Arizona republican., 1913-04-08
Joint Committee of Legis- lature Meets with Gov ernOr Hunt and Decides on Date for Additional Session
CALL WILL BE
 OUT THURSDAY
House Concurs in Senate Amendments to Number of Bills, Which Are Sent to Governor - Senate Passes Bills

The last session of the second special session of the state legisla- ture was held yesterday and the two houses in joint session ad- journed sine die. This action was not taken however before it had been definitely understood when the next session will be called. It was announcd after joint committee fl om the house and senate had met with the governor that the session will be called to meet next Monday morning
 This means that there will be a delay of one week between the ad- jou1nment of the session and the calling of the next This delay is the last objection of the senate to the actions of the house for the sec ond special session. and in this they were successful. and it was in def erence to the request of the senate that weeks delay be taken that the date was set for April 14 The original plan as announced exclusively in these columns for the session to be called this morning would have been carried out had il not been for that r~E'est Gentle men" said Governor Hunt when the committee met with him. I am ready to call the session in the morning if that is satisfactory to you.' This was entirely satisfactory to the members of the house com
 mittee composed of Lynch, Irvine and Lewis. but H. R. Wood, of Va Hapai who with Senators W1essell and Hughes constituted that com mittee, wanted d still further delay. Governor Hunt tried to compromise, l suggesting Thursday. or Friday, but 1 in difference to the desires of the senate the house finally agreed to l accept next Mdhday as the date. In the House
 The house early yesterdav morn ing went into executive session to 1 discuss what bills it would agree to send to the governor as completed 1 since the adjournment of the house
 on Thursday. and what bills it would refuse to concur in. This took up l considerable time There was a fur ther discussion as to the advisa- 1 bility of sending a message to the
 senate by the usual dignified form
 of committee or whether or not l
 to do this service It was finally decided however that the dignity of the house demanded that a com
 mittee be sent. which was done. In 1 furtherance of this plan a committee 1 visited the senate early in the after l noon and informed that body, just
 as it was entering the third reading
 of batch of house bills. that the | house would be ready to adjourn l sine die at four o'clock President l Cunniff then announced to the sen
 ate that further third reading would
 be dispensed with because Cf ;he de-
 cision of the house.
 There were a number of bills
 however that were concurrea in hy the house and which will he taken
 to the governor by Chief Clerk
 Sweeting today. Among these the most important is the penal code. house bill AS. The roll was also l called on senate bills 202 and 211
 and they were declared passed in
 order that the attaches might re- ceive their wages for last weeks , work Th senate amendments to the education code were concurred in , and the bill sent to the governor.
 The same course was taken with , 104, regulating optOmetry: 105. regu- f latng the practice of embalming r 31. regulating pharmacy: II. regu I lating the assessment of taxes on D the property of railroad corporations. , g. prescribing the qualifications oi , jurors; S4. continuing in effect the
 certificates of foreign insurance companies These bills were all or
 dered sent to the governor.
 In the Senate
 Up to the last minute the senate :, continued to work as if there was to . be no additional session. In fact Il :. (Confinnpd Pare EiXQl