Arizona republican., 1912-06-14

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 ton, of Cochise, county, were the leaders
 of the opposition to the measure. Lew
 is, in particular, was especially bitter 1 He referred to the militia as tin sol
 diers and made some other remarks 1 that were not at all complimentary. 1 Representative Whipple said that he l would have to vote against the bill His opposition however, was not based
 on any antipathy to the militia, whose
 merit he fully recognized; but. he said | because of the expenses which are
 piling up on the new state, he thought 1 it unwise that this appropriation should be voted at the present time The bill, i however, passed by large majority. It was something of a joke that they | played on Senator Hubbell in the sen | ate yesterday. The judiciary commit tee, of which the genial senator is a member, all "unbeknownst" to him. brought in a rule requiring all senators
 to obtain leave of the president before absenting themselves from the senate Now. it happened that MT Hubben is a delegate to the Chiacgo convention and was desirOus of leaving on the evening train. So, when the resolution was sprung, for once in his life, he betrayed signs of considerable nervous ness. There was some debate on the proposition and MT. Hubbell demanded rather strongly that he be given a chance to examine the rule and bring in a minority report if he should de-
 eide to do SO The senate went through the performance with all the gravity in the world, and it was not for several anxious minutes that Sena- tor HuDbell grasped the fact that it was all joke. A number of compIi- mentary speeches were made just be- fore he left in the evening, Senator
 Cunniff suggesteing that when the
 Roosevelt delegates bolt the convention
 he have a call of the house issued to keep them in their places. There was another humorous affair in the senate yesterday, when Senator Homer Wood unwittingly put one over on Senator Cunniff From Woods
 habit of always voting the way his
 colleague votes he is known as the "Cunniff echo,' but there was one time the "echo" failed to work
 This came when the debate on the school land bill was on. At the ex- pirations of Senator Davis remarks, Wood served notice that he would in all cases invoke the five-minute rule
 that nobody should be permitted to
 use more than the specified time under any circumstances. And a few min
 utes later he did invoke it effectively on c. E. Wood, of Maricopa county It happened that Cunniff was the next speaker and just about the time he got interested in his speech his time expired. Somebody called attention to the rule and though the Maricopa sen ators, against whom the rule had just 1 been invoked, both asked that MT. Gun mfr be given extra time a senator made an objection and he had to take his seat in the midst of a speech that never will be finished.
 In the course of the debate on one of the innumerable bills providing for a constitutional amendment, Senator Willis made a point that was impress sive from it's plain truth. T have al- ways heard that our constitution is the most perfect instrument ever con- ceived," he said. and yet I never heard
 of any legislature-and I don't believe there ever was a legislature-that pro- posed so many amendments as has this"
 Here is the routine work in the sen ate yesterday:
 The governor announced that he had signed the bills relating to railroad, telegraph and telephone tax reports,
 the bill providing for the publication , of the supreme court decisions, and the bill relating to licenses for corpora tions
 There was non-concurrence in the bill providing for correcting the road fund deficit
 The bill relating to the payment of costs in cases to which the corpora tion commission and the tax commits sion are parties was sent on it's regular 1 course
 The bill providing for the publica- tion of proposed constitutional amend mants went to the committee of the whole.
 1 The two per cent insurance bill was sent to the enrolling and expressing
 committee.
 | The bill relating to pandering was amended in harmony with the confer 1 ence committees recommendation and
 sent to the erolling and expressing committee.
 The bill providing for the publication | of the session laws was recommended | for passage.
 The eminent domain bill was placed
 on the calendar of the committee of the | whole
 l The boulevard bill was sent to the governor: the bill providing for clerks for the board of control was put on | the calendar; the fish and game bill was sent again to conference; the bill | fixing the time for the opening and | closing of the polls was put on the | calendar; the Worsley election bill was indefinitely postponed; the eminent do-
 main bill was re-referred; and the
 campaign contributions bill and two of
 the appropriation bills were sent on | their regular course.
 In the house the chaplain's salary 1 bill was given second reading; the bill
 providing an appropriation for the Tempe Normal was passed; the asy- Ium appropriation bill was passed, and the bill relating to the compilation of vital statistics also passed. The regis tration bill was sent to the style and 1 revision Commtte and then several of