Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-26

ot the increases probably exceeded the reductions. Some sharp cuts were made in the Tempe normal school appropriations. The over shadowing event of the day was the failure of the attempt to increase the appropriation for the state school fund, first from $100O00 annually to $5000O0, then to $250,000 and lastly to $200,000. There had evidently been an agreed upon policy by the ma jority to stand against any increase. There were other evidences in the course of the day of concerted move ments by senators.
 The house had spicy session over the senate Frank memorial for which the committee on judiciary had recommended an amendment to couple the name of Governor Slaton of Georgia the original addressee with the Arizona board of pardons and paroles and to couple the name of Frank with that of the five con demned men at Florence.
 After a hot debate of an hour the amendment was defeated by vote of Y to 10 and then the original memorial was defeated by vote of Y to Il, one absent and six excused. A resolution calling upon the gover- nor to include in his call for the next extra session, legislation on the sub ject of capital punishment was also defeated.
 The senate received a request sign ed by several citizens of Florence asking the legislature to memo-ialize the board of pardons and paroles. No action was taken on it and it was stated that none would be-
 In the morning session after pro longed debate on the subject of ec- onomy in which various senators made it plain that each was the ori- ginal b1own-in-thebottle economist and in the course of which there were some allusions of a personal character, the committee proceeded to slaughter the land commission sec ton of the house bill by substitut- ing the section of the senate bill which had been held in reserve. The total appropriation amounts to $26,- 320, made up of the following items; Chief clerk, $4,200; filing fees $3,OOO; office clerk, $2,400; draughtsman, $2,- 400; two stenographers,. $4,300; tray cling expenses, $10,OO0. The com mittec cut out the provision for GOV cring the expenses of the office, in cluding the salaries of the commis- sioners to the end of the fiscal year. In addition, the committee designated land board consisting of the gov ernor, the attorney general and the state engineer, the latter invested with the duties of surveyor general which at present devolves upon the chairman of the land commission This section doubtless constitutes one of several points upon which the two houses can never reach an agree ment
 In the afternoon session, MT. Karns moved to go back to the section re- lating to appropriations for the az ricultural commission. For the first time, MT. Karns said, he had heard of dodder as a vegetable pest, the day before, but since then he had learned so much about it that he had become whatsome excited and de manded an appropriation of $4,0O0 for the next two years for its extermina- ton. He had learned that there were more than thirty kinds of dod- der in this state and though most of them, including the so-called Hove vine" were harmless, there were others that promised to become as noxious as Johnson grass or Der muda.
 Senator Goldwater embraced the opportunity to indulge in play of words. This doddering drivel," said he, "has cost us twcnty-four hours of time and S4000. Mir. Karns' amendment prevailed.
 There was a fight over the ap- prop7iation for the agricultural ex- pertinent stations growing out of the appropriation for the Salt River valley farm for which at last $l0,OOO was allowed instead of about $2S,OOO that had been asked for. Mir. Webb spoke vigorously against the appro- priation and said that he had lived in the valley for thirty years, had been engaged in farming and had seen no results justifying the cX- pcnditures which had been made fo- these stations.
 Said Mir. Karns another opponent of the appropriation, "I believe from what 1 have seen here today all this talk of economy is a gigantic joke. We have been cutting down the wage