Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-12


 No. l, carrying general appropriations to the amount of $2,556,12330, or $l,278,06l.65 per year, was introduced in the upper house this morning by O. s. Stapley, chairman of the appro- priation committee. MacMillan (Pin- al) fought to keep the bill out on the grounds that some of the members of the lower house might not like it. The bill will be printed and ready for discussion the latter part of the week.
 Interesting Omissions.
 It is the result of nearly two weeks careful investigation and is a com plete measure containing the statu tory appropriations and all others necessary for the conduct of the state during the biennial period.
 The house bill, on the contrary, is exceedingly incomplete, and whether from accident or design omits many large items so that it is impossible from a reading or a computation to learn what the total sum to be appro- rriated may be.
 On the face of it the house bill car ries but $2,OS9, ,325.S0, and on the strength of these figures the Hunt lobby propose to go before the people with a great hue and cry about economy" offering the bill in evi- dcnce.
 Here are just a few of the items omitted from the house appropriation bill: Board of control office expense, state fair, national guard, superin- tendent of schools, game warden, tax commission, state capitol, horticul- tural commission, state engineer, state historian, sheep and sanitary commis- sion, interest charges.
 With these items and such others as will doubtless appear from closer analysis added to the list of appro- priations will be the greatest in the history of the state, and economy" become hissing and a byword.
 Cute Little Scheme. But it is the plan to pass these great appropriations in separate messes outside of the main bill They will be appendicicies, suffixes and ad- dendum, but they will be so arranged that the administration may go be- for the people and proclaim the fig urcs in the bill now before the house. It's cute little scheme but it won't work, and senate bill No. is the monkey wrench that will smash the machine. Another feature of the house appro- priation bill is the manner in which the items arc scattered. Thus, an ap- propriation is fixed foT state institu- ton; then few paragraphs or pages farther along, with irrelevant sub jects intervening, there will be an other divisional appropriation for the same institution The senate bill is compact; its items arc all together and it is possible to learn under any subdivision just what the requirements of the particular beneficiary may be. It is inclusive, but not so inclusive as to include sal aries for a land commission.
 Webb for House Bill. Senator Webb (Maricopa) opposed | its introduction, pleading that the house bill be given preference, and arguing against the establishment of a precedent whereby revenue bill originates in the senate. Give the house more time to make good" was the burden of Senator Webb's talk.
 Section 36 of the Stapley bill pro | vidcs that "all claims for moneys shall be accompanied by proper vouchers and each claim be audited by the state auditor, who shall have the right to reject any voucher or claim or any part thereof which, in his judgment. | does not constitute proper or legal charge against the state" This is in line with the public welfare bill in troduced at the regular session.
 Another section provides that no sum in excess of the amounts appro- priated shall be expended.
 The vote in the senate to lay the bill on the table was 10 to against such procedure, and it went to the printer this afternoon.
 
 PHOENIX, May 5.-The Hunt lobby struck a submerged mine in the house this morning. Most of the crew were saved, but the craft is badly damaged. It's q question whether the old tub will ever amount to much again. The solid eighteen busted, and the land commission sustenance appropriation section was strick- en from the general appropria- ton bill.
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