Arizona republican., 1915-06-29
ONLY SURPRISE .. -. OF THE LAST DAY
At Late Hour Both Houses Reached Agreement on Final Form of the Col ter District Irrigation

The second extra session of the sec ord legislature came to an end last night at 10 o'clock IL was not cer- tain until the middle of the afternoon that the session would not run over un- iii today. But the appropriation for the current and contingent expenses had been exhausted. SD many members of the senate had gone to their homes that business could not well be transact ed in that branch and several members ef she house had also left.
 The afternoon session was begun with many of the members packing up for departure. Statutes and other doc uments and stationery were gathered into bundles. When this work was com 7leted most of the members went into the corridor or the committee rooms so that at one stage of the reading of a bill in which all interest had been lost onIv seven members were on the floor and only two of them were fol- lowing the reading. Hardly more than st half dozen visitors ''thronged" the gallery at any one time.
 The senators. but not many of them. were assembled at night waiting for the action of the house which continued the reauing Of the Golfer district irrigation bill and that was finally passed. It was transmitted to the senate which promptly concurred in the amendment and the measure was sent to the gov ernor.
 Both houses sent message to the executive lnquiring if he had any Ocler communication to send them. The gov crnor replied that he had not and he meant perhaps. more than he said Though there was not large attend snce there were the usually light and irreverent proceedings that usually at tend a final adjournment. At len o'clock there was a call of the senate and messages were sent out to absent members who were yet in the city. A little before eleven o'clock both houses were adjourned.
 Tn Last Day
 When the house met for the last day it entered upon the business of legis- lating or trying to legislate as if the session were at its beginning. A mo- tion was offered for reconsideration or the vote by which the senate pro- hibition bill had been defeated on Sat trday- The motion carried and a mes sage was sent to the senate requesting
 
 time. the senate was at recess and re- mained in that condition throughout the greater part of the day. There was some loss of time in the morning trying to recover possession of the Campbell amendment to the con stitutIon to remove the restriction from the number of acres of grazing land that could be leased The bill had been sent to the committee on public lands ! and Chairman Briscoe of the commit | tee intimated that it would remain ! there indefinitely. Finally on an order l from the house he produced it and il | was taken up in the afternoon in the 1 committee of the whole and was room | mended for passage. But when il was later taken up f"r | third reading considerable objection | was developed and though it received a | vote of 17 to it failed by one vote | 10 secure the required majority There | were enough members of the house to | put il through but they were not D. es eni. There were probably enough | about the capitol building but they | could not be immediately located The | announcement of the roll call was with held in order that members might | change their votes and many of them | did So but as fast as they changed to 1 the affirmative others veered to the negative.
 The Coiter district irrigation E:H | which has been expressing the attea- tion of the house for several days WIS
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