Arizona republican., 1913-03-31
LAST WEEK IF
 LEGISLATURE
Senate and House About to Ask Some Questions and Requests of Each Other Regarding Pet Measures And Other Things


 eraliy believed will be the last week of the present legislature, there arises in the minds of many, of those who have watched the current of events very closely. some very interesting specula tions relative 10 what will be done with certain bills and what the general disposition of them will be. Two of these bills contain within them the elements of the expression of the controversy between the gov elnor and the legislature. or at feast an expression of the desire of many of the members to deprive the gov ernor of some of his power, as well a to hinder his work during the re- mainder of his term.
 These two bills are peculiar in that one originated in the senate and has gone to the house. and one originated in the house and has gone to the senate, and neither of the bills have been before either house for serious discussion since the day they each traded houses Yet the rumor in sists that caucuses and conferences have been busy on them. The names
  toned to bring to mind the fight in the senate on the land policy, and the scrap in the house both this ses- sion and last on the board of con t1ol
 Senate Bill 75. by Senator Davis of Maricopa, is one of the bills. It seeks to continue for two years more the present state land commits sion, and provide it with sufficient funds 10 carry ou the purposes of the land code. as provided for in the laws passed by the first sessions or the present legislature. The bill has no permanent value as 1t continues the land commission but for two years more. when it makes the body elective entirely, and provides that 1t shall be composed of the governor the attorney general, and the state land commissioner who shall be known as the chairman. The good effect of the bill is that it allows the work of the commission which has been planned so eNhaustively and well to be continued for two years. when it is thought the work will have reached such a point that it  commissioner to further continue in stead of the three now employed.
 The bill does not. as passed by the senate, resemble the original. as introduced by request of the land commission. The changes were in sterted and the bill cut down It is said in order to have it meet the approval of the house, and that the house will either not act on 1t at ali. letting it die, or will amend It Tn such a manner that Senator Davis will not recognize it when it is sent back to the senate.
 This part of the controversy has been altogether in the house. in re- gard to d senate bill But now the action moves across the corridors to the senate The bill in question there is known officially as H. B. 6, the board of control bill, called so because it seeks to reOrganize the board of control. The method O reorganization is to dispense with the present office of secretary and citizen member, and to make instead | the attorney general a member of l the board giving him s20O per month salary as legal advisor to the board. The bill has no intentions. that i are not plain on the face of the bill. It seeks to have the majority of the | board to be constituted IS to be ! equally responsible with the governor 1 in all matters. The senate does not | like this. It will be remembered | that at the last session the senate killed two similar bills. because it | did not neither like them, nor like the idea of taking power away from !! the governor. However the bill this time has been regularly passed in the house and is in the senate. The enate is being watched to find out what action if any will be taken with l the bill
 That it will not pass the senate is pretty well assured unless in- fluences are brought to bear to force it through There are but q few or these influences and they are of
 political nature.
 In the first place strong opposi- tion to the bill will develop from Roberts. chairman of the senate ap- propriations committed He is op- posed first to the present attorney | general and second to spending any
 more state money. This taken with
 the other feature of the bill is likely to spell defeat unless something like
 the following happens. Roberts own
 bill (S B. 33) providing for the lease of the state land by the county
 boards of supervisors is in the house
 as is the Davis bill. The house has the bills on the calendar. It will
 be an easy matter to indefinately
 postpone these bills should the sen-
 ate not desire to pass the board of control bill, and it would be an easy
 matter to pass both the bills thus
 clarifying the situation, if the senate should pass the board of control bill. Fl Of course this is all sharp politics, but it is the kind that is often in-
 dulged' in by legislatures all over the country. You vote for my bill and IT will vote for yours,' is very often the case It is thought that to con-
 t;nue the work of the land commits sion in which Governor Hunt is deep lv interested his friends in the sen-