Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-02
HUNT OPPOSES USE .OF EMERGENCY CLAUSE
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Senate Bill, No. 1. as constituting such a liberal application of that pro vision of the Constitution which sanctions emergency euacuments for the preservation of the public, peace health and safety, that it should not establish a precedent for future legislative guidance. I recog- nize the fact. that in order to serve the purpose at all, this measure for temporary relief of certain citizens must necessarily become operative be- fore the date when suits against de- linqueut taxpayers may be insti- tuted by authority of law.
 For the reason stated, and because the enactment apparently includes no provision amounting to a trespas uD- on public rights have, with reliance upon the judgment of the legislature affixed to it my signature
 The attitude of the governor is of special interest when it iS taken into consideration that the mine tax bin as well as the bin which is in course of preparation but as yet in- troduced defining definite land pol icy for the state each will cary the emergency clause, and under the in depreciation the governor gives as his idea for the use of the emergency it seems probable that he would object to approving either of these bills with the emergency. To secure their enactment over his veto would re- quire a three-fourths vote in the af- firmative in both the senate and the house and it is doubtful if such could be secured. It is. of course known that the governor is keenly interested in the land bill and de- sires that the present land commis- sion law be continued and that an appropriation for its maintenance be made. In some quarters it is con sidered that the governor has made shrewd political move to save the land commission by taking another subject of legislation as the vehicle on which to ride out to public gaze his opposition to the misuse of the emergency.
 Tie proposed new land bill is be- ing prepared by the public lands com mittee of the senate. It rovides that the lands in the state shal be under the control of the yet to be created state board of public welfare who will act with the chairman of the var lous county boards of supervisors.
 The land records wi be compiled and placed in charge of the auditor of the state whose duties in this con nection will be similar as regards state lands as are the duties of the Uited States Surveyor General as regards the unreserved federal land within the state
 There will be provisions in the proposed new law for the sale of school lands lying within the bounds of reclamation projects and the sale and leasing of other agricultural lands and of grazing lands. The board Of | supervisors shall make the remaining
 land selections granted the state under the enabling act and there is a
 provision in the bill that the lands selected under the grant for the rail road bonds of Maricopa. Pima Yaya 1 pal and Coconino counties shall be sold immediately. There is also pro
 vision for the procedure in the sale
 of timber on school and uniyersiy
 lands which sale is to be conducted
 by the boards of supervisors chair
 man of the county in which the tim
 Der is located The bill of course re
 peals the present law under the ex
 isting land commission is operating.