Arizona republican., 1912-06-15
The Senate In It's Feverish Desire to Shut Up Shop Held Its First Night Meeting of the Present Session .sw
UPPER HOUSE STILL
 IS BENT ON SUICIDE
House Treats the Cunniff- Woods Election Obstruc- tion Bill With Indignity; Other Matters of Greater or Less Importance

The legislature and more particu- larly the senate end of it, positively | asserts 1t is going to get through with 1 it's work and adjourn this evening or tonight. And so anxious is it to get through that the senators went out to 1 the capitol last night and mauled sev- era1 bills into more or less presentable
 shape, continuing that interesting oc- 1 cupation until about eleven o'clock. From the news standpoint the night
 session was not at all justifiable. There i wasn't single sensation. The near i est approach was an attempted fight i against some of the appropriation bills. i but even these scraps were merely abortive. On the resolution providing 1 for payment for extra clerk hire Sen l ator Sims protested that so far as part | of the bill is concerned it is unconsti-
 tutional; and he not only voted against l the resolution but caused his objec- l tions to be entered on the journal 1 As was anticipated there was some 1 objection to the militia bill This bill i carries a 5000 appropriation and some
 of the senators thought that money l should be saved. There were others like Senator Worsey who are "agin" the militia on general principles and think it a useless sort of institution anyway. But the bill got through in i good shape and so the camp of instruc- tion will be held as usual this year. i But if there was little doing at the night session the same thing cannot be 1 said of the proceedings throughout the day. It is true there was nothing of particularly hair raising character, but l all the same there were several events
 of more than passing interest.
 l For instance, the senate seems to think
 it just can't be happy unless it com
 mits suicide It is dead set on abol-
 submission of a constitutional amend ment for that purpose having passed
 the upper branch yesterday by the vote
 of 12 to 5. There is one more station | for this measure in the senate and then.
 if there is time, it will be taken up in ! the house
 | Next, the governor signed the house election bill, providing for holding a | general election for all officers the l coming November. And as an incident to this proceeding when the Cunniff 1 bill, providing for a referendum vote the coming fall to determine whether 1 there should be an election in February
 went to the house. the house proceed
 ed to fall upon that funny bill and make it several nicely assorted kinds of mince meat.
 1 And some of the representatives
 made speeches about the bill. too. What l is more, they made some remarks that l weren't at all nice One would gather 1 from what they said that they had
 some sort of grudge against the meas
 ure. and probably they did, if one is to l judge from the vote. The vote revealed
 the fact that just one solitary repre-
 sentative was in favor of MT. Cunniffs
 famous election plan. And it is said he
 voted for the bill under a misapprehen- sion.
 1 Then there were some other doings. 1 MT. Faces industrial school bill, which
 has been amended to provide for the
 purchase of the Cuff ranch if the 1 board of control finds that such pur- 1 chase is desirable, went so far as the en-
 rolling anu expressing committee This 1 bill in it's amended form places the
 whole matter in the hands of the board
 of control which may select another
 site if there be sufficient season for
 not buying the ranch.
 l The school lands bill, of course
 brought out some discussion. Senator l Davis tried to get in an amendment
 providing that irrigated land in certain
 cases be excepted from the prohibition l against Sailes, but the amendment was
 voted down. The discussion developed i an element of humor, too, that was much enjoyed by the senate. The most l ardent advocates of the lease system i happen to be men who were members | of the constitutional convention. And
 when the debate got rather warm yes terday some of the members very un- 1 kindly brought out the record of the
 constitutional convention and showed 1 that Senators Kinney, H. R. Wood.
 Lovin, Roberts and Cunniff all voted
 for the plan allowing the sale of the | lands There were six votes on this matter One of them carried B to F. one P to 16, one A to 1, one 26 to II, i one 2S to and one Al to 5.
 l But that is all over, now. The bill 1 in its present form is in the enrolling and expressing committee and will
 doubtless be passed finally today. This bill provides for the submission of constitutional amendment which 1 prohibits for all time the sale of school