Arizona republican., 1915-05-08

1 was not a new one During the reg ular session a member Of the admin l istration had called upon him, re | questing precisely such an amend : ment to the appropriation bill on the ground that an emergency might make necessary the expenditure of more funds than had been definitely provided by the bill, and it would be desirable to fall back upon the stat utes.
 Meanwhile. there was a multiplicity and d confusion of motions anu | amendments to the motions, but by roughly cutting parliamentary bonds motion to pass temporarily the Claypool amendment was carried. There had been eNhibihitions of i'll humor, and there had been d par ticularly bitter exchange between Chairman Powers and MT. Ch"isty growing out of purely irrelevant matter.
 The Next Casus RelI
 Without division, the committee re- verted to and adopted the subdivfs- ion providing $7000 for the travelling expenses of the office of mine in spector for the next TWO years I@IusliiN IltiI iIloillOuS NFsAS tue tSI ment upon an appropriation for the office of the state superintendent of public health These sections and subdivisions had been passed in or der that more information might be gathered as to the needs of such sums This information it turned out, consisted of reiteration by the heads of the departments that these ll hardly expected that these gentle men would have changed their minds since making the earlier estimates of their needs. The section appropriat- ing S24OO for clerical assistance for the state librarian was likewise adopted.
 Then came the event of the day, the discussion, or, rather the riot, over the section making appropria- tion for the state school fund. This section proposed an amendment of the existing law which carried $50O.- 900 for that purpose. The section reduces this sum to $160.000 annually. Mir. Newbury moved it's adoption. MT Goodwin moved to substitute "$50G,- G00' for '$100, ,000" MT Christy de- clared that the state was tax ridden anu NIltlL liIt Stiiftpl AnIltlS OI lIlt SlstAt as well as those of all the counties were being expended recklessly and without supervision. TO which MT Goodwin replied that that was a matter which could not now be con sidered. The question now was not the manner of the expenditure of the fund, but the amount of it. MT Lines stated that $500.00O was only d |, l.. believed that the state fund should be apportioned on the basis of the average attendance. but. that could not be done without a change of the law. He favored the Goodwin amendment, and, moreover faN ored state system entirely.
 Speaker Brooks opposed the amend ment on the ground that the distri button of the fund was inequitable, though he suggested no other method of apportionment.
 After some further debate, the com mittee rose and q recess was talen, when the subject was resumed amid a furry of motions and amendments in which there was no understand ing. A half dozen members were on their feet at a time. gesticulating and trying to be heard Finally out of the confusion there was q compromise in favor of an appropriation annually for the state school fund of $200,000.
 MT. Goodwin then offered an providing S20.000 for the Mesa experiment farm. An agree ment was reached OF $10,000.
 The Mysterious Senate
 Shortly before noon the senate int INb Pb lasted until 12:3O o'clock Great things were supposed to be going on. It was reported that an ultimatum had been sent to the governor, and that the senate was having a heated discussion of the report of the com mittee which had delivered it. But it was noticed that the discussion was not animated: no loud and angry words could be heard
 It turned out. however, that there had been no ultimatum and that no message had been sent to the gov ernor by the senate. Messrs. Webb and Stapley on their own motion had gone to the governor to inquire as to the report printed by The Repub- lican as to his intention to call an extra session for land legislation. The
  substantially true.
 As to the executive session, it was developed that Senator Campbell had suggested it for the purpose of break ing the monotony of the senate ses- sion and to awaken the curiosity of the eavesdroppers outside.
 At the close of the session, Chair man Stapley of the appropriations committee announced that g recaritu lation of the senate appropriation bill would be printed in a day or two and would present succintly some in- teresting facts.
 He also presented some interest ing figures regarding budgets and appropriation bills. For instance. it was shown that the last appropria- tion bill carried $3,915.370 for the last two years. The budget for the next two years, presented to the leg islature, asked for appropriations fer the next two years amounting to $5,1S6,225S0 The proposed bill of the senate had ruthlessly cut this