Show THE CIGARETTE BILL the council discussed it in saturdays session HE IS AFRAID OF HIS GOOSE the re solutions presented by mr ben nr A heated discussion in the council only the council met last saturday alie house having adjourned till monday tho folio wing business was transacted on motion of booth the rules were so changed that whenever a committee has more than one subject upon which it de bires to report it shall ba permissible per to embody such reports in one substitute for 0 F 22 relating to the organization organisation of towns was laid over until monday pending third reading to admit of the printing of a substitute presented by byran the new features of alie law provides that officers of towns shall furnish bonds gives towns the power to establish quarantines provides for imprisonment in default of payment of fines requires clerks to make annual reports provides for the of towns upon the vote of the three fourths of the electors and gives the manner in the affairs ot such towns shall be closed up C F 25 authorizing estates of de cements and minors to be mortgaged or leased in certain cases was again doctored after which it was read a third time and passed pending second reading of II 11 F 19 prohibitive prohibit ine the selling giving or furnishing of tobacco opium or other narcotics to minors and the use thereof by minors bryan presented the following substitute SECTION 1 be it enacted etc that any person who shall sell give or furnish any cigar cigarette or tobacco in any form opium or any other narcotic in any form to any minor under eighteen years of age in this territory shall bo guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not lees than ten nor more than one hundred dollars arc 2 that it shall be unlawful for any minor under eighteen years of age in aliis territory to use any cigar cigarette or tobacco in any form opium or any other narcotic in any form and on conviction thereof shall be fined to any sum not less than five nor more than twenty civo dollars SEC 3 the provisions of this act shall not apply to the use sale giving or furnishing any narcotic made upon the prescription of a regular practicing physician ilsun offered an amendment to make the minor tobacco etc guilty of a dis meanor instead of liable to a fine C C richards was strongly opposed to the amendment as it would allow the juanico or judge to fix a trifling fine which in cases amount to no punishment at all rather than make a barje of the bill he would vote to kill it benner favored striking out section 2 entire but if eliat could not be done he would like to sec the amendment adopt 1 it was as wrong fora man to smoke as a boy and alie bill should be made to include the former he closed by drawing a pathetic picture of a policeman a big club entering alie sacred precincts of a leoine and drabing alie son of fond parents because 1 e had smoked a cigarette oisen approved of mr benners ten ners remarks alie appetite which led the boy to smoke in all probability had been inherited from ins father and was born in his blood and marrow the dealer be punished not the boy bryan coincided with richards that if alie bill was to be weakened as the amendments contemplated it would be better to kill it at once if a boy coald smoke without fear of puni it would bo impossible to find out where lie procured his cigars and the tendency would be to make him a sneak and a liar collett if aliis bill passed the next measure would be a bill to pro hibit alie or using of ice cream to be followed later by a law prohibiting girls from wearing corsets or bustled bustles bust les he said smoking was not a crime and alie boy ano indulged was doing no one any harm in fact the bill in liis opinion was unconstitutional on motion of richards futher consideration of alio bill was postponed until monday adjourned until 2 p m monday |