoning Grand and Trial jurors for the District Courts, while exercising the the same jurisdiction as is vested in Circuit and District Courts of the United States. Council Bill No. 87, an Act making provisions for the expenditure of money derived from the support of Indian prisoners, sentenced by Territorial Courts. Council Bill No. 93, an Act relating to the qualification of electors in incorporated cities. Respectfully, LOUIS C. HUGHES, Governor. H. B. No. 156, No. 168 and No. 148 were ordered to have a third reading. A recess was taken for thirty minutes. Called to order. Message from the House: PHOENIX, March 21, 1895. Mr. President-I am directed by the House to inform the Council that it has passed C. B. No. 58, an Act to create the C. D. REPPY, Chief Clerk. REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE. Mr. President-Your Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed bills beg leave to report that they have examined C. B. 58 and find same correctly enrolled, and now in the hands of the Governor. Message from the Governor. F. T. ASPINWALL, Chairman of Committee. Territory of Arizona, Executive Office. PHOENIX, March 21, 1895. To the Honorable, the Legislative Gouncil: I have this day signed and approved Council Bill No. 80, an Act to amend Paragraph 693, Section 45, Chapter 6, Title XV, of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, Council Bill No. 9, an Act to amend Section 1, of Act No. 15, of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Arizona. Respectfully, L. C. HUGHES Governor. H. B. No. 114, motion to give third was lost by the following vote: Ayes-Aspinwall, Davis, Jones, Packard, Mr. President-5. H. B. No. 92 was taken up: placed on final passage. Mr. Scott raised the point of order that the bill was not properly engrossed. Mr. President ruled that the point of order was not well taken, inasmuch that the Council ordered the bill to a third reading. Mr. Scott requested that the following protest be spread on the minutes. The request was granted: Mr. President-I hereby enter my solemn protest against the ordering of a roll call on the passage of House bill No. 92, on the grounds that it is improperly engrossed, which makes it possible to change and alter the same as to amount of appropriation and other material particulars. J. B. SCOTT. The bill then passed by the following vote: Ayes-Aspinwall, Davis, Dunlap, Edwards, Jones, Packard, Mr. President-7. Noes-Babbitt, Kemp, Lake, Nugent, Scott-5. Report of Special Investigation Committee was read as fol· lows: To the President of the Council and the Speaker of the House of the Legislative Assembly: Gentlemen-Your Joint Committee, appointed under House Joint Resolution No. 2 for the purpose of examining the Territorial Institutions of the Territory of Arizona, and the officers of said Territory beg leave to report as follows: The committee visited the University of Arizona, at Tucson, and we are pleased to say that, in our opinion, the money appropriated by the Territory and the General Government is being honestly expended. |