Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-05-16
Proposed Amendment to
Constitution to Be Sub
mitted Allowing State to
Sell Bonds for Public I'M
provements Held Up
MINORITY CONTROLS
AND TIIROTTLES
Pressure to Be Brought to
Bear on Objecting Solons
in Behalf of Good Roads
and Industrial Pursuits
House Bill

House Bill
Unless there is a radical change in
the temper of n few members of the
senate of Arizona sometime during
today. the Linney amendment to the
constitution, known as H b. %,
which provides that the people shall
vote at the next general election upon
a proposition to amend the conSttu-
tion allowing the state to contract
bonded indebtedness in excess of the
present limit of $350000 is in danger
of actually dying because II small
minority of the senate, against the
wishes of the chambers of commerce
and the boards Of supervisors of their
home counties, is determined not 10
allow the bill to come to a vote and
have 4 throttle hold on the senate
under an unanimous resolution passed
on Wednesday night.
Attempt after attempt was made in
the senate to bring the bill onto the
floor for a vote where there Is q
clear ma jority in favor of the bill,
yesterday during the sessions of the
legislature. and every attempt was
blocked by Wood of Yavapai with 4
object The Linney bill, it might
be said in explanatory comment. does
not carry with it an appropriation
it is merely a proposed amendment to
the constitution which Will allow the
people of the state to bond them
selves for the construction of good
roads and other public improvements,
and il will allow the state to en-
gage in Industrial pursuits. according
to the amendment to the constitution
passed at the last election. However
meritorious the bill is, does not APP
parentiy enter into the consideration
CT the affair. 1t has been before the
senate. having been sent over from
the house since April -, and despite
the urgings of the members Of the
house Interested in the bill, the mem
bers of the senate committees hay
ing charge Of the bill have steadily
refused to bring the bill out for final
passage and on Wednesday the
unanimous agreement resolution pass
ed placed an effectual means of tying
the bill into the committee and Of
letting it die there.
Yesterday afternoon there were
fumings and fussings galore between
the house and senate over the propo-
sition The bill was, according to the
throttle holding members of the SEN
ate, to stay there and die, because
of this purported agreement which,
when transmitted to the senate, read;
The senate has unanimously passed
a resolution postponing until tomor-
row fnorning all matters pertaining to
the senate and the house" Previous
to this agreement passing the senate.
the house passed resolution agree
ing to pass all senate bills before the
house which was done, but not to
accept any new bills except with the
unanimous consent of the house. The
house did this, the leaders say, hop
ing that the senate under the agree
nent purported to have been reached
between the two houses relative to
pending business
When. under the provisions of this
! agreement as understood by the
house a consideration was asked of
the senate for the LinneY amendment,
the objectors of the senate said that
| the resolution as passed the night
! before was in the rush of business
not completed, and that it should have
read "All matters pertaining to the
senate and house still pending in con-
| ference" The resolution in this
| in this shape would cut off considera-
ton of everything except the confer
ence committee report, of which there
lare a number.
| 1t is charged by the members of
1 the house that personal dislike and
| jealousy of Speaker Linney by certain
members of the senate has a great
deal to do with the action on the
| bill, while still others think that
obstinacy has equally as much to do
| with it.
| This amendment to the constitution
| has been endorsed by every board of
supervisors in the state, by the mem
| bers of these boards in conference, by
| every good roads association, every
i automobile association, and every
chamber of commerce. 1t has been
,advocated by every automobile man,
nearly every man who drives a horse
and buggy, and nearly all the pedes
| trians and taxpayers of the state.
! The majority of the house are over
| whelmingly in favor of it and have
said so, and the majority of the SEN
ate is in favor of it, but because of
this Il object, can get no action
| unless, under a ruling from President
Cunniff, the unanimous vote of the
/ senate agrees to withdraw the action
| and agree that the bill be voted upon.
| Communications passed between the
two houses yesterday on the sdbject
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