Arizona republican., 1913-03-18
HOUSE PASSES
 THE PENAL CODE
Three-Day Task of Third Reading Completed and Vote Shows but One Dis senting Voice-1s Trans mitted to Senate

The work of the house of represen- tatives on the new penal code was completed yesterday, when the third reading of the bill was finished and the vote on final passage taken. The read ing has taken more than three days. There are ever 125G pages of type written manuscript in the new body of the criminal statutes of the state. The bill has been before the house since the twenty sixth day of February when it was introduced by the com mitte5 as house bill AS.
 For three weeks prior to the intro duction of the bill it was being worked over by Code Commissioner Pattee and the joint committees of house and sen ate cu the revision of the code. It was, in contra distinction to the civil code introduced in the senate, brought into the house in the form of one bill. Three weeks work Gn the part of the com niittee prior to the introduction into the house does not total all the work done on the code by any means how ever. Long before this, during the first regular Ssion Of the state legislature MT Pattee was appointed code com missioner and set about his task. Fol lowing the adjournment of the legis- Iature he took his task back to his home in Tucson ana all summer and last winter he stayed with it until the present meeting of the legislature.
 When the solons met this time MT. Pattee prepared to bring the whole bag and baggage to Phoenix for the finish ing touches. That they were done, the fact that the joint committee took no knowledge of holidays or recesSes The joint committee worked all the time on the proposition. Very few if any changes were made and few if any ob- iections were made to the code as pre- sented. Representative Whipple took exception to the death penalties as proposed in the bill, from a matter of principal, and when the final vote was taken yesterday his was the only no vote recorded. He was willing to kill the whole measure to take out the death penalty.
 During the afternoon a committee of the whole SasSion was had for the pur- pose of making a little amendment to the section relating to the semi month ly pay day, giving a lea way of seven days in paying by corporations instead of five days as is the present law. This was accepted by the house and the reading continued. Tne section in which this change occurs is 719. A lit tie later an attempt Vas made to in clude individuals within the scope of the law, but this failed, on the ground that it would be interfering with the contractual relations, and thus an in fringement on the constitution.
 When the final roll call was made and the result announced, a special com mittee composed of the speaker and MesSrs Crofoet and Maddock escorted the secretary from the house to the senate with the bill. The roll call on the final vote was as follows:
 Ayes: Rabbit, Bradner, Brooks, Craig. Crofoot. Curry Drennan Ellis, Graham, Hall, Irvine, Kane, Kelton, Kerr, Lewis, Lynch. Maddock. Mattox, Moore of Yavapai, Murphy, Saxon. Wren, MT. Speaker-23.
 Nays: Whipple,-1
 Absent: Johnson.
 Excused: Ball, Barker, Buchanan, Cooke, Duncan, Gonzales, Jacobs, Jac- obsOn, Jones, Moore of Pima-1O