Arizona republican., 1912-06-11

The bill creating the office of pub. lie examiner.
 The bill relating to the powers and duties of treasurers.
 The tax levy for railway companies
 the chaplains' salary bill, and the
 bill providing for a board of deposit have also been approved.
 The general tax levy measure, the measure providing for a night watch
 man at the capitol. the bill estab- fishing the relations between the board of control and the superinten- dent of the industrial school. and the bill providing for the publication of the decisions of the supreme court
 have all passed the senate.
 The last hour of the senate was en- livened by a rhetorical tilt between 1 Senators C. B. Wood and Worsley with regard to a communication re- ceiVed from Senator Ashurst regard ! ing the wishes of the state with re spect to state control of water rights 1 Worsley declared the reclamation work of the west is due to spirit of cooperation, which Wood denied [ The latter said the Salt river project one of the most splendid in the Uni ! ted States. had it's inception in a purely personal and selfish way that it was brought about in the first place through the desire of an agent of the Santa Fe and other railroad companies for the develop ment of this section for the good the 1 railroads would get out of it in an enlargement of their business. Where upon WOrsley fell back on his well worn doctrine that right and justice will triumph only when there is pub lie ownership of railroads. The communication from Ashurst was addressed to Attorney General Bullard and asked what the legisla- ture desired respecting the water fright matter. This communication was transmitted to the house. It was 8 characteristic Ashurst letter. It said Henry wasn't feeling well the morning it was written but that he couldn't help expressing his unbound ed admiration for a man who was doing such a magnificent work and was so altogether lovely from every angle as is Arizona's attorney -gener- al. When this letter, which must have been as soothing to ts recipient aG several buckets of salVe. was read in the house, Tommy Maddock moved that it be referred to the mutual ad- miration society. But this frivolous remark was treated with perfectly justifiable scOrn, and the sugary epis- tie was referred to committee. The result was the introduction and sub sequent passage of resolution ask ing congress to enact law giving to the state the right to buy water rights from the general government.
 good deal of the forenoon in the house was consumed in discussion of Ia bill introduced by the live stock committee relating to the recovery of damages for stock killed or injured on railroad property. Several yards of red tape were wound about this transaction and several additional re- quirements as to the duty of railroad companies in such matters were pro- posed. Finally the bill was licked into the shape desired by it's pro- ponents and then. when all was ready. it was sent to the scrap heap by the indefinite postponement route.
 Just before noon Representative Curry introduced a bill which, under
  along to the committee of the whole providing for an amendment to the eight hour law. passed recently. The bill exempts employers from the op- eration of the law once every two weeks when changing shifts.
 The house passed a big batch of bills yesterday as follows:
 The senate bill creating special
  the boulevard bill
 The fish and game bill. r The funding and loan bill.
 The bill requiring foreign insur- ance companies to pay a tax of two per cent on their gross premium re- ceipts.
 The bill correcting the eminent do- main statute.
 The bill permitting the amendment of the charters of cities permitting the payment of salaries to municipal officers was proposed for considera- tion but was withdrawn.
 The bill relating to taxation of rail- way companies and the filing of their annual reports.
 The bill relating to the taxation of telegraph and telephone companies. This and the bill mentioned above were passed to amend bills on these subjects passed at the regular ses- sion.
 The bill licensing foreign coropra- tions doing business in Arizona. The bill providing penalties for those engaged in the white slave trade.
 The committee of the whole was yesterday presided over by Repre- sentative J. Tom Lewis and it did quite a large amount of work. It con sidered in their preliminary stage the bills mentioned above as having passed finally and it considered sev- eral other, measures.
 Included in these is the bill fixing the salary of the assistant secretary of state at $2400 per year, which was recommended for passage, the bill amending the eight hour law. and the bill creating the office of state en- gineer and making the road appro- priation for the year. The bill pass ed by the senate which lowers the salary of the superintendent of the state industrial school from $250O a year and abolishes the office of as- sistant superintendent, reused the ire