Arizona republican., 1913-02-19

The bill which seeks to allow the Carnegie Desert Laboratory at Tucson to obtain that certain parcel of land adjoining the institution upon which to conduct experiments. succeeded iii getting one step further on it's way in the senate yesterday afternoon, by req son of the vote of Senator Sims of Co., chise. who heretofore has been voting against the bill. A few amendments which according to some made the bill a little less general. but according to others made it more so, were satisfac- tory to the gentlemen from Cochise and he therefore changed from being an absolute opponent of the measure to being in favor of it, the vote standing on roll call in the committee of the whole 10 to in favor of sending the bill onward through the regular course. It will now be enrolled and engrossed. go through the style, revision and com pilation committee. and be presented on the floor of the senate for third reading and final action, in the course of few days.
 This bill has been continuously be- fore the senate since Saturday last and has each time that it has been brought up in the committee of the whole been the occasion Cf a hard fight. In spite of the fact that there were enough of the senators in favor of passing it yesterday, the antagonists of the meas tire did not cease to fight every inch of the way. First by proposing plausible amendments that would rob the bill of it's effect and meaning which were voted down. IL was agreed that certain words could he altered so as not to damage the chances of the Carnegie Laboratory i'll getting a title to the land providing of course that the house agrees to the measure and passes it.
 Even after this Senator Cunniff still wanted the bill recommitted to the pub
 lie lands committee to await the com ing of the report of the land comms
 sion, and he even went so far as to state that in conversation with the chairman of the commission that that gentleman had said that he had not seen the bill and was not for something he had not seen. Senator Hughes how ever had had more recent conversa-
 ton with Chairman Winsor and re-
 ported that the gentleman found no fault in the bill
 The afternoon was the occasion of a number of speeches calculated 1" have bearing upon the general land policy of the state when that comes up for adjustment. C. B. Wood said the conditions in the state were too diver sified to make one small arbitary policy
 meet them all. No single policy is
 practicable for Arizona. Senator Pace said that he was for selling the school land under certain wise administrative restrictions. Not heedessly to sell or to sell for d minimum price, but rather to meet the conditions as they arose to sell if necessary and to keep other land aS the occasion may require. He knew of towns in the state he said that were United States surveyed the lands. Towns built there by pioneers who were nearly as largely responsible for the possibility of Arizona being good place to live in now, as where the men of the present generation. He asked | if the work ot these men and their en- deaVor to cultivate the waste places should go for naught. and if they | should be forced at this late date to 1 pay for the land which under other conditions they could have proved up 1 on, had it net been school land. He 1 believed these men entitled to this 1 land
 Willis of Navajo also spoke in favor (Continued on Page Two)