Arizona republican., 1915-01-23
Busy Day Spent in Confer ence-Much of Legisla- tive Work Does Not Ap- pear on Surface-HOuses Hold Short Sessions
ZULICK INVITATION
 REVIVED IN SENATE
"Inquisition Bill" Known as House No. ,, Effective ly Squelched Opposition is Instant to Search War rant Measure

It was a busy day in both sessions of the legislature but not much ap- peared on the surface. There were the usual brief sessions, a single one of the house and a short one of the senate in the morning and a shorter one in the afternoon. The rest of tEe time was spent in committees. the announced joint meeting of the house ways and means committee for the consideration of the mine tax bill and the separate meetings of the house and senate committees.
 It became the announced policy of beth houses that joint meetings of the important committees of both the house and the senate will be held from time to time. Today meetings of the public land and appropriations committees will be held This is an arrangement that has never before obtained as a policy in an Arizona legislature.
 In the' Senate
 It was expected that there would be some fun in the senate, in the revival of the house resolution, de- feated the day before, to extend a welcome to former Governor Zulick. It was predicted that the attempt would be failure but it was not made.
 The board of public welfare bill introduced the day before, and slightly different from the bill of the same title introduced in the house and described at length in The Republican yesterday, was referred to the committee on state accounts and methods of accounting. The senate bill. providing for the as sessment of property in municipali- ties for local improvements was re- fered to the committee on corpora tions.
 Two bills, one for amending the law relating to the taxing of bank shares and building and loan associa : tion shares. so as to exempt the lat ter, and the other, a public inn provement act, were indefinitely post poned for the reason that other bills covering the same ground were in course of preparation.
 Senate Bill No. "A for the aboli- tion of the school census was passed This is one of the measures recom- mended by the Arizona Tax associa : tion.
 In the afternoon session of the senate a communication was read from Secretary Joseph H. Gray of the Warren District Commercial club of Bisbee endorsing the Goldwater old age and mothers pension bill The communication contained the surprising statement that since the first of the year when, under the initiated law not only had support been withdrawn from the county hospital but the hospitals themselves had been ordered to be sold, the county hospital of Cochise county had been kept running by the dona- tions of private citizens.
 Dengar Martin, of Pima, intro duced a bill providing that 90 pei cent of license fees for automobile: should be returned to the countie! where the automobiles are.
 Senate Bill 29 was introduced b. Mir. Stapley to limit the expenditure of the state departments. The bil of MT. Campbell of COconino wa indefinitely postponed without oppo sition, the statement having beer made that another bill of broade scope was in course of preparation
 There was a brief session of tn committee of the whole in which bill was considered that require, some explanation, which, however was satisfactory. It had been intro Guced by Senator Kinney of Gila Or the face of it, it proposed to giv the city council of all incorporate cities and those to be incorporated control over all elective and appoint
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