Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-05
BILL. E
 PLACED HEAD IF CALENDAR
After Hard Fight House Votes to Advance Mine Tax Bill Ahead of all Other House Legislative Features
CHAIRS RULING IS
 SUSTAINED BY VOTE
House Takes the Sting Out Of Senate Board of Welfare Bill by Allowing Appointee For the Governor

PHOENIX, Mar. 4.-By tae action of the House today in placing be mine tax bill at the head ol the cal endar of house bills and only super ceded by the senate measures that the hill seems likely of am early ap- proyal of the house committee or the whole and makes possible adjourn ment without the necessity of an eX- fra session Such action was stub bornly fought and finally decided by the chair being sustained on a ruling after an appeal from the decision oI the chair had leen taken The vote to sustain the chair was IS ayes to l5 hayes three votes which would have voted against advancing he bil being absent
 Following this action the house went into committee of the whole and finally approved after amending the senate board of public welfare bill As it now is written, the board which is delegated to play such an important part in our state govern lment. is to consist of che soyefnor. auditor and purchasing agent to be named by the governor. A public examiner, also the appoiutee of the governor, is secretary. without a vote on the board. There is no mista6ing the fact that Governor Hunt was in- strumenJal in shaping the house de- cision on this bin and that he looked with alarm on the senate measure which made the board consist of three elective officers and took ceu- trol of the state institutions from n- der his positive domination
 Berry attempted to renew. by 9 new bill. her plan to pension the state ! teachers with a record oi twenty five years teaching and Brooks had ! a bill to erect in the capitol, tab let to the memory Of the late Michael ] G. Cunnin On final passage the sem ate bin requiring the initiative and referendum measures to receive a ma jority of the votes cast at an election 1 to carry, was killed by a vote of l5 to IS, Acuf. Austin, Berry, Briscoe l Claypool, Cook. Edwards, Farrell Francis, Lee. Lines. Mahoney. New berry, Pinckley, Proctor, Reed, Swee- ney and Vaughn voting against the measure. The department of labor bin was passed by close vote but it win be up for reconsideration to. morrow. and may ultimately be de- feated
 The senate bill authorizing the re. fund of unused liquor licenses passed
 In the senate Martin, by request introduced a bin creating the office of chief state engineer or steam and operating engineers and providing for boiler inspector An annual salary Of S2,5OO goes with the job proposed The committee of the whole finally lagreed on the form the land bin
 should take, entirely opposite to the recommendation Of the present land commission and only in minor detail agrees with the governors recommen
 dations. The bin permitting counties
 10 bonus county fairs was also ap
 proved
 The house bin providing for the
 sale of the Benson reform school site
 was passed and sent 10 the governor
 and the bill creating state racinl
 commission and permitting the us,
 of pare mutuel betting machines wal passed by a vote of IA to 5 and sen
 to the house. Its sponsors claim i
 will pass the house before the en'
 of the week. Tomorrow the final SCI
 ate vote on the dry liquor bin vii
 be taken