Arizona republican., 1912-05-05
Fee Bill, Designed to Make Life Luxurious for Wit nesses, Comes to Grief by a Tie Vote Yesterday Morning
SENATE TOOK
 DAY OF REST
Both Houses, Realizing That They Are Near the End of Their Tether, Are Pushing Their Work Rap idly

The house was the center of in- terest yesterday as the senate spent all it's daylight in committee work and did nothing in open session until evening.
 The house received two new bills, advanced many others to committees and spent the rest of the day in final readings and final action indefinitely postponing a duplicate of the Ken lucky law, killing the witness fee bill after q hard fight which fur nished the only excitement of the day and passing eight bills, some of which were very long ones The most notable were the mine inspec- ton bill, the one providing for drain age districts and the nine hour law for women
 THE HOUSE
 The house began business with committee reports as follows:
 Public lands-That house bill 107, notice of sale be referred to jul dietary committee and that house bin 125 leasing school land, be referred to committee of the whole.
 Judiciary committee-That house bin 13O recovery of attorney fees, do pass.
 House concurred in senate amend ments to house bill A, full train crew. and house bill 54, dry farming
 New Bills.
 House bill 174 by Saxon, lowering the legal rate of interest from F peI cent to 10 per cent.
 House bin 175 by Brooks. authoriz- ing the corporation commission tc use the unexpended surplus in tho railway commission fund.
 Second Reading and Reference House memorial Colo. Indian re- servation to petition and memorial House bill 9 to committee o whole.
 House bill 149 regulating fee' county and precinct officers to coun' ty affairs committee.
 House bill 152 prevent employer: demanding men to sever membership in societies. to labor committee. House bill 153 prevent false induce ments to laborers by advertising, t' labor committee.
 House bill 154 Navajo county dIVl sion bill to county affairs commit tee House bill 155 tax to support stat sanitary board to live stock com mittee.
 House bill 156 to constitutions amendments.
 Final Action
 Senate bill 43 the Worsley bill af fecting foreign corporations by tn Kentucky law clause, was indefinite lv DOstpOned.
 House bill 1O9 to regulate under pround electrical construction. passe bv 2S to ,, Duncan and Gonzales absent. -.... House bill 139 reorganize justic precincts. passed 20 to F. absent Sub house bill 66 hours of employ ment for women, passed 26 ayes Rradner. Lewis, KeltOn, Johnson Graham. Buchanan, Brooks, no.
 House bill A, vital statistics, pass ed. 22 ayes. Jacobson, no. absent House bill 135 payment of Witnes fees was killed by q tie vote II | IT Crofoot absent. It was the chle incident of the morning sessioI Jacobs spoke vigorously against tn measure saying it would cost Mari copa county alone $50.000 yea saxon. Rabbit and Kerr argue against the bill and Maddoclt for it. Motions to recOmmit and to lay o the table were both lost and flns roll call was taken resulting in tn tie. Graham demanded the call the house but it was ruled that T was too late as the vote had bee announced.
 Sub. house bill 102 providing an ar propriation of $5000 to buy lot fC a governors mansion was passed | vote of IS to r after an effort postpone the bill indefinitely.
 House bill TO drainage districts W. placed on final reading and durir that interesting occupation the nous took a recess until 1:30.
 After the noon recess the readli of house bill 70 was continued. TT brethern were slow in assembling ar before the vote was taken the SC ceant-at-arms conducted a rodeo ar when twenty eight of the bunch hf been assembled vote was take only twenty seven had the aye brar on and the other was excused Whl seven of the strays were still in u rush.
 Sub. house bill 75 for establishif supervisorial districts was read u third time and somewhat discuss after which it was passed by a vo of 31 ayes, excused and st afield