Arizona republican., 1915-03-07

members but one, Mr. Christy. would l have preferred to eXculpate him. there was no other report that intel ligent men could bring in. The re- port was accepted and yesterday the question of it's adoption was brought up. The first speech on the subject was made by MT. Christy. who, though not an enemy of the warden has not been distinguished for his support of the administration. He was evidently setting a trap for the self constituted thouShtless of them fell into it and out of season. Some of the more thoughtless of the mfell into it and defended the warden against the charge of. violating the law They de- clared that they would not vote for the adoption of the report. MT. Christy addressed himself to Chairman Pinkley of the committee | on public institutions. asking if War den Sims had resigned. if he had of fered to resign. and whether the gov
 ernor had taken any steps for his re- movaL
 MT. Goodwin defended the warden on the ground that if he had been situated as the warden was he would have done the same thing MT. Vaughn thought he saw something in the penal code which warranted the warden in holding up the execution of Villalobo. The argument of Mir Vaughn. if followed to it's conclusion.
 and if he had been correct would
 have warranted the warden in refus- ir7tr rra o1 fn,. son." that is. if the condemned had 1 hnen suffering from the toothache
 that morning. the warden would have been justified in postponing his exc | cution.
 1 But Chairman Pinliley, though a warm friend of the warden. and Mir Lines, though an ardent supporter of
 the administration. kept out of the 1 Christy net. Both agreed that the
 warden had violated the law. though
 he no doubt believed that he was
 doing right The report was support ed by Mir Johns of Yavapai. and il
 was opposed by Mir Farrell Of santa 1 Cruz.
 After the failure of a motion to
 lay the report on the table. it was
 adopted by the following vote:
 Ayes-Acuff, Berry. Buchanan, Christy. Cook, Doyle. Flanagan, Gra l ham. Johns. Lanford. Lee. Leeper. i Lines. Merrill McClain. Newbury, Powers Proctor. Reed. Richardson, | Sweeney. the Speaker-22.
 Nays-Austin. Briscoe, Claypool. Ed
 wards. Farrell, Francis. Goodwin, Mar lar. Mahoney, Vaughn-1o.
 If Warden Sims had be n there nc
 would have been gratified at the kind
 things said of him by even Chose who
 voted for the report. Mr. Graham for instance said that Bob Sims was one
 of the best men i'll all the west and he himself regretted that tine subject l haG been brought before the lesisla- i ture MT. Pinkley was a member of
 the -ury which fixed Niila'obo's pnn-
 ishment at death. It was a distasteful
 tl,rg for him . do, blt the law had
 left him nothing else to do
 .sfter the disposition If this mater.
 several bills were taken up for third reading. The bill requiring an advertisement bv dealers in cold stor- age eggs was passed. Also the bill making it q felony to obtain credit ] for goods by false representation was passed and likewise the Stapley bill
 for the regulation and limitation of 1 expenditures by the state officials Mr. ! Christv learned with surprise and pain that the joy riding section of
 the bill had been cut out by the
 house It failed. therefore, to limit 1 the employment of chauffeurs or to
 prohibit the riding around recklessly in state automobiles, and that. said the gentleman from Greenlee had been one | of the most conspicuous causes of
 complaint of the state government The tendency of the house to change
 it's mind was illustrated in it's action 1 with regard to the senate bill requiring
 that initiative and referred measures
 should become laws only when they ! were approved by the votes of ma l jority of persons voting at any cleo
 ton instead of. as the constitution
 now provides. q majority of the votes
 cast thereon. The bill had been de-
 feated the day before. Mir. Newbury
 had given notice to reconsider. The
 motion carried yesterday by vote
 of IS to r..
 The Appropriation Bill According to an agreement reached
 the day before that the general ap- propriation bill should be put at the head of the calendar of the committee Of the whole for one hour each day But there was some delay in reaching 1 it yesterday. for all the members
 were desirous of having favorite bills placed as nearly as possible after the appropriation bill. Several had been
 so ordered on the motions of their 1 sponsors, so that the order of the calendar for the day was completely
 changed. But the original order was
 restored and the appropriation bill
 was taken up and twenty -four sec | tions were gone over.
 Few changes were made, but an in- teresting matter was brought out when 1 those sections relating to the corpora 1 tion commission were reached. Chair
 man Powers stated that there was q | commission. They had not been able 1 to agree upon the amount that would l be necessary for the conduct Of that | office He had statement from one member and had arranged for the
 other two to call upon him. They came an hour later when he was en-
 gagged in the house and went away. They left word for him to call at the office of the commission. He believed ! that course would not cOmDOrt with