Arizona republican., 1915-02-20

and Reese NJ. Ling, guests of the club, delivered short speeches. The prizes of the day went to George w. Bar rows. H. l.. Aller and Fred Warren.
 was need of it was proved hy the needless duplication Of offices. There were, said MT. Stapley, no greater duplication than that presented in the taxing machinery. The commis- sion was maintained he said at q cost of nearly $22,000 a year. The bill would save at least $19,OO0 an- nually. Nothing would be lost of efficiency.
 Later. replying to MT Coter, Mr. Stapley charged that the members of the commission were the most ob- noXious lobbyists who had yet ap- been lobbying ever since the opening of the session, about the county and the state.
 Mir. Sims urged the rtcommenda- i ton of the bill. He said that the commission was an almost useless appendage. Replying to a state
 ment by Mr. Claridse that great re- forms in taxation had been intro duced under the commission. he said that the reform had been made by the law for which the commission was not responsible Any three
 men of ordinary intelligence. he said,
 could now discharge the duties of the commission"
 MT. Riggs favored the abolition of the commission. but not at present: he would have it done when the
 terms of the members had expired
 for. he believed that the state woul l he liable for their salaries
 The question at last went to vote with this result:
 Ayes Bacon. Chase, Crabb, Garvin. Godwater, karns, Martin, MacMil- Ian, Riggs, Stapey, the presdent-12. Nays-Campbcll. ClariGse, Colter, Drachman Munds, Webb-6 Concerning Good Roads The senate then started something
 it could no; finish though it spert most of the rest of the day on the iob. Ire various good roads bills, or two Of them, were before the com mittec Stapley's bill No. 57 and the Coltcr bill No. GA. The latter has l the endorsement of the state engi-
 nser It does not differ radically
 from the present road law. It pro- poses a tax levy that shall raise 1 $f00 090. An arrangement is to he made by which a certain part of the I tax shall be returned to each county from which it is collected but every | county shall receive not Iess than | S15 900
 The Stapley bill would divest the
 state engineer If some of his as i sistants and would make the county
 engineer of every county an assist . ant to work in conjunction with tue
 office of the state engineer The bill proposes to raise $250.00G year. l The finance committee had recom- mcded the indefinite rostponement of
 this bill anG had recommended the passage of tho Colter bill.
 l After an explanation by Nessrs 1 Stapley and Golfer of the merits of the bills. pr Bacon of the finance committee said that they had been considered together. The Stapley bill. he said. contemplates an aboli ton of the organization of the state
 engineers office as it exists today and to bring into new organization. all of the county engineers many of whom are not qualified There would , be, in the opinion of the committee. d lack of harmony in such an ar rangement
 MT. Colter in advocacy of his bill
 pointed to the accomplishments of the last three years to which Mir. Stapley replied that it had been ac- complished at an expense of S250.0O0
 Mr. Coter reioined that in the last | forty years the state had spent mil
 lions on roads and until three years
 ago there was nothing to show for ! il.
 The reading of the bill was begun
 and MT. Sims entered upon a criti- cjsm of the office of the state enCi- neer: that is of the expense of con-
 ducting it. TFen controversy arose
 as to the order of precedence of the two road bills in the midst of it
 shortly bfore noon the committee ' rose
 The consideration of the bill was | lesumed by the committee in the
 afternoon after another long squabble
 over the question of precedence which
 was finally settled in favor of No
 57. Mir. Karns moved to increase the ltaN levy from $250.000 to $340 900 Previous to that an amendment had been adopted to appropriate $60, COG
 for the expense of caring for convicts
 at work on the roads. MT. Stapley
 protested against the proposed eXpen
 iiture. He said that the purpose ot the measure that of economy, was
 being destroyed. He spoke of an ad- ditional S40,000 from automobile. which would go into the road fund MT. Clardge said that not so mucl
 would he derived from that sourc, land he offered a nice distinction be