El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-30
INVITES
BRYAN To TALK

BhIAH III IHLk
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passed the house it was without any
mention OF immigration commissioners.
The omission was pOticed in the
senate and they were put back in.
Then the house refused to concur and
conference committees were appointed.
! Yesterday the committees recon-
mended that immigration commission
ers be restored to the law. This re-
port was adopted by the senate and
the house is expected to adopt it to-
! day.
ate adopted a concurrent resolution
, bv Davis, directing the president Of
the senate and speaker Of the house
to Join in a telegram inviting secretary
of state Bryan to visit Phoenix on his
wav back from California and ad-
dress the Legislature
WorsIey protested that it would be
useless to extend the invitation, as
BRYAN must hurry back to the national
l capital Kinney didn't say anything
but voted with WOrsley-
Are some Of the Democratic
brethren slipping. tnat the presence
of Mr. Bryan IS necessary at TINS
tfme2" inquired Breen.
"A talk such as Mr. Bryan gives
state legislatures is sadly needed by
the minority in this senate" retOrted
Wood.
At last the senate committee OF the
whole finished reading the insurance
code, house bill p. and sent II on for
regular course with numerous amend
ments. Practically all the time Of the
committee, for several days, had been
spent on this code
Another long bill that the committee
finished yesterday Is senate Dill No
81. the corporation commission. ReSu-
lar course was the recommendation IN
this instance, as 1t was Tor mouse Dill
81, the special road district code, and
house bill 50. the motor vehicle regis
tration law.
Governor Hunt sent word that he had
signed the following senate code bills;
No g. horticultural commission; M y,
s1perfor courts; No. %, juvenile courts;
No. %, permitting school districts TO IN
crease their Indebtedness for certain
The governor also signed the follow
ing house bills: No. p, cediug to the
federal government Jurisdiction over
military reserves within the state No
5. inheritance taxes; No Il, Feglstfa-
ton of births and deaths.
House Has a Contest.
For the first time since the conven-
ing of the first session Of the present
legislature a contest Tor the election OF
a presiding officer of the house was
day. Speaker Linney was called to No
gales on legal business and Tuesday
morning IL became necessary 10 choose
a speaker pro tenn The house was
called to order by A A. Moore, OF Naya-
pal the oldest member. When nomlna-
tiOns were called for, Lewis, OF ella
named Hall. of HaVapaL Captain heI-
ton. of COchise, nominated DR.. George
D. Craig, OF his own delegation DIT
Craig won when a roll call was taken,
receiving Is votes as against Is Tor
Hall Craig represents the anu-admin-
communication was read from
secretary Osburn of the board OF con
troll asking a special appropriation OF
$500 for the installation of hydrO-th era-
peutic baths at the asylum for the in
sane. Chairman Rabbit Of the appro-
priatiOns committee, introduced Dill
making the appropriation
Jacobson introduced house bill No
81. apprOpriatinE $4,000 a year for the
National Guard of Arizona 1t is claimed
that no summer encampments can be
had on so small an appropriation
Women's Suffrage.
Wren introduced joint resolution
putting the Arizona legislature on
record as being for national equal sur
frage, and moved that IL be rushed
through under a suspension Of the
rules. He did get it past second read
ing, but when he wanted to suspend the
rules for third reading he met with
objections from Kerr Lynch ana
Barker. The resolution was referred to
the committee Of the whole.
Sick LaWmaker on Duty.
Texas Tommy" Maddox was in his
place yesterday. for the first time this
session. Immediately after the close Of
the last session he became i'll and went
to his home In Williams, where he re-
NAMED in bed about two weeks.
It begins to look as though the anti
Hunt leaders Of the house. who have
been so certain that the senate would
pass the penal code with that para
nh vi &
pardoning and parOiing power, made
wrong guess The friends of Hunt IN
the senate protest that it would be
FOLLY 70 send back the penal code IN the
very form that the governor vetoed it.
Someone is sure to make a motion in
the senate to remove the Objectionable
Printing Rates Fixed.
Arizona newspapers are TO be per-
mitted to receive 50 cents an inch, no
more, for state and county printing.
The senate and house conference com
mittees on senate bill "A, the public
printing code, came to this agreement.
The report was adopted in both houses. I
When the bill originally passed the
senate the maximum price per inch
for state printing was reduced, on
motion Of C. B. Wood. from IS cents
to 40 cents an inch. The state is now
paying so cents.
In the house the maximum for both
state and county printing was lowered
first to 80 cents and then to IS. The
senate refused to concur.
Bills to Governor.
The senate has concurred in the ]
house amendments to senate bill 40. eX-
empting volunteer firemen from jury
duty and poll taxes 1t was sent to [
the governor with the following SEN
ate code measures, No. 8, hOrticul- .
tural commission: No. u, taxation Of /
private car lines: No. So, permitting /
cities to sue for unpaid licenses and I
occupation taxes; No. %, jurisprud- I
ence; No. 80, juvenile courts.
House bill 80, by Johnson, was rec /
commended for passage by the house I
appropriations committee. Tt apprO- /
DrOpriates $4,000 to pay the expenses /
Of Arizona veterans of the battle OF I
Gettysburg TO the reunion that is I
10 be held at Gettysburg next /
summer.
BrOOks's eight hour law for women I
was passed with surprisingly little Op- 4
position, after the debate that il caused 3
when IL was before the senate at the Z
asst session. Rabbit, Curry, Duncan, !
Jacobs, Jacobson, KeltOn, Lynch and .
MattOx We're the only representatives I
Who voted against il.
Municipal Slaughter Houses.
One Of the house amendments pro-
tides a method Of financing the mu-
licipal slaughter houses. Each city
council is required. within 40 days of
he time the bill goes into effect, to
prepare an estimate of the cost of in