Arizona republican., 1913-03-07
Senator Cunniff Comes to Aid of Measure Similar to One Killed in House Recently and Forces App proval Y.
MEDICAL BILL
 PASSES HOUSE
Committee of Whole Ap- proves of Orange County and Gila Cutoff. Irvine and Kerr Protest Against Medical Bill

The sessions of the legislature yes
 terday were among the most import
 ant that have vet been held by either
 the senate or the house Not only
 was there a vast amount of technical
 work done but there were several
 measures of extreme importance both
 introduced and acted upon. It seem
 ed as though it is not possible for
 the senate to get particularly far
 away from the anti-black list idea.
 The right of an employer to inquire
 into the antecedents or the previous
 employment Of an applicant was
 therefore seriously under discussion
 yesterday. and the Cunniff measure
 known as senate bill A went through
 the committee Of the whole with the approval of the majority of the mem
 bers This however was not accom- pliShed without considerable friction, and during the heated discussion Sem
 ator Cunniff of Yavapai passed a few remarks upon the intelligence of cer- tain newspapers which had shown the temeritv to criticise the tustness of
 his biIl In this connection. he men
 toned The Arizona Republican and
 spoke heatedly of questionable pleas ure he had enjoyed in reading tho editorials in the columns of this pa per He talked about animadversion, and spoke of exhibitions to the high est degree of lack of intelligence. He
 objected to clauses heinz taken from the center of his bill and being dis ! CuSsed regardless of the balance Of 1 the measure He then told what a ! good law his anti-back list law is and i how. according to his opinion if the ! bill becomes law it will impair no constitutional rights possessed by any { citizen or set of citizens.
 1 The majority of the senate were of : the opinion that an anti black list 1 law should be passed but in spite of Mir. Cunniff's strong speech, c. B. I Wood of Maricopa. said the law was, entirely too weak Davis of Maricopa. 1 agreed with Senator Wood that the !, law was weak but that it afforded some relief-from which he gathered some satisfaction. Senator Worsely said he was for the bill, but it was Woefully weak. Shortly after this, a. vote was taken. from which it was gathered that the ayes were stronger l than the nays. At least the volume of sound was greater.
 Immediately following there arose a discussion on the advisability of ,lessening the age qualifications of the superintendents of the pioneer home. ! Hughes has a bill known as senate bill 19, which allowed the governor to appoint as superintendent any one that he saw fit, but the committee de-
 cided to bring in d substitute bill.
 which was called substitute 19, and
 which had exactly the opposite inten-
 tion from the original bill. After
 much talk. it was decided to strike
 the qualifications from the bill, and with that understanding, it went
 through the committee of the whole.
 During the afternoon Senator Worsely spoke at length upon his proposition for $500, ,000,000 bond is sue by the United States for public
 improvement in political subdivisions as embodied in his memorial to con } gress. Definite action had been post ; poned on this out of courtesy to MT. Worsely but after his speech. he found on roll call that Senators Hechtman. Hughes and Willis were the only ones really for him.
 The afternoon ScSSlOn Tn the upper house was notable also because of the l introduction by Wood of Maricopa of :. q measure which seeks to bring about the sterilization of criminals and to | prevent the procreatiOn of criminals. r mbecileS and insane persons The [ bill under the rule laid over one day : and will have a second reading today. | It was read by number and title only. Q under an emergency rule. The bill
 takes advanced ground on this so- 7 ciological problem.
 = There were a large number of bills
 that were sent out from committees n with various recommendations. among }, which was the Roberts public land | bill. s. B. B, which provided for the e lease of state lands by local county I boards. There were two reports on n this bill, a majority and a minority l. report Davis. the chairman and Pace f of Graham signing the minority re- T port. Senate joint memorial number Il one by Worsely was placed on the Y calendar of the committee of the e whole on recommendation of the pub n lie lands committee but no recon T mendation as to passage was carried : in the report. This seeks to have Il congress appropriate $25,000.000 an $ nu5tlly for tWenty-fiv years from the : war department fund and applied to Y the national reclamation fund. The
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