The Prescott daily news., 1915-03-04
APPROPRIATION BILLS
 WHIPPED INTO SHAPE
Senate in Committee as Whole Leave Nothing but Roll Call Upon Num- erous Measures Yesterday
 Ready for Lower House.

N''N "ppI Opi leNClOlI DlllS were whipped into shape by the Senate in Committee of the Whole on We'd nesday afternoon, leaving nothing but roll call upon them so they may be transmitted to the House.
 The first bill considered was tha5 for the appropriation for mainten- ance of the State Hospital for the Treatment of Nervous Diseases, and on this an eruption was narrowly averted, Senator Jones sent up an amendment requiring the superinten- dent to be an alienist, which would have opened anew the sQuabble over the superintendency at the asylum, but members of the Budget committee per suaded Seraor Jones to withdraw it before it was read, and the Senate proceeded in peace unaware that the ship of state had grazed a mine. The Senate made no reductions from this appropriation, instead increasing the salary of the dentist to place him on a par with the physicians there.
 The Budget committee bill appro- priating to pay the special judges who have served over the state for the past two years was adopted by the Com mittee of the Whole without change as was the appropriation for the Deaf Mute Institute. The Blind School ap- propriation was boosted $500 to pro- vide for the printing and distribution of literature upon the preventative ness of blindness.
 Senators Burgess and Edmondson resolved themselves into battleaXe brigade to fight the appropriation to appeal the rate litigation with the St. Louis, San Francisco railroad; $G,O00 if the State loses in the Federal court and 5000 if the State wins. They undertook to defeat both claims. as well as the deficiency appropriation to pay the rate experts who prepared the cases. Senator Edmondson stat ed that he was tired of making soft places for attorneys. This appropria- tion was necessary because an appeal must be taken in a year, or the State loses its right to go to the higher court. If the State wins in the lower court the heavy end of the appeal costs will be on the railroad. The bill was acted on favorably by the commit tee.
 The Branch Normal appropriation, considered in a Committee of the Whole in the morning session, was passed, as was the deficiency appro- priation for the penitentiary.
 The appropriation for the mainten- ancc of tLe Confederate Home was adopted in the Committee of the Who'll change, but amendments will be offered when 1t comes before the Senate for passage to increase sever al salaries, particularly that of the superintendent.
 The Trumpler claim against the State was considered in a Committee of the Whole, and its sections strick en out, so as there was nothing left of it, the bill was reported back with the recommendation that it do not pass" Statements were read to the Senate by Senator Jones from form CT warriors in the Brooks Baxter war, showing that at the order of the gov ernor of Arkansas state troops under D. NJ. Cloud and others, had selzed arms in shop of J. F. Trumpler, a gunsmith. and when hostilities ceased, carried them home. Senator Jones insisted that the State was indebted to the estate of Trumpler, and that his widow is in want, the appropriation asked being sufficient to keep her Tn comfort for the balance of her days.
 Senator Lundy offered amendments which struck out the two sections of the bill, leaving it looking like Con federate battlehag after an engage ment. after he had informed the Sen ate that the bill has come up practi- callv every session of the Assembly since the comic opera war.
 The Lundy bill for the manager form of government for Mena was passed as was the Calvert bill to re- ouire the reconstruction of locomotives in use in the state which are so built that fremen and engineer cannot see each other; the Cabaniss bill which prohibits any trainman employed by ..ni i1ronh nr tractinn comnanV. from