Arizona republican., 1913-04-22
INVESTIGATE
 PRISON? NO.
House Refuses to Counte- nance Such Action After Debate - Both Houses Spend Busy Day-Fun in the Senate

There will be no investigation of the -s books and accounts of the state prison by the State Examiner w. H. Plunkett even if Governor Hunt does want it. This was the verdict of the house of representatives in committee of the whole yesterday after having the mat ter under discussion for a goodly part of the afternoon. The resolution in- troduced in the house some time back was up for discussion, with Kirke T. Moore of Pima in the chair. Bradner supported the measure; because he stated that there had been much said about falsifying reports upon the part of someone in connection especially in connection with the state prison. : Some had even gone so far as to say that the governor had misstated things in his message to the legislature. He was therefore in favor o'} a thorough investigation that would bring out the facts.
 Babbitt wanted to know where such reports had come from. He denied any knowledge of them, and said that he had heard no charge of such a nat -.ure applying to the governor. No one 5%had ever said that accounts were falsi- flied at the state prison, and if there Awere- no Justification of accounts there was no need for an investigation. Fur ther he was not in favor of getting out %any campaign dope at the expense of S the state. He did not believe there was any necessity for an examination There were several other speeches ah f Maricopa said, that he had believed the majority of the house were in favor of the accounting. but since they were not he would move the indefinite post ponement of the resolution. After a roll call this proposition carried.
 In the morning the house had house sbill 33 providing for additional permits sson state lands up for third reading and final passage, and the vote stood 16 to 14 for. passage, but shortly after Hall rof Yavapai moved to reconsider, which prevailed by a vote of 20 to TO- The .fbill was then again placed on the cal endar of the committee Of the whole FSand will come up again today.
 Y Chairman Babbitt of the appropria- = tions committee introduced the general appropriations bill yesterday morning. It carried with it appropriations for two years aggregating over $1,79O,O00.
 In tLe Senate.
 The senate started off the morning xin pretty good shape, passing the land commission appropriation bill which sswas sent to the house to be transmit sted to the governor, but in the after -noon little fight developed on the bill fnr ha fa of granted lands for the. relief of the counties of .Yavapai, Maricppa. Pima and Pinal,. whichNare now paying in- sterest on certain railroad bonds vali- dated by congress.
 H. R. Wood of Yavapai wanted to amend the bill so as not to sell the lands but to lease them. Davis of MaricOpa quoted the enabling act which provides he says for the sale of the lands. Sims supported Wood of sYavapai on the proposition and said the counties now paying interest would be reimbursed which was de- nied by Davis. Wood of MaricOpa asked Sims if he would be willing for a bill to become law that would make the state guarantee the interest and Sims said he would
 Pace said the whole matter resolved itself into a question of business eth ics. as to whether the legislature was willing to pay the debts of the state or not. The counties paying the inter- est ought to be allowed to get out from under the burden he said. Willis said pay the bill it's been due a long time, and won't get any less if the payment is postponed"
 Roberts wanted to refer the matter to the judiciary committee, but his ton. to the fact that the supervisors of the four counties involved were for the sale of the land even though the Yavapai senators were not Wood of Maricopa here got up and talked about "pipe dreams" on the part of Senator Sims. but Sims also got up, real peeved and told Wood that such talk had got more. "Cut it out" said the gentleman from Cochise It was noticed that while Wood did not retract he didn't say the same thing again. although he referred to the proposition as excited imagination" Woods amendment to lease was then put and lost. Sims would amend by striking shall sell' out and substituting may instead but this also lost by a vote of II to 6. The line up on these propositions was. For the sale of the granted lands: Breen, Davis, Harrison, Hechtman, Hubbell, Pace, Vessel, Willis, Wood of Mari