Weekly journal-miner., 1915-06-23
NO CHANCE FOR DRY LAW ID
 GET BY
NOT ENOUGH VOTES MUS TERED TO SEND BILL TO ENROLLING AND EN- CROSSING COMMITTEE.

PHOENIX, June 21.-After thre,
 days work and debate on the Ed
 wards-Powers dry law, suficien
 number of votes at the show down
 could not be mustered in the house to get the measure into the hands O Fthe enrolling and expressing com
 mittee Fourteen members voted fol such reference, seven against and l, did not record themselves.
 When the committee concluded it: consideration just before noon it bore but little resemblance to the bill as Introduced. The members worked pa tiently and consistently with it dur Hing the three days of its considera- ition, amending it here and striking out a section there, with all the earn ,estness as though it had some chance sof being passed.
 If it was the intention of the mem bers to refuse to comply with the re- quest to pass law on this subject, and at the same time make a show ing as though they were trying to do Something, they could not have se- Elected a better method to accomplish ltheir purpose.
 The senate has already passed a bill on the subject and presented it to the house. The ordinary course of an ordinary legislature would have been to take up that measure and con sidered it. Instead of. doing so bill introduced in the house was brought out of committee the following day and taken up in committee of the whole. If this measure should get sufficient votes for it to pass in the house, as a natural consequence it will fail in the senate, that body hay ing already passed one bill.
 The senate bill will just as natural ly fail in the house as if any bill on this subject can get by there it will be this one. and in case it passes, the house will be in the same condition as the senate-each, will have passed a bill entirely separate and distinct from the other and each will naturally kill the one passed by the other body.
 An old friend put in an appearance this morning in the house. It was one which formerly appeared every day or two. It was prominent at the first extra session and during the early part of the present one its ap- pearance was quite frequent.
 It was the ghost of the land com mission which expired last March on the 1lth day of the month. Its ap- pearance this time was before the committee of the whole of that body and in the shape of an appropriation bill amounting to $2,733.90 to pay to the members who formerly constitut- ed that commission. This measure, as it came before the committee, pro- vided for paying the alleged salaries of "the former commission" but to make sure that the right persons should receive 1t, Christy offered an amendment inserting the names of the persons to whom 1t shall be paid.
 This is house bill No. and the merits of it have been gone into pret- ty thoroughly in various shapes here tofore. Pinkley, who is sponsor for the bill, stated that it is not the in tent of the measure to revive the old iand commission in case the present land measure, now in conference, fails 10 pass. To make it more positive that there is no such intention, he offered to amend the measure making it still more binding.
 The bill was reported favorably by the committee and was ordered to the enrolling and expressing committee for action.