Arizona republican., 1915-06-09
GLENDALEHEARS
 SOLONS SPEAK
Two Senator's Address Glendale Mems Club, Telling of Accomplish
 ments of Second State Legislature--Big Crowd.

Last evening in Ireland hall. Hon William Sims. president of the sen ate, o. $. Stapley, member of the senate from Maricopa county, and H M. Fennemore, president of the Phoenix chamber of commerce. ad- dressed the Glendale Mems club
 Dr. Sims was the first speaker and announced that he would at tempt to tell us something of what the second legislature has done stat ing that it would require a very short time. since it had done prac- tically nothing. He stated that the regular session lasted about sixty days and the only accomplishment worth while was the squandering of some fifty thousand dollars of the taxpayers money. The first extra session, he stated, was at work when not loafing for a period of thirty days at a cost of twenty five thous- and more of the peoples money with nothing to show but the appropria- Iion bill to provide finances for the operation of the state government During this session it was stated by both senators present that seven days at a thousand dollars per day, were spent considering the advisa- bility of raising an employees salary from s175 to s2OO per month. Some financering, eh?
 It was stated that of the fifteen items included in the present third extra session but one item was of sufficient importance to be worthy the attention of the legislature. and that is the land code. and which might have been considered at the
  additional cost. as one branch of the legislature lOafed half the time and the other branch loafed the other half. Sims was not sure that a land code would be secured at this ses- sion, but he stated that there were enough heavy weights sitting hard on the lid to guarantee that unless some satisfactory land legislation be adopt ed there will be no appropriation to pay the seven dollars per to the men who are sent there to accomplish something for the people. He stated that he believed the members of the legislature should give the people some service before they are paid any more of the peoples money.
 Senator Stapley followed along the same lines as pr. Sims. telling some of the. obstacles which he met as chairman of the committee on ap- propriationS.
 MT. Fennemore spoke of the lack of business methods in both state and county governmental affairs. He se- verely criticised the short hours of the attaches at the state house, as- serting that he had gone there at four o'clock in the afternoon on busi- ness only to see a veritable stam- pede of people in their exit from the building. He stated that any pri- vate business conducted as the busi- ness of state would force bank ruptcy in a very short time
 All the speakers discussed the sue cess of money being expended upon state institutions of learning and ad- VOcated that there should be but one normal school in the state and that the agricultural department of the state university should be removed from Tucson and located in the Salt River Valley
 At the close of the meeting a re- solution was passed protesting against any appropriation being made by the board of supervisors or the water users association in support of the office of farm advisor as at present conducted, but endorsing a demonstration farm located in the valley