Arizona republican., 1915-06-22

of appraisers therefor slaH at the da,e fixed and after giving notice as here in prov .ded for the appraisement of land. nake an eXamjna ton of said lands and Improvements and shall ntk" Q list of the improvements on saiG lands. and shall then proceed to appraise and value the same as pro- vided by section nine. article ten of the constitution of Arizona, and by title sixty five of the civil code of Arizona. 1901"
 Other amendments upon which agreements were easily reached were those relating to the sale of public lands within a section. the house reading 1920 acres being agreed to- The senate receded from it's amend ment to the section relating to the time of sale and the house conferees receded from non concurrence with the senate amendments to the sec tion relating to the manner of mak- ing payment for Improvements.
 The agreement. or rather. the re- cession of the house from it's position on the personnel of the land depart ment was the last point in the dis pute settled and the house conferees receded only after they were made certain that the senate would not be moved from it's position.
 The house conferees held out on this point for five hours. They of fered a variety of compromises and even appealed to the sporting in stincts of the senate managers They offered to put into a hat the names of other state offices than those pro- posed by the senate amendment and to draw from them. They named first the chairman of the corporation commission and then the superin- tendent of public instruction. But the senate conferees stood firm. Late in the day MT. Flanagan called or Chairman Winsor who urged the house managers to disregard him and work for the passage of the bill which he declared to be good one. When MT. Flanagan took this word back Messrs. Claypool and Goodwin were on the point of a disagreement and put on their hats to leave They returned and the report was signed. As he affixed his signature Chairman Claypool of the house public lands committee said: "I would rather sign my own death warrant"
 The Matter of Prohibition
 After disposing of routine business the house in the morning took up the Edwards prohibition bill on which it had been engaged since last Friday without the slightest prospect that it would become law. Amendments were made and argued with all the enthusiasm that would have been displayed if there had been a hope that they would find place in the statutes and it seemed at times that members on both sides had hypno- tized themselves into thinking that they were actually engaged in law making. Perhaps after all they were fighting for a principle without hope of other reward except the approval of their own house and sometimes that is the same as the approval of ones conscience.
 In the afternoon the anti-capital punishment bill was reached in the committee of the whole. It provides that the punishment for murder in the first degree shall be imprison- ment for life and that there can be no pardon communication. reprieVe or parole except in the case of evidence establishing the innocence of the. con- yicted person: even then his freedom or relief is obtained by a most cir cuitous process The matter is laid first before the governor and the board of pardons and paroles and af- ter that it must go before the legis- lature which must act in his behalf in a concurrent resolution adopted by a two thirds vote
 The judiciary committee reporting