Weekly journal-miner., 1913-02-26
MUST BUY STATE
 SUPPLIES IN THE STATE

PHOENIX, Feb. 2O-Represen- tative Leon Jacobs, of Maricopa County during the two previous ses- sions of the Legislature, fathered measures which had for their ob- jects changing the present Board of Control, which Is the purchasing department of the State The bills however, were never adopted, some of the members considering them to be inexpedient at that time. He has now introduced in the House, bill dealing with new phase of the purchase of State supplies, and providing that all supplies and ma terial for State institutions, State offices and departments of State, be purchased from bona hde residents of the State, or companies paying taxes in the State.
 Secretary Osborn, of the Board of Control, in referring to the Ja- cobs bill, gave 1t as his opinion, that while the bill might be a wor- thy one, he did not consider that at the present time, there was treat need for such legislation. In his judgment, the total expenditures by the State, which would be stopped if the Jacobs bill becomes a law, would be less than one half of one per cent of the expenditures now made for State institutions. There are many supplies purchased by the State which of necessity must be bought direct from the producing company, such as prison stripes cloth, which is only manufactured by one concern.
 Jacobs attention was called by one of his constituents to a bill of goods amounting to over $2,000 purchased by one of the State in stitutions from a Chicago mail order house, and his proposed bill was the result. The bill in full, reads as follows:
 Section l. All goods, wares, merchandise, fuel, supplies and ma terial of every kind purchased by the board of control of other state office or board, for the use or maintenance of any state institu- ton, state officer, or department of state, shall be purchased from bona fde resident of the State of Arizona, or from a person, firm, corporation, or association, which maintains and has maintained for more than one year an establish ed place of business within this State in charge of an agent who is bona fide resident of this state, and has paid taxes other than li- cense taxes in this state for at least one year.
 Section 2 Every contract for the furnishing of goods, wares, merchan- disc, fuel, supplies or materials of any kind for the use or maintenance of any state institution, state office, or department of state, must be made with a bona fde resident of the State of Arizona or with a per son, firm, corporation or association doing business in this state and pay ing taxes in this state, as provided in the preceding section.
 Section g. Every purchase of any goods, wares, merchandise, fuel, sup plies or material, and every contract for the furnishing thereof made or entered into in violation of the pro- visions of this act shall be unlaw- ful and void, and no claim or de mand for the price or value of any goods, wares, merchandise, fuel, supplies or material purchased, con- tracted for or furnished in violation of the provisions of this act shall be allowed, audited, or paid, or any warrant drawn in payment thereof by the state officer or board, and no action shall be maintained for I the recovery of the price or value of