Arizona republican., 1913-05-11

 COMMITTEES
Continue to Hold Interest," The Penal Code and Mine Tax Still Hung Up-Fur- ther Conferences Will Be Necessary

It is remarkable in more ways than ! one how the days march in the legis- lature follows the other both in the prominence of the subjects before it. and the similarity or the actions taken On Friday the uppermost topics in the minds of all were. the penal code, and mine taxation, with both houses disagreeing. Yesterday told another chapter in the same story. Penal code and mine taxation are still the two chief matters of comment, and still the two houses are disagreeing
 In both cases have new conference committees been appointed by both houses to consider the penal code amendments and the mine taxation amendments. Yesterday the reports of both the majority and the minority of the committee on conference upon sen ate bills, granting specific power to the state tax commission over all levying and assessment of taxes, were present. ed to the house and senate. In the house both reports were laid upon the table by d vote of 16 to If, while in the senate, although all the senate members Of the committee signed the majority report recommend
 
 able purposes be reached by multiply ing five times the net and adding ] thereto twelve and d half per cent of 1 the gross proceeds of the mine, the l senate refused to receive the report 1 but did receive that of the minority of. l the committee Representative Brooks 1 of Gila, who was not in favor of chang l ing the bill as it left the house. The l vote in the senate was ten to eight 1 against the majority report and ten to 1 eight in favor of the minority report. The senate showed signs of an up- 1 roar in connection with this situation
 as there are three sides of the question ! in that body. There are those who 1 favor four times the net and are not willing to go higher there were those who were in favor of adopting the re- l port and there were still others who were and are absolutely against that | system in Valuing a lnine and who de- sire full valuation conducted either ! by the tax commission itself or by an 1 expert employed by the commission. | Sims of COchise voted against the 1 adoption of the report being unwilling
 to stand for five times the net. although 1 he is not against that method of reach | ing the value of the mine. He then 1 iIipNtd Iilftt q It-A COlt eI tiiCt COHlItllI- | tee be appointed. Vessel of Yuma 1 wanted q committee with instructions. 1 while Wood of Maricopa wanted the 1 senate to refuse to conference further i on the matter. Sims motion however | prevailed and another conference com 1 mittee was appointed to consist of H.
 R Wood. Sims and WrsselI. Of this
 committee H. R. Wood and Vessel are 1 absolutely opposed oo the method of 1 reaching the value of mine as eX- | pressed in the bill.
 In the house there was not much said about the reports either one way or the other Brooks of course defended his report, in which he was supported 1 by Graham. the father of the amend ment Jones of MaricOpa. and Mad dock of CocOnino, defended the ma jority report as they were the house members signing the report. but with out avail. The new conference con-
 mittee from the house is Graham of
 Cochise. Barker, of PinaI; and Irvine of Maricopa
 The conference on fox tail grass" amendment to the anti Johnson grass bill succeeded in getting that amend ment cut out of the bill. Graham of Cochise led the fight in the conference committee and got a report of five to Senator Willis, who was the father of the business in the senate
 The election bill passed but not with the emergency clause on the bill. Sen ator Hubbell fought the emergency clause from the beginning and sue ceeded in getting enough democratic votes to assist him in blocking the two thirds vote needed. It was decided that since the bill had an emergency clause to it, a vote to reconsider would be necessary before it could be finally passed so Wood of Yavapai who found i out the emergency was about to be 1 beaten and had voted with the repub- 1 hcanS moved a reconsideration. The ! bill will be rerOnsiderad on Monday