Arizona republican., 1913-03-26
MAJORITY JAMS
 LEASE BILL BY
Despite Hard Fight Against Measure Mining County Men Force Roberts Land Leasing Bill Steps For ward

The Roberts land leasing bill was 1 Jammed through another reading and | sent on it's regular course yesterday in l the senate on ViVe VOce vote after a | motion to indefinitely postpone was ! lost by a vote of F to z This is the 1 bill that has been causing more differ l ent kinds of converse ton good bad l and indifferent on the floor of the senate of the state than any other bill 1 that has been presented this session ! The proposition however is satisfactory | largely to the mining county men. who ! by the way are the chief proponents of the fourteen county land leasing boards 1 as provided by the bill The men from ! the agricultural counties are unfOrtun- l ately not in the majority on this meas ure and all attempts to kill the bill have signally failed.
 | Nearly the entire afternoon was | again spent in discussing the bill This 1 time the committee of the whole pro- | ceedure was not had the bill having | passed position and being now before l the house on second reading. The bill came up on the report of the committee on style revision and compilation early . again absolutely the same way as it 1 has been begun every other afternoon since the bill has been proposed and just as futilely. Wood was first in with an amendment providing that the leeseeS on school land to go to court and be paid for their improvements This was voted down after discussion.
 Brown made an amendment that i'm | after the passage of the bill. be not ap- praised and paid for under the change | of lease propositions of the law. It ! carried by a vote of r to 1 but when | Ae then made another referring the bill 1 to the attorney general for an opinion he was ruthlessly voted down as he was willingly supported on his preVi- ouS proposition. Breen then proposed | an amendment. that reached one of the | defects of the bill His proposition was that no timber, stone, or other natural product or resource of the land be sold or taken away during the oc- | cupancy of the land under lease Rob ] erts objected to this immediately. It was evident that one of the ideas of the bill was to give control to the leessee during his occupancy of both the tim Der and the stone should there be any, and allow the marketing of the same if the leessee saw fit the Breen amend ment was adopted.
 Davis then moved that the bill be in- definitely postponed. but the motion failed and Roberts Immediately after
 wards moved the regular course for the measure The Roberts motion pre- | vailed
 In accordance with the governors re- quest the senate resolved that State Examiner Plunkett must proceed forth
 with and examine the books and ac- counts of the state prison. The reso
 luton passed with opposition but from the republicans the vote being strictly q party vote on the matter.
 Another resolution that passed was one that has the sound of a Colorado backing. It condemned the forest ser vice as undemocratic and a few more adjectives. expensive was one used The policy of the forest reserve con- trol over land that has been used for | grazing, in face of the endorsement of the forest regulation given in this city by the American National Live Stock association was condemned and the . i measure dctudtly passed NltH puI the votes of Sims, Roberts and H. R. Woods against it.
 The skeleton appropriation bill in
 troduced by Roberts was placed on the calendar of the committee of the whole
 today and will probably come mp for the merry little fight as there is ob- | jectiOn to the shape in which the bill is drafted and the amounts that have
 been allotted for the state institutions and departments.
 Senator Hechtman of Gila presided
 in the senate yesterday as president
 protem, Senator Cunniff being still
 sick with a cold and hardly able to
 talk The Gla senator made good , l presiding officer