Arizona republican., 1915-02-18
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tional judges and clerks in precincts where more than 200 votes are cast. By MT. Gcldwater, relating to yer diets in cases where equitable relief is sought
 By Mrs. Munds, providing for q uniform auditing of school expendit
 ures prescribing forms for the use
 0. school trustees, and the approval of the state school superintendent and the state auditor of the purposes for which school money is to be ex lended
 By MT. Golfer making appropri- ation for an artesian well in the
 Little Colorado Valley.
 By Dr. Bacon, providing more rigid regulation of automobiles used for hre and providing that license should not be issued to drivers under eighteen years of age.
 By MT. Stapley, authorizing the board of control to fix the salaries of clerks and other appointed at uaches of the various state offices and commissions and to enforce reg ulations regarding their absence from duty.
 The Committee of the Whole The bill abolshing the tax com
 mission was brought up again in tie committee of the whole and was again laid over pending the
 receipt of an opinion from the at torney general to the liability of the state for the salaries of the com mlssioners
 When the senate convened in the l afternoon after the reading of sev efaI committee reports, MT Stapley moved to reconsider the vote by which Senate Bill 63 had been in definitely postponed last Saturday. This bill proposed to appropriate ST.. 300 for the construction of d build ing at the hospital for the insane where patients might be treated at the expense of their friends Mr disposed of under an apprehension that the matter was covered in an other measure but it was found that that was not the case
 The objection was raised that the , bill could not be reconsdered inas- much as two legislative days had elapsed. But it was shown that a Sunday and a holiday had intervened 90 that there was yet time. The bill was again brought before the senate and Dr. Bacon explained it's purpose | He said that the asylum was always taxed beyond it's capacity; that many i persons who were prepared to pay for the treatment of friends were | compelled to leave them to the in l adequate facilities of the asylum or ! send them to private institutions in 1 California where the expenses ire quently amounted to as much as $60 week. He believed that such an arrangement as the bill proposed 1 would not only be self sustaining but | would yield the state a revenue. -Un- der q suspension of the rules of l the bill was given q second reading | On the third reading three bills 1 relating to municipal Improvements were passed. The bill providing for
 the recording of vital statistics was also passed as was MT Martins pro l iiOSth dlltHNllttHl to tIt ttilSlfl ulltl which provides that initiated meas
 ures can be adopted only by a ma l jority vote of all persons voting
 at the election where they are sub
 mitted. The object of this amend ment IS to remove the stigma of
 minority legislation" Under such Ian amendment only one measure
 would have been adopted as a re suit of the late election the pro | hibitiOn amendment
 Just before the adjournment of ] the senate, MT. Riggs chairman of
 the committee published on public lands was asked regarding the bill which establishes q land policy and abolisheS the commission. He re
 piled that printed copies of the bill | had been sent out only the day be-
 fore and that, consequently no ex- pression of opinion had yet been
 received. Beside, he said, the com
 mittee had learned that the farmers
 of this valley were preparing a bill | dealing with the school lands and 1t was the desire of the committee To give that d hearing before fur | finer actions ShGuld he taken