Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Prison Investigation Over Both Houses Approach Tasks With Greater Pleasure, Although Knife is Used Freely
NO WORK FOR
 JAIL PRISONERS
House is Not for Anything of the Sort, But, However, Believes in Going After Signers of the Petition for Investigation

Both the house and senate Yester- day approached their regular tasks with a feeling of relief that the prison investigation was over, and that all remains now is for the report of the committed Until that comes in, the house will concern itself with the proposition of passing legislation that in it's good Judgement meets the needs of the state while the senate will d. the same both sides working this way regardless of whether the bill will pass the other house or not. The committee of the whole in both houses were real busy all the after i noon, and after the oratory upon every proposition had passed by, and 1 the real time for action had come both houses proceeded to get a lot of work done In addition to a numi-ar ! of committee reports in the house, among which was the report on the medical bill that created so much i comment just few days since. there ! were a number of bills introduced, and a number of bills considered. 1 Some bills were indefinately post pOned among which were the Hughes 1 senate bill providing for working 1 prisoners confined in jails of both { city and county. The same treatment 1 was meted out to the anti third de- gree bill. also a senate bill ana also t: Hughes bill
 i The house was willing. however. to send the registration bill from the senate. introduced in that body by l Davis of Maricopa through the passages to the enrolling and engross- ing committee. The indefinate post i pOnement action was also tackled onto : the Lewis house bill to tax the re- served rights in real estate.
 ! Then the house got busy and ap- ! proved two bills in rapid succession. ! The house bill. introduced by Brad ner. providing for a penalty to he assessed against every person Or cor poration that attempts to coerce any employee or individual to sign an initiative or referendum petition. With penalty of 5000 fine attached, was passed after it had been amended by both Saxon and Jacobs. Saxon sug- gested that recall petition also be put in the bill. which was agreed to, and Jacobs in view of the recent hearing before the committee of both houses l on the penitentiary situation, sug- gested the amendment Tor any peti- tion to any officer or official body and to prohibit them taking their name therefrom after the same shall
 have been signed This was also agreed to.
 The Jacobs bill extending the juris-
 diction of the justices of the peace
 so they will accord with the revised
 statutes of 1901 was recommended for passage The house rose before the full report of the committee of the whole was received.
 In the Senate
 The calendar of the committee of
 the whole Was added to by the re-
 ports of several committees, and then
 the committee of the whole in session proceeded to enter into a lengthy dis
 cussIon of the Cuniff three cent bill
 s. B. 5S, recently introduced. Sims
 had an amendment which he wanted considered. but since the bill came
 from the president of the senate and
 had been approved by both the at
 torney general and the corpora ton
 commission, objected to having the
 bill amended. preferring that it go
 through with the original wording
 complete The biH has an emergency clause to it. providing that the thre"
 cent fare proposition go into effect
 immediately, but Sims wants to give
 the railroads sixty days in which Jh | file the schedules of rates, in order that they may have time also to abide , by the rulings of the interstate com , merce commission as well as the na
 tiOnal laws regarding the matter Here
 the matter held up and the bill was
 not acted upon until the return of the
 attorney general so that he may be
 consulted in the matter.
 The knife was put hard into the
 blacklist bill in the senate yesterday
 after a hard fight for the bill by
 WOrsley and others. The bill was left in mid air hy the adjournment
 the previous day, and Davis spoke of the measure at length yesterday. | When the votes were counted it was
 found that the senate stood 10 to & on the question opposed to the bill Among the other bills that received the knife without prejudice was the l bill introduced by Willis of Navajo l providing that the governors veto l may be overridden by majority vote instead of two thirds vote as .s
 now the rule.
 : The registration bill of Cunniff. :, providing for registration but slightly
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