Arizona republican., 1912-04-11

pdIlleS on the basis Of their physical valuation.
 Senate Bill 102. by C. E. Wood taxing railroads in the same manner Senate Bill 103. by C. B. Wood providing an excise tax on express companies of I per cent of their gross earnings.
 The last three bills were referred to the finance committee.
 The finance committee reported Senate Bill 46. recommending that il pass as amended It was referred to the committee of the whole The bill is the measure providing for board of equalization on a plan quite diff ferent from the one now in use there being but three members, all appointed by the governor. Senate adjourned until the usual hour this morning
 THE HOUSE
 Immediately after opening. on mo- tion of Mir. Whipple. Champ Clark was invited to drop in and swap political gossip with the lawmakers if he should chance to travel this way
 The labor committee reported re- ferring to the committee of the whole House Bills 42, 43 and A, the rail- road bills considered the day before.
 New Bills.
 The following new bills were in- troduced, read by title and referred:
 House Bill S6. by Linney, to amend civil procedure and the penal code.
 House Bill S7. by Curry. for the transfer of liquor licenses and pro- viding for the refunding of money paid for unused licenses.
 House Bill SS. by Rabbit. permit ting municipalities to bond them selves to amount of nine per cent of valuation for public utilities. on a vote of the people.
 House Bill S9. by Rabbit. pertain ing to registration of electors in in corporated towns.
 House Bill 90. by Mir Barker. to raise salaries of chaplains at prison from $lOO to $500 per year Referred to appropriations committee Through d clerical error the bill as presented carried surplus ciphers making the salary S3O0000 per year. It was cor rected.
 House Bill 91, by Whipple. provid- ing for fixing salaries of county of ficers Read in full, 1000 copies or dered printed and referred to the committee on county affairs.
 The following bills were disposed of under second reading and reference to committee:
 House Bill 4S. Johnson, to pro- hibit trusts. referred to committee on corporations.
 House Bill 70. by Babbitt. creating drainage districts, sent to agricul- ture and irrigation committee.
 House Bill =. by Lynch, for class ifidation of counties, referred to coun- ty and county affairs committee.
 The house went into committee of the whole with Kirke T. Moore in the chair for the further consideration of the brennan public land bill and spent the remainder of the forenoon in it's discussion when the committee rose. reported and asked to sit again at 1:30
 At that hour the committee of the whole resumed with Moore in the chair Another hour was spent m going over the bill by sections The report of the committee was that the bill be referred to q special com mittee to be named by the speaker, 1 The speaker named Linney, Lynch, 1 Babbtt and Graham as such com mittee.
 House Bill 25 was considered and the recommendation was that it do not pass.
 House Bill 5i and House Bill 93 :, were recOmmitted to the banking and ] insurance.
 House Bill 9. Jacobs school land { bill, was next in order but it's con sideration went over until today.
 House Bill 3 is the Phoenix sewer bond bill introduced by Rabbit, on /, whose motion recommendation to XIII ! it was made by the committee. MT | Babott said the attorney general de- ! clared the bill special legislation and i anyhow it made the city debt exceed | the limit provided for in the enabling !! act.