The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-05-09
.LEG|SLATU RE WILL FINISH LAbOR5
 NEXT WEEK
Mine Taxation and Penal Code Still Remain the Stumbling Blocks In
 Way of Adjournment
BOND ISSUE ID BE LIMITED
Senate Will Reconsider Its Vote Whereby All Appropriations For
 Propositions Was Killed
Mondays Ssssion.

Mondays Ssssion.
 PHOENIX, Ariz., May 5.-Fron present indications the legislatur, will, if the days work they did toda, is any criterion of<the work they vii accomplish during the rest of tn, week, conclude it's labors by Wednes day of next week. There was not al idle moment in either branch from th, time of converting this morning.
 The house passed and sent to the senate bill providing for all Gettys / burg veterans to attend, at the states expense, the Gettysburg reunion plan ned for his summer on the famous battle-ground Ten code bills also were acted upon.
 In the senate it was announced that 8 report on the mine tax bill would be made tomorrow by the finance committee and a recommendation thai the bill be sent to conference in an effort to increase the percentages in the bill
 To Limit Bond Issue
 The Linney bond bill for good roads was finally agreed to in the senate by the adoption of the provi- sion that a bond issue should not, in the aggregate, be made by the state in excess of 10 per cent of the as- sessed valuation.
 The San Francisco and San Diego fair appropriations were killed on final passage by the senate by a vote of eleven to eight.
 Senator Worsley introduced reso- lution, which was adopted, requesting two other United States land offices in the state and thus relieve the con- gested conditions at present existing in Arizona'S office
 Tomorrow Brooks of Gila will in- troduce a bill in the house providing for a state bond issue of $35O,000 for the construction of buildings for vari- ous state institutions and the eIimina- tion of that amount from the general appropriation bill
 An effort will be made Thursday to reconsider the vote on the expositions appropriation bill which was defeated eight to eleven in the senate today Snator Lovih of Mohave, offered to vote favorably if the San Francisco appropriation was increased from fifty thousand to seventy-five thousand
 Tuesdays Session.
 PHOENIX, Ariz, May 6.-By vote of ten to nine the senate refused to concur in the house amendment to the taxation bill, assessing producing mines on a basis of 400 per cent of lAS net, piuS 11z z2 per C6QC or the gross output. The bill then went to con- ference.
 The three-cent fare bill probably to- morrow will be agreed to by dropping the emergency from the bill The house today, in considering the re- port of the conference on the bill, standing firm that such be done.
 To Abolish the Senate.
 4 local option bill, amended by pro- 1i l,tt fcs%rS to both sides, was agreed to by fit cen membrs of the senate this morn ing, so it majI be said that the sub- ject is well CT the way to settlement. The senate also accepted a report of a committee favorable to the passage of a bill abolishing the state senate If it is finally passd, being a constitu- tional amendment, it will have to be voted on by the people of the state
 The house agreed to bill providing for the leasing of public lands after a long discussion and then by a vote of eighteen to twelve.
 The county seat removal bill was agreed to in the house but is still before the senate.
 MINE TAX BILL.
 With two votes to spare, the vote being 26 to 6, three members absent, the house on Saturday morning passed and sent to the senate the famous tax commission bill increasing it's powers, to which had been attached as rider the Graham mine tax bill, | providing that the assessed valuation of mines should be an amount equal 1 to 12h per cent of the gross annual l production, plus four times the net | annual production. There was little | speech making as it was apparent that i all forces in the house were well sat l isfied with the bill as agreed and that | while not entirely satisfactory it 1 of the state for fair vauation con- pared with other classes of property In the senate the bill was referred 10 the finance committee for consirera- ton and report. Whether the sens~e will accept the mine tax scheme or not will be decided Monday, for the question comes before the senate as m amendment to the senate bill and l. if not accepted will be sent to a con 'erence
 Cobb vs. Wood.
 The sensation of the day came dur ng the afternoon session when Wood If Maricopa said he would next Mon- lay submit to the senate a digest of . he annual report of State Engineer Cobb and although he probably liked Ir. Cobb, he would state that that -entleman had permitted the affairs ( If his office to get into such a con- Z used and chaotic state that unless ome explanation could be made of