Arizona republican., 1915-05-18
Recommendation of .Appro- pl-iations Committee Gen. erally Sustained by Safe Majorities in Committee of the Whole
i SALARIES PARED OR ELIMINATED
Work of Reduction Be- gun in the Morning Carried Into the Night With Bill Half Com pleted

In an all-day and late night ses- sion, the senate finished the consider alton in the committee of the whole of about half the appropriation bill. The committee on appropriations had prepared for expedition. Copies of its report were laid side by side with copies of the bill on the desks of members so that there could be no time consuming misunderstanding of
 the committee recommendations
 There was q surprisingly large num- 1 Der of recommendations follows: l"Cut Out" There was a general pairing down of the house appropria-
 tions bill in the items of contingent
 expenses. travelling expenses and pro-
 visions for office help.
 i The recommendations of the com
 mittee on appropriations were gen , eraly supported by the members of the committee except Mr. Riggs who
 stood for so many increases that he was finally accused by his colleagues of having thrown them down.
 More time was spent over the sal aries of clerks and stenographers than over any other feature Of the bill Two schools of thought were developed in the course of the de- bate One believed that the stenog- ra phers should be allowed enough to enable them to live respectfully and
 the other school believed that they
 should be paid what they earn. One side wanted a fixed salary of s75
 a month for stenographers and the
 other believed that they should be allowed $100 a month. MT. Karns of
 Santa Cruz, replying to the assertion
 that in many of the offices there
 was not enough work to keep the
 .tenogra phers busy all the time, said
 that that was not their fault; if the state could not find work enough
 for them to do, it was the fault of the state if they were idle.
 Mir Drachman took the middle
 ground: he was not in favor of re- as pensioners, nor was he for a kind of economy that leaned backward and interfered with efficiency.
 The vote by which the recommen-
 dations of the committee were sus-
 tained ranged from ten to twelve. The minority was scattering: there were only two or three members who stood through thick and then by the house provisions. Several items were referred back to the senate ap- propriations committee for amend ment. It is impossible to say by how much the bill has so far been re- duced below the house figures. but it is observed that the figures so far agreed upon in the committee of the whole follow very closely the ap- propriations in the senate bill which it was and was devised only for purposes of study.
 Here are some of the things the committee did The salary of the deputy state auditor was cut from
 s2, 400 a year to $2.100; one warrant register at salary of S1,200 a year
 was cut out: the contingent expenses were reduced from s2 000 a year to | 1,500; the salary of the bank ex-
 aminer was reduced from $2,400 a year to S1 500 and his travelling eX penses. from s2.000 a year to Sl.20o. | There was a encouragement of the items in the section relating to the 1 board of control which makes it diff ficult to institute a comparison. but the travelling expenses of the board
 were cut from $2,5o0 a year to sl.50O. i The principal change made in the 1 section relating to the office of the ] governor was a reduction of the sal ary of his secretary from s3.OO0 year to 400 The salary of the as sistant secretary of state WAS c'it
 from g, 400 to s2.1o0 and the item of stenosraphers from s2,400 to s21OO. There was little interference in the aggrega+e with the section relating to the office of attorney general
 though the items were rearranged The office of clerk in the depart fContinued on Page Three)