Arizona republican., 1913-01-25
Goveror's Proclamation Contains Seventy Five
 Propositions for Consid- eration by Arizona Solons Who Meet in One Week
LEGISLATIVE
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Instrument so WOrded as to Give Free Reign in Enactment of Laws. Code Chapters are Set Out in Full

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 Governor Hunts Call" for the leg islature to meet in special session was finally issued yesterday afternoon It requires the legislature to meet at 10 o'clock in the morning of Monday morning February 3rd next. and sets forth seventy-five propositions for ac- tion by that body, the largest part of which are embodied in the revision of the code of the state. In order that the legislature may have a free reign. and not be hampered by the restrictions that are placed upon it by the constitution with regard to legis- lating upon only those subjects that are embodied in the call, the governor set out every chapter in the code as special subject The effect of this
 is to make the session to all intents and purposes a regular session.
 There are eighteen new laws ask ed for in the call, among the most important of which are:
 To provide for the maintenance of the state government till the next legislature meets; a minimum wage for persons engaged in hazardous oc- equations: provisions for putting ln- to effect the constitutional amend ment permitting the state to engage in industrial pursuits; abolition or capital punishment; 2road appropria- tiOns and a law to pay conVlcts small compensation for working on the state highways; transfer of the industrial school from Benson to Fort Grant: farms at the prison and asy- lum for the insane; prohibition of the sale of cigarettes to minors; state appropriation for a bridge to be built across the Colorado river at Yuma. in conjunction with the gov ernment; all of which have been forecasted in these columns. The proposition for payment of working convicts is for the purpose of providing means for the partial support of the families of the men who are detained by the state for
 breaking the law.
 I. To provide appropriations of money for the maintenance, operation. extension. equipment. housing and current expense Ol state uepdi and institutions.
 ? To provide. as an emergency measure. for the registration, in the year 1913, of citizens qualified to be- come electors of this state. 8 To enact a law prescribing minimum wage for workers employed | in mines, smelters, reduction works and other hazardous occupations. 4 To provide means and prescribe ways for putting into effect that amendment of the Constitution of | Arizona which authorizes the state to ! engage in industrial pursuits. 3 To enact law abolishing cap 1 ital punishment.
 6. To provide appropriations of ! money for construction and improve ment of highways; and to enact | law providing for the employment of convicts on public works for mod
 crate individual compensation that 1 may be used by the prisoners for support Of their families, or for se-
 curing to themselves foothold in the world after their release. z To formally accept in behalf of the state and prescribe the use of any funds that may have been appropri- ated for the state of Arizona by the l United States Government.
 s. To authorize the transfer of the State Industrial school from Benson
 to Fort Grant and to provide ways
 and means for affecting such trans fer.
 g. To enact law making appro-
 priations of money and prescribing
 ways for the compilation and pubr-
 cation of reports and statistics by the
 different state departments
 10. To enact law authorizing
 making appropriations and providing lmeanS for the requirement and eqiup-
 ment by the State Prison of tract of land to be used as a farm and to be titled and developed by convict
 labor for the supplying of products
 for prison consumption.
 H. To enact law authorizing, making appropriation and providing
 means for the requirement and eQiup-
 ment by the state hospitals for the
 insane of a tract of land to be used
 as a farm and to be titled and de-
 veloped by the inmates for the sup
 plying of products for hospital con-
 sumption
 12 To enact a law ceding to the
 United States all jurisdiction over the military reservations of Fort Apache
 in Navajo county; Fort Huachuca in
 Cochise count; Whipple Barracks Whipple Barracks Target Range in | Uox ,oi