Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-05
PASSES THE BUCK
 TO GOVERNOR HUNT

PHOENIX, April 3O-Just as the heavens in the middle of the after noon were breaking loose after a morning that had given some promise O: pleasant day, the house of the legislature, which had opened with a grouch which grew into active and violent animosity with the day, sur denly became peaceful and ended in love feast.
 The trouble which occupied prac- tically all the time of the house in two sessions grew out of senate con current memorial No. 1, urging the governor to get the land commission busy selecting and selling the lands granted by the enabling act to the counties of Pima, Maricopa, Yavapai and Coconino. This memorial had been referred to the committee on petitions which it was thought would report it favorably, but it was ex- pected that opposition to it would come from the gentlemen who have taken the administration under their wings.
 It was therefore rather surprising that Chairman Christy, whose wing has never been spread over the ad ministration or any part of it, re ported the memorial back without recommendation. And then he pro- cceded to speak against it in terms rather complimentary or rather in ex- cu1pation of the land commission.
 The senate, he said, had made an attack upon the wrong party. The land commission was not at fault but the governor was. The governor had prevented any legislation under which the commission would have to act. The blame, he said, must rest with the governor and he could not see why the legislature should mem orialize the governor concerning a matter about which he must be fully informed
 Mir. Christy had thus gracefully conducted himself around to fav- orite theme, the limitation which the governor had placed upon legislation in the extra session. "Perhaps,' said he sarcastically, the governor is right. By reason of our limited in tcllectuality, it may be that one bill each session is enough for us to con slider. If the legislature wants to pass censorious resolutions let them be directed at the governor. We are compelled to waste the public money: We are sitting here with nothing to do. The governor has deprived us of the power of usefulness to the state"
 MT. Christy said that seven mem bers of the house were doing all the business of the house, the committee on appropriations. "The rest of us are debarred from taking part in the work" Chairman Powers of the | committee replied that the gentlemen from Greenlee was in e-ror All the l members of the house had been in vited to attend the meetings of the committee.
 To this time the memorial had not been read and after its reading MT. Graham moved that it be re-referred that the representative of the coun- ties affected might have an oppor- tunity to endorse it. Mir. Goodwin | believed that the relief sought in the memorial was unnecessary. All that | was desired to be done could now | be done but general land code was needed Mir Graham's motion to re- commit was defeated and Mir. Flana- gan, who had voted against it, ex- plained his vote. The memorial, he said, in the statement that the land commission had neglected and re- fused to select the land for the four counties was in error. As a matter of fact the commission beginning two years ago had recommended the selection of 70,000 acres of this land and the recommendation had been acted upon. Of this patent had been secured for about 10000 acres. The commission, he said, had selected more land for this very purpose than for any other.
 Replying to MT. Christy's animad- versions against the governor, MT. Lines said that he would agree that the land commission was blameless but the governor was equally blame less. Mir. Lines then entered upon the history of the legislation of the regular session during which efforts were directed by the members against the enactment of legislation rather than in favor of it. All the members he said were to blame, and MT. Lines said that he was ready to accept his full share of it. Mir. Lines said that the governor might have been justi- fled in limiting the legislature to the