Arizona republican., 1912-04-10
Committee Delved and
 Delved But it Finally Had to Give Up the Job
 Without Finding One
 Single Lead.
NOT MUCH ELSE
 DOING YESTERDAY
Day Was Largely Given Over to Hearings by Committees and Visiting by the Members of the Two Houses.

Yesterday was a day of committee hearings rather than legislation at the state capitol. Though a few new bills were introduced. Many bills were advanced to and from commit tees but more of them are hung up pending conclusions that enable re- ports. This is particularly true of the labor committees and the land com mittees, which have important meas ures :o consider The special committee appointed by the house to investigate the ru- mors of "slush fund.- in behalf of the licuor interest reported and was port was that there was nothing to the stories in circulation. and no trace of any money having been used. The matter will probably be heard of no more. The house spent most of the fore noon in discussing MT. Drennan's land bill applying the Carey law to Ari- zona. Consideration was not conelud- ed. The afternoon was spent in a public hearing by the labor commit tee at which most of the members and some of the senators were pres ent. as well as many railroad men. the bills under discussion pertaining tc the operation of railroad trains.
 THE SENATE. The senate sessions were all "shot to pieces yesterday. the body hold ing a short morning session and the afternoon session being broken by frequent recesses and committee meet ings. Some new bills were launched in the morning and two or three oth- CTS in the afternoon but all are in- cluded in the following list:
 Senate bill 91 by Lovin, relating to debts of cities and countes.
 Senate bill 92 by C. B. Wood. pro- viding penalty for circulation of false financial statements by business in- stitutions.
 censing peddlers.
 Senate bill 94 by c. B. Wood. mak- ing issuance of checks where the writer has no funds. to cover, a crime.
 Senate bill 95 by Sims, relating to the practice Of medicine
 Senate bill 96 by Hughes, concern ing the recording of deeds of trust. Lessen expense of recording.
 Senate bill 97 by Hughes. concern ing taxation of building and loan stock.
 Under second reading of bills and reference the following bills were re- ferred to committees as indicated:
 Senate bill S6 to committee on state accounting and methods of business.
 Senate bill s7 to committee on ed- ucation.
 Senate bill ss to committee on la bor
 Senate bill S9 same
 Senate b:I 90 same.
 Senate bill 31 to committee on judiciary.
 House joint resolution to the ap- propriations committee.
 House bill 10 (ecuaI suffrage) to constitutional amendments committee
 Senate bill 69 to private corpora tions committed
 Senate bill 72 same
 Senate bill 43 same
 Senate bill A to constitutional mandates committee
 Senate bill 50 to finance committee.
 Senate bill 51 to private corpora tions committee.
 Senate bill 73 to public health com mittee
 The last five mentioned senate bills 43. 45. 50. 51 and 73. were referred as above after discussion in com mittee Of the whole with MT. Breen in the chair. their consideration com ing ub in connection with 43. known as the Kentucky law, whereby a for eign corporation doing business in the state. forfeits it's rights to do business by appealing any action to the federal courts. All other bills ex- cept e carried clauses of similar pur- port and SO were considered together as to that phase of their merits. Senate bill B is the bill prohibiting the employment of school teachers affected by tuberculosis. Some of the gentlemen wanted to amend it to include suDerintendents and even go further than that but no agreement was reached and it was sent to the committee on public health.
 Resuming the regular session, the Moore suffrage bill was sent to the committee on constitutional amend ments with orders to report it April I23 In the meantime Senator Hughes bill may get ahead of the Moore bill.
 The senate took recess until 2 o'clock to enable some of the com- mittees to work on bills before them. while. the members who were not
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