Arizona republican., 1912-05-29
Debate Over Jacobs Board of Control Bill Added to the Climatic Discomforts of a Phoenix Day at the Capitol.
BATTLE RACED
 THROUGHOUT DAY
Indications Bill Will Pass House and Will Then at Last Be Sacrificed Along With the Purchasing De, partment Measure.

The temperature at the capitol building, according to the weather man. was hanging around the hum dred mark yesterday. But in a legis- latiVe sense, particullrly in the house side of the building, it seemed about two hundred and twelve in the shade. and this as every scientist knows, is the boiling point
 Well, that accurately describes the condition of the statesmen Some of them were almost boiling; others were quite so. This last statement is particularly true with reference to the Jacobs purchasing agent bill. or the bill of control IS it is gen orally known. This bill sent more caloric waves hustling through the house chamber than have been felt there is a blue moon; and the super heated air had not quit vibrating when at last the gavel fell and it was all over for the duy
 It is a funny situation with refer ence to this bill It is not at all certain it will ever pass-that is that it will pass both houses In
 fact the best bets are on the other side For one thing the governor doesn't want it That doesn't make a great deal of difference so far as the house is concerned. but it makes a vast difference in the senate In the senate a majority, as is fairly well known. is generally ready to do Hunts bidding; and for the most
 part it doesn't make d great degl of difference what the merits of the proposition are. The senators are
 there to uphold the hands of the executives" and they are about the greatest little upholders anybody ever saw They admit it and are proud of the fact
 ! But about the house. The scrap on the Jacobs bill started early in the afternoon and lasted almost until
 the hour for adjournment. And when the smoke had drifted away from the sory field and the net results were summed up it was found that Jacobs and his followers had achieved a vic tory-a decisive victory as far as it went But as intimated above it will likely go no farther than the senate.
 Saxon started the trouble when the bill came up for second reading. He said it was not in the governors
 call-that nothing about a board of
 control is mentioned in that immor- tai document He said the only i thing this bill does, anyway, is to change the personnel of the board of i control and he was against any such proposition. He thought such q mea- | r,F l 1 eration of such a dignified body as 1 the house-and much more to the same effect. winding up with mo-
 tion to indefinitely postpone the mea- sure.
 Mir. Rabbit led the fight for the bill. He said there was no disposition l to cast reflections on the governor nor on anybody else: that the bill was offered because it was believed l to be such a measure as would meet | the needs of the state. Also, he scored MT. Saxon rather severely, whom he accused of being ignorant l of the amendments that had been
 made in committee and having fram-
 ed an opposition to the bill that did not fit it in the form in which it 1 came before the house. MT. Bab-
 bitt also strongly cOntended that the 1 bin does come within the purVieW of the governors message, and called attention to the section creating a 1 purchasing agent It may be men toned here that the governor in his call stipulated that one of the things done by the legislature should be the massage of a bill providing for such an official
 "The senate has eventually come to the idea of purchasing board to have charge of the purchases for the state." MT Jacobs said. in speak ing in support of his bill. The Ob- feet of this bill is to furnish a check on the state purchasing agent; and believe anybody who will read this bill fairly will agree that it accom- plishes that object We do not want lu one man power in Arizopa and the senate. in the bill which it has con-
 structed,. has recognized that fact
 MT. Kerr took the floor to defend
 the governor and anybody Would have to admit he did it we'll Also
 he did it vehemently, not to say ram
 pageousIy By this time it was hot lawfully hOt-but when MT. Kerr go through it was a good deal hotter than it had been before. MT Kerr was almost steaming when he s3 , down.
 Kerr said he admired the persis-
 tence of the gentlemen who were
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