Arizona republican., 1915-01-31
Line of Battle Not Yet Ac-
 curately Drawn in Lower House, and the Measure
 Awaits Unknown Fate There in Monday Session
ANOTHER LITTLE
 AMENDMENT MADE
Fixing Prices Not Covered in Gotham Market Gov ernment Signs Senate Bill No. 1-Supervisoral Dis tricts Discussed

Interest in both houses of the leg wholly about the mine tax bill which was passed by the senate in the af- ternoon, was signed in the open session by President Sims and or dered transmitted to the house where it will be presented tomorrow morn ing. Though no action was taken by the house directly upon an iden- that body was the more intense by reason of matching developments which give occasion for a test vote.
 A movement was started to take the house bill out of the hands of the ways and means committee in order that an expression might be secured before the arrival of the sen ate bill. Notice of such a motion was given in the morning by MT. Pinkley of Pinal but the motion it. self was not offered until the after noon session when it transpired that that order of business had been passed and could not be reverted to except by unanimous consent. That was not asked for and the matter went over until tomorrow morning.
 The advocates and opponents of the bill in the house are not quite sure of their strength. The latter claim from sixteen to nineteen votes against the bill in it's present form. Either number would be fatal to the emergency clause and without that clause the bill would have to face a referendum. But it is claimed and admitted that the principle of the measure may be endorsed if certain concessions are offered by it's friends.
 The Senate's Finishing Touches
 The mine tax bill was brought up for second reading in the morning session of the senate when an amendment was offered, providing for the fixing of prices for such ores as may not have been regularly the ten year period prescribed in the bill. No opposition was offered to the amendment. A former one by Mrs Munds was more material since it put into the hands of the tax com mission the power to determine what valuation should be added to mine which had lain idle for a period of three months or more during any year. That amendment had likewise been adopted without opposition in the committee of the whole the day before
 On the second reading, MT. Webb who had led the fight against the bill moved, in the interest of expe- dition of business, that the rules be on final passage without lying over for one day, under the rules. The president stated that the bill would have to go to the enrolling and en- crossing committee and that the mo- tion would be entertained at the af- ternoon session. MT. Webb renewed a motion he had made some days to the committee on judiciary to frame a general bill, applying the mine taxing plan to all classes of property. That motion had been de- feated by vote of to 13. The motion yesterday lost one vote as follows:
 Ayes: Claridge. Colter, Karns. Munds. Webb-5.
 Nays: Bacon. Campbell, Chase, Crabb. Drachman, Garvin, Goldwater, Kinney, Lovin, Martin. McMillen. Riggs. Stapley and the president--14.
 In the afternoon Mir. Webb renew ed his motion for the early disposi- tion of the bill and it was read for the third time. MT. Webb presented some figures which he had received from the tax commission which is opposing the bill, showing statements