Arizona republican., 1912-05-30

tee recommended the passage of the anti-lObbying bill.
 The mines and mining committee gave the same recommendation to the state geologist bill: and the bill pro- viding an appropriation to pay the commissions recently appointed to pick a site for an Arizona exhibit at the San Francisco and San Diego expositions. The committee on state accounting also recommended the passage of the bill providing for pub licity in the matters of expenditures of public money.
 A bill of general interest was in troduced this marning by the appro- priations committee. It provides for preliminary steps looking to the building of an addition to the Capitol. The bill provides that the board of control shall secure bids which shall be turned over to the next legisla- ture.
 There was also a bill for the regu- latiOn of insurance and another pro viding that the salary of the superin- tendent of the industrial school shall be fixed at $25OO. The assistant is to receive $500.
 Following the second reading of q large number of bills the bill relating to the transfer of money to the state treaSurer's office was ordered to the Judiciary committee for consideration. This action followed the statement that the bill does not come under any section of the governors call
 The house then went into commit tee of the whole with Representative Ball in the chair
 Things went smoothly for awhile. giving no indication of the troubles MT. Ball was to have later The bill providing for q court commissioner first came up. This caused no dis sension and was recommended to take it's regular course. The semi-monthly pay day bill, too. was sent to the engrOssing committed
 The senate state treasurer bill and three cent fare bill went to the cal endar of the committee of the whole as did also the house bill relating to the state examiner and the bill re- lating to highways.
 The bill relating to the supervision of banks was reCommitted as there were several matters that seemed to be superfluous and ambiguous.
 Then came the state geologist bill, which gave the members d chance to warm up for the real doings which came a little later. The bone of con- tention regarding this measure was the question of compensation. Some of the members thought the state geO1ogist should be paid fair sized salary; some thought he should get a small salary and some thought he should get no salary at all. Maddock said a state geologist bill had already been passed and he thought it would be good thing to recommend it. This remark was treat ed as too frivolous for serious con- sideration
 Captain KeIton thought the state geologist is a sort of fifth wheel to i the wagon, anyway. and he thought Arizona could worry along without it without any trauble whatever. He thought the university is taking good care of the duties that would devolve upon such an officer and he could not see the use of an extra official. Somebody called the captains at tention to the fact that the bill would create no additional expense
 Then whats the use of it?" de- manded the captain.
 There was more discussion-plenty of it. after which the bill was sent back to the committee on mines and mining.
 Then the bill providing for paying the expenses of the gentlemen who will make up the commissions to visit San Diego and San Francisco was taken up and discussed. Mir Bradner said he thought this bill necessary as the matter of an exhibit would be taken care of by another legislature. The measure was | laiu on the table