Tombstone epitaph., 1913-05-04
Doings in the
 State Legislature
SENATE

It San Diego, but killed $l5.OOO sp. reputation for sn exhibition ot live stock st ooih fairs.
 An attempt to kil. the Brown rec lamstion department til failed in tbe senate yesterday. The present out. look is that the bill will psss that body by . vote Of II to 8
 This is the measure creating the stete reclamation department and providing for . $20. .000, ,0O0 bond issue. Au appropriation of sl0, QUO year is made to set the department on lie feet ard keep it there till the next legislature meets.
 County immigration commissioners ere not to he abolished When H B, 6, the county govern men. code, psssed the house it was without any men, tion of immigration commissioner.
 Two reports were submitted by the conference committee. op the 3 cent fare bill.
 The ssnate and house Ioined in . telegram inviting Secretary sf State Bryan to visi, Phoenix on his way back from California to Washington, and address the legislature. County seat removal bill reached senate this afternoon and was referred to committee on judicis-y. The continent of msny members Of the senate is unfsvorable 10 the bill in the present form. and sn effort will be made Co hold for original senate amendments.
 HOUSE
 | Goyerpor Hunt sent word that he had sisned the following senate code bills: No S, horticultural commis- sion; No B. superior courts; No 32 juvenile courts; No 29 bonded indebt- l edness of school districts. The governor alec signed the fol- lowing house bills: No 24, ceding to the federal government jurisdiction over military reserves within the state; No 5, inheritance taxes; NJ IA registration of birthe and deaths. At the request oi Charles R Osbnrn. i secretary Of the board of control. Don Babbitt, chairman of the house sp. priations committee, introduced 6 bill appropristing $500 for the installation of hydro therapeutic baths at the ssy lum for the insane. The equip. ment has already been purchased.
 Jacobson introd uced H B No 57 sppropristipg 5000 q year for the national guard of Arizona. By vote of 26 to g She house psss- ed the penal code bill in exactly the came form i. was vetoed by the gov- eruor. Itn now goes to the senate
 where 1t upquestionsbIy also will psss and be put up squsreIy to the govsrn-
 or.
 l SENATE
 H R Wood succeeded in securin E
 favorable action by the committee On
 his measure, No 46, to compel all
 railroad companies paving lines in
 this stste to incorporate u:der the
 lays Of Arizona and maintain general
 ofhces here. It is draen along the
 general lines Of the Texas statute.
 Roberts' bill. No 5s, providing for
 the removal of the school for the deaf dumb and blind from Tucson to the
 buildings st Benson soon to be vscat- ed by the industrial school came up for discussion. The senstors were
 widely divided. As the bill carries sn appropriation to pay the cost cf re- n ,vsl, is was finally referred to the appropriations committee. sB 38. to provide for the fur her occupancy of school lands by persons who held them under lease at the | time Arizona became . state, was recommended for regular course. Fl Wood introduced g ss, ss 8 hour law for drug clerks. c B Wood is the author of No 69. which strengthens the present laws covering illicit liquor selling and Riv.s lfiicers the right to destroy stvcks Of intoxir cants kept for sale in dry territory.
 By vote of II to 6, the committee sppoved Senator Hughes rero' ution providing for sn examination of the accounts of he peuitsntisry by State Examiner W H Piunkett. HOUSE
 The real excitement of the day in the Louss was in regard 60 B 3. the measure defining the d2ties of the state tax commission and board of equalization. The Grsbam mine tex bill, somewhat changed, was finally sdded 10 No % sn amendment.
 The rules were saspended and Grs- bsms bill brought out for smend- ment. As the bill stood it. provided that each producing mine should be assessed on 300 per cent of the net