Arizona republican., 1912-03-23

Arizona, in addition to the 150,oo0 [ tacres of land SD designated by the enabling act. a like amount desig mated by the enabling act for the use or an institution for agriculture and mechanic arts, and giving to the university also. any other odd pieces Of land provided for by the enabling act not specifically designated for some other institution.
 Senate Bill II was introduced by 1 WorSley and is q duplicate of the bill he introduced the day before appro- priating money for legislative eX Ponses. except that it bears certain corrections made on the original bill. The original bin will therefore be ditchcd in due process and by com imon consent.
 Senate Bill 15 was introduced by Worsley and provides for re-cod- flying of the state laws.
 Senate Bill l6 was introduced by Worsley and is bill throwing cer- tain restrictions around the assign ment of wages by a laborer.
 
 ley provides for the redemption of the present law.
 Senate Bill IS. introduced by Brown concerns contracts for surety entered into between common carriers and their employees
 Senate Bill Is introduced bv Rob erts relative to the transfer of prop lerty.
 The anti-lobbvins resolution, clear ing the floor of any persons except members. attaches. and state officers, was then introduced by Homer Wood latter which the senate adjourned to meet again today at I o'clock
 THE HOUSE.
 After the usual opening house nc morial No. l. of which the author is Leon Jacobs and which asks for the , abolishirg of the court of commerce i by congress. was read. Jacobs moved it be placed on final passage by roll call and Barker and Babbitt both sec onJed Murphy suggested il should go to the committee on petitions and me- morials and Kirl<c Moore desired that il be at least printed before the vote so he could find out what was in it. Jacobs withdrew his motion and the memorial was referred as suggested
 A motion made by Linney that all memorials anu petitions hereafter take the same order as bills. was carried. Lynch announced that hc had dis covered that under the rule, a bill ar joint resolution shoulI he read the second .ime before being referred to a committee. so as chairman of the com
 uittcc on constitutional amendments he surrrendered to the clerk House Bill I Cthe recdlD which had been placel in his care the day before and Ora ham. chairman of the judiciary com mittec in like manner surrendered to the clerk House Joint Resolution I. i -,ying the sixteenth amendment to the national constitution.
 Under head of select comnttcc re ports. Mir Whipple announced that there were only two copies of the scs- sion laws available for each house. The information was brough, that few copies could bc borrowed from the ter ritoria! librarian and Kirke Moore an rounccd that he knew where a few copies coull be bought of a Phoenix printing house if the legislature felt that it was desirable. The matter was | lcf, in abeyance.
 House Bill was introduced by Jones and is a companion piece for tn" senate bill appropriating S50,000 for the expenses of the legislature. The 1 question arose as to whether this was an emergency bill and after consider ! able discussion the speaker ruled that i it was. The dcba .c on the question was general and arose on the inter- pretation Of the constitution. whether emergency measures were merely those recitel and that they were men tioned as being eXempt from the refer endum. or whether the house had au | thOrity to declare any measure it saw | fit an emergency The point that pri cipitated the debate at this time was l that emergency bills do not have to be read in full when presented but all others are required to be read in full on first reading.
 The debate was ended by a motion l bv Jacobs that for the day all bills i should be read and that a committee ! be appointed to secure a ruling by the | attorney general. The motion carried i anI the speaker assigned the duty of 1 questioning the attorney general to the rules committee.
 House Bill was introduced by | John Ellis. it being the twin of the | Lovin senate bill for bonding Monave county for a court house.
 | House Bill I. was introduced by J. T. Lewis its purpose being to ameTi l sections I47S-7g of the revised stat utes of 1901 and the purpose being to | facilitate the work of the courts. As it was an emergency bili it was only i real by title.
 House Bill , introduced by Kerr. was i the mate to the senate bill for codi- | lying the laws.
 House Bill introduced by brennan. is an act creating the land board to 1 have charge of the selection or the | state lan'ls. provide the method oi Jls- i posing of them to settlers and proNld- ! ing q way in which reclamation enter ! prises may be undertaken on such ! lands how the revenues derived from | them shah be disposed of and how the 1 expenses of the board shall be pail.