Arizona republican., 1915-05-21
sFhe Supply Bill Almost in It's Entirety Will Be Left to Arbitration of Confer ence Committee
 VAIN HOPE OFFERED
 OF THE END TO-DAY Capital Punishment Dues tion Unexpectedly Re opened in House-Legis- lature Finds Itself Fi- nancially Embarrassed

The legislature has gone to the mat, Gs The Republican had predicted it would do, with the general appropria- ton bill and enough happened in the the receipt of the bill from the senate to indicate that the differences of the two houses are elemental.
 The third reading of the bill was fin ished in the senate a little after noon and as quickly as possible the measure was laid before the house by the speak CT with a list of the senate amend ments. There were only two copies of each document and only five copies of the house bill as it was finally passed. The speaker suggested quiet action on each amendment and then it appeared what was uppermost in the minds of many members of the house, the ques- ton of salaries. The proposition was made that all cases of reduction of sal aries 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
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 There was a disposition toward a Aitldl dioHiciN OI OIdlOIy put IL was chOled off by a motion by MT. Pinkley for the application of the previous question to all of section l 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 that rejected rho car,a fo the second one, proposing a reduction Of the salary of the secretary of the corporation commission. All the oth- CTS affecting this department were re- jected by a viva voce vote which was so pronounced that roll calls were un- necessary. However. on the amend ment of the senate reducing the ap- propriation of the corporation commits sion for contingent expenses from $4O,- 900 to s30,00O and wiping out the sal aries of the chief clerk and the incor- pOratirg clerks a roll call was demand ed and resulted in n-concurrence by Y to 13.
 So it went, through the amendments to the appropriations for the tax com mission until that one was reached, re- ducing the provision for the expenses of the commission for "other help from $6,0OO to $250. A roll call on that brought out 19 votes to F for non-con- currence. The first assent to a senate amendment came when that one was reached striking out an appropriation of $500 for the expenses of the com mission sitting as board of equaliZa- tion which was concurred in by vote of 16 to 15 But that action will almost certainly he reversed on reconsidera- tioE today.
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 The next sixteen amendments were rejected and when the following one was reached in which it was discovered that the senate had increased the ap- propriation for stenographers for the office of the secretary of state from S42OO to S4S00 for the two years, the members of the house looked at one another in engagement. What strange thing was this? It was explained that it had been the purpose of the senate to equalize the salaries of the stenog- raphers to increase the salary of the only one in the capitol working for s75 a month to s100. A member moved that the house concur in this amend ment by rising vote Carried.
 After dozen other amendments had been rejected, one increasing the ex- pnditures of the office of public health from $6OOO to ssOOO was approved
 But it can more quickly be related that certain amendments were con cured in than that nearly all of them were contemptuously turned down For instance. the appropriation of $400 to pay the expenses of Miss Esther Ross the sponsor of the battleship Arizona failed in the senate and that rejection was approved by the house. An in crease by the senate of the appropria- tion for the horticultural commission was endorsed by the house; so too was
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