Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-03

grazing land" It was introduced D.
 Senator Campbell. Debate was o
 the possibility of leasing indefinitely
 grazing land under the terms of tn
 proposed act.
 No. 95, indefinitely postponed, wa
 introduced by Senator Kinney an,
 provided for the abolishment of ex
 perimental farms and farm stations ] No. IF, introduced by Senate
 Stapley (Maricopa) and recommend
 ed for passage, provides that stat'
 offices shall be open from 9 a. m
 until p. m., except on Sundays anc
 holidays. when they remain closed al
 day, and after p. m. on Saturdays during the months of June, July August and September.
 New Bills.
 In the upper house Senator Martin (Pima) introduced senate bill No. 128 providing for the appropriation by county boards of supervisors of $500O annually for district fair purposes. No. 129, introduced by Senator Goldwater (YavapaD, provides for the establishment of state banking department.
 In the house the judiciary commit tee introduced house substitute bill No. 36 regulating the practice of veterinary medicine
 House bill No. 130, introduced by Representative Cook (Cochise) makes it unlawful to take security upon ccr- tain property for usurouS loans. Property exempted includes house hold furniture, sewing machines. plate and silverwarc in actual use, tools or implements of trade. wearing apparel or jewelry, when tie loan IS conditioned upon a greater rate of interest than 10 per cent per annum.
 In the senate Garvin (Yuma) in troduced senate bill No. 13O, relating to public libraries, and Chase Green lee) introduced senate bill No. 131, relating to state architects.
 Land Bills Debated,
 After some hcsitant shivering on the brink, the senate yesterday plung cd into public land legislation, while the house merely dabbled its toes in the pool. Both the Riggs and the Garvin bills were reported out of the public lands committee along with another land bill known as the farmers bill" representing the views of the farmers, especially the holders of school land. This is now known as Senate Bill No. 127. The same bill was introduced into the house by Representative Goodwin.
 The senate public lands committee the indefinite postpone ment of the Riggs bill and without expressing appreciation of the Garvin bill, recommended it for conaidera- ton by the committee of the whole. 1 It is only certain that it will not be adopted for several reasons, one of which is its drastic character, giving | to the state land commission greater | powers than it had before enjoyed | and further because it gives the com- mission unrestricted access to the treasury. There is no limit of cx- penditure and many have complained | that it has already spent too much.
 The Riggs bill proposes the aboli- ton of the land commission and its passage is therefore regarded as i'm possible. Chairman Riggs himself does not expect its adoption nor does he expect that any of the bills now before the legislature will become a law but that land policy will be evolved from study of all of them.
 Senate Bill 127 proposes q complete land code. It retains the land com mission whose members shall be ap- pointed by the governor who shall name the chairman of the commis- sion. The chairman will be clothed with the powers of surveyor general. The salaries of the members of the will be $3,0OO a year. There will be a chief draughtsman at I salary of $l,800 a year. Stenograph- CTS and clerks, number not stated, shall be paid $l,200 q year each. The arc to be allowed their necessary travelling expenses, the salaries and expenses to be paid out of an appropriation therefor
 This appropriation shall be based upon an estimate made by tho chair man of the commission for the next two years. The governor will present it to the legislative committees on appropriation. The commission is re quired to present to the governor every three months an itemizcd list of its expenses and it shall sub scquently be published in Phoenix newspaper.
 The rOnuiSSiou shall have charge