Arizona republican., 1915-03-02

lection of a commissioner and the appointment of board of arbitrators' The bill was sent back to the con1- mittee on judiciary. It may get out of it some time. A bill- for the relief of Eli s. Perk~ ins was passed. Perkins claim near ly fifteen years old is for reading proof and experimenting the publi- cation of the revised statutes of 1901 for which he has been trying to re- cover $500 to cover not only his ser vices but necessary travelling eX- penses. The bill adopting state col ors was passed and a bill appropriat- | ing $10,000 for the repair of the Bor derland highway.
 1 The Senate Sessions
 | Before resuming the consideration
 of Senate Bill 127, one of the state
 land bills the senate put consider able other business out of the way. l
 A petition was received signed by 1
 several citizens of the southern part !!
 of the state urging the passage of the | bill creating racing commission. |
 Among the messages received from
 the house was one informing the senate that it would not recede from i the amendments it had made to the old age and mothers pension bill,
 whereupon, MT. Goldwater inquired
 who had asked it to recede. He had
 not and nobody in the senate could have done so for this was the first official information that the house had amended the bill The message had stated that conferees on thesub- ject had been appointed. It was in timated that they would not be join ed by any conferees from the senate.
 The bill amending the law with reference to the bounties on wild ami mals was agreed to and later in the day it was put on third reading and passed. The bounties are as follows:
 mountain lions, lobos or timber
 wolves, partners and bears, s2O coy
 otes, wildcats and lynx, $2 These
 bOunties must be paid. Boards of
 supervisors are allowed discretion
 concerning the payment of bounties
 on the following: raccoons. 25 cents;
 gophers. jack rabbits and prairie
 dogs, 10 cents.
 The Karns bill requiring that eggs
 in cold storage for a period of three
 months must be so designated and
 those handling such eggs at whole sale or retail are required to announce
 that fact the legend, Cold Storage , Eggs Sold Here" was passed. A bill changing the time of the } year from the end of the calendar f year to the end of the fiscal year for , the secretary of state to make his ; report to the governor was passed, also the bill in relation to the costs r in civil cases, requiring the pay ment of jury fees at the time of the
 rendition of judgment, with authority
 granted to the court to remit fees in
 the cases of poor persons was passed.
 This law formerly prevailed but in
 the latest revision of the code it was
 inadvertently omitted.
 The cigarette bill failed of = passage through a misunderstanding n but notice was given that its recon e sideration will be moved today. It r will then probably be passed An t other bill providing that judgments f may be .docketed in the courts of Il other counties than that in which t they are rendered and that federal e judgments may be so docketed was S passed
 e Tho Land Problem if IA this point the senate went into
 the committee of the whole and re- : stunned the consideration of Senate d Bill 127 which had been read on Sat r urday to section 41.
 n Dr. Bacon desired to return to sec e ton for which he offered a substi- 1. ute designating the secretary of state e as land commissioner at the salary IS agreed upon on Saturday for each oi 1T the commissioners, s2i00. The mo- e ton failed and later in the day MT V Colter tried to have the salary of tho IS chairman of the commission restored ,e to 5000 but his motion was moi 'e pressed at that time.
 Ie MT. Webb introduced an amend IS ment that was productive of some 'e discussion He proposed that all land:
 for the sale or leasing of lands; tha r. for which leases had not been granted le should come under general provisions g is, that the occupants might enjoy to the same rights to remuneration fol r. their improvements. MT. Claridg' IS raised an objection that that would le legalize the occupancy of land D! ,- those who had refused to lease thu c- land or to pay the state anything. NIT re Webb assuring him that that wa T. covered n another section. MI l. Claridge withdrew his objection.
 Among the hills introduced in tn w afternoon was one by Senator Staple l. providing for keeping tab on the ex IS pendtures of school money, requirin i'll an accounting from the trustees of al es school districts in the state, in report lg to county superintendents who in tur1 m should make reports to the state super )n intendent
 Mrs Munds brought in bill approp n- riating s1200 for the purchase of a col t. lection of Aztec pottery gathered in tn st course of several years by Dr. J. Mile r. formerly superintendent of the hospita n- for the insane. The collection is no' ny in the possession of Mrs. E. J. Ware re of this city.
 In the order of business under tn of head of committee reports difference mt of opinion arose over several bills indi vo eating that when they come before tn m whole committee the split will be wide ed On third reading the bill establishin re a game preserve to be known as tn
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