Arizona republican., 1915-06-03
Line Is Given In Both Houses as to Opinion of Members as to Length of the Second Extra Session
EXPENSE BILL
 CALLS FOR $45, ,O00
Appropriation Measure Pro- viding for Contingent Expenses Passes House and Sent to Senate. Two Reports Likely

A line was given yesterday in both houses of the legislature as to the opinions of the members concerning the length of the second extra ses- sion. It is the opinion of the house that it will last fifty days. The sen ate will officially record opinions varying from twenty to thirty days.
 MT. Powers introduced into the house an appropriation bill for the contingent expenses of the session, s45.OOO divided a. follows: For the salaries of members. $22,6SO; salaries of attaches. S12.S1O; mileage, s2.22S.2O: contingent expenses, s7,2S1.S0. Tho bill was given its second reading and was finally passed under suspensions of the rules and was sent to the senate Nessrs. Pinkley and Christy tried to amend the bill striking out the mileage provision on the ground that the members had not earned it; that most of them had remained on the ground between the two ses- siOns. But this effort failed.
 In the senate the bill was referred to the appropriations committee where there is a division of senti- ment that will result in two reports on the bill. Both reports will indi- cate the belief of the committee that the house is providing for too long a session. One report will recom- mend the scaling down of the total appropriation to an amount that will cover a thirty day session and the other will cut 1t still lower, to twenty day session.
 Other Bills
 The house is disposed to get all of the cards on the table before it begins playing; in other words. it is offering everything in the guber- material program. Several more new bills were presented in the morn ;ng session.
 One was a land bill by MT. Acuff. a copy of senate bill 127 as amended and passed by the senate in the regu- lar session.
 MT. Newberry presented house bill '. which was house bill 159 of the regular session. in terms similar to one of the referred bills of last No- vember providing a means of county division.
 Mir Edwards offered a bill ap- propriating s2.733.7O covering the sal | aries of the members of the lard ] commission from March II of this ] year to the end of the fiscal year. | an item stricken out of the general i appropriation bill by the senate in | the first extra session.
 MT Sweeney presented a bill pro viding s4s.O6O for the salaries of the | stenographers in the office of the i secretary of state. This is intended | to correct an error in the expressing bills. as it left the house. carried an appropriation of s4,2OO for that purpose. The amount was increased either in the senate or in conference to S4s.000. but the bill as it was finally engrossed, contained no rec ord of any change.
 The only other business of the house was the introduction of a con- current resolution by MT. Acuff ask ing Senator Ashurst and Representa- tive Hayden to address the legis- lature- When the resolution was of fered comment was made on the fact that the name of Senator Smith had been omitted. The explanation was made that the senator was not in the state and was not expected to be here: there was no intention to slight him But the intention of the house could not be expressed in the record. or rather the absence of its intention could not, and the bill was referred to a committee for amendment including the name of
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