Arizona republican., 1913-04-23
Davis Measure Providing for Sale of Granted Land Passes Upper House by Vote of 10 to 9 at Tester days Session
HOUSE PASSES
 LINNEY'S BILL
Permitting the State to Sell Bonds for Public I'm provements = Tax Levy Bill Also Gets Through Easily

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 Easily
 The sessions of the senate yesterday looked for a time as if the evening menu would be pistols and coffee for tWo', as a result of the acrimonious discussions on the Davis bill for the sale of certain of the granted lands of the state. Senators Sims and Wood became involved again similarly to the way they got mixed up the day before only worse. However it blew over.
 The senate bill 26, which provides for the sale of certain lands granted to the state for the relief of Yavapai. Coconino, Maricopa and Pima counties. from the burdens of the famous rail- road bonds which were validated by congress by special act, was up for third reading, and for while it looked as if the divided house would be un- able to put the bill thriugh.
 Senator Hubbell who was arranging to leave town as soon as possible was not in the chamber, and his vote was needed to pass the bill over the oppo- sition. Call of the house after call of
  was not until an agreement was reached that further consideration of the bill would be allowed to go over until the senator could be found and brought back that the tie up was lifted. The vote would stand nine to nine for the motion to dispense. with the call of the house. All sorts of manouvers were tried to amend the bill so as to delay the proposition of the sale of the special granted lands. but Wood of Maricopa and Davis stood firm by their contentious. Finally after other busi- ness had been done, Hubbell was brought in and the bill passed by the following vote:
 Breen, Davis, Harrison, Hubbeb Hughes, Pace, Vessel, Willis, c. B. Wood and Worsely. H.. Nays, Brown, Chase. Hechtman. Kinney, Lovin, Roberts, Sims, H. R. Wood and Presi- dent Cunniff. 9.
 This closed the career of the bill and Senator Cunnff was seen to reluet- antly sign the bill and send it to the house.
 In the morning the senate had Squabble over the salary of the su- perier judges as provided in, the county classification bill, and after all morn ing decided not to change the salaries as fixed by the constitution. There has been an attempt to raise the salaries of some of the judges in the counties of higher population than the others on the ground of the greater amount of work that is needed for them to do, but the other counties would not submit to such a classification when the quali- fication of the men on the bench no matter what county he halls from is similar. So failing to agree the consti- tutional provision was allowed to re- main.
 A short session of the committee of the whole was held with Davis in the chair and one bill was approved and recommended for the regular course, 1 this bill was the house bill A, ceeding | jurisdiction to the United States over certain military posts; other bills were discussed but either deferred or sent to other committees. N The senate was notified of the re- fusal of to concur in the amendments of the senate to house bill 4, providing l for the assessment of taxes on certain public service corporations and Sena- tors Kinney, C. B. Wood and Lovin were appointed 9 committee to confer 1 with the house | In tke House. | The house spent busy day yester- day reading bills for the third time and succeeded in passing two very import ant bills that of Speaker Kinney which will allow the state. if. the bill is ap- proved by the people, to build public improvements and sell bonds for the same and the tax commission bill pro-
 viding for the levy and collection of taxes. These bills took up great deal
 of time because of the importance of the first one and the length of the sec :
 ond one The appropriations for the
 salaries of the employees were also passed.
 Bills introduced yesterday in the
 house:
 House Joint Resolution No. by : MT brennan, of Yuma. authorizing and directing the board of control
 to annotate and compile the laws l pertaining to land, Irrigation and Iwater in the state of Arizona.
 H. R. 52, by the committee on code r revision, an act to regulate the op- , eration of motor vehicles on public 2 highways. and making an appropria 3 tion for the purpose of carrying 0u I the objects of this act.
 al Final action in the house: 9 H. J. R. 3, appropriation for sala I