Arizona republican., 1912-04-10

(Continued from Page One) busy desired to attend the session of the committee of the whole in the house during the remainder Of the forenoon on the discussion of the brennan land bill Also the house devoted the afternoon to public hearing of railroad legislation under the direction of the labor committee, which hearing the senators desired To attend.
 Among the senate committee meet ingS of the day was that of the finance committee which is studying The last annual departmental reports in an effort tO find out the daily or monthly cost of government in order to estimate necessary appropriations.
 In the afternoon the senate ordered the following hills engrossed for third reading and final passage:
 Senate bill for the maintenance of the attorney generals office
 Senate bill SS. site commission for the industrial school
 Senate bill &. providing that rail- roads shall employ only experienced train disDatchers
 Senate bill %. respecting notaries public.
 Messages were received from the governor reappOinting R. F. Sims as superintendent of the prison, and re- appointing the boards of education of the Tempe and the Flagstaff normal schools and the regents of the uni- Versity. and the sheep sanitary com mission. all these having been recess appointments They are now before the senate for confirmation.
 J. II. COons submitted a request to appear as legislative agent for the Mutual Life Insurance company
 A message was received from the Bisbee Miners union demanding the passage of an equal suffrage bill
 Senate adjourned until this morn irg 2: 9:30
 After the roll call. prayer and jour nal the house listened to the read ing of the same protest against Sun day legislation. filed with the senate the day before through the resolu- lions of the mass meeting held Sun day night. in support of civl liberty. The resolutions were referred to the labor committee
 Standing committees reported as follows. in some instances without recommendation except to the com mittee of the whole to which all were automatically referred
 House bill G by labor committee passage.
 House bill 45 by labor committee recommending massage
 House bill 9 by public lands to com mittee of the whole
 House bill 59 by county affairs rec ommendng passage as amended.
 House bill 3S by county affairs committee recommending it do not pass. This is duplicate of senate bill now in the governors hands Phoenix sewer bond bill.
 House bin 63 by corporations rec ommending passage as amended.
 House bill A judiciary. recommend ing reference to committee on cor porations.
 House bill 73 by judiciary, recom- mending reference to county affairs committee.
 House bill So by judiciary. recom- mending it do not pass.
 House bill 62 by judiciary. recom- mending passage as amen:led
 House bill so by judiciary. recom- men1ing passage as amended
 House bill 8 by judiciary commit tee recommending passage as amend ed
 The select committee on the inves- tigation of the rumors that money had been used in the interest of the liquor dealers reported that nothing convincing could be found in the reports. They seem to have been idle jest and without foundation The committee examined G. p Bullard J T. Lewis C. P Cronin and F H Brighton. The latter's testimony alone contained a shadow of suspicion but was regarded as not dependable. par ticularly as it could not be corrobor- ated. Mir. Jones as a minority voter on senate bill 39 and a member Of the committee said he was satisfied no money had been used Moreover he added that the gentlemen should not be too easily disturbed by ru- mor and gossip. He said one man in this county refused to vote for nun ldSt ldll DttduSe ne ndu once got the better of him in a horse trade Also morning newspaper had ac- cused the lawmakers of being green at the business. which he Of course would not admit. though the news paper was probably honest in its opinion. A certain legal light in this community he said was heard to remark once on leaving the gallery that it was a "bum legislature nev- ertheless he did not think the gentle men should suffer the slight to ruffle their fempers. This is an era of the people" and they are bound to express opinions that may be preju- diced or unfair.
 A message was received from the governor announcing that he had signed senate bill 10 the jury bill