Arizona republican., 1915-01-19
Statement Prepared Show ing That Mines Propor- tion of Whole of the State Taxes Will Be Reduced to 20 Per Cent. AN AMENDMENT
 OF PRIMARY LAW Bill to Relieve Situation in Phoenix Amounting to Something More Than ar Eyesore-Chaplain Rend- , CTS Thanks

The sessions of both houses of the legislature yesterday were brief and business-like. No time was wasted in oratory; there was not the slightest gust of wind or windiness. When the order of business in the house and the senate was completed in each house in the morning, an adjournment was talk en until the afternoon and when it then appeared that nothing had developed Tn the meantime. early adjournments were taken until the usual hour this morning.
 But in the course of business in the house several bills of interest were brought in though some of them may not have been of grave import One of them was by Mir. Cook of Cochise ere ating the office of immigration com missioner under the direction of and at the appointment of the land con- mission. His salary is to be s24OO a year and he will be placed under a bond of s2.000; an appropriation of s24,000 for advertising is proposed. The commissioner must be a man who has some knowledge of the duties he is to perform and he is not to have any con- nection with any real estate or other corporation engaged in any business which an immigration commissioner would be in a position to favor.
 Mir Farrel of Santa Cruz introduced sweeping amendment of the primary law. the principal feature of which provides that a candidate at the pri- maries receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared to be elected. It was the first thought that there was g mistake in the preparation of the bill; that it was meant that the candidate receiving a majority of all the votes cast al the primary should be declared to be elected. But MT. Farrell said that that was not the case: the bill meant precisely what it said and the purpose of it was two fold first to keep votes of different parties crossing the suit and next, to relieve the high man from the expense of a subsequent campaign which in all probability would result in his election. In most, if not in all cas- es. except where there might be a tie, the primary would dispense with the necessity of a general election. leaving nothing to be voted upon except pro- posed direct election.
 Mir Farrell introduced bill to amend the law with reference to the collection of the road tax. It increases the amount of the tax from g to s3.50 and provides that it may be payable in either cash or work. Another bill by Mir Farrell allows assessors in coun- ties of the ninth class to have a clerk for three months in the year. at a sal ary of not more than $100 a month ex- cept in the session period when the monthly expense for assistance may not exceed $50.
 Another bill by MT. Farrell is de- signed to amend the mine lien law which makes prospect or a mine un- der lease or option liable for the wages of workers. MT. Ferrall explained that the law as it now stands not only works great injustice to the mine owners and prospectors, but to working min CTS themselves in that it deprives them of employment for owners in many cases have refused to lease mines or to give options on them except to we'll known and responsible parties and in consequence, many properties ever since the passage of the law have lain idle. He said that under the semi monthly payment law. workmen were already fairly well protected
 A Street Improvement Bill
 Senator Colter of Apache introduced in the senate a bill designed to remove an eyesore from Phoenix. by authoriz- ing school trustees to make improve ments. For months, and some years, people have noticed that the west half of Center street abutting upon the Central school property has not been paved; there are no sidewalks about the property and, for that matter, there are no street Improvements or sidewalks about the property of any school dis trict in the state. Much more than a year ago the trustees of Phoenix school district No. 1 held an election at which
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