El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-19
LAND CODE BILL
ISIN COMM TEE
House Refuses to Concur in
Senate Amendments;
Wishes to Quit.

Phoenix, Ariz., June Is.-Substitute
house bill No. 1. the land code, is IN
conference. AS expected, the house re-
fused to concur in a majority Of the
senate amendments. It did not like
. the senate's change IN the personnel
OF the land department. It did not like
the changes the senate made in the
system of appraising land ana improve
ments. which the house had adopted
after many weary days Of debate and
discussion. Nor did the house approve
land commissioner appoint his office
help with the consent and advice OF
the department
Coldwater. Campbell and Martin are
the senate conferees, while ClaypooL
Flanagan and Goodwin represent the
house
Though the differences between the
two houses are wide, there is every
prospect that an agreement viii be
reached within a day or two Once
the land bill is disposed OF, the legts-
lature may adjourn at almost any
minute.
The lassitude expected by everyone
as soon as the hot days Of summer
came on, is now plainly apparent There
is an evident desire on the part Of
legislators to avoid disputes which
they would have gloried in a month
ago. They are more willing to accept
the ideas Of each other, to compromise,
than they were before summer weather
made legislating such an uneomfort- /
able job. even at 81 a day
Any objection to sine die adjourn
ment viii come from the house. The
senate has sent over prohibition Dill
and Golfers irrigation district bill, and
has nothing of any Importance before
il at this time The house still has
the miners hospital bill to pass and the
department Of labor measure to consid-
er. Irrigation, prohibition, the hospi-
tai and the department Of labor are
enough to keep the house busy a. least
two weeks longer.
Many Eager to QUIT.
In both houses there are a number
Of members who will be willing TO
drop everything else and go home as
soon as the land code is adopted They
may outnumber, by the middle Of next I
week, those who want to stay and dis
pose Of all the important items IN the !
governors call.
Golfers irrigation bill was once de-
feated, reconsidered, and sent to the ,
irrigation committee for amendment. (
When IT was placed on third reading I
the second time il was passed without !
a dissenting vote
Grahams bill raising the salary OF I
the Cochise~ county sheriff $50 a month 1
was ruthlessly slaughtered in the SEN I
ate Inc judiciary committee could not !
ind where it was iEe.uded in the gov /
errors call
Senator Harms had better luck with /
mis- santa Cruz county salary bill This 4
is the measure which gives the SUI
perlOr court clerk $500 the treasurer
5000 End the clerk to the supervisors !
500 a year for extra help. In addi- :!
ton II gives each supervisor not to I
exceed $50 month for travelling ex-
penses- Harms, in committee OF the /
whole explained that Santa Cruz is J
shortly to issue 5000 900 worth of road I
bonds and the supervisors will have TO I
DO great deal of travelling to see that /
the proceeds are properly spent His I
Dill was sent to the style and revision 4
committee and VIII come up for second
reading in a day or two.
In the course Of the debate ms
severely criticised the present system
or having county salaries raised and I
lowered by the legislature. He sug-
gested an amendment to the Harms I'LL /
providing that al proposed raises shan &
be passed upon first by the super
Vlsors and then submitted to the people 4
at the following general election He
VIII present this amendment in written
form when the Santa Cruz bill is on
second reading.
Senate Has Extended Debate.
me senate engaged in another ex-
tended debate over Golfers resolution Z
the statute governing the |
state engineers office so a. to make I
the annual road fund available July ]
instead OF in January, after taxes are
cOllected- With Sims, GOldWater and
Stapley opposed, the resolution was Z
finally passed and sent to the house.
state engineer Lamar Cobb has been Z
dEaWlng on his fund at the beginning (
OF each fiscal year. and the former /
treasurer registered his warrants with /
out question. Simms. the present treas
urer, questioned the legality of this (
proceeding and asked Cobb to have the
legislature pass a resolution constru- Z
ing the statute. Stapley and Goldwa- I
ter. the banker senator's. denounced as
pad business policy the plan OF spend !
ing money before it is in the treasury. !
Engineer Needs Funs.
Engineer Cobb is particularly needy
or funds this year to repair roads and
bridges washed out in Navajo and
apache counties, and to finish work
Undertaken in other counties.
without recommendation the county
tIIairs committee returned the invita-
-ion of the citizens of Prescott to the
legislature to finish the present session {
N that city. Without objection. the
clerk was instructed 10 write the may
Or OF Prescott a letter thanking him
Tor the invitation. but declining il with
regret Probably nothing more will be
beard of this legislature meeting in
After nearly three days of DISCUSSION
the house passed the Briscoe miners
hospital bill. Little remains Of the
original AS the bill now stands no
miner who has $1,000 worth Of property
IS eligible for admittance to the home
AZ one time the limit was placed at
$500, and thereafter removed entirely
NeWbury's county division bill was !
passed by a vote of % IN &