Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-05

school lands
 The code will provide the manner in which land will be sold and what will be kept The land commission is now ready to make it's report to the legislature.
 No doubt the legislature will place restrictions on initiative pleasures. in the way of circulating petitions At present any person can hire a per son to circulate petitions and pay so . much per name.
 These hired circulators can easily | get an almost endless list of careless | signers lt is probable that only a | small percentage 0 fthe voters real | ize the full meaning O fthe so per cent | law at the November election.
 The legislature will probably take ! steps to prohibit the circulation of in- ! itative petitions promiscuously and instead place them with some officer such as a justice of the peace
 A constitutional amendment is nee essary to change the percentage of voters necessary to phase a measure upon the ballot At present only 10 .per cent is required for an initiative measure and 15 per cent for a consti- tutional amendment The legislature can draw up the proposed amendment but of course it is up to the people to pass it
 Laws will also be asked providing for the execution fthe dry amend ment and police regulations.
 A number of other laws have been suggested to the legislature. The State Taxpayers association will try To reduce and minimize taxes.
 Economy is to be an issue with the new legislature. At the very outset he number of attaches is 10 be placed at a minimum
 The last legislature had thirty-fve attaches iu the lower house and twenty in the upper It proposes to cut this in two
 The legislature cannot do anything about the anu-blaclIlist and so per cent laws. They are mandatory and the legislature is bound to carry all initiative measures into effect The relief lies in the courts and initiative.
 A bill providing that the terms of state officials be heightened from two to four years in order to save the state the expense of biennial cleo tions will be introduced A one-term clause will be part of the proposed legislation
 Another question to probably be considered is that of combining small CT county offices. For instance, if such a law is passed the work of the clerks of county supervisors and the superior court would be placed in the hands of a newly created office of county clerk
 There is talk of the coming legis- stature abolishing the office of the state land commission and having the { constitutional officersAthe governor, EIuorney general and state auditor - look after this work
 There is also a movement on foot Co divide Mar.copa county into three l counties. Phoenix and Mesa would be county seats of two of the counties. while the third is undecided.
 An effort will be made to make a | general revision of schoo laws of the state particularly to uniform system Of accounting throughout rural dis tricts An effort will also be made to 1 create central supplies purchasing | agency
 The question of abolishing the of. ! flee O fthe state engineer may also come up. Backers of this scheme would place the work in the hands Of county engineers.
 Neither the governor nor the legis- lature can veto any of the initiative measures, as the veto power of both on such measures was taken away by a constitutional amendment adopted at the November election.
 The complexion O fthe incoming leg stature is more conservative than it's predecessor. It is entirely democrat ic with the exception of Del Crabb oi Navajo county, who is a republican. There is one woman member, Mrs Frances W. Munds of Yayapai county
 There are three candidates in the field for speaker of the house and two for president of the senate. Those for speaker of the houre are l.. F. Vaughn of Maricopa county, W. ) Graham of Cochise and w E Brooks of Gila Dr. w P Sims of CochisC and Morris Goldwater of Yayapai op pose each other for president of Che senate
 Under the law the length of the reg ! lular session of the legislature is six 7 Ity days.