Arizona republican., 1913-03-05
WATER SUPPLY
 AT FORT GRANT
Said to Be Inadequate for Purposes of Industrial
 School and Jacobson
 Asks Investigation; Med ical Bill Makes Progress


 As was expected, the house of repre- sentatives yesterday soon after the op- | ening of the session became involved in a discussion over the removal of the | industrial school to the proposed site | at the Fort Grant military reservation. l True to his notice the day before, 1 Jacobson of Graham introduced house l joint resolution No. ,, calling for a l joint committee of the senate and the | house to investigate the proposed site | with the special reference to perma 1 nent water supply and probable sani- | tarY conditions. Jacobson asked for l the immediate consideration of his res olutiOn. which under the rule would ! have to lie over for one day. But this ! was objected to and unanimous con sent could not be obtained. The friends | of Governor Hunt as well as the op- ponents to the Cluff ranch insisted on the application of the rule. There were others who fought the resolution, on the ground that provision had already been made for the reception of the i school at Fort Grant as soon as the 1 ltSlSldluIt Illdut lllt necessary ldN | providing for removal from the pres ent site at Benson. the United States 1 had ceded to the state of Arizona for 1 that express purpose 2,O00 acres of the | Fort Grant reservation, they said, and | the recommendation of the site com ! mission had been in favor of that place l The Graham county delegation stood pat. Lynch said all that was wanted l was that the legislature should know l the facts, and asked that these steps l be taken so as to appriSe the legisla- : ture of the facts They maintained in 1 this connection that the water supply
 was not permanent. neither was it ade- l Quate. Kerr of Yuma, however. said 1 the whole discussion could be ended by reference to the records of the war de- partment which could surely show just
 what the water supply of that section ! is, because they had maintained troops
 at Fort Grant for more than twenty years, and if the water had ever played
 out in that time, the record wodld sure Iy show. The resolution was laid over for one day.
 The house appointed as a conference , committee on the senate bill regarding | registration on which there was q tie
 mp yesterday. Chairman Wren of the
 committee on suffrage and election. | Brooks of Gila and Irvine of MaricOpa. | The question at issue between the two 1 houses is that of the women folk being compelled to give their age when reg
 istering their qualifications to vote.
 Yesterday was a day of thanks and
 congratulation in the legislature. Upon
 an announcement of telegram re
 ceived by General Bullard that the cir
 cult court of appeals had denied an ap-
 plication for an injunction on the part of employees of the Santa Fe system. | against the operation of the trainmen's
 qualification law, Bradner of CochiSe;
 former speaker as the direct represen-
 tative of those most closely concerned
 made a speech of thanks Linneys
 resolution congra tuating Ireland upon
 achieving home rule was also passed
 without division and the resolution of
 Jacobs of Maricopa congratulating
 Wilson and Marshall was also passed without division.
 The committee of the whole with Bradner in the chair continued the discussion of the medical bill, rejecting Kerr and Whipple amendments report ed yesterday and accepting the fol- lowing amendment which was added to section IS:
 And provided that all sanitary laws and regulations regarding contagious diseases now applicable to practition CTS of medicine shall be held to apply equally to the practice of any system or mode of treating the sick or afflict- ed
 The bill was then recommended for the regular course Following this the house proceeded to a consideration of the bill providing for a penal code for the state and were considering that when the hour of adjournment was reached, whereupOn the committee arose and asked leave to sit again. A memorial to congress from the leg islature of the state of California re- lating to the Raker bill for the exclus- ion for Chinese and other Asiatic- aliens was passed without division. Kane's house bill four providing the state to stand the cost of transcript to the su- preme court in certain cases was in definitely postponed A like action was taken with regard to the original medi cal bill house bill IS.
 In the Senate
 Quite a lot of technical work was done in the senate yesterday and there was also some discussion, as there was in the house, relative to the advisability of holding night sessions. { When this was disposed of the senate jumped on the WOrsely resolution, reg ularlY called senate joint memorial No. l 6, that seeks to have the United States issue $5O0,0O0,00O worth of three per 
 subdivisions of the country for inn prOVement purposes. This was indef- initely postponed in summary manner. Then the senate proceeded to lay on the table two memorials one from the state of oregon and one from Vermont asking for a national convention to dis cuss the question of polygamy. The i memorial from the state of Wyoming