Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-10

pointee by the governor. As the sen
 ate will not concur in such plan, thu
 action taken means the death of tn,
 bill.
 PHOENIX, Arizona, March 4. -
 The lower house distinguished it
 self this morning by passing a bil creating a department of labor anC authorizing the selection of labor commissioner whose duty it shall be to but in" on the business of private concerns, and by refusing to pass a bill which provides that to make an initiated or referred measure effective it must receive a majority of all the votes cast. If this had been the law last November Arizona would have been spared the humiliation of the 30 per cent, the mothers pension and the blacklist amendments.
 Verify the ways of statesmen are past finding out.
 The labor bill is product of the Federation of Labor, as recommend ed in the governors message, and found its way into the house through the mediation of Representative Sweeney (YavapaD. It has the back ing of the administration lobby, which accounts for its passage by a strict lobby division of IS to IA
 The initiative and referendum ma jority measure originated in the sen ate and does not bear the lobby 70. K" It was defeated by a vote of IS to Is.
 The labor bill will die a horrible death as soon as the senate gets a vhack at it, but the fact that meas ure so completely inimical to the in terests of the people at large could get by one house of the legislature is sufficient to cause considerable "view ing with alarm"
 The administration lobby was in fine working order today, and the bills on the calendar for third read ing slipped through or else they lidn't, exactly in accordance with in 5tructions from the office"
 The senate bills were given prefer ence for while until objection was made, and now the measures already half laws must take their place far town the calendar while the house 1evotes itself to house bills. This means that many meritorious meas lres originating in the senate will lever be reached by the house, while | he house bills themselves will be lost II the hurly-burly of the closing days )f the session.
 The Land Bill.
 It looks bad for the land bill The cnate is about ready to send it to the committee on enrolling and engross- ng, where it will doubtless stick until .arly next week. Then it must be cad on final passage, almost a days ob, and then it goes to the house.
 The senate is bound that Mulford Ninsor shall be shorn of his great as the head of the land The house majority lob y is determined that if the governor wants Winsor he shall have him. In he melee the bill is likely to fall etwcen the neither and the neither nillstone, in which event the land commission reverts to the provisions f the enabling act, and Winsor loses nyway.
 Prohibition.
 The compromise prohibition bill, al eady distracted in these columns, lands the best chance of any of the eading measures to get through the ouse. It defines the constitutional and permits the importa- ion of liquor for medicinal, hospital, and sacramcntal purposes.
 New Bills.
 Representative Merrill (Cochise) | fcred an employees compensation ct today that is a star spangled hum finger. It provides that the employer hall pay his disabled employer 50 CT cent of his wages during disabil- " or i'll the event of his death he haH pay 2400 times one-half the daily age to the widow, up to $40O0. Sec ion of the bill carries the remark ble proviso that ''it shall be conclu- lively presumed that surviving wid- w, minor child or children of such ,orkman was dependent on his earn lgs for support and education" Ii he deceased employe has no widow r children then the balm must be oled out by the employer fin lump 0 the personal representative of the ceased"
 No. l62, introduced by Mrs. Berry, rovides that a newspaper bidding on ublications to be paid for from the ublic funds must have been estab- shed and published in the state of lrizona for at least one year prior 0 the filing of the affidavit. It is rovided further that any responsible axpaycr may bid on all county print ng, a provision which might well nvalidate the preceding part of the ection.
 No. l63, introduced by Mrs. Berry, rovidcs for teachers pension after 5 years Of service. The sum fixed , 5000 per year.
 No. 164 introduced bv Sneaker