Arizona republican., 1913-03-29
TAXATION 0F
 MINES |S UP
Three Bills Reported Out i'll Senate, May Be Dis cussed Today Chaplain Prays for Reporters - More Money Needed

Similar to the action of the State mine taxation. the committee on mines and mining in the senate yes- terday brought in two reports. The question of the taxation of mines is therefore now before the senate in concrete form, and will likely be dis cussed in the committee of the whole either today or tomorrow The Tax commission bill has it's supporters. and the bill of Senator Sims has its supporters. There are three bills be- fore the senate on this question.
 The senate is not for the military establishment by very big majority. Yesterday the solons admitted that the military code as passed last year was nothing more than one slipped over on them. and they do not pro- pose to stand for it. Therefore when the house bill placing the mil | itary code of last year in the new code came up: Roberts was on hand l with his guard of the treasury with an amendment to curtail the ex- | renses of the guard to 5000 per year and limit the organization to | $50 men. They put it over at that and will send the bill back to the house so amended. Unless the house stands pat, the guard is in danger.
 The committee considered the pro- visions of the bills on initiative re- 1 ferrendum and recall as in the sta tutes and decided they were good 1 enough for the code. The house code bill on homesteads and exemptions was also agreed to.
 The appropriation bill came up for second reading and Breen succeeded l in raising the amount for the pro- posed dormitory at Flagstaff to $45.- 900. Vessel also got a raise for date farming in Yuma from six to 1 ten thousand Sims wanted to have the miners hospital in the Warren district at Cochfse. and wanted | ,000 amendment for that purpose placed in the bill but did not sue ceed
 In d minute everybody was asking for appropriations. Lovin wanting the hospital to go to Kingman and Hub bell supported this on the ground that the Mohave democratic majority was less than that of Cochisc and he l ever shortly after this the proposi- | tion of returning thanks for favors in the bill brought Worsely of Pima f" his feet with the statement that | Tucson would donate a tract of for ty acres of agricultural land for the deaf and dumb institute that is To- cated there. Applause greeted this l announcement
 The chaplain created small amount of comment yesterday morn . ing by praying for the reporters and editors of the papers. It seems that MT Crutchfield did not take any part in the recent legislative strike. being "a passive register He did [ not know anything about it until : the next morning. And being in- ; cluded in the all" that struck. He then told the Lord about it in the following language:
 And there is special reason that r prayers ought to be made for the 2 reporterS-for the papers-that they may not seek sensational matter tC interest the readers of their papers but that they seek facts and not
 draw on their imaginauonS 1ol
 things of sensational character
 And we certainly need to pray fot better class of editors. that they
 may not allow matters to be put II tteir papers which are calculated tt
 divide the people instead of uniting
 them
 In the House
 The house considered the schoo
 code yesterday and placed the uni tnt, hp f-n1n
 providing that all high schools mus
 now have uniform text books. II
 caused quite fight but the ma
 iority succeeded in getting it passed | through the committee of the whole
 with Ball in the chair.