Arizona republican., 1912-05-29
HOUSE WARMED BY STEAM
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trying to take the power out of the
 hands of tn governor. That Was sar-
 casm. But as Kerr proceeded he for
 got his sarcasm and launched into
 the hottest defense of the chief OK
 ecutiVe that has been heard in a
 long time. He said the bill has
 jokcrS-that under such provisions as
 it contains there is no chance for MT.
 Hunt to redeem his campaign pledges
 and make good as governor He call
 ed down MT. Jacobs for saving there
 was no man there who wanted tO
 see a one man power foisted upon the
 state and said he was such d man
 that he wanted to see the governor
 gwen chance to do what he had
 promised to do when making his
 campaign. T want one man to con-
 tfoI the purchasing agent" said Mr Kerr. What We want here is a business administration Hnd if you are to have that you want to follow ! the lead of the large corporations and transact the business of the state as they transact their business" Mr. Kerr also contended that the bill does not fit the governors $ call and insisted that it is d blow aimed at Governor Hunt
 Saxon came through at this june
 ture with a motion to postpone the bill indefinitely He did this. he
 said because the Jacobs bill is the same as the old board of control bill and if the house passed it it would be doing an illegal thing. I i denounced the bill as "conglom- ] eration of absurdities" He said it | should be entitled an act to create ! a scheme to force Arizona to pay more for it's supplies than it should . This bill makes one tired to think l of it, said the Honorable Mir. Kerr Mr. Dreman also talked MT Brennan followed the same line of argument as his colleague. MT. Kerr. Mir Whipple said the bill is d di- | rect slap" at Governor Hunt and consequently he could not see his 1 way clear to lending his support to 1 the measure MT. Whipple didn't use I exactly that kind of language in his | denunCiation of the measure but as | nearly as could be told that was 1 what he tried to s1y. He also de- 1 clarcd the bill contains d joker, the 1 said joker consisting in the construc- l ton of the board, through which it i is sought to dcbur the governor of 1 his privilege of rcdecming his cam paign pledges. MT Whipplc spoke | nSly-almost tcarfulIy of the in- 1 dugUratiOn where there was d great 1 gathering and where there were so
 many people" Just how there could
 be great gathering without a good many people Mr. Whipplc did not
 stop to explain But he probably i did not have time.
 Mr. Maddock suggested that if if
 is the intention of the governors i friends to follow out the policy he
 and they seemed to want, it might 1 be a good thing to make the gov crnor the whole board and be done
 with it.
 Mir Rabbit, in again arguing for
 the bill, said it was not the iutcn-
 ton of anyone to take from the
 governor my power that belongs to him. It was merely d business prop osition. he said He wanted to get
 away from the idea of having the purchasing agent a member of the ! DOdIu Ol tOillIDl 0O llldL iit WbQlQ 3t | in d position to review his own ;,cts. l The bill merely proposed. MT Bab- i bitt said, to have a purchasing agent
 and then have his acts reviewed by the governor. the auditor. and the
 secretary of state. Don't give any
 one man unlimited power, no matter who he is" was Mr B@bbitt's clos ing appeal.
 i Mir Craig also spoke in opposition
 to the bill. He wound up with the
 declaration that the house should
 not ram a one man proposition down his throat if he could prevent it. There was great deal more talk pro and con. the opponents to the i bill. however using up by f;r the ! greater amount of OratOrical energy. 1 There were various motions and counter motions but none of these came to a vote except SaXOn's orig 1 inal motion to postpone the bill in definitely This motion was lost by d vote of 19 to 15. Later the bill | was ordered to the enrolling and en- crossing committee.
 There will be one more vote. on third reading; and there is no reason i to believe that that vote will be
 different. The bill will then go to i the senate where, as already pre- l dicted, it will in all probability be l killed. In the meantime the house i will be having fun with the senate's purchasing agent bill which will also probably meet an untimely fate. And in the event of the death of 1 both these measures the state will be left as under the old law, with the same old board of control to manage the business.
 The rest of the fireworks in the i house were furnished when the semi monthly pay day bill was up for 1 consideration, with MT Graham in the chair MT Graham. it may be mentioned here. was in the chair . all the time the committee of the whole was at work yesterday.
 The provision this bill which | occasioned a great deal of discus sion is one allowing the corpora ton commission to order d change | in the time of pay days to be 1 observed by railroad companies when
 ever the employees of the company ask that the scmi-monthly pay day 1 be not observed.