El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-20
ARIZONA MINING
CODE REFERRED
CONTINUED from page l.,

/ committed It requires water sprayi
] on all power drills in mines. Cunnif
| stated that If il proved SATISFACTORY
( ne would consent to the killing Of sen
ate bill No. 63, which is along the sam,
| line
Another fight came up over Davis.
| protest against the indefini-c postpone
| ment of the Hunt county bill, which
| president Cunniff id not want included
| in the journal The rules committee
! to which the dispute was referred Tues
day, recommended that Davis rewrit,
his protest and that in its changed
form it be admitted to the journal Da'
! Wis expressed willingness to agree tC
4 this CunnlfL and later Roberts, gave
notice that they would reserve, The
right to protest against the protest.,
Tax Measures Postponed.
! Two cherished bills or the state tar
commission were indefinitely post
| pCned in the senate committee Of The
/ whole Wednesday, One was the meas
ure imposing a tax OF three mills OF
! each 800 of moneys and negotiable
/ papers or bonds and the other was tC
/ require an affidavit of true considera-
/ ton with each deed recorded. The affi-
! daVit was not TO be made public but
| was to assist the assessor in fixing
/ valuations
The friends of these bills were hope
! lesSly OutnumbeFed and they did not
( make much of struggle to keep them
] alive.
/ Worsley's bill Ito take the crooks
J out of railroads was also postponed
I la
WOrsIey memorial to congress ask
! ing that the United States take steps to
! annex Sonora and Lower California,
No Praise for Asburst.
! Representative Kclton's resolution
/ commencing senator Henry T. Ashurst
/ for the stand he has taken in favor Of
the government owning its own railway
mail cars. caused much discussion and
was finally postponed indefinitely.
HuShes's bill to prohibit the issU-
] -nE
and dentists afflicted with tubercu-
lcsis was reported for regular course.
No opposition developed to Hughes's
amendment TO the law covering the is
suance Of bonds for municipal i'm
, prOvements. Regular course was rec
commended.
Land Lease Money
The lands committees Dill providing
for the maintenance of separate funds
for various state Institutions out of
the money derived from the sale and
lease of public lands, and for the pay
ment Of bonds, was reported for reg
ular course.
One unfavOrable report was sub
mitted by the county affairs commit
tee on HarrisOn's bill to require the
fencing of all railroad tracks outside
cities and towns Later, however, the
memr ers Of the committee changed
their minds and requested another
chance at it. 1t was returned to them
yesterday.
cussiOn of the day came up over the
Cunniff bill to establish a Legislative
reference library. with competent IL
brarian. Davis declared that the bisi
was ridiculous and would impose an
unnecessary expense Of some $500 a
year on the state The librarian would
be the servant Of the legislature, Cum
milf said. Before each session ne
would order supplies and make .
much easier for the lawmakers to set
under way.
An amendment providing that the
librarian should be appointed at each
session by the rules committee of the
two houses was adopted The bill was
still under discussion when the hands
of the clock pointed to five and the
committee arose TO report.
At a long, weary evening session. the
senate began the consideration. in COM
mittee OF the whole, of the penal code.
sent over from the house.
EIlis's Maiden Speech.
Senator PAGES anu-tipping bill was
killed in the house Wednesday. John
Ellis, Of Mohave county, made his first
speech.
Don Rabbit introduced a bill appro-
priaunE SIP, 900 for an Arizona build
ing and exhibit at San Francisco in !
1915.
The death Of the anti-tipping meas /
ure and the introduction Of Rabbits
bill caused no particular surprise. but I
when Ellis began to talk his fellow /
All eyes were turned on Ellis, the /
silent man Of the house IN. B.
There Is no silent man of the senate.) /
Ellis spilled at least 200 perfectly /
good words. They were the first I
words he had uttered on the floor. eX- 1
cept when answering to roll calls.
Two sessions of this legislature |
have come and gone, and a third is al \
most history but not till yesterday did |
the representatives have any official I
knowledge Of the fact that John Ellis 4
can talk
His speech was in support of senator ]
Lovin,s bill to appropriate $500 for
DrldSe oyer the Colorado al Needles
on condition that California and the
government each contribute the same 4
amount After the speech the legis-
lators could do nothing less than rec
ommend the LOvin bill for passage.
Anti-Tip Bill Killed.
The anti-tipping bill died fairly easy.
mere was somewhat Of a debate, but
1t was painfully tame. Bradner, Gra-
ham, Irvine, Kerr. Lewis and Murphy
voted against indefinite pOstponemeut. |
Things are looking blue for the Lin
ney bill creating a game preserve in
CoconinO and Navajo counties. for the /
particular purpose of affOrding prOtec-
ton to the herd Of elk recently import
ed from Wyoming A motion TO enroll
and engrOss the bill was lost and il /
was agree that the matter should 20
over TIL the return of the committee
catlemen of the section included in the
proposed reserve are strongly opposed !
to the bill.
County High Schools.
Senator Lovin's bill providing for the
Of union county high I
schools was reported favOrably by the ,
house committee Of the whole. Favor
able reports were made on the Rabbit (
Dill; providing for a state tuberculosis
-anltarlum, and on the Linney bill. ap- 1
propriating $1,000 for an exhibit Il
Arizona products at the dry farming
congress in Tulsa. Okla. next October.
indefinite pOstpOnement was the fate
OF senator HuShes's bill to restrict the
use OF the word trust to the name 81
firms doing business under the super
vision Of the state bank controller.
me unanciers of the house regarded
the measure as too drastic
New Code Measures.
Two bills introduced yesterday by
he code committee reached the COM
nittee OF the whole. under suspension q
Il the rules. during the afternoon, and
both were approved No. 80 is the new
I've stock code and No. 81 governs the
paying of bounties on skins of wild Z
.nlmals- It 5 much the same as the
Brooks bounty bill introduced earlier