El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-08
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some other arrangements. is dead
After spending several hours fighting
over amendments. and adopting some
or thems the senate refused to send
the bill to the enrolling and engross-
ing committee to be prepared for third
reading Nine to nine was the vote
by which the motion was lost.
one amendment that was adopted
provided that grazing land should NOT
be leased for less than cents an acre
o. agricultural land for less than so
cents 1t was made mandatory on the
land commission to lease land on ap-
pHcatlon for periods not exceeding five
years. 1t was left to the discretion Of
the commission TO pay lessees for
fences, upon the REIMBURSEMENT of
leases.
SEGREGATION Measure.
Senate bill No. A. for the abatement
of houses of lewdness, came back from
the house and the senate refused to
concur in the amendment providing for
restricted districts inside incorporated
cities and towns.
Vessel, Hubbeu and Hechtman are
the conference committee from tie SEN
ate; Lewis, KeltOn and Wren from
the house. 1t is not expected that the
committees viii agree without much
difficulty.
H r. Wood. Kinney. Roberts and
I.ovin, Of the appropriation committee,
recommended the indefinite postpone
ment of house bill SO, appropriating
$4,000 to pay the expenses Of veterans
TO the reunion that is TO be held on
the field of the battle of GETTYSBURG
Hughes. Pace and c. B. Wood signed
the minority report. which was IA
vcrable to the bill It was referred TO
the committee OF the whole.
Chase, c. B. Wood and Worsley, OF
n0TnOrarlOmC n
mended that Woods eight-hour law
for employees Of public service corpora
tiOns be passed. Sims signed a report
all by himself. advocating indefinite
postponement. Sims thinks the bill IN
constitutional.
Hunt signs Bills.
Governor Hunt notified the senate
that ne had signed the following bills
Senate bill %, by G. 3. Wood, levy
and collection Of taxes.
House bill S, by code revision COM
mittee. liens.
Senate bin 81. by Willis, for the re-
lief Of squatters on school lands
Senate bill 81. by code revision COM
nittee, contracts for the construction
OF public buildings.
House bill 16, by code revision com
mittee, boards Of health.
VetOeS Printing Measure.
Holding 50 cents an inch too low
maximum charge for public printing in
a remote district, where the cost Of
running a newspaper is high, Gov
Hunt this morning vetoed the printing
code The legislature reduced the max
imum from IS cents The senate voted
10 to s to sustain the veto
When the senate adjourned for the
day, the penal code, corporation COM
mission code. insurance code and sew
eral other bills of less length were
ready for third reading There was
much talk of a night session but final
" the senators agreed to begin reading
them at o'clock this morning.
House Kills Widows Pension bill.
The house today passed the general
appropriation bill carrying $l'S00.O0o to
run the state two years.
Irvine's widows pension bill is dead,
and so is the Hughes amendment to the
miners lien law.
The Irvine bill occupied several hours
OF the houses valuable time Wednes-
day and for a period its chances looked
good. In fact 1t was reported favOraDly
by the committee OF the whole and af-
ter that IL was referred TO the enrol
ing and engrOssinE committee to be
prepared for third reading, only TO be
indefinitely postponed by a vote of I5
to Is.
Lynch and others declared that the
pension measure would bankrupt some
of the counties Jacobs charged that
such a law would create an INDECENT
class" After the house had referred
the bill to the enrolling and engross-
ing committee q motion TO postpone IN
definitely was carried
Most OF the argument over the
Hughes bill, providing for the sub
mission Of a modified miners lien law
TO the people, was in committee OF the
whole. The recommendation OF the COM
mittee, that the bill be indefinitely
postponed, was adopted. Barker. Buch-
anaSs CrOfoot, Curry, Ellis, Jones, Kane,
Kelton and Kirke Moore dissented-
The present law makes any debt in
CURED in working a mine a lien upon
the property itself. whether contracted
by the owner or a lessee Hughes would
have only labor claims comprise such
such lien
For Dry Farm Exhibit.
In the forenoon the appropriation
committee at the request OF speaker
Binney. introduced a bill apprOpriating
$1,000 for an Arizona exhibit at the dry
farming congress, to be held at Tulsa.
Oklahoma, next October. It was rushed
through with five negative votes. They
were cast BY Duncan, Gonzales, Jacobs,
Kane and Maddox.
Kirke Moore was the only one who
voted against senate bill No 81, the
bank examination code.
With few minor amendments in the
way Of corrections, senate bill No y,
providing for the payment OF legisla-
tive attaches for the last two days Of
the second special session was passed.
The senate cOncUrred in the amend
ments and the bill went TO the gov
ernor.
Bills Passed.
Davis's bill empowering the land
commission to proceed at once with the
selection Of the million acres granted
in the enabling act to Maricopa, Pima,
faYapai and CocOninO counties, to pay
on outstanding railroad bonds. was
passed with only Graham opposed.
The Hughes bill authorizing the en-
plOyment of convicts on roads was
passed. with Craig, Gonzales, Graham,
Hall, Kelton and Kirke Moore on the
losing side.
The senate resolution thanking the
legislatures OF southern states for
their work toward securing the south
ern national highway" which is to
cross Arizona, was adopted.
House bill SO, the code relating to the |
levy and collection Of school taxes, |
passed without division.
Tom Maddox created a sensation by /
introducing a resolution pledging the |
house to adjourn Saturday afternoon at |
5 o'clock. The motion was lost, IA to Z
Is. The II are Rabbit Buchanan.
Cooke, Craig, Curry. Duncan, Gonzales,
Jacobs, Jacobson, Kelton, Lewis, Mad l
dock, MattOx. A A Moore, Murphy. The I
10 believe that there is plenty to keep /
the two houses occupied till Tuesday j
evening, when the appropriation for 1
this session runs out.