Arizona republican., 1913-05-01
BY Vote of 26 to 9 House
Decides to Put Bill Up to
the Governor to See if
He Will Veto it Once
More
NINE TAXATION
IN THE HOUSE
Graham Wins Fight to At
tach Tax Bill to That
Granting Specific Powers
to the State Tax Com
mission

mission
The penal code, the very same bill
that has once been vetoed by Gov
ernor Hunt, and which is not this
time passed over his veto because this
! is a different session from that one
the bill of which he vetoed, passed
the house of representatives yesterday
afternoon by vote of 26 to 9, the
full house being present when the
final roll call was had on the bill
The bill was Immediately transmitted
to the senate and will be read in the
upper house the first time this morn
ing.
The roll call on the vote was as
follows: Ayes-Babbitt. Ball, Barker.
Buchanan, Cooke, Craig, Crofoot,
Curry, brennan, Ellis, Gonzales, Gra-
ham, Irvine Jacobs, jacobson, John
son. Jones, Kane, Kelton, Lynch, Mad
dock Mattox, Moore of Yavapai.
Moore of Pima, Saxon. Speaker Lin
ney, 26. Noes-Bradner Brooks. Dun
can, Hall, Kerr. Lewis, Murphy.
Whipple, Wren, 8.
most ardent advocates of change in
the bill to conform to the governors
wishes asked leave to spread eX-
plantations of their vote upon the
journal which was granted. These
gentlemen We're Bradner of Cochise.
Duncan of Cochise, and Whipple of
Greenlee. The protests were as fol-
lows:
Bradner Il wish to vote mo- with
the following explanation:
Il realize how hard and long we
have worked to pass this penal code
and / believe that passing it in the
same form that it was before would
endanger the whole bill.
Il realize that the governor has a
constitutional right to exercise the
veto on bills which he thinks are not
right. And as his opinion has been
expressed we can not expect him to
recede from his original position any
more than for the house to recede
Il further believe that as there are
petitions now being circulated by the
people to initiate law doing away
with capital punishment that the
governor should have the power to
stay all executions until the people
have expressed themselves on the
question.
SAM B. BRADNER.'
Duncan-"Mr. Speaker:-In voting
on this bill / am going to do some
thing l seldom do, that is to explain
my vote
In casting my vote I do soSagainst
my own judgment. | am in favor of
capital punishment and rightfully, ac-
cording to my mind all persons who
commit a wilful premeditated murder
should receive the death penalty in
whatever manner the law may pre-
scribe | am strictly opposed to the
pardoning of all such criminals and
further | am opposed to committing
the punishment to Imprisonment for
life, my reason for this is that the
murderer never has any sympathy
for his victim whose life he so wan
tonly takes in many cases without
warning. In this case as there is
now before the people, petitions for
signature to refer the matter to the
people and rather than lose the penal
code on account of the governor
again vetoing the bill with the Kel-
to vote to save the criminal code
from defeat. In doing this 1 think
the act justifies the case.
JAMES F. DUNCAN"
Whipple-'I feel that l am not
justified in voting for measure.
which, if passed by the house, could
not become a law and would only re-
suit in delaying legislation, and an
added expensA to the state, while by
segregating the criminal code, eX-
cepting section 1888, in one bill, and
section 1888, the small part to- which
the governor objects, in a separate
bill. would result. in the code, ex-
cepting section 1888 becoming a law
at once, whereas, if the governor We
toed the smaller bill it would result
am also unalterably- opposed to cap
ital punishment I vote no.
"w. NJ WHIPPLE.'
The vote by which the bill passed
the house was more than two thirds.
In order to. muster two thirds in the
senate against the bill. Is votes are
necessary. 1t was stated last night
that the senate stands ready to record
Is votes on the bill as it now stands
which WILL if the votes stand. be suf-
ficient to pass the bill over the veto
of the governor. 1t is claimed that
there will be enough votes !, in the
house When the bill comes, back,
should IL come back, to pass it over
the veto.
Yestef fdays sessions in the house
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