Arizona republican., 1913-05-03
Does Not Believe i'll Letting County Supervisors Boss Spending of State Road Fund in the Several Counties
SENATE READS PENAL CODE
The House Takes Stand on States Rights Refused to Pass Resolution for National Woman Suffrage Amendment

In the Arizona house of representa- tives the general belief is that the third time is a charm, and that any bill killed for the third time is dead for the long term. Yesterday to prove the contention the house paused long minister the knife twice to the same bill. this bill having already once be- fore suffered the same sort of opera tion in the same sort of way.
 The bill in question was Lovin's senate bill 17, providing for the con- struction maintenance of state high ways with the proviso that the county board of supervisors, fourteen in num- Der at this present writing, should have the right to designate where the money for the state highways should be spent in the individual counties. The office of state engineer was by the bill reduced to that of clerkship and draughtsmanship for the county boards of supervisors. The senate passed the bill about ten days ago and it went to the house, and was after a short debate indefinately postponed
 Now Lovin is one of the best doers in the legislature and he promptly got to work to get reconsideration of the bill in the hope that it might pass This was accomplished and on Thursday the vote of reconsideration was taken and carried, and upon recommendation the bill was laid over for one day. Yesterday was the one day, and in the morning session of the
 onr init of hn vx,h chairman, recommended that the bill be indefinately postponed This was done.
 Lovin again got busy with his friends in the house and another reconsideration was made yesterday afternoon and after about fifteen min- utes discussion another vote for in-
 definate postponement was taken again the bill was recommended by the committee of the whole for post ponement When the committee rose it agreed to the report Thus is a bill killed three times in the same session in the same house. It may however not be dead now. It may be that still another post mortem will
 be held and measures of resucitation taken.
 The house also decided yesterday | that it was not and is not in favor of
 hoisting woman suffrage on states | that do not want it. It reached this conclusion by means of a debate on the resolution of Wrenn. erStwhile statesrighter and from Virginia, but more recently from Yavapai. Wrenn's resolution called upon congress to pass what is known as the Cham 1 berlain proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States pro- viding for woman's suffrage This l it was claimed interfered with the rights of the states to fix the qualifi- cations of voters, that in no case, ex- cept that of the fifteenth amendment | had the United States made any l qualification for suffrage, leaving the
 whole Matter to the states them selves. It was claimed that although in favor of woman's suffrage herself Arizona could not violate the good democratic doctrine and support a measure that would force it upon other states, notably Wisconsin which
 has voted upon the question recently
 and refused to allow it. When the
 report of the committee came out
 into the session it required three votes
 and an hours debate to satisfy the l difficulty. Then it was decided to postpone by vote of r to 14. four | of the members being absent.
 Another ca matter of interest that
 took place yesterday in the house was
 the indefinate postponement of the senate resolution calling upon the
 state examiner to examine the prison books and accounts. This was given the same dose as the Wren resolu ton. Then followed consideration i of the Hughes bill for working con
 victs upon the state highway This bill was amended so as to make it practically impossible to work con- victs in places where they are likely
 to come in contact with contract labor The matter of the nuisance abate-
 ment was taken up and clause in-
 serted in ther bill permitting cities to
 have restricted districts for disorderly
 houses. This bill is practically the
 same as the Iowa abatement law which was recently passed by Cali fornia The senate has killed this matter before, and as it is now ar ; amendment to. a senate bill it is ex- :. pected that further argument on ths , matter will take place between 1botl
 houses.
 No agreement was reached betweer . the two houses on the matter of tn,
 county seat removal bill so conferenc. committees were again appointed