Arizona republican., 1913-04-02
GOVERNOR GETS
 . BIC BUNCH BILLS
Twentv-foHr Senate Code Bills Sent to.Nhief Execu- tive Last Night; House w ork s Effectively on Senate Bills

If Governor Hunt does not get writers cramp before he gets through signing the bills of the present leg
 islature, it will not be the fault of the senate. Last evening no less than tWentN-four bills all senate code bills, were after having been properly passed by both houses. sent to the governor for his approval This plain and unVarnished statement does not mean that the house has been de- linquent in it's work and so only senate bills are passed, it means simp- ly the opposite that the house Of representatives has so far been gen erous to the senate as to pass twenty four code bills, before the senate has even passed one house bill. and that despite the clamOr the house has been working to better advantage than the OfttimeS hedubbed less sumber- some body of the upper house
 The house leads off in the busi- ness of passing code bills, by putting in more than two weeks good hard work on the penal code house bill 4S. before the senate had considered but very few code bills. House bill AS, which will take three days to read is still before he senate. and there are as many as thirty-five other 1 house bills before the senate that have not been acted upon All this 1 while the senate members. it is re- ported have been loudly acclaiming it is possible for them to complete the work and get through the ses- sion without any extra time How ever the senate has seen a light of late and yesterday both houses prac- tically agreed that an extra session was not only needed but is impera- ] tive or all the work that has been done on the code will be done for | naUght. the bills that have failed of 1 passage will have to lay over for two years until the next session. and then l have to be introduced again as q i portion of the then revised code. With this in view the house leaders l yesterday practically agreed to-IaN ! down upon the matter of holding up 1 the appropriations and to pass the 1 bill giving the governor the needed l money for the conduct of the affairs l of state for the ensuing two years. ] 1 the incomeplete task on the should l CTS of the governor. This is what is l to be done according to the best of 1 information obtainable.
 Three long session of the house and
 a number of bills passed made another i busy day. There was in addition a l number of conferences upon bills
 that have been amended in either i house and which are not concurred in by the house Thus the general county division bill substitute senate 1 bill 25 was before q conference com mittee because of the per centage that
 had been put in by the house which l were not satisfactory to the senate The house had under consideration | the good roads measure debated long
 and fiercely the proposition of the 1 amount of appropriation for good 1 roads this year. Last year the ap-
 propriation for good roads was $250,O0' Il but this year the committee agreed
 to raise it $5O.000. but the house went
 them S100. 900 better and made the appropriation for good roads to he 1 expended under the supervision o the state engineer $400, ,000 per veal
 for two years or $800000 in all Thi:
 was done over the earnest prOtes
 of Jacobs and Kelton who Appreciated
 saddling the taxpayers with the ad-
 ditional amount of taxes.
 Maddock led the fight for the $400.-
 000 annual appropriation and made
 several speeches. He said the goof
 roads in Arizona would bring approXi
 mately 100000 automobile loads O
 people through Arizona in 1915 to g'
 to the San Francisco exposition, Wh'
 would spend something like s10O0, O0 i during their trip through tire state
 The senate in the committee of thu l whole considered a number of hOus
 code bills as well a number of sen i ate bills.