Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-26
WEEKS RESUME OF THE
 DO|NGS AT THE CAPITAL

| two years ago and some other items were cut off but appropriation was made for a dormitory at cost of $4S,OOO. Total appropriations for this institution amounted to $lS6,l43.
 The appropriations for the Tempe Normal were $152,973, instead of $338,OOO asked fo-, and $2140OO, once in contemplation by the senate com mittee on appropriations.
 MT Webb reverted to the university section to offer an amendment pro viding that the proceeds from the experimental farms be turned into the state general fund instead of in to the general fund of the university The amendment was agreed to.
 When the items of the state school fund section were read and it was shown that of the $2O0,0O0 app-o- priated for the biennium, $107,000 was set aside for text books and the rest for certain expenses of the office of the superintendent of instruction. MT. Karns rose and made an earnest protest against the reduction. This" said he, "is the greatest institution Of the state; 1t has done more than any other to build up the demo- cratic party and this is the first time I have alluded to party in the course of the session. We are making a serious mistake. If this section goes to the governor he will veto it and he will be before the people as the Great I Am; we will go down in his tory as bunch of nuts We have practically pledged to give them a state school fund. There isn't one of you that would have dared to tell his constituents last fall what you are now proposing to do."
 MT. Riggs spoke in favor of the section and took the general ground that there was too great waste of school money and that it was unfair that one county should be compelled to assist in the making up of the school fund of another.
 M-. Claridge who was in the chair took the floor to speak against the section and he made the point that there was a wide variation of the county 1evies for school purposes. The heaviest levies fell upon the poorer counties and it was not right that the levy in any county for school purposes should be greater than that of any other county. MT. i Claridge advocated a straight state system but as that was not imme- diatcly obtainablc that was an ap- proach to it. He moved to strike out the section.
 Mir. Webb addressed himself to the interests which he said were behind this movement to reduce the state school fund. He reminded them that day of reckoning was coming. "If' said he, ''you put this burden upon the people now, a day will come when they will make you pay for the education of their children.
 President Sims spoke in favor of the section; no county he said would suffer He said that he would not oppose a state system; he believed it was right and if opportunity offered he would favor a centralized author ity. But that was not now available. MT. Riggs spoke in similar strain.
 The debate was ended and vote was taken on the motion of Mir. C1a-idge with the following result:
 Ayes: Claridge, Crabb, Golfer, Karns, Munds and Webb-6. Nays: Bacon, Campbell, Chase, Drachman, Garvin, Goldwater, Kin ney, Martin, McMillen, Riggs, Stap- ley, Sims-12.
 There were subsequent roll calls on propositions to increase the ap- propriation to $2OO,OOO annually and to $250,0O0 They also failed, the only change in the original roll call being the vote of Senator Chase who voted in the afirmtive.
 There now remained only the odds and ends of the bill to bring up and late in the afternoon the committee had disposed of the last item and rose.
 In the course of the day, the com mittee approved an expenditure of $500OO0 for roads and $15,OO0 each for the counties of Navajo and Apa- che to come out of the 25 per cent fund, for the repair of roads and bridges in those two counties, de stroyed by the recent floods.
 An appropriation for the state prison amounted to S239000 includ- ing $1o 400 for an electric transmits sion line from Sacaton to Florence which had originally been in the house bill but which had been strick- en out at the last moment