Arizona republican., 1915-02-24
SENATE PLUMGEs (Continued From Page Oue)

| worth had it been permitted to remain ! in it's original state"
 The bill fixes the value of some of the | Improvements for which lessee of school lands are to be reimbursed by succeeding lessees or purchasers. Upon lands leased for grazing purposes, fenc- es at . cost not exceeding $50 a mile 1 and necessary corrals at a cost not eX- l ceeding $200. Upon lands leased for i agricultural purposes, fences at cost not exceeding $50 a mile for exterior l boundaries and for inside cross fences. 1 Barns dwellings and all other build 1 ings at a total cost of not more than l $500: wells and irrigating systems at a cost Of ..... and for improve ments to the land such as leveling, | blowing, orchards and other trees, not exceeding s10 an acre.
 1 The minimum prices for which any 1 land shall be sold are those fixed by l the enabling act. No land shall be sold l for less than B an acre and no state | land or leased school or university land 1 susceptible of irrigation from an estab- lished irrigation project shall be sold
 for less than s25 an acre and no land shall be sold for less than the appraised 1 value
 1 In the afternoon the senate took up | the Garvin bill in the committee of the l whole and an almost continuous jangle | ensued. Numerous attempts were made to amend it but all of them failed,
 not because majority favored the bill but, evidently because majority be- lieved that it was a waste of time to try to agree upon anything definite at that stage.
 1 Chairman Riggs made several inef- fectual efforts to have Senate Bill 127 included in the consideration but ob- jection Was made because the bill had
 Tot been printed and less than halt a dozen members had seen it or fad
 heard anything of it's provisions Fin ally the whole subject went over. The
 new bill will probably be printed today and the work of bringing order out of
 chaos will be begun.
 The morning in both houses began with land matters. X communication
 had been received from several Nor
 mon settlers at St. Joseph in Navajo
 county who claimed that their patents had been held up at the instance of the
 land commission notwithstanding the
 commission in it's report had expressed sympathy with the settlers for the
 hardships they had undergone since settlement in 1876. But said the com
 munication, the actual attitude of the commission was shown in it's represen- tations to the interior department re-
 sulting in the holding up of patents.
 The communication asks the legisla- ture to direct the commission to with
 draw it's objections to the issuing of patents
 Raus Nit I'm, the Board of Control The senate bill for the creation of a
 board of public welfare consisting of the governor, the state auditor and the
 member of the corporation commission, having the longest term to serve, was passed by the senate in the afternoon by vote of 15 to without debate The matter had been thoroughly thresh- = ed out in the committee of the whole The bill abolishes the board of control and relieves the governor of a deciding
 voice in the activities of the new board The vote was: Ayes-Campbell. Chase
 Crabb. Drachman, Garvin. Goldwater
 karns. Kinney. Lovin, Martin. Mac
 Milan, Riggs, Stapley. Webb the presi- = dent-15.
 Nays-Colter. Munds,. ?.
 Absent-Bacon Claridge.
 : Good Roads
 There was another tilt in the senate over the good roads bills the ColteI
 bill having been taken up from it's place on the calendar where it was left or
 Saturday. Dr. Bacon offered a sug- gestion for a compromise The bil , should be recommitted to the commit
 tee on finance which should bring in 2 bill providing for an appropriation oi S250,O00. the amount carried by the 7 Stapley bill plus S60.00o for the ex- P penses of convicts employed on tht f roads. that item having been agreed tt , in the committee of the whole on Sat urday Other suggestions were offered
 and a renewal of the long debate O
 Saturday was threatened when MT , Stapley observed We are not getting z anywhere; there are four or five Of u! . here with about fifty different ideas. I The bill was recommitted.
 Other matters were before the com p mttee as follows: the house bill pro Q viding for the removal of actions iron @ one county to another on the vote o . citizens of the county. increasing tn = percentage of citizens voting for re Il moval favorably reported
 The senate bill providing for the col { lection of vital statistics and correlat
 ing the various branches of the heaItl |. service. favorably reported. V The bill prohibiting the sale of ci