Arizona republican., 1913-03-01

The house yesterday afternoon had a little session in which some of the members seemed to delight in taking d fall out of Senator Roberts of Cochise. who is rcputed tO be the watchdog of the treasury in the legislature. Some time ago there was a hearing before the appropriations committee on the need of the university for money to conduct it's experimental service. eS- pecialy with regard to the survey for water resources. There is one member of the house however who is not dis posed to wait until the university eX- perts can reach q particular section of the state This member is Graham of Cochise. better known as the bulldog of the house because of his tenacity. Yesterday in the considerations of his bill providing for an appropriation of $6599 to be used in sinking a well on q section Of school land in the Sulphur Springs valley. It is conteuded by Mir. Graham that the increased value of that section by reason of the discovery of water in sufficient quantities to irrigate which will increase the tax able value of Cochise so much that the 1 state will reap more than the actual l eXpensa in taxes per year.
 The bill was before the committee of 1 the whole. and that committee decided ; first to throw the bin out. but Bill held l on and his bill with him until a decision 1 was reached to at least discuss the matter. This was not enough because | 1t looked for q while as if the com mittee of the whole would also throw 1 the bill out. but still Mir. Graham held l on. Then followed q sure enough dis l cussion of the bill on it's merits
 Kerr stated that Roberts .had said in the committee on appropriations | meeting that wells had been sunk all ! over the Sulphur Springs valley with ] out results, and that they had been 1 abandoned and that these wells had i been sunk at depth that would dem- 1 onstrate if water was there or not and
 no good results had been obtained KcltOn immediately said the senator | was mistaken. and pleaded for the | passage of the bill. Whipplc of Green l lee seemed to evidence q belief in q 1 pork barrel for he said he wouldn't 1 vote for the bill because it did not con- | tain a provision so that well could l be sunk on every similar section in the 1 state. and there was no chance for 1 Greenlee to get in on it. Saxon drew | attention to the fact that the oncoming l farmer was possibly driving the range ] man before him, which might account for the opposition to the bill from some l quarters Finally the bill however pre- l vailed with q few amendments. In the
 work of the bill the two members from Pima. Crofoot and Kirke T. Moore as 1 sisted largely in getting amendments
 into the bill that removed the objec- tions of many of the members So that the bill was finally sent on it's way, l with Graham rejoicing
 l While all this was going on in the house. the senate was spending more than two hours and $200 debating q general country division bill. that will 1 allow the counties to do their own di- l viding. The original bill was intro duced by Wood of MaricOpa and mum : bered 25. but later a similar bill came
 in from the same source and was
 numbered 63. This caused mix up
 for a while until it was decided to make
 63. substitute senate bill 25, and dis
 cuss it. Wood was known to be for It.
 so he went into the chair of the com
 mittee of the whole and the pyrotech
 nics were on.
 The matter of the per centage ot the 1 voters in the several sections of the
 counties sought to be divided came up
 and nearly every senator had crack
 at the game of proposing an amend
 ment The original bill said that upor
 vote of 70 per cent of the voters IT
 the proposed new county were for It i and thirty per cent in the old count
 also for it. q division should be made
 This was the bone of contention. EV
 cry sort of per centage combination
 was tried until finally it was agree'
 that it shall be E per cent in the neN
 county and fifteen per cent in the ole
 that shall be necessary to make di = vision
 ! Tn both houses there were mum ! Der of bills reported out of commit ! tees as well as some bills recommitte ; and referred. In the house it Wa thought the medical bill would be Il