Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-26
done, but MT. Claridge said that he would remain until this morning.
AMENDMENTS BY
 SENATE REJECTED

1OENlAy Mdy NI-1 HC ICSlold turc has gone to the mat with the general appropriation bill and enough happened in the receipt of the bill from the senate to indicate that the differences of the two houses are ele- mental.
 The third reading of the bill was finished in the senate a little after noon and as quickly as possible the measure was laid before the house by the speaker with list of the senate amendments. There were only two copies of each document and only five copies of the house bill as it was finally passed. The speaker suggested quick action on each amendment and then it appeared what was uppermost in the minds of many members of the house, the question of salaries. The proposition was made that all cases of reduction of salaries be grouped together and acted upon together and adversely. But it was decided that there was something bigger in the bill than salaries and it was resolved to take up the senate amendments seriatim.
 Oratory Throttled.
 There was a disposition toward a general display of oratory but it was chokcd off by a motion by MT. Pink ley for the application of the previous question to all of section 1 of the bill, consisting of some 106 subdivisions. That rule was afterward pretty closely applied in spite of complaints of gag rule.
 The first amendment offered was one made to the title of the bill and tkat was rejected. The same fate ov- ertook the second one, proposing a reduction of the salary of the secre- tary of the corporation commission. All the others affecting this depart ment were rejected by viva voce vote which was so pronounced that roll calls were unnecessary. How ever, on the amendment of the sen ate reducing the appropriation of the corporation commission for contin- gent expenses from $40,OO0 to $30,00O and wiping out the salaries of the chief clerk and the incorporating clerks a roll call was demanded and resulted in non-concurrence by Y to 13.
 So it went, through the amend ments to the appropriations for the tax commission until that one was reached, reducing the provision for the expenses of the commission for ''other help" from $6,000 to $25O. A roll call on that brought out l9 votes to 12 for non-concu-rence. The first assent to a senate amendment came when that one was reached striking out an appropriation of $500 for the expenses of the commission sitting IS a board of equalization which was corcurr,d in by vote of 16 to Is.
 A Phenomenon.
 The next 16 amendments were re jected and when the following one was reached in which it was discover cd that the senate had increased the appropriation for stenographers for the office of the secretary of state from $4,2OO to $4,80O for the two years, the members of the house look ed at one another in amazement. What strange thing was this? It was explained that it had been the pur- pose Of the senate to cqualize the salaries of the stenographers to in crease the salary of the only one in the capitol working for $75 month to $100 A member moved that the house concur in this amendment by rising vote. Carried.
 After a dozen other amendments had been rejected, one increasing the expenditures of the office of public health from $6,OOO to $8,OO0 was ap- proved.
 But it can more quickly be related that certain amendments were con cured Tn than that nearly all of them were contemptuously turned down. For instance, the appropriation of $40O to pay the expenses of Miss Els ther Ross, the sponsor of the battle ship Arizona, failed i'll the senate and that rejection was approved by the house An increase by the senate ot the appropriation for the horticultural commission was endorsed by the house; so too was a senate amend ment cutting from $40,OO0 to $3O,OOO the appropriation for the care of the capitol building and grounds, and so was the increase by the senate of the appropriation for the Pioneer His toTical society from $2,000 to $2,5OO.
 The house rejected a new subdivis- ion by the senate appropriating $1,OOO for the expenses of Arizona Day at the Panama-Pacifc exposition. It was wifi, DecuIiar satisfaction that the