Arizona republican., 1915-01-28

been proposed, mat tnere was then on his desk a bill proposing the ere ation of an independent board Of equalization to which appeals from the tax commission might be taken. Senator Claridge of Graham. made a violent attack upon the bill de- claring that it proposed discrimi- nation against farmers and in favor of the miners. It was specific and unfair. He declared that for years the mines had not paid their share of the taxes and that the measure was intended to relieve them of the share that they had been compelled to pay He made the statement that formerly they had escaped with one tenth of what they had lately paid. This brought Senator Drachman to his feet who quoted from the tax | commissions report showing that rrevious to the last two years the mines had paid nineteen per cent of the total taxes whereas they were now paying less than twice that ' much The statement of the senator i from Graham. he said was no more gross and ill-considered than many of the statements of the tax com mission which he proceeded to quote. , They were denunciatory of the min ing interests and in such violent language that the senator from Pima called them clap trap. While he was cuoting he quoted statement in the report against the constitutional oD- iections of Senator Webb to the pro- posed law. "all restrictions of the constitution upon taxation. legis- lation by the legislature) had beer removed" The senator then ap- piled gentle roast to the tax com mission stating that it was no won der that the mines had come to the legislature for protection.
 Said MT. Karns. If the tax com mission is corrupt" Here MT. Drachman entered a protest. saying that he had made no such charge. MT. Karns then proceeded, saying, l ..Taking it for granted then that the | tax commission is corrupt. why should not other classes of property seek the protection suggested in the | Webb amendment, to get out from under the power of the commission?' Following a brief defense of the tax commission by MT. Claridge, Sen ator Lovin noted that it was half past twelve that he was hungry and he supposed that the other members were He therefore proposed the sub mission of the question and the Webb amendment went to a vote with the following result:
 Ayes = Claridge Golfer. Karns, Munds. Stapley Webb-s.
 1 NAYS-Bacon. Campbell, Chase. l Crabb. Drachman, Garvin, Goldwater, Ginney, Lovin. Martin, MMillen. Riggs. the presidential.
 The committee then rose and re- ported progress The senate took a recess until two o'clock with the un- | derstanding that the discussion of the mine tax bill would then be re- sumed in the committee. The after noon was taken up mostly with in formal conferences. There was a brief session of the senate in which three bills were introduced relating to amendments of the existing laws governing street improvements. It is probable that the consideration of the mine tax measure will be re- sumed today.
 It will be observed that the meas ure was not really under discussion at all yesterday no phase of it was touched upon in all the talk. The | hrtDf | considered and after that only the applicability of the plan of taxation proposed to all classes of property.
 The House.
 The proceedings in the house were dwarfed by the larger events al
 the other end of the capitol. Three
 bills were proposed in the morning
 session as follows:
 By Mr Lanford. extending liens
 for work or material on buildings t' the land necessarily connected witl
 the structure
 An act amending the law witt
 reference to school elections. provid
 ing among other things that the poll
 shall be kept open from six o'clocl l in the morning until six in the even
 :nr
 By Mir. MahOney, an act amendin' the law with reference to the char ters of cities and towns. provid
 ing that when the charter of an such city or town shall have bee lapproved and any provisions of tn
 charter shall be in conflict with an
 law relating to cities now or sub lsequently containing population c
 more than $500 inhabitants in fore
 at the time of the adoption and ap
 proval of the charter, the provision
 of the charter shall prevail not
 withstanding the conflict"
 The only other matter before tn , house was d resolution introduced b
 was touched by a communicate
 read by Chaplain Crutchfield the da
 before from a love-lorn damsel l Brooklyn. who has designs again
 any unmarried or otherwise una
 tached member of the Arizona legis
 lature The bill as follows was cor
 sidered in new committee know as the whole matrimonial commi
 tee" including not only the member
 ship of the house but the attendant , in the gallery:
 ! Whereas the members of the set = ond legislature of the state of Arizor R are in imminent danger of core
 bonding with residents of u
 state of Arizona with matrimoni