Arizona republican., 1915-05-19
It Will Be Engrossed, Pass ed and Probably Returned to the House of It's Ori- gin Before Night - Con ference Then
SOME PROBABILITIES
 OF A DISAGREEM ENT'
Overshadowing Feature of Senate Committee of the Whole Session Was Fail ure to Enlarge the State School Fund

With the close of the day, the senate in the committee of the whole finished the consideration of the house appropriation bill and at nine o'clock this morning, the senate will meet to receive the report of tic committee and send the bill to the enrolling and expressing committee. It is expected that the bill will be passed in the course of the day and sent back to the house. Whether there will be a time consuming wrangle over it there or whether . conference will be promptly asked for without a discussion of the sen ate's amendments is uncertain.
 The senate committee of the whole on the second day entered upon the reduction of the house appropriations with such moderation that the sum of the increases probably exceeded the reductions. Some sharp cuts were made in the Tempe normal school appropriations. The over shadowing event of the day was the failure Of the attempt to increase the appropriation for the state school fund, first from s10O.000 annually to $5O0,O0O, then to $250,000 and lastly u $200,0 There had evidently been an agreed upon policy by the ma jority to stand against any increase. There were other evidences in the course of the day of concerted move ments by senators.
 The house had a spicy session over the z senate Frank memorial for which the committee on judiciary mad recommended an amendment to couple the name of Governor Slaton of Georgia the original addressee with the Arizona board of pardons and paroles and to couple the name of Frank with that of the five con demned men at Florence.
 After hot debate of an hour the amendment was defeated by a vote of r to 10 and then the original memorial was defeattd by a vote of IT to Il, one absent and six eX- cused. resolution calling upon the governor to include in his call for the next extra session, legislation on the subject of capital punishment was also defeated
 The senate received request signed by several citizens of Flor ence asking the legislature to me morialize the board of pardons and paroles. No actiCn was taken on II and it was stated that none would be.
 In the morning session after a pro- longed debate on the subject of ec- onomy in which various senators made It plain that each was the ori- ginal blown-in the bottle economist and in the course of which there were some allusions of a personal character the committee proceeded to slaughter tEe land commission sec tion of the house bill by substitut- ing the section of the senate bill which had been held in reserve. The total appropriation amounts to $26,320, made up of the following items: Chief clerk, $4200; filing fees $300O: office clerk, S240O; draughts- man, S2400; two stenographers. S4320; travelling expenses, $10,000. The com mittee cut out the provision for coy ering the expenses of the office. in cluding the salaries of the commits aioners to the end of the fiscal year. In addition, the committee designated land board consisting of the gov ernor, the attorney general and the
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