Arizona republican., 1912-06-19

ponement He said the house had made an honest effort to meet the governors demands, but that there was an at tempt a dictatiOn which he resented. We haVepassed more than one bill here" Lynch declared, and at every turn We are met with the declaration that any bill of the kind favored by the house will be vetoed. We don't have to aCcede to this sort of demand, so don't let's do it."
 WhippEa said he favored the bill be- cause of the absolute necessity of talk ing care of the children at the indus trial school.
 MT. SaXon spoke in opposition to Lynch He said he had experienced none of the dictation that had been re ferred tO and believed, because of the necessities of the case, the senate bill should bc passed. There were some other speeches. after which the bill was indefinitely postponed, 19 to 12.
 The pure food bill was then taken up and passed by the vote of 21 to 10.
 The senate suicide" bill was received with applause. It was read and re- ferred. as was also the bill relating to publicity of campaign contributions.
 The bill providing for a five per cent. tax on aNpress companies was read the third time and passed without division.
 The senate bill prohibiting the cOllec- tiOn of fees from the state, county. tax commission or corporation commission in suits to which they are parties was read the third time and passed without division.
 ht y;y,t tI,5 N1x self into committee of the whole, with Harry Johnson of MaricOpa county in the chair.
 The senate suicide" bill providing for the abolition of the upper branch of the legislature was made the subject of as much comedy as the represen- tatives ~ou1d think of and was recom- mended for passage as amended.
 After the house rose the bill was laid on the table.
 The first. work of the afternoon in the house was the passage of the senate bill providing for the transfer ence of fees from the custody of the clerk Of courts to the treasury
 The much discussed highway fran chise bill came up next. The confer ence report on this bill was adopted.
 The board of control bill came up next on a motion by Johnson that the report of the conference commit. tee be adopted This provoked the old antagOnism to the purchasing agent idea, though MT. Johnson argued on behalf of the bill that it was a perfectly good measure since it was designed to make the board democratic throughout The confirma. tion of the report was opposed by Jacobs and others However, the re- port of the conference committee was adopted and then. the senate having already turned down the report. Dew conference committee was ap. linted
 The house again went into com mittee of the whole with MT. John son in the chair. Senate bills relat- ing to campaign contributions and permitting municipalities to sell real estate and personal property were recommended for passage. The com mittee then rose and it's report was adopted. The rules were then sus- pended and both bills were passed on roll call.
 The senate cOncurred in the house amendment to the pure food bill, the amendment relating to the amount of the appropriation for the state lab oratOry The bill was passed and sent to the expressing committee for the insertion of the amendment.
 A number of reports including the house action on the senate suicide bill were sent to the senate where they were filed.
 The house concurred in the amend ment to the eminent domain bill.
 In the forenoon the senate made quite a record in the final passage of bills which had been considered in the committee of the whole the day before. These bills are as follows:
 The bill providing for the pubica- tion of the proposed constitutional amendments and initiative and refer endum petitions.
 The bill providing for the granting of franchises over public highways to public service corporations by county boards of supervisors.
 The bill permitting cities to sell real and personal property.
 The bill relating to eminent do- main.
 The bill making an appropriation for the bank examiners office.
 The bill providing pay for can vassing the returns of 1911 primary.
 The bill making an appropriation for the state auditors office.
 The tax levy bill.
 One bill failed of passage. This was the bill relating to fees for incor- porations The bill provided that cer- tain corporations not for profit should not be required to pay fee and this provision failed to receive the ap- proval of a number of the senators. The board of control bill got into good deal of a tangle at the sen ate's forenoon session and wound up by being sent a second time to con- ference The first conference com mittee reported in favor of making the citizen member of the board an elective officer and in raising his salary from s2400O a year to $3000 President Cunniff said that the change from an appointive to an elective of flee was so drastic he would have to oppose the conference report. There were seven other senators who op- posed the elective idea, and the pres