Arizona republican., 1912-05-14
Much Heat and More Hard Work Had the Effect of Causing Legislators to Discard Their Winter Coats
BOTH BRANCHES
 DID GOOD WORK
But the House, Under the Direction of Jacobs, Took the Record With Twenty three Bills Recommended for Passage

The Arizona legislature had it's coat off yesterday both figuratively and literally It is violating no con fidonce to say that it is not winter any more. But leaving out the mat ter of climate yesterday was one day when the members kept warm work ing The senate probably worked just as hard as the house but it was mostly in the cultivation of it's law crop while the house was busy har- vesting The house garnered ten bills most of them important measures, one being a constitutional amend ment, while the senate passed only half so many and considered but four in the whole committee against g in the house. This was a record for the session and was due in large part to Chairman Leon Jacobs who kept things moving at a lively rate. Jacobs was determined to make some kind of a record during this session and succeeded.
 The senate bills passed were: Elm ployers liability law. pensiOning school teachers, and a bill for a new high way and engineering system Also it acted favorably on the memorial for killing the commerce court and the memorial for the relief of south ern Arizona land grant settlers. The drainage bill. new primary law. and the Phoenix paving bill took up most of the time in the whole committee Of the senate.
 The house bills passed included: for the creation of land board; the constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of school lands; the survey of public lands; butchers license; Lewis semi-monthly pay day bill, creation of state board of eQuaiza- tion, a number of minor bills and the bill regulating the speed of autos on the public highway. A ludicrOus error occurred in this bill but it was discovered in time to corrected, other wise one mile in six hours would hereafter have been the official speed limit
 The county classification bill was disposed of finally after three days of hard work by the committee and then things moved rapidly. Fun came up over the county division bills but after the foam was blown away the body found itself facing serious con sideratiOn. As things now stand Hunt county seems we'll along in the mak- ing, the bill being recommended for passage and now in the hands of the expressing committee. along with 154 for sicing WinsIOw off Navajo coun- ty and giving it to CoconinO.
 It was in the midst of this pro ceeding that Maricorl narrowly escaped the scalpel of the law sur geons. The Orange county bill came up rather unexpectedly and caught both friends and opponents off guard. The house seemed to think it was dO- ing its friends a big favor and hay ing a lot of fun with it's enemies, so recommended the bill for passage, saying that anyhow if there was go- ing to be any county division why not chop them all up and do it thorough ly. The original bill had been re- modeled to give Orange more valua- tiOn and area, by making the Salt river the boundary line, thus sitting it east and west. That threw Tempe into the new county, where it does not want to be, and was the thing that saved the county from dismem- berment. When the report of the committee came before the whole house, Johnson took up a fight for Tempe and the result of it all was that the bill. which had been recOm- mended for passage, was sent to the junk pile instead of the expressing committee.
 And in the shuffle. Copper Queen county went by the board.
 THE SENATE
 The constitutional mandates com mittee reported senate bill 167, con- stitutiOnal mandate respecting court commissioners and it was given pre- ferred position on the calendar of the committee of the whole
 The county affairs committee rec commended the indefinite postpone ment of senate bill 135: the munici- pal corporations committee recom- mended the same action on house bi SS and the passage of house bill 109 Senate bill 16S was recommended fol passage and both were sent to com mittee of the whole.
 Final Action.
 Senate bill 135. court house bonds for Apache county. was indefinitel! postponed without division.
 House bill SS. permitting towns t' go in debt to 9 per cent of thei valuation for public utilities, wa indefinitely postponed without di vision.
 Senate bill S3. employers liabilit.