Arizona republican., 1913-05-01


| matter together with the bill grant
ing specific powers to the tax COM
| mission, We're made by unanimous
| consent the preferred order of the
day for yesterday morning. When the
| time came the moment of trouble
was deferred until II o'clock and
| then taken up. Then when it came
up, it, instead of an argument on the
| merits of the bill for a full hour
! it was a question of rules 1t APP
peared that the question came up
on Monday upon a motion of Ora
| ham of Cochise when senate bill 3,
! the bill comforting specific powers
| upon the tax commission, was up for
third reading. Graham moved that
! the bill be amended by attaching
! thereto house bill y, the mine tax
| bill When the smoke had cleared
! away just before adjournment last
| evening he had won his point, for al
most unanimously his suggestion had
been adopted. but at that only after
nearly a full day spent in technical
| maneuvering.
There We're many objections to the
| method of getting quick passage on
! the mine tax bill 1t was realized
/ that if it went to the senate in the
| form of amendment to a senate bill
| it would likely be subject to quicker
action than it would should it go in
| the form of a regular house bill.
Early in the mornings discussion
Babbitt raised an interesting point
about the suspension of rules, and
asked if it We're not a fact that if
the rules had been suspended on
! S. B. 3 on Monday for the purpose
of making a few amendments as to
style and form, but not to sub
stance did it not need a further sus-
pension of the rules to amend as to
Substance? When the rules are sus-
pended it takes a twothirds vote
of the house After much discussion
the speaker ruled that since the bill
was up for third reading ii might be
amended specifically upon a suspen-
sion Of the rules by two thirds vote.
The noon hour coming on. a re-
cess was taken, but when the after
noon session was opened the matter
was not Immediately taken up. Fin
ally, however, under a suspension of
the rules, S B. was amended. and
H b. p was amended by making
the figure -" in reference to the
multiple of the net proceeds of a
mine used to reach the taxable valua-
ton to f." This prevailed and when
done the rules were again suspended
and house u attached to S. B.
in the form of an amendment, and
the bill sent to the style and revis-
ion committee for preparation for
third reading and final passage.
For while the mornings session
looked sort of squally. Graham of
Cochise, when he found that he had
lost the first skirmsh, moved that
state officers be excluded from the
floor of the house and prohibited from
lobbying for Il bill in which the de
partment to which they might be
connected is up for discussion The
motion, however, received no second.
In the Senate
The senate spent a very busy day
Breen of Coconino presided over the
committee of the whole proceedings,
and a large batch of bills was APP
proved and ordered for preparation
for passage. Among these We're the
prison investigation resolution; the
conservation and southern national
highway resolutions. and bill for
the expositions appropriating $4,000
for San Francisco and $4,000 for San
Diego.
New bills:
S b. 6S, by H. r. Wood, to regu-
late the hours of labor for drug clerks
S. B. 50. by G. E. Wood. relating
to the illfcit selling of liquor and
the right to destroy the same.
Final action:
S B. 80, relating to trespass upon
the public lands, was indefinitely
postponed.
S. B. AZ, appropriation for live
stock exhibit at San Diego and San
Francisco, was indefinitely postponed
S. B. AZ, providing an appropriation
| for Arizona buildings at San Fran
cisco and San Diego in 1915, was n
definitely postponed.
| Final action in the house:
H. B. l, an act to establish a penal
| code for Arizona, passed the house
| bya vote of 26 to 8.
Senate concurrent resolution No 5,
| inviting Hon. w. j. Bryan to address
! a joint session Of the legislature pass
F, ed the house under a suspension of
| the rules without division
| II. b. 81, an act to validate and
confirm formation of certain school
| districts and to validate the acts of
| such districts. passed the house with
| out division.
| H. B. SO, an appropriation for addi-
tional equipment for the insane asy-
| lum, passed the house without divis-
| ion.
| no 7
bill, passed the house, % to IL
S. B. Al. regulating the descent and
| distribution of estates
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| MEE1ING-The regular prayer meet
ing at the Florence Crittenton home