Arizona republican., 1915-01-29
Munds' Amendment Talk ing Care of Emergencies When Productive Mines Are Not Working At tached in Committee
CLARIDGE FAILS
 TO CHANGE BILL
Opposition to the Measure Dwindles as It Comes Up for Consideration in Com nlittee of Whole, and No Adverse Vote Recorded

What little opposition to the mine tax bill, which had been developed in the senate, vanished yesterday morn ing, when motion by President Sims in the committee of the whole that the bill be recommended to be sent along the usual course was adopted with a single dissenting voice which could not be distinguished in the general uproar. Nobody asked for q roll call. There were evidently at least three senators against the bill, but they did not reg ister their opposition on the final vote. The consideration of the bill was re- sumed in the committee of the wholeN after the disposition of the regular order of business An amendment which had been forecast the night be- fore was offered by Mrs. Munds, the junior senator from YaVapai, to be at tached to be section of the bill. The amendment follows:
 Providing, however, that any such mine, mining claim or group thereof shall for any cause discontinue the production of ore or other mineral pro- ducts therefrom for a period of three or more consecutive months in any cal endar year, the state tax commission shall have the power to add to the val nation of said mine, mining claim or group thereof derived from the gross proceeds and the net proceeds for said calendar year as herein provided; pro- vided that such additional valuation is to cover said period of suspension of
 
 commission shall appear just and equitable"
 No objection was offered from any quarter It was designed to meet an emergency occasioned by the inactivity of productive mines from any cause and it was agreed by the senators tha. with that amendment the bugaSoo of non- -productivcness in any year had been fully met and overcome.
 Several other amendments by Sena- tor Claridge of Graham were offered but they were all objected to by Presi- dent Sims on the ground that they had already been covered in the bill or that they were wholly unnecessary and had been rejected by a viva voce vote of tremendous adverse proportions, MT. Claridge said that he would withdraw the rest of the amendments he had prepared since it was apparent that there was no prospect of the adoption of any of them.
 When the senate session opened, and before the body had resolved itself in- to a committee of the whole, MT. Clar- idge pesented two communications from his county protesting against the enactment of the mine taxing bill President Sims caused to be read q communication from temperance as- sOciation of Tombstone in favor of the Powers Drachman prohibition bill. The communication stated that it was un- derstood that the committee on cohsti- tutional amendments was unfriendly tC the bill and that the senate had re- ferred it to that committee over tht protest of Chairman Claridge of a com mittee that was friendly to it. Int president stated that the impression o the writer was entirely erroneous anf Senator Claridge added that he hao made no request for the submission o the bill to his committee. Senator Drachman who offered the bill in thu senate said that Chairman Kinney O the committee to which it had been re ferred had urged the early disposition of it and that it had not been disposed of Mas because of representations t' the committee that judicial decision: were pending that might have an CT feet upon the measure.
 Two bills were introduced by Presi dent Sims making more effective tn law against the issuance of fraudulan or worthless checks or the securing 0 property by means of fraudulent repre- SentatiOn
 The Committee of the Whole
 As soon'as the mine taxing bill who's consideration had been continued iron the day before, was taken up, Mrs Munds offered her amendment. Sh had been reckoned among the opposi