Arizona republican., 1915-04-25
It Would Have isiting Committees Gather Data from Various State ln- stitutions for the General Appropriation Bill
SENATE'S CONSENT
 TO BE OBTAINED
Project Arrived at Late in Aftclnoon-Nicw of the Members That Nothing is to Be Done Until Com mittccs Report

Is to Be Done l. ntll Olfi-
 mittecs Report
 [ At the close of day consumed by conferences. formal and informal. the legislative house yesterday afternoon decided upon plan for beginning the 1 framing of a general appropriation bill. The appropriation committee had the subject under consideration all day. After the opening of the session at ten o'clock the rest of the forenoon was spent in recess. subject to the call of the gaveI. awaiting the announcement of a plan by the committee. At noon nothing had been agreed upon. There was then janSle over the time to which an adjournment should be taken 4 motion to recess until Monday morn ing failed by a slender vote. It was announced that the committee would have something to report by three o'clock and at that time the committee was ready with report that was not acted upon. Instead, concurrent res olutlon was adopted for the appoint meut of committees by the house and the senate to visit the various depart ments of state and the state institu- tions and return with detailed state ments of the need of each
 The resolution was adopted by a vote of to-1S. It will be sent to the senate tomorrow
 Even this decision was reached indi- rectly The house merely drifted to- ward it. When it reconvened at three o'clock the first business was the in
 trcduction of Fouse Bill No. 1 making appropriation for the expenses of the extra session of thirty days. The bill carries S25.000, segregated as follows: For the salaries of the members, S11.- $40: for the salaries of the attaches, S6.1S0; for the mileage of the mem bers. S2.392.30: for contingent expenses. S5.6S7.70. The bill fas presented pro posed to appropriate s25,o00 out of funds in the hands O. the state treas urer It was amended making the ap- propriatiOn out of the general fund after it had been ascertained that there was that much and more in the general fund and MT. Goodwin was moved to inquire if it had jeen the purpose of the framers of the bill to guess at and absorb all that might be in the fund. The passage of the bili was preceded by debate which wand cred from the subject to that of the general appropriation bill and it was out of this debate. renewed later that the concurrent resolution was evolved.
 Mir. Christy opposed anything that looked like delay and he took occasion to resent again as he had often done before since the convening of the ses- sion. the limitation placed upon legis- iation. which left the senate and all of the house except the members of the appropriation committee sitting around like schoolboys, sucking their thumbs.
 Chairman Powers, before the passage of the bill had presented in reply to the remarks of MT. ChlistY, a state ment he had obtained of the eXpendf- lures of the various offices and insti tutions, so far as they could be ob- tained. Copies of the statement. he said. would be prepared for the study of the members. Mr. Chrissty com plained that the statements would not he sufficiently informative. What had been spent by any institution was not proof that too much had not been spent. All this would have to be threshed out upon the floor or in the i committee of the whole, and the sooner the house got at it the better.
 Then ensued a rather irrelevant col | loquy between Mr. Goodwin and MT. l Cbristy regarding the respective mer- it's of universities and normal schools 1 In that way the debate ran along and i in brief intermissons of the arguments, 1 the concurrent resolution and the bill were passed
 While the committee on appropria 1 tions had evidently sanctioned the ap- pointment of committees to the various l institutions and departments it was not | it's plan that work on the general ap- prOpriation bill should wait wholly 1 upon their reports. The committee had | TWO bils one of which it was expected | would become q basis for the bill to be | passed. One of them was the aDprop- l riation bill of the last session and the | other was the mere form 0 f a bill drawn by the attorney general with the ! amounts to be appropriated. in blank | It Is the understanding of the mem bers of the house that if the senate l agrees to the concurrent resolution the | legislature will wait upon the reports of the visiting committees
 Previous to three o'clock the house l had not been in session ten minutes but was ready all day to go into ses- sion It was the opinion of many of the members that the house would quickly agree after the reports of the visiting committees have been received ,, but that is, perhaps 5 too hopeful view. There will be a lot of threshing
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