Arizona republican., 1913-04-15
Both Houses Quickly Get Down to Business and Send Bills Over With Much Celerity and Dcs- patch
SAME ATTACHES
 WILL CONTINUE
Penal Code is the First Bill in the House, While Sen ator Hughes Has Distinc- tiOn of Number One in the Senate.

l Without ripple on the surface ] the organization of the two houses 1 of the third special session of the
 first state legislature was accom-
 piished this morning with quickness and dispatch. Promptly at 10 o'clock
 yesterday morning, Speaker Linney l mounted the rostrum. instructed the | clerk to call the roll, announced ;t quorum present, and called upon the 1 chaplain, Rev. William R. Thornton.
 to pronounce the invocation. The 1 senate was but fifteen minutes be- hind the house in the matter of or
 ganizing and the thing was com pleted just about as quickly. l Following this in both houses the same procedure was observed The l proclamation Of the governor calling the bodies in extra session was read. and the officers of the former ses- | sion declared to be the officers of this session.
 This done in the house a committee was appointed to notify the senate and the governor that the house had organized and was ready for busi- ness In the senate the same thing was done. and in both houses this action was almost immediately fol- lowed by the reading of the gov ernor's message.
 The introduction of bills began early in the house. Jacobs. chairman of the house committee on the re- vision of the code, introduced the first bill, house bill number l, "an act to establish a penal code. This is the bill that was vetoed by Gov ernor Hunt last Friday It was introduced in the house in exactly the same shape in which it was received by the governor Bills fol lowed one another across the reading
 clerks desk with Tapidity until twenty one had been introduced, and
 read a first and second time by
 number and title under d suspension of the rules. The penal code upon second reading was referred to the
 committee on the revision of the code, as were also some of the
 other bills
 Fifty minutes after converting the
 house was ready to adjourn for the morning and did so on the motion Of
 Lynch of Graham. Prior to ad-
 journment however the ever present question of economy, and the ap- pointment of the clerks and attaches led Jacobs of Maricopa to move that
 a committee of one from each county be- appointed as committee on
 patronage to go into the matter and report.
 After the recess was taken, the committee met in the assistant chief clerks office and for nearly an hour proceeded to thrash out the question of patronage. No decision could be
 arrived at, because if any discharg
 ing were done it would seem as Judge Wren said. "a disposition to make fish of one and flesh of an other" He therefore moved that
 the same clerks that served so faith fully and well at the last session be continued for this This was decided upon. but the committee made no report The committee was com posed of Jacobson. of Graham; Jones, of Maricopa: Graham. of Cochisc; Barker. of Pinal; Lewis, of Gila; Crofoot, of Pima; Kerr of Yuma; Ellis. of Mohave Kane, of Greenlee;
 Gonzales. of Apache; Maddock, of Coconino; Mattox, of Navajo, and Saxon, of Santa Cruz.
 When the house met in the after noon it quickly proceeded to take hold of the situation and went into | the committee of the whole and con- 1 sidered seventeen bills on the cal endar.
 In the senate after the governors message had been read a recess Was | taken at the call of the gavel, and shortly after the noon adjournment. At 1:30 o'clock the body met again and proceeded to introduce bills un l til twenty-two had been numbered and read. Senator John T. Hughes has the distinction of introducing the | first bill his municipal slaughter 1 house bill.
 l After the introduction of the bills the calendar having been made up. the senate resolved itself into the
 committee of the whole and pro- l ceeded to have q little spat upon
 the matter of bringing the bills out Of the committee in the same posi- ! ton and order in which they were sent in. They finally came out in
 pretty good order.
 Contrary to the general impress
 l sion there was no fight in either
 l house. Only a little bit of argu-
 ment occurred in the house on the
 county salaries bill during the com
 mittee of the whole with Craig in