Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-06-16
SOLONS HAVE
=. 4! No! FINISHED
THEIR WORK
Extra Session of Legislature
Will Continue Through
Most Of This
Week
WANT a NEW
PRIMARY LAW
w Ork Jagged Yesterday
But Governor Signed
a Number of
Bills
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June l5.-(SpeciaD Arizona law
makers will be IN session, at any
rate. part OF another week. and pos.
sibly the entire week. They early
this morning decided il was impOssi.
bic 20 complete their work today, and
as g. result, matters in both houses
Jagged.
Since it is thought general elec.
ton is to he held i'm November. the
majority members decided To whip
into shape new registration and pri-
mary laws. Such bills will he taken
up Monday Immediately after the con
Nening OF the house. and worked on
until completed. after which stock
will he taken with a view OF bring
ing to close the extra session Sons
of the members who were anxious u
adjourn today we're unkind enough Ia
call attention to the fact that the ap.
preparation for the extra session Will
not be exhausted until next week,
which il was suggested, might have
influenced the action of the house
members in not adjOurning.
The house passed an anti-pass bill
affecting state officers. which al.
ready had been passed by the senate,
and the bill now goes TO the COVER
nor An anti-lobby act was also
agreed to, one OF the constitutional
mandates which had been causing
both houses considerable worry. Ia
committee OF the whole of the house.
a pure food bill and a Juvenile cour:
law were approved, as was also an
unimportant amendment to the ex-
press company tax bill OF the last
session. regarding the time Of year
for the submission of reports.
When the last named bill was uu.
der consideration, an EFFORT was made
by Representative brennan, OF Yuma
county, to reduce the rate from per
cent to 3 per cent Of gross Arizona
tariff collections. The suggestion
was practically hOoted down, and
SO encouraged were members who
sought a higher tax than , per cent
at the last session that they moved
to increase the tax from to per
cent This failed b. a vote OF IL
to 30 but not until some very heated
: remarks had been passed between
the members. in which the name o.
Steve Roemer, the legislative agent
of Wells. Fargo and company figured
conspicuously AS finally approved,
the tax remained at per cent as
fixed at the last session.
In the senate an amendment OF
the state constitution providing for
the nOn-sale OF school lands failed OF
passage having received but nine af-
iTmatiye votes. not a majority of the
senate membership, although major
ity of the votes cast on the ballot for
final passage Breen. Davis, HarTi-
son, Hughes. Pace, Vessel, Willis
and Wood OF Maricopa opposed the
bill, which had been introduced early
in fhe session by Representative Ora
nam OF Cochise county. who fought
hard for its passage. He is tonight
considering the advisability of organ
iZing a campaign to initiate the pro
posed amendment.
The senate voted IL TO : TO sub
nit to the people a constitutional
amendment to abolish that body and
sent the bill to the house. bill
giving the hoard OF control power 10
remove the reform school from Ben
son was passed. but the house has
agreed not TO consider any further
legislation on thar subject. No action
was taken in The senate on the aI'-
pointment Of Frank Brown a. super
-intendent Of the reform school, and IL
is said real opposition has developed
in the senate to his confirmation.
Governor Hunt today approved and
sent to he legislature notice OF his
action on fifteen bills including ap-
propriation measures effecting the
asylum for the insane. the state fair,
the Tempe normal school. the univer-
sitv at Tucson, the Benson reform
school. the Arizona pioneer society
and the Flagstaff normal, and mis-
cellaneOus measures including the
white slave act, the automobile Ii
cense tax. the state funding and loan
commission, an act providing for a
change Of shin day under the eight
hour law for miners which was
passed at the last session.
Besides considering these measures
he found time to consider and ac-
cept an invitation from the Bisbee
Fourth of July celebration committee
to visit Bisbee during the celebration
and deliver an address Represent
ative Rail Of Cochise presented the
invitation and received the governors